Thanks for your nice comments.
Andrés, yes I was about to share my taughts, but wanted a few more days of playing with it.
Overall I am very please with it. It is a big improvment over my Yamaha P-120s.
Sound:
1- The first thing I noticed when I played it, was the multi-sampling per note. This gives me a better feedback when playing notes too loud. They have replicated the string raisonance when the key is striked at a lower/higher velocity.
2- Most of the sound are nice, especially those that are easily accessible from the control panel. Plus you get all the GM sounds available in the "others" button. This button is heavily used by my kids! Drum kit and sound effects, We love the Headset feature
3- I liked the base strings, but I found the midle keys a bit too "Feutré". I don't know how to translate tha word into an accurate description in english. The only one I have is "Felted" and I am not sure it represents what I want to say. sorry!
Keyboard:
1- The first thing I noticed is the key texture, which resemble the IVORY feel. I love it.
2- I found the key a bit lighter for my taste, since Yamaha are a bit more heavy. So I have a few adjustment to make with my fingers
Estetics
1- Well, god at home (my wife!) had her say in my decision process, since the piano is located in the living room. So, for her it was treated as a piece of furniture and she decided that I prefered this model.
Seriously, this model was more like a Console Piano than any other we looked at. The main reason for this, is the dept of the piano. It is about 20 inches. A few inches shorter then an acoustique console.
2- Also, it has a cover, which glide all the way down to protect the keys, or half of it to hide the electronic controls. Actually, it look enough like an acoustic piano and sound enough like one that some of our friends mistakenly took the piano for an accoustic when the cover was half way down to hide the electornic controls.
Functions:
1- Well the twin piano mode was a big hit with me. Since I teach my kids, we can sit together at the keyboard and play together. This is a big plus!
2- Sound configuration. Well I am starting to play with this, but I found enough controls to be able to adjust the sound. So I'll provide more info about his aspect in a later post.
3- 3d sound effect is good and you can adjust the depht of the sound, although I do not use it.
4- Playback. You can put a wav or audio cd track in a USB key and have it play while you play. This has allowed me to avoid hooking up my laptop and plug the piano with a midi controler. It is a bit difficult to get to your file with the way they design the control on the screen.
Voila!
More will follow in another post.
Robert C
