Digital pianos are an imitation, but do some people use them in the recordings for effect?
I vaguely have thought that some good digital pianos sound sharp and a bit sophisticated. They might be only an imitation of accoustic pianos, but are there many people who use digital pianos for their cold and urban tone?
Only recently heard that Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai was recorded by Yamaha p155 or something.
Oh, I have another question related to this too. If digital pianos are essentially inferior, are synthesizers the only thing to stand against accoustic pianos? Synthesizers have many controllers and settings which makes it quite expensive, but I find that their natural piano sound is so much more decent than general digital ones. There are Nord stage series and S90ES from yamaha which has some great piano sound. Why is that? Can't they just make digital pianos with that only one sound and those weighted hammers?(S90ES has its reputation for its weighted keys.)
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Digital pianos are far less expensive to own, maintain, and record, so they have made their way on to many records going back at least to the 1980s for reasons of cost as well as sound.
Nothing sounds bad but thinking makes it so, which means sometimes a digital piano is the right sound for a track. Sometimes it's just close enough and fits in the recording budget.
Obviously digital pianos are also popular for live concerts for the same reasons.
The word synthesizer has many meanings, and certainly any digital piano can be described as a certain kind of synthesizer. So to wonder about the difference between digital pianos and "synthesizers" doesn't make a lot of sense.
Recording live piano is, to be blunt, a pain in the rear. With a digital piano, you can record keyboard events and play them back exactly the same for every take; you can adjust the timing or velocity of any note; and it is easy to record into a mix. With a real piano, you are limited by the skill of the pianist, and you have to mic the thing (there is a whole art to this by the way), set it up in a silent room, and record everything very carefully. If you need to change something, you need to call the pianist and record it all over again.
Clearly, digital versus real piano has its pros and cons.
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