How many coders, devs, programmmers, IT peeps, technical design folks are also musicians and/or seriously in pursuit of music lifelong? Curious to know as for more than 30 years in tech I see a lot of crossover.
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I played in a symphony orchestra at age 14... and was a music editor on several feature films... But less lately, too busy with vision projects—My "birthday present" to myself in 2019 was an 88 key weighted-action Yamaha piano/controller.. and I have yet to open the road case!
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I've been looking into 88 key simple boards don't need many voices but a strong piano sound. Effects are less important than sound quality. Always interested in recommendations. Do you play it or does it stay in its case? I have two guitars cased one at the ready the rest stored.
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I have this one kawai-global.com/product/es1… Really nice sound, has a proper deep-travel pedal, MIDI, some other features I don't use.
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That looks nice and of course I like the 88 keys. One of the points of limiting voices and effects and honing in on a more full piano sound is building back skills first. Which keyboards do you guys think are most like the tactile experience of a piano?

Apr 1, 2022 · 12:36 AM UTC

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They never feel quite the same, but the weighting is pretty decent, and it matches the variation of a real piano (lower keys are heavier and higher keys are lighter).
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That's good to know I have to get over to some of our local stores I haven't been out and about town much but it appears more stabilization with covid is in play and a hands-on experience is best. Majority of my friends here are great musicians with varied industry activities.
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I'm spoiled in that the largest Guitar Center store is near me in Hollywood, and when I hop in there to buy mic or whatnot, I invariably spend hours in the keyboard department, playing around on the 100 or so demo keyboards. Yamaha weighted always strikes a chord with me... 😳😎
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