Acoustic will always be better sound wise, but digital ones take up less space, have many different sounds, and can be quiet if you’re using headphones plus they never need tuning. The biggest problem with digital pianos is that it just doesn’t resonate like an acoustic does and it sounds plasticy, but if you’re using good headphones, a digital piano will sound basically just as good as an acoustic, as long as the sampling is good, which isn’t always the case ofc. But one thing the digital pianos can never simulate is the special feeling of hearing those strings vibrating thru the piano and how they respond in real time as you press the keys, it just isn’t the same.
The digital would almost be like as if your Acoustic Piano was converted to have a Tubular Pneumatic action from an Aeolian Orchestrelle Automatic Reed Organ
There are acoustic pianos with silent modus that are allowing to play with headphones, so even this aadvantage is gone now. Only thing is the need for tuning
What I like on this video is that both the real and digital pianos are very good ones. I find it hard to distinguish them over speakers or headphones, but there is a world of difference listening to them in person in a room. In the room the real thing sounds way better. In a video, often the digital one will sound better though, depending upon the acoustics of the room, the mics, and the quality of the piano. I have a digital piano myself. It is just more convenient in so many ways: I can practice far more, and my wife and the neighbors don’t have to share the experience! I absolutely LOVE playing a real pianos though when I get the chance!
Yes, every time! Doesn‘t matter how good the action or how many speakers, or which sampling or Modeling or shingeling they do. It always sounds like a cheap speakersound and boxy/ caged.
You can have the best of both worlds, a digital piano as a controller, and a superb VST as its soul. The natural resonances are present on VST pianos (while digitals are absolutely lack of), but you need a powerful computer for the VST to sustain all the subtle resonances on the background without collapsing the processor and ram. The amount of suspended notes could reach insane amounts, such as 3500 notes or even more, considering most of the resonances are echoes inside the piano body and sympathetic resonances, as well as the full strings chaotic resonances, most of them barely perceivable, but still extremely important for making the natural effect. If you're curious about it, I have some tests on my Fazioli VST piano in my channel. Cheers!
@@thecrazeecow1682 A tesla sounds very unique in its own right, and it is in many ways better than a porsche. A porsche is also in its own right in many ways better than a tesla. A digital piano however is just a cheaper acoustic piano that sounds worse.
Dude I’m the first half you played the digital piano so messy! Definitely digital piano for affordable prices but if you have the money then acoustic. Recently got a digital piano, and I love it :)
Please compare the price difference too. I suspect that I would prefer the Kawai sound if you demo with a similar price range acoustic grand piano to the Kawai. I personally own the Kawai ES120 and love every second of it for the faction of the cost I paid for the quality of the grand piano sound. I would bet any money no non pianist nor average musician can hear the difference without back to back comparisons.
You can't judge the sound of digital piano and acoustic on RUclips, as then all sounds you hear are digital. Go to a store and listen. That's the only way.
Digital pianos tend to sound a bit "isolated" if that makes sense. The sound doesn't project well compared to acoustic pianos. I'd choose acoustic any day, pretty much every pianist would. However, digital pianos are more portable, they take up less space, you can likely hook one up to a computer to do some MIDI work, you can plug in some headphones if you wish to practice in silence and most importantly, they are way cheaper both to purchase and to maintain.
Hi again You just asked if it was a fair comparison. It depends on so many things. 1) is it possible to compare a digital with an acoustic? 2) if yes, should it be recorded directly or with microphones? All good. Just saying, that it all depends on “what glasses you wear”, or maybe “what you are looking for”. 👍🏻☺️
Its called Merry go round of life! Its from an anime movie called Howl's moving castle. Haven't seen it personally but the movie might be a good watch as well!
My roland gp9 sounds better than the kawai and that acoustic. I have 5 concert grands to choose from, 10 other pianos. And about 60 other tones it can make. I can record, add drums in various tempos, split the keyboard in multiple ways. And the best part? It never needs tuning or maintenance. At a fraction of the cost of an acoustic concert grand. I'll never buy another acoustic.
@@aventpianoI'm not sure if it would lose the crispness of the digital though. That acoustic richness is incredible. There's an Rx2 being auctioned off right now and it should be interesting to see what it goes for... 🙏
The Yamaha YDP-145 digital piano is incredible. In every way the closest thing ever made to an acoustic grand. Just completely indistinguishable. Absolutely astounding in every way imaginable.
Every digital item that came out, eventually surpassed the original ones...analog cameras are history, computers made books absolete , and ,in time, this will happen to the acoustic piano's too.... because digitals can evolve much further and much faster.....if they want to.....
music doesn't work like that. there's a reason why people prefer to go to concerts instead of just listening to their favourite songs on Spotify. you can't replicate the sound and feeling of real, live music.
Cameras try to capture the real world look as good as possible. And digital look more realistic than traditional camers which introduced more distortion and noise to the picture. But.. Acoustic pianos ARE the real thing and digital pianos only try to recreate that sound for years - how exactly you would imagine them sounding even 1% better than a real piano? 😂
acoustic for sure
Howls Moving Castle
Acoustic will always be better sound wise, but digital ones take up less space, have many different sounds, and can be quiet if you’re using headphones plus they never need tuning.
The biggest problem with digital pianos is that it just doesn’t resonate like an acoustic does and it sounds plasticy, but if you’re using good headphones, a digital piano will sound basically just as good as an acoustic, as long as the sampling is good, which isn’t always the case ofc.
But one thing the digital pianos can never simulate is the special feeling of hearing those strings vibrating thru the piano and how they respond in real time as you press the keys, it just isn’t the same.
The Roland and Yamaha pianos that have haptic keys look interesting in that regard!
The newer versions actually do feel the same, it took years to refine them.
The digital would almost be like as if your Acoustic Piano was converted to have a Tubular Pneumatic action from an Aeolian Orchestrelle Automatic Reed Organ
It's all about the Benjamin 's
There are acoustic pianos with silent modus that are allowing to play with headphones, so even this aadvantage is gone now. Only thing is the need for tuning
Simple, digital to practice and learn. Acoustic for concert halls.
What I like on this video is that both the real and digital pianos are very good ones. I find it hard to distinguish them over speakers or headphones, but there is a world of difference listening to them in person in a room. In the room the real thing sounds way better. In a video, often the digital one will sound better though, depending upon the acoustics of the room, the mics, and the quality of the piano. I have a digital piano myself. It is just more convenient in so many ways: I can practice far more, and my wife and the neighbors don’t have to share the experience! I absolutely LOVE playing a real pianos though when I get the chance!
100% the acoustic. Digital has come a long way but there is just something special about a really nice acoustic piano
The price
It's the whole instrument being alive. It's like watching football during corona vs football with fans
Yes, every time! Doesn‘t matter how good the action or how many speakers, or which sampling or Modeling or shingeling they do. It always sounds like a cheap speakersound and boxy/ caged.
Yes. Exactly. No matter what all I hear is a speaker.
Acoustic for the win!!But it’s so expensive.😢
They’re both Kawai lol
@@neilbernard5615 different model, difference price lol
But there are also expensive digital pianos.
@@АлександрДаньков-х2ь these is a expensive digital piano, is called kawai nv10s.
You can have the best of both worlds, a digital piano as a controller, and a superb VST as its soul.
The natural resonances are present on VST pianos (while digitals are absolutely lack of), but you need a powerful computer for the VST to sustain all the subtle resonances on the background without collapsing the processor and ram.
The amount of suspended notes could reach insane amounts, such as 3500 notes or even more, considering most of the resonances are echoes inside the piano body and sympathetic resonances, as well as the full strings chaotic resonances, most of them barely perceivable, but still extremely important for making the natural effect.
If you're curious about it, I have some tests on my Fazioli VST piano in my channel.
Cheers!
Acoustic is like Porsche, digital is like Tesla
That's like the worst possible way to compare it.
@jim6433 stay mad
@@thecrazeecow1682 A tesla sounds very unique in its own right, and it is in many ways better than a porsche. A porsche is also in its own right in many ways better than a tesla. A digital piano however is just a cheaper acoustic piano that sounds worse.
@jim6433 what I mean is that one has soul and one doesn’t
My old acoustic is like a really old Mitsubishi so I got myself a CLP775 Tesla 😅
Acoustic for me, hands down!!
Acoustic making this beautiful kawai look cheap
Both Kawai
Both sound very nice. Hard to make out the differences unless the ears are really well trained
The difference isn't something you hear. It's something you feel.
Nah, its both
Dude I’m the first half you played the digital piano so messy! Definitely digital piano for affordable prices but if you have the money then acoustic. Recently got a digital piano, and I love it :)
Please compare the price difference too. I suspect that I would prefer the Kawai sound if you demo with a similar price range acoustic grand piano to the Kawai.
I personally own the Kawai ES120 and love every second of it for the faction of the cost I paid for the quality of the grand piano sound.
I would bet any money no non pianist nor average musician can hear the difference without back to back comparisons.
There's another one, the CP-80 Electric Baby Grand Piano.
You can't judge the sound of digital piano and acoustic on RUclips, as then all sounds you hear are digital. Go to a store and listen. That's the only way.
Digital pianos tend to sound a bit "isolated" if that makes sense. The sound doesn't project well compared to acoustic pianos.
I'd choose acoustic any day, pretty much every pianist would. However, digital pianos are more portable, they take up less space, you can likely hook one up to a computer to do some MIDI work, you can plug in some headphones if you wish to practice in silence and most importantly, they are way cheaper both to purchase and to maintain.
But over time, the notes on an acoustic piano may start to sound outta tune, and on a digital piano, there's no accumulator
Shigeru kawai sounds so beautiful
acoustic has more body, digital is cleaner, i think depends on what works better for the song. for this song def prefer the acoustic
Is the acoustic a small grand?
What's the music?
Digital has a noticeable lack of resonances, the sound is shallow.
Of course the acoustic Shigeru Kawai any day.
But that digital piano is no slouch either... is that the Novus 5?
No, this is the Novus N10.
What model Kawai is the digital, NV series?
name of song piece?
And to answer the question I would prefer acoustic IF i had the money.
The Merry-Go-Round-of-Life, composed by Joe Hisaishi. Howl's Moving Castle OST.
@@Un1234l Thank you sooo much!!!
I would find a reflective backboard really badly distracting.
Which one was the acoustic? The Kawai sounded better to me.
whats the arrangement?
The acoustic has so much warmth, clarity, and depth. The digital sounds like a kazoo out of a Kracker Jack box.
In this video the digital sounds better. Has more warmth and resonance
Bro pls tell me wht song you was playing on tht keyboard during the first 5 seconds of the video
Its howls moving castle merry go round of life. It's the same song during the whole video :) Composer is Joe Hisaishi
what arrangement is this piece
Digital of corse i have big one 😅
Does anyone know what song is this?
Merry Go Round of Life from "Howls Moving Castle"
@@piperpiper7ty
But is it a fair comparison? Is there digital going directly into the recording source?
Depends on the glasses you wear. There will always be “another” way of doing it. 🎹👍🏻☺️
@@Digitalpianocom I have no idea what you mean there?
Hi again
You just asked if it was a fair comparison. It depends on so many things.
1) is it possible to compare a digital with an acoustic?
2) if yes, should it be recorded directly or with microphones?
All good. Just saying, that it all depends on “what glasses you wear”, or maybe “what you are looking for”.
👍🏻☺️
Nothing can beat strings resonance through out wood
No comparison. Acoustic wins hands down.
Song?
Its called Merry go round of life! Its from an anime movie called Howl's moving castle. Haven't seen it personally but the movie might be a good watch as well!
Acoustic! Big difference.
Acoustic. The difference is really huge.
Acoustic ❤
Bro pressed a wrong key every chord
Yes but the feeling of AN acoustic piano is better
Acoustic!
The Digital sounds nearly the same, that's largely due to some updates that were made to it.
I’m definitely a fan of acoustic but digital nowadays exceeds average piano sounds.
Should I go with acoustic or digital
Digital
Acoustic
Song name?
Merry-Go-Round of Life - Howl's Moving Castle ( Joe Hisaishi )
My roland gp9 sounds better than the kawai and that acoustic. I have 5 concert grands to choose from, 10 other pianos. And about 60 other tones it can make. I can record, add drums in various tempos, split the keyboard in multiple ways. And the best part? It never needs tuning or maintenance. At a fraction of the cost of an acoustic concert grand. I'll never buy another acoustic.
It's not even close. Mark these words.
Acoustic 100%
Pianoteq user here, my recordings will always be better... you can spend $100,000 on just mics and still not come close...
What if you had a seperate speaker for each note
Sorry, what do you mean?
@@Digitalpianocom what if uou had a sepeterate speaker for each key on the keyboard maybe it would sound better
@@aventpianoI'm not sure if it would lose the crispness of the digital though. That acoustic richness is incredible. There's an Rx2 being auctioned off right now and it should be interesting to see what it goes for... 🙏
@@dannac_8888 whats an rx2
Acoustic the digital was muffled.
The Yamaha YDP-145 digital piano is incredible. In every way the closest thing ever made to an acoustic grand. Just completely indistinguishable. Absolutely astounding in every way imaginable.
yes big difference
Acoustic all the way , Egypt has a daily electricity Shutdown for 2-5 hours
yes..
a kawaii piano😭
Como sde llama la cancion?
Merry-Go-Round of Life - Howl's Moving Castle ( Joe Hisaishi )
Cant hear the difference on phone speakers
Bruh what kind of garbage phone do you have if you cant hear the difference you can clearly hear the acoustic is better
nokia 2003@@daanmetselaar403
maybe you can't hear at all lmao
i have ears@@Bearical
@@Vércingétorix9273turn them on
Bruh acoustic for sureeee
Lmao.😅
Smooth out your playing Maybe we can tell. You play very choppy.
Every digital item that came out, eventually surpassed the original ones...analog cameras are history, computers made books absolete , and ,in time, this will happen to the acoustic piano's too.... because digitals can evolve much further and much faster.....if they want to.....
apart from a digital piano will never possess a soul. Ever!
yeah, no.... digitally created noises would never compare to physically vibrating strings on a live acoustic piano
music doesn't work like that. there's a reason why people prefer to go to concerts instead of just listening to their favourite songs on Spotify.
you can't replicate the sound and feeling of real, live music.
Cameras try to capture the real world look as good as possible. And digital look more realistic than traditional camers which introduced more distortion and noise to the picture. But.. Acoustic pianos ARE the real thing and digital pianos only try to recreate that sound for years - how exactly you would imagine them sounding even 1% better than a real piano? 😂
After listening to acoustic then find that digital is literally garbage
but then u look at the wallet lmao
I dont hear difference
Nice very