Casio, 88-Key Digital Pianos - Home (CDP-S150)

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While I found this app indispensable during my PX-S1000 review, I’m of a different stance with the CDP-S100. Can you give me your thoughts as to whether or not, as a rote beginner, I would benefit from weighted keys and a full 88-key keyboard enough to warrant the extra expense, or would a good sounding 61 (or even 76-key) Piaggero give me a good foundation with which to begin learning? Hi Rajath, most digital pianos these days aim to simulate the characteristic of an acoustic piano where the keys in the lower registers will have a heavier feel than the ones on the higher end of the register. Most digital piano manufacturers have some kind of app that works with their keyboards, whether it’s educational or purely for remote control over settings.

The keys are made of textured ebony and ivory key tops which makes a noticeable difference when playing fast passages. Hi Fabio, indeed, the sound engines are different, and the default piano sound is different as well. One of my boards has a feel I really like, but if I use it to control a sound located in another board, I put it through a box that adjusts the curve, because natively, the keyboard takes a sledgehammer of force to achieve higher velocities. Keyboards and digital pianos in this range don’t offer all the features of their more expensive counterparts, but that’s not to say they aren’t worth considering.

This hampers the otherwise excellent playing experience and feels like a sacrifice that ends up hurting the CDP-S100. While they’re slightly lighter than those found on acoustic pianos, they are a decent approximation of the real deal and work great for practice.

Being in love with music for as far as he can remember, Lucas started this blog as the “ go-to” place for the most accurate and detailed information about the world of music. You can still learn on something with unweighted keys but it will only get you so far, especially when it comes to your piano playing technique. The Casio CDP-S150 comes with 64 notes of polyphony and 10 tones — 3 different grand piano tones, 3 electric piano tones, a harpsichord, strings and 2 organ voices.Among the competition, the Casio CDP-S150 has one of the slimmest profiles and takes up a small footprint. The standard piano is the perfect all-arounder and can handle songs from any genre with its clean, neutral tone. I wouldn’t worry too much about that, it’s not something that can hinder your playing/learning experience in a meaningful way. If you want to practice with a backing track, you can connect your smartphone or music player to the Audio In (3.

The main reason I recommend a lightweight digital piano for practice is if you’re always on the go, but that doesn’t seem like a large enough target demographic to warrant the new design. If you hold down a key, instead of sustain there is a literal (piercing) sine wave sound that takes over after a couple seconds. Equipped with Casio’s newly designed scaled and weighted hammer-action keyboard, the CDP-S150 rewards your playing with the response of an acoustic grand piano.

All in all, the sounds are suitable and can serve as a valid substitute for beginners who need a digital practice piano. And if the OP continues to use P45, he/she needs a different sound source as there is no samples out of the middle range on P45. Part of my hesitation at this point is deciding whether I want to use a portable slab keyboard like the S100 or the Casio 1000 or 3000 or look at pianos with stands. There is also the ability to layer 2 voices easily just by holding the function button and holding the 2 corresponding keys of the tones you want to layer with no feature to adjust the volume mix of the layers .

I had forgotten that I had made this thread but hey, for those who bothered to comment: in the end I bought a Casio CDP-S110. Well, the piano sound on the CDP-S100 is overall a bit on the “flat/bright” side, but I’m not sure I understand the problem you’re referring to, as I don’t have a CDP-S100 at hand to check this, unfortunately. Products shown, tagged or featured on YouTube by creators are sold by merchants and are subject to merchant's terms and conditions. The dynamic range of the sound is indeed very important, but if you think you have outgrown the sound, you can always use a VST and use the keyboard as the MIDI controller.Back-facing speakers make the CDP-S100 right at home on a desk and you’ll enjoy the excellent speaker quality even without a stand (a common issue on keyboards with down firing speakers). As a budget piano, there aren’t many extra features on the CDP-S100, but all the necessities are included. As players develop, they will realize that the same reverb won’t suit every sound, and that’s where the 10 types come in handy. The PX is a bit more expensive — but if I understand your review it has a better “real piano” touch than the CDPS-S100? I’ve definitely had worse experiences with several popular piano manufacturers (not naming names here), but of course, it’s not an excuse.