88-key weighted keyboard

Ideally under £400 would be good, if you have one that you love do let me know the model. x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAVQe_jCWPU

I have this one :

http://www.thomann.de/fr/yamaha_p_45_b.htm

combined with two UC-33 midi controllers (can find them for 50 € ~ 80 €) and a Trigger Finger that i can use as a modwheel. Can't go wrong with Yamaha, sturdy and reliable.

Just a warning about cheap weighted full size keyboards: You kinda get what you pay for. Cheap ones, although they may well be weighted, they also might feel like crap!

Wherever possible I'd see if you can get a chance to demo them. Unlike non-weighed where they're all generally made from the same hardened plastic, weighted ones tend to be made or coated from a variety of materials and some just feel nasty !

I can't specifically comment on the 88 key fully weighted(?) version, but I always really liked the keybed on the semiweighted models in the Alesis QS series from the late 90s (I've been using a QS7.1 as my main controller for longer than almost any other piece of gear because I never felt any need to replace it). The QS8/8.1 is harder to find, but they're out there and aren't that expensive. There's one on eBay right now for $275 or best offer, but shipping overseas would probably be pretty expensive. Still, it could be worth looking in to and as a bonus you could make a pretty convincing 1998 made for TV movie soundtrack with it.

I was probably going to pop into a shop to try a few, I was just curious if there was a model that was the go to choice for IDM superstars.

  On 4/8/2016 at 4:10 PM, RSP said:

Still, it could be worth looking in to and as a bonus you could make a pretty convincing 1998 made for TV movie soundtrack with it.

That's mainly what I want one for, excellent.

fuck keyboards, go ROLI.

They look dumb.

I'm guessing any of these models will have input for pedals to simulate piano. I'm overdue some piano lessons and once I move plan on getting one.

Yeah pretty much all of them have a sustain/hold and most also have an expression pedal port

Yamaha P-70 has 88 weighted keys that feel great. Very barebones otherwise in terms of features. I have Yamaha s-90 es and it has loads more features n feels great to play.

P-70:

S-90 ES:

I'm a pretty mediocre pianist but as much as I'm able to judge, Yamaha really does make excellent keybeds. I actually specifically chose that Alesis I mentioned because I was after semi-weighted and it was the closest new (at the time) keyboard I could find to a DX-7, which I've always found really playable. Even the entry level, 80s Yamaha parlor organ I recently gave to a friend had a fantastic nonweighted keybed.