May I suggest that its more than the physical function of the piano here, and more than the velocity curves, its also about the quality of the sampling and layering.

Have you considered buying a keyboard and piano software seperately?

Layering means how many sounds are mapped to each single key - i.e. ppp,pp. p. mp. f,ff,fff etc. There are 128 posdsible mappings in MIDI but many pianos dont use them all. Each sound must be accurately recorded, it must accurately represent the dynamic notes intended (i.e. pp) it must have a pleasing and consistent degree of ambience

The "feel" of a keyboard is also about the dynamic range of the keyboard

I have had a lot of piano software and the one that beats all for me hands down is TruePianos Diamond - which is on a free download for 40 days. Because the TruePiano is NOT a sampled Piano it has several advantages, firstly it is a lot smaller in mgbyte terms and does not hog RAM, secondly it is more flexible in terms of settings. Its very realistic - check it out.

Another piano is Ivory. This is a sampled piano and is highly rated by pianists - I dont own this one.

IMO (only in IMO) Yamaha pianos, especially the PSR type pianos are not really fit to play as they come out of the box their pro range is probably a lot better of course. A good semiweighted keyboard is the Axiom - its as good as my NORD.

So, by all means get a good keyboard, get the right velocity set up too, but dont forget the piano sampling.


Zero

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