Stage Pianos

[bass_dinger]

On 09/12/2025 at 17:12, SumOne said:

 

I could see it being a deal breaker for other people though seeing as a key target audience is people practising at home - lots will want to use apps like Flowkey and Simply Piano and that would requires the audio to go both out and back in via USB to listen on the ES-60 which isn't possible without it having an interface, or many will just want to practice with headphones on and be able to play along to backing tracks via an aux in or bluetooth which isn't possible either. There are possible workarounds but they are a faff and costly for most of the target audience e.g. Connect an external audio interface

 

So....let's see if the Kawai ES60 would work for me:

 

• I want to be able to listen to myself play, along with a YouTube track. 

 

• I want to be able to listen to myself play, alongside a midi track, and to record additional midi tracks, into Musescore.

 

• I want to use the keyboard to send midi to my EMU Classic Keys Module (which has Midi In, Midi Out and Midi Thru.

 

I have a Behringer UMC1820 interface with midi in and midi out (and 8 channels of line-in), plus a Kurzweil SP76 with "traditional" midi (two 5-pin DIN). Currently, the Behringer  UMC1820 is doing everything that I require, and which I listed above.