| Digital piano is a current electronic musical | | | | generally of extremely high quality and |
| instrument especially designed to serve | | | | shaped by using world-class pianos, costly |
| primarily as an alternative to the | | | | microphones, and other high quality preamps |
| traditional piano, in both the way it feels | | | | in an experts recording studio. |
| to play and in the sound it produced. Some | | | | |
| digital pianos are as well shaped to look | | | | Digital pianos do have restrictions on the |
| like an acoustic piano. As digital pianos | | | | authenticity with that they replicate the |
| have many advantages over normal pianos. | | | | sound of any acoustic piano. These as well |
| | | | comprise of the lack of implementation of |
| In most of the implementations, a digital | | | | harmonic tones, which result when some |
| piano offers a different variety of piano | | | | mixtures of notes are sounded, restricted to |
| timbres and normally some other sound as | | | | polyphony, and a lack of innate reverberation |
| well. For instance, a digital piano might | | | | when the piano is actually played |
| have settings for a performance grand piano, | | | | percussively. They as well lack the secondary |
| an upright piano, a tack piano, and different | | | | acoustic noises related with piano playing, |
| electric pianos like the Fender Rhodes and | | | | like the sounds of pedals being low and the |
| Wurlitzer. Some digital pianos as well | | | | related machinery broken up within the piano |
| incorporate other basics "synthesizer" sounds | | | | that some in fact consider a benefit. These |
| like string ensemble, and provide settings to | | | | limitations relate to most acoustic piano |
| combine them with piano. | | | | instruments and their sampled foils, the |
| | | | difference normally being described as |
| The sounds offered by a digital piano are at | | | | "visceral". |
| times PCM samples available in ROM. Despite | | | | |
| the fact that a digital piano plays models, | | | | For the wide majority of listeners, however, |
| it is not a sampler because it needs the | | | | expert recordings made with a digital piano |
| capability to record samples. It does, | | | | are hard or not possible to differentiate |
| however, be eligible as a romper. Other, more | | | | from a recording shaped with a original |
| superior brands (like Yamaha & Kawai) use | | | | piano. Many digital pianos comprise an |
| other sound sampling systems like AWM | | | | amplifier and loudspeakers so that no extra |
| (advanced sign memory) or Harmonic Imaging. | | | | equipment is necessary to play the |
| | | | instrument. Most digital pianos include |
| The samples stored in digital pianos are | | | | headphone output. |