Korg - B2 Digital Piano with 88 Weighted Keys - Black

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The pipe, jazz, and rock organ sounds are faithfully reproduced by the organ sounds, despite the fact that they aren’t particularly outstanding.

It comprises of natural weighted hammer action keyboard, which is pretty basic and tries to stack up the GHS action of the Yamaha digital piano. If that's you, then you needn't worry about the B2, as it most definitely delivers on the piano front. Although Korg hasn’t focused primarily on digital pianos, its extensive experience in instrument manufacturing guarantees that their products always have a certain level of polish and quality. The B2 sits alongside two variants, the B2SP, which comes with a stylish stand and a three-pedal unit and the B2N, which opts for a lighter keyboard and different speaker set.The chorus is also very subtle and adds a bit of width to the sound by adding detuned echoes to the sound. It’s of vital importance that we make sure we teach our piano students, and ourselves, about the whole spectrum of music. They are perfectly serviceable and actually pretty satisfying to play around with, if not something you'd use all the time. The keys themselves also look the part, opting for the lipped style of key found on an acoustic piano. The Italian Concert, Jazz, and Ballad piano sounds (the best of the bunch in my opinion) have only 40 notes of polyphony, whereas everything else has 60.

Major factors in the sound picture when playing music include acoustics and reverb; the placement of the loudspeakers affects how much reverberation is heard. In addition, we appreciated the straightforward button labeling, which creates a more piano-like appearance than the conventional layout found on novice keyboards. This set packages the B2 digital piano with a easily assembled stand and a three-pedal unit that gives you the experience of playing a real grand piano.The graded weighted keys feel natural and responsive, the built-in speakers are surprisingly good, and the sustain pedal is very well made. Nice feature in PX-160: if you are learning some demo song from the piano internal bank, you can turn off left or right hand of the performance and play it yourself – very useful while studying. Sounds appropriate for rock and jazz are provided, as well as the sublime sound of a real recorded pipe organ. An e-piano that reproduces the differences in tone that arise from your playing dynamics and even simulates the sound of a key-off.

Coming with 88 fully weighted keys and Korg's Natural Weighted Hammer Action (NH) keyboard, the B2 prides itself on its natural feeling response. The Korg B2 features a partner mode, that splits the keyboard into two halves, within the same key range. The B2 series has a proprietary sustain pedal jack that only allows the use of the included pedals, which is a bummer. This jack is incompatible with all quarter-inch damper pedals available elsewhere, and it is quite disappointing.You may wonder how it is possible to have 32, 64, or even 128 notes playing at the same time, if there are only 88 keys and we never play them all at once.

The same goes for using headphones, with most professional headphones - be those studio headphones or the best headphones for digital piano - using the larger jack. As mentioned before, the Korg B2N features a lighter-touch keyboard for those who aren’t looking for a full-weighted digital piano. While digital pianos haven’t been Korg’s main focus, their long-running experience in instrument manufacturing ensures that there’s always a degree of polish and quality with their products. That said, these speakers are good enough for practice and clean enough that you won’t miss minor mistakes. However, the limited functionality of the B1 remains and is a massive downside to the B2, especially since other digital pianos have nearly standardized these extras.

This is not a big deal (especially since many real pianos are glossy), but it means you might have some slippage issues while playing.