I find that a good MIDI piano keyboard with weighting is a far better choice for this kind of work as versus the acoustic piano.

The MIDI keyboards of today have some great piano samples available in them, this requires you to audition a few in person to make the big decision as to which one suits you.

But the advantages of using the MIDI piano are many. In no particular order (and likely not covering all the reasons as well):

*Recording MIDI data to the computer is just flat easier to do. No room acoustics problems, no mic placement problems, all that was done by pros who did the original sampling, using high end pianos and studio mics, preamps, etc.

*MIDI data can be easily edited as compared to Audio recording of Acc Piano.

*Recording MIDI also yields NOTATION at the same time.

*MIDI recording takes up far less disk space than audio recording.

*If you come back to a recorded performance and maybe don't like the sound of that particular piano patch, just change the playback patch and listen to that instead. This is powerful.


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