my Roland HP-302 playing Chopin's Revolutionary Etude

[Derek]

I think if kelly had used this piano, I might have been fooled had I not already been familiar with its sound. What do you think? Does this sound like a real grand piano to you? This is the closest I've yet heard to a digital piano cleaning up that "canned" sound.

Please note, this is NOT me. It is a built in recording in my digital piano. To my knowledge it is public domain. Everything that is copyrighted had a little * in the manual, all the classical ones did not.

[starstruck5]

I didn't really like it to be honest. It maybe that there was too much bass emphasis in the recording . Digital pianos are definitely improving and have their good points -like being able to play with headphones - but the downside to that is that it may be fooling you into thinking you can play more softly than you really can- for example.

[fleetfingers]

To me, this was obviously digital from the start. The title says it, so maybe I was subconciously influenced.

[pianoplayjl]

I didn't know it was a digitized recording until I read fleetfinger's comment. Still it is a poor recording by an autonomous piano.

[oxy60]

You don't say how you transferred this. Was it wire to wire and no mics? And which setting did you use to compress the file?

There is no question that a real person played the piece. It isn't a midi playback from a score. My digital has a bunch of those pieces. Most are not played very well, like this example.

Yes you can play soft on a digital. Set the touch sensitivity higher to increase the dynamic range.

[perfect_pitch]

I could tell from the first note that it was a digital.

To me... Digital pianos have this sort of bounce in the sound... not literally, but I can tell it's there.

For a proper piano, the sound seems to be more linear in the fact that it's smoother in sound. Not smooth as in more mellow, but smooth that it rings clearly.

I don't know what it is, but I can tell a digital from a real piano any day.