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Key Features- Motherboard developed in partnership with Onkyo for improved tonal clarity
- Updated control panel layout with modern OLED graphic display
- Chopin Walzer (1-19) lesson book
- Tone Control setting with 8 selectable tone presets
- Low Volume Balance function for improved touch consistency at reduce volume
- Modern cabinet design modelled after larger Concert Artist instruments
- Improved Shigeru Kawai grand piano sounds
- Enhanced 'Light' Touch Curve setting for young children
What's in the box:- CA49 88-Key Grand Feel Compact Digital Piano (Premium Rosewood)
- Stand (with Assembly Hardware)
- Matching Bench
- AC Power Adapter
- Kawai 5 Year Limited Warranty
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It has extremely poor inter_key agreement, uneven response across the keybed.
https://forum.modartt.c
This is generally acceptable for piano playing, but it can be a problem if you're trying to get work done (recording), and (controlling) other instruments.
It has extremely poor inter_key agreement, uneven response across the keybed.
https://forum.modartt.c
This is generally acceptable for piano playing, but it can be a problem if you're trying to get work done (recording), and (controlling) other instruments.
I won't mention Roland's "hybrid wooden" keys. I think it's just a veneer.
Wooden keys serve a different audience.
The CA series is a piano for home playing, not for studio creative sessions where you would instead use something like a Roland RD-2000 designed with plastic key actions.
If anyone doesn't want wood, the Kawai CN series is the same thing but with plastic keys.
Plastic better if you play through a computer.
Solid wood feels like the real thing.
In fact, the Kawai wood series is pretty much identical to an acoustic key mechanism. Kawai makes their own highly expensive grand pianos as well.
If this drops down to $1300, I'm going to buy 10 of them.
Only their hybrid is an acoustic piano action which is all wood, but these are highly unreliable and has the SAME problem as all wooden actions, the Inconsistency and calibration drift occuring over time.
Wooden actions are unstable regardless of who makes them.
I would not recommend buying a wooden based action digital piano AT ANY PRICE. It is simply the wrong material to use in a digital input mechanism.
Only their hybrid is an acoustic piano action which is all wood, but these are highly unreliable and has the SAME problem as all wooden actions, the Inconsistency and calibration drift occuring over time.
Wooden actions are unstable regardless of who makes them.
I would not recommend buying a wooden based action digital piano AT ANY PRICE. It is simply the wrong material to use in a digital input mechanism.
People buying these home furniture style pianos aren't hooking them up to computers. They've never heard of DAWs and will never use them in a studio setting.
And people who have DAWs would never buy this style of piano.
Wood is UNRIVALED as authentic acoustic piano action because acoustic pianos use wood keys.
Again, most consumers buying these furniture / cabinet style home pianos are using them in lieu of acoustic pianos.
Show me 1 DAW setup that uses a furniture cabinet style piano and I'll show you 999,999 setups that do not. [google.com]
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Not true, unrivaled according to whom , the advertising ?
Wood has NEVER been a good material for actions. that's why Kawai switched to originally abs styrene (which is fancy plastic), then eventually carbon fiber.
Yamaha made a similar switch in their actions as well.
They only kept the wooden parts for hammer shank because it has a warmer tone than carbon fiber shanks, but this can be balanced with scale design.
They kept wooden key sticks primarily for aesthetics, and how the last of the old farts who still play pianos can't get over wood.
WNG actions use full carbon fiber and does away with felt bushing for an extremely precise and stable action. The latest Mason and Hamlins also use Carbon fiber shanks when they switched to WNG actions.
funkmasterta, I can tell you're not a moron, but your awareness of piano technology is too superficial, you are spouting baseless remarks.
The WOODEN actions they put into digital pianos are no more than a GIMMICK, to upsell what's essentially 10 year old obsolete technology. The electronics in modern digital pianos are slower than a raspberry pie.
Look at kawai's ca99/ novus input system, it's slow as heck, the animation isn't even smooth, the software was outsourced to a random chinese company, and full of bugs. The UI is terrible.
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Go to the clarinova 785 page,
You can see it's a plastic core.
https://usa.yamaha.com/files/24-C...&imhei=458
There's A REASON, they don't use a full wooden stick, because wood = unstable. This makes it Particularly bad for digital pianos, because digital pianos run on a Deterministic system with hard table binds between input velocity and sound.