Furthermore, I wanted to focus on pianos that weren’t resource hogs, but can run acceptably well on a consumer-spec, not-new computer. I limited the budget to products with a list price of $150 or less. I thought that there must be others out there like me: players bored or dissatisfied with the sounds of their no-longer-new digital pianos, but without the money to invest in a completely new hardware-based digital that would be appreciably better. Budget, Scope, and EquipmentĪs I began this journey, I wanted the result to be a little different from the typical articles primarily intended for power users of software pianos. The growing prevalence and diversity of software pianos in the global market, combined with the relative slowness with which hardware-based digital piano makers tend to improve their instruments’ core sounds-a predictable cycle of offering the newest, most premium piano sounds in their flagship models, to be trickled down to midrange models a few years later, and to the entry-level stuff a year or two after that-requires Piano Buyer to take a more detailed, more frequent look at this growing sector of the piano industry. It gets worse: Outside of trade-show booths, I’ve never really tried them, even though I occasionally reread Alden Skinner’s Piano Buyer article “ My Other Piano is a Computer.” In the complex hierarchy of the piano universe, I’d always relegated users of software pianos to a tiny niche of self-described tweakheads, gearslutz, and a set of vocal outliers on Internet forums devoted to music and recording. A confession: Your humble Piano Review Editor has never owned a software piano.
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