[LAU] looking for midi piano keyboard with "natural" piano touch

[Cedric Roux]

Thanks for your suggestions everyone.
It's not clear to me if you are piano players
or not, so it's difficult to have a conclusion.

Is there any regular piano player (say one hour per day)
using this kind of devices with a linux setup?
I'm looking for people playing classic music
(Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, this kind of things).
If you fit, what do you think about midi master
keyboards? Do you use one of them to practice
your piano? And does it "feel" like the real
thing? Do you use it with joy, like "mmm, what to play
today? the piano or the midi keyboard?" Or is it more
like "oh, it's late, I can't play my piano, let me
switch to this inferior alternative for today,
hopefully tomorrow I'll come back from work earlier
and I'll have my full dose of fun with this horrible
prelude on the piano."

I realize how all this is very subjective,
but I think asking a pianist is the best I can
do; after all, a piano is just a human-made object,
there is no objective metrics to decide if it's
good or not, it's just a matter of taste in the end,
whatever "taste" could mean. So I guess even "toy"
keyboards can be enjoyable.
On 12/05/2017 10:46 PM, Cedric Roux wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a piano keyboard
> ("midi master keyboard" I think it's called).
> I'm looking for something with keys that feel
> more or less like a real piano. I've seen several
> models, some have real hammers inside. I wonder
> if that's useful/necessary to emulate a piano touch.
> 
> I want 88 keys (standard piano) and USB connection.
> I want something that I can plug into my computer
> and that would work as a midi source more or less
> out of the box with my Debian-based system.
> (I can write some code, no problemo, I do it all the
> time. I just need something compatible with linux.)
> 
> So, I would like to know if any of you, preferably
> someone who knows and likes to play the (real) piano,
> uses this kind of devices, and if yes what model you
> use.
> 
> My main idea is to have a "portable piano" because I
> can't afford the real beast, plus I need something I
> can use at 2am without annoying neighbours. And I want
> something of reasonable quality.
> 
> Thanks!