I don't think anyone has ever gave a better demonstration and explanation of the differences. Thanks for making this series. I am getting an acoustic upright (owned by a piano teacher, apart from being told its a good one, I know nothing about it (cant look a gift horse in the mouth)), and I was anxious considering I have the expense and responsibility of transporting it and getting it tuned, for the same amount of cash I could purchase a DP. I may end up owning both if I actually get good enough at the piano and start playing gigs.

Thank you for this thorough comparison! What I like in the digitals is that they are always perfectly tuned...

It is indeed very interesting. Thank you.

This is an excellent overview, to the point and accurate. The part about the connection between you and an acoustic instrument is spot on. A digital piano is bought because of convenience and technical features, but an acoustic piano is actually a completely different thing.

Thanks for another great video. I hope to finish seeing/hearing this one tomorrow. I saw three others earlier, thanks. I'd like to say that irrespective of "realism", in my experience the most vibrant acoustic pianos are overwhelming in many domestic settings. I am getting better use from my digital piano, and like you, I do ramp up the assorted resonances on it, though not so much that it becomes equally raucous to a mid-sized upright. I have also added some excellent studio monitors, since my DP is a portable model, and the main speakers are only about 4 inches in diameter. I realise that a technician could probably re-voice an acoustic piano and increase the dampening for a home setting, but I think you get my point. I'm so glad that you say acoustic piano and not "real piano". I believe that some pianists miss the point of digital pianos. Despite what some manufacturers say, it's silly hoping to buy outright replicants of specific acoustic models. We should buy them with more open minds and because they are great musical instruments fit to the purpose of interpreting/creating piano music. And why limit our ambtion? Quality acoustic pianos usually outperform DPs, but the tables might be turned one day, at least for interpreting certain types of music. We should also acknowledge that home DPs are typically purchased instead of uprights, and not instead of grand pianos, though they can mimmick some grand piano characteristics better than uprights can.

Love the Video!

❤️❤️❤️ You did it Daria, you showed some sheet music for your examples while playing. It is very helpful to see what you are playing and added to what your tutorial is about. Great job describing tone from variety of 🎹 pianos. I still think the acustic piano provides the best sound and quality of interpretation that can be achieved. Wood from mother nature is a natural Harmony in it self. Tone of beautiful harmonies, melodies and lovely overtones is the beauty of a ❤️ healthy life we can appreciate and explore. What would we be with no music at all? Keep up the great work with your tutorials. Thank you for the time sharing with all of us. We appreciate dearly.❤️❤️🌹❤️❤️.

When I was a Teenager I did dream of digital pianos which do not need tuning, which were adjustable in sound, etc. Nowadays we have great digital Pianos like my CLP-785 which has an incredible sound and if I use Pianoteq, then the sound has all physical elements of an acoustic piano. Now one should remember that no two acoustic pianos sound the same and there is a huge variation in the keys depending on how they were adjusted, maintained and prepared (regulated). If you just want to play then a digital piano beats them in cost efficiency and comfort by a huge margin. If you have the money, then you can go for a 100‘000 grand piano and afford the annual regulation and seasonal tuning by experts. If you just want to play piano, then just enjoy the digital capabilities of nowadays as they lack all the hassle and trouble of the mechanical instruments which are only great when well and costly maintained.

Strangely, the neighbours seem to enjoy my playing more when I use the digital piano. Go figure

The Digital Piano is much more compact & you can use headphones to practice. It even sounds amazing when you plug it into an amp, you'll have to use a Bass Amp (or even so a Keyboard Amp) when playing through an amp w/ FX because this thing can play super low.

Comparing a $20,000 baby grand to a $ 3500 digital piano is like comparing a Lambo to a mustang

I have an acoustic piano and it gets out of tune like every 4 month. As a perfectionism who has a picky ears I can't stand out of tune notes on piano. Also I don't want others to hear me playing. So I decided to get digital piano. I know the actions are not even close compare to acoustic piano but instead you get perfectly tuned piano, you can practce any time of the day, you don't have to be worry about your room temprature and piano condition and you have the flexibility to use it as a midi controller.

Всё подробно рассказано, спасибо! Когда записываются семплы , скорее всего клавиши нажимает робот. Со временем наверняка разработчики цифровых пианино внесут нейросети в логику генерации звука и цифровые пианино станут учитывать атаку. Симуляция станет казаться лучше реальности :) Так же можно встроить микрофоны в инструмент и он станет учитывать поправки на простраство комнаты.

Excellent video. This is a tough topic to cover by video. You really have to be present to hear these differences. I just bought a Yamaha CLP-735 back in late 2022. I'm still playing baby songs, so I do not have an ear trained around exposure to acoustic and digital pianos to appreciate the differences. I do think that today's high end digital pianos come pretty close to reproduce the acoustic sound and performance attributes. Yamaha has been perfecting this for over 35 years and I think the technology is at a threshold where many pianists will never own an acoustic. Some comments though about what I understand about the Clavinova 700 series digital pianos. Regarding sustain of the string resonance. If you are interested in recording, too much string resonance sounds muddy. But in person, string resonance can raise the hairs on the back of your neck. I don't think sustain duration is the important difference in the string resonance. An acoustic piano is a large instrument where sound emits all around you. Combine this with room reflections, how harmony and string resonance reaches your ears is a very complex topic. An acoustic piano has a 4-dimensional sound field. Sound has placement in space and time. Sound waves at different frequencies reach your ears at slight timing differences. This makes, in my opinion, an acoustic piano the ultimate device to appreciate and experience harmony. A digital piano has a long way to go to replicate this 4-dimensional sound field. First, the microphones that capture samples, record sound at a point in space. And then when the sound emits from a speaker, the sound essentially is leaving from a small driver. The closest analogy would be how a picture or video in 2D is not the same as 3D real life. It is flat, so to speak. Another point regarding how string resonance is simulated in a digital piano. Yamaha uses VRM (Virtual Resonance Modeling). This models which undamped strings will resonate and then sounds these strings with the attack part of the sample removed (e.g. just the decay part of the sample). You mentioned how you could never sample all the possible string resonate scenarios. That is true, and that is why this has to be modeled. One final point. You mentioned how the samples in a digital piano do not represent your own personal touch. Yamaha addresses this with their Grand Expression Modeling. Grand Expression Modeling samples each key on how hard the key is hit and the speed the key is traveling. Most digital pianos only sample on how hard the key is kit (e.g. velocity). This is called velocity layered samples. Yamaha seems to be sampling on velocity and acceleration. This allows you to get these tone variations depending on how you hit the key (light and fast, soft and slow, etc.) Watching you do scales almost made me give up on learning piano. Amazing.

I have both... Kawai digital and an acoustic piano... for me... the acoustic is best by far... mine has a practice pedal which works well early eve... I then use the digital if late at night..

The CP-80 is actually Electro-mechanical cause it has a Tone Generator (Strings struck by Hammers like the Acoustic Grand Piano) that are amplified by Piezo Pickups so it's supposed to sound more like a True Amplified Grand Piano

Even as a relative novice that made sense to me !

i was torn between CLP 785 and N1X....but eventually CLP sounds a bit like an organ so i picked N1X and i couldn't be much happier...you really need to be a pianist to tell the difference with my N1X

I recommend you to try next time Kawai digital pianos. You'll going to be surprised by the amount of respond and feel you'll get from them. I use to have Yamaha CLP 535 and it was gorgeous sound wise and touch wise. And then Roland RD800. But then the Kawai mp7se blow me away with the emotion sound wise and feel wise. It's a different feeling. I Recommend you to try but for a week at list. Not just casually playing it on a store. Love your videos. Especially this one. 😍 You're beautiful talented woman. Cant get my eyes off you.

great comparison, I would surely buy acouatic one in a year or so its a big investment for me and I will also have to do sound proofing so neighbours are trouble free of hours of practice 🤭

Can you compare Acoustic vs Digital vs Hybrid? I haven’t seen you make any videos on hybrids.

Daria, you are умница, а то весь ютуб забит рекламой цифры как будто это будущее, а акустика прошлое вместе с педагогами по специальному фортепиано.

the physis /generalmusic and the lx series of roland will resonate as long as an acoustic piano

Ciao,io ho il P515,a parte la tua indiscussa bravura,come giustamente affermi,l'acustico ha di sicuro parecchie marce in più.Pero anche il digitale di qualità ha parecchie regolazioni che se utilizzate si avvicinano abbastanza all'acustico.Ad esempio prova a mettere a 10 la risonanza,aumentare un po i vari riverberi,la lunghezza del pedale ecc,vedrai che cambia parecchio.Ovviamente non potrà mai eguagliare un acustico,ma riuscire ad avvicinarsi il più possibile,penso sia già un grande successo.Un grande abbraccio dall'Italia.

Digital Pianos have improved over the years & there's a new one called a Hybrid.

Hello Daria, excellent video! How are you recording your CLP745 sound directly? I'm glad I found your channel and look forward to more videos

You can increase the "string resonance" and the "dumper resonance" and then you'll get more similar results to acoustic piano resonance wise.

Wow. Again I wonder how Roland DP's would change this as they can theoretically produce any strength/length/etc of resonance the developers wanted - and are also user adjustable. To be honest, I struggled to hear a big difference in the legato performance, I was totally fine with the digital version :) But surely the different effort was there.

generalmusic had a lot of resonance kawai too you can add much more resonance at the yamaha

You look gorgeous....fantastic video too

Roland claim to have good modelling. Is resonance better on those pianos?

There's actually another one the CP-80 it's a Baby Grand Piano w/ Pickups

Thanks for the comparison. Have you tried the Yamaha N2 or N1X ? I have the same 745 you have and I like it but I’m considering an upgrade to get the more realistic piano action, but your video got me worried about the sound quality

How does the clp 745 compare with the p515? Which do you prefer?

Baby grands are king but it’s also nice to have a digital for “quite “practice. Also, digital pianos have come a long way in reproducing high quality piano sounds- delightful

why not the bösendorfer sample?

What Yamaha piano is that? If I had to grand like the one you played, how much should I expect to spend, that Yamaha sounded nice? Edit: I was referring to the acoustic grand piano

Dasha is a very beautiful girl! Content of transcendent usefulness, all reviewers should do this, learn gentlemen.

There is a piano vst called pianoteq and its not a prerecorded samples but its creats sounds in real time 🤔

Well, I've just bought a hybrid Kawai CA901 with a real soundboard and modelling engine and it is completely different sound experience than on pure digital Yamaha DGX-660. It is so different, that first time I could even not get to it and felt very disappointed that an instrument which is five times more expensive, sounds so dirty and woozy with so much resonance and vibration - even keyboard vibrates when playing forte treble. Later I got used with resonance and soundboard trebles and spacial sound of the hybrid instead of direct in-face sounding of pure digital, and now I see why my lady teacher hates digital pianos so much. :) In premium hybrid, f.e. Kawai NV5, that authentic acoustic aounding is even bigger - professional pianists need time to understand what they are playing not an acoustic, but a digital when on blind test. So, digital instruments with modeling are almost as good as real ones.

One step better than a digital piano would be a hammer action midi controller (like Studiologic SL88 Grand) and a VST like Keyscape...sure it wont be like the real deal but it is pretty close...

@2:11 I'm a beginner and love the acoustic sound! No digital piano can ever replace it for me. Digital piano vs acoustic is like plastic flower vs real flower. Digital simply sounds lifeless! @14:31 This explanation is very meaningful. It couldn't be worded more intelligibly. So with the digital piano, we are just reusing someone else's relation to some acoustic piano. I wonder if ever there would be Beethoven, Mozart... if they have only dead (digital) pianos.

the biggest difference is that on the digital you can practice all day long or night with the headsets on without getting killed by neighbors or kicked out from your own house by other family members and for that reason PROGRESS your learning.

The sound of the digital piano is really much thinner, it's really shocking when you hear both next to each others, especially considering that it is a high end digital piano. Once you hear a rendition as a recorded piece, especially if it's mixed with other instruments (think pop music), you will find it hard and often impossible to tell whether it is a real or digital piano (I mean even professional will often get it wrong). But the experience of actually playing and the sound you hear while playing is totally different. Personally I can say that I hate digital pianos, and I'm just an amateur and I don't even play classical. But I prefer having a decent keyboard that doesn't try to replicate what a real piano is (certainly not in terms of touch as I don't even see the point, if it's not using hammers why pretend and try to make it feels as if it does?), and enjoy the opportunities to play a real piano when I can.

Wonderful way to gap the musicality of acoustic and digis 🗽🗽🗽