Hello

Hoping some bright spark could answer this question as I am completely new to these products and am more than a little bemused :

Looking to buy a digital piano ($800 - $1200 / £500 - £700) and, in order of highest precedence first, I require :

- Authentic piano sound
- good and varied extra sample style voices (ideally something with hammond / rhodes style keys)

I can't find anything with both in this price range, sort of only one or the other. The closest

I didnt want to have to buy a keyboard and then have to buy something like the E-MU vintage sounds module just to get the quality extra sounds as well as the good piano.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any hints.

Ryan

You should be looking at the Roland RD700, or the Yamaha S90 - which are both a few hundred bucks out of your price range...

Too bad the Alesis QS8.2 is such a piece... the piano patch really bites. But the rest is pretty fun, and the action is passable.

-Lorenzo

Thanks for the info. Have been checking up on the models you suggested but can't find any indication of whether they have good rhodes / hammond style sounds. The reviews just go on about the piano sound.

The keyboard that seems to have everything I want is the General Music promega 2, but it costs big.

I have been playing piano for a few years, and found the need to purchase an elecric piano recently. My criteria were similar to yours in that I wanted one that was as much like an acoustic piano as possible. While I did not have the opportunity to try a Yamaha (I needed one very quickly and did not have time to drive all over town looking for a Yamaha to try), I did try several different models of Korg, Kurtzweil(sp?), and Roland (both new and used). After spending several hours testing all these brands, I decided on a Roland as it had the most piano-like action and sound. I also went between a couple different models on the Roland, but finally went for the RD-700 (in part becuase the other model I was looking at did not have the nice pipe organ sound, and in part becuase there were more piano options on the 700).

Anyway - of the three brands, the Roland definately was the most convincing piano, and after purchasing, one of the staff happened to mention that almost all pianists have that same opinion.

I wasn't really excited about the organ samples on the S90. But there is a CD of B3 voices available that you can load onto the S90. Here is a link where you can listen to some samples.

https://motifato-mach7.4ecommerce.com/Me..._Code=S-BsKNEES