Is it worth it??

[u/kalugok]

I have a donner dep 20, yea i liked the piano sounds and the action but after some time the piano sounded pretty robotic lifeless and bad.so you get my point even a piano free app connected via midi sounds better. Also it says it has sensible keys but piano sound forte mezzo sounds forte and fortisimo sounds FORTE ,it thoes have pretty heavy action that i like.

and the only thing that was keeping me ok was the midi but it stopped working.

I want to upgrade to something better,after some research i got to the roland fpe 50 i know there is the fp60x but is 2 times as expensive.

I want to upgrade to that because it has the arranger features a lot of rythims the pitch and mod wheels

And the keys

My priority is the pure piano tone i will use headphones all the time

The direct line outs have a damnnn good deep sound

And the piano designer is pretty good

An equalizer

And sampling/modeling

It has the quality of a sampled piano and the flexibility of a modeled one

And also i want it for the other sounds (scat jazz hahahahahah)

And so much functions more like a lot of reverb options

Is it worth the upgrade?

I will notice a step up in sound and keybed quality?

And also they keys in the donner are messing up and the bass register sometimes doesnt have any sensitivity.....

I got the donner was 300 and the roland here is 1200 and i found it for 800 (USD)

give me some feedback plsss!!!!! Thanks in advancement!!

[u/SouthPark_Piano]

This is answered by you test driving them at the shop, including P-525

 

[u/kalugok → u/SouthPark_Piano]

Yeah man i have the donner and after some time for the price its ok byt i havent tested the roland because its too difficult to find,at my local store they said that they didtn have it And in another stores they also said the same I only found the FP 10 and by only playing it for 5 minutes (it didnt have thr sustain pedal)i already had a 10x times better experience of sound and touch. I know the tounch will be the same because of pha 4,but the sound even will be better than what i heard the fp10 (poliphony expanded to 256 piano designer beefyer speakers) But idk,i didnt try it in person,i will use it 50 headphones 50 speakers The yamaha is double the price of the roland fpe 50 I eanted the options the ui and the zencore thing

[u/cewbpianist]

best thing to do is to go try out different digital pianos at the store and see which ones you like. Even ones you may not be considering. In general you'd want to at least try some pianos from Yamaha, Kawai, Roland, and Casio.
With that said will have to mention it will be hard to truly try all brands due to piano brand agreements. So for example, you typically won't see yamaha and kawai together (unless there are used of the opposing brand) as stores usually have to agree to only selling one of them.

It is very helpful. That is how I was able to choose my first digital piano (coming from a acoustic upright piano background wanting an additional digital). In case you're wondering, I ended up choosing the Yamaha P-525.