The ES7 and alternatives like the Roland FP80 and Casio PX350 all have very good actions, and might be worth getting for the convenience of built in sounds and speakers, and not requiring an audio interface.
Just to be clear, the VPC1 does not have a wooden action. Obviously, the VPC1 doesn't have speakers, so you'd need some external speakers anyway (2.1 computer speakers will sound pretty decent, or you could pay more for studio monitors). It's an extra expense that you would have to factor in. I just checked, and there's no problem playing 2 outputs at once. This can be solved by using an external audio interface, like the UR22 (which I have), Focusrite 2i2, etc.
#Kawai vpc1 pianoteq drivers#
The problem with this is that Asio4All drivers won't let you play 2 sound sources at once.
#Kawai vpc1 pianoteq software#
So if you wanted to use the VPC1, you'd need a software piano running at the same time on your computer. The piano sound is produced by your piano. $15 / month? If I buy something I don't want to keep having to pay for it every month, and always-on internet requirement is kind of redic as well.Īnyway, it seems that its sound output consists of accompaniment and metronome. On the other hand - keys go rather deep, so when I play on uprights with shallow keybeds I need some adjustment time.I had a look at the Piano Marvel website - looks like a cool product, though pricey. Good/bad thing about the keys - they are rather heavy, which at first hurt my ability to play, but now it made playing on every other piano much easier. I bet that most complex instruments especially wooden ones do have similar very slight flaws. Sometimes I do notice slight misalignments of the key when I touch them during practice (and of course when I look at them up close), so it is somehow noticeable (very very slightly!), but nothing that would annoy me and I am rather picky and snobby about the quality of things I own. Keyboard is very nice, it didn't wear for me after maybe 400 hours of play time.
It's a beautiful sculpture that was complimented many times by my guests. The look of the actual instrument… It's the best looking electronic instrument I have ever seen. You feel that you squeeze plastic with your foot, you hear the squeaking… It's so bad that I literarily use less pedal in my music because I don't want to touch it so often! It's a cheap and ugly plastic case with ugly sticker that wasn't even aligned properly. Pedals are pure rubbish - they are so annoyingly loud and cheaply made that it is a disgrace for this otherwise beautiful instrument. I own VPC1 for about a year, I am a serious enthusiast but very far from being a proper pianist. Haven't seen this on any other keyboard.Īnd here is a YouTube video that talks about and displays a few faults found with a used (but in supposedly good condition) VPC1, including keys that have loud audible taps, inconsistent spacing between keys (moreso than one would expect in a well-maintained wooden keyboard action), and adjacent keys that vary in height (a few white keys are not in the same horizontal plane) So when you press the white exposing the roots of the blacks, you feel the raw coarse unfinished wood of the blacks. The black keys are not finished all the way down. The gaps between the white keys are not consistent through out the keyboard. It looks like the wooden keys were either cut imprecisely or mounted a little off.
The box was in good condition and wrapped very well. Two of my black keys are tilted to the left as the unit came new. Here are a few negative comments about the VPC1 However, I have found a few negatives in buyers' comments that have caused me to wonder about this keyboard controller, so I was hoping to hear from a few users of the Kawai VPC1, which might also help others interested in purchasing the VPC1. I've been reading a lot of reviews and looking at YouTube videos about the VPC1, and they are overwhelmingly positive. I'm thinking about buying a Kawai VPC1 keyboard (no internal sounds, but a wooden key action based on a grand piano's, and MIDI information sent by USB or MIDI to a computer or external tone-producing hardware).