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This means it’s very easy to hide away when it’s not in use, which is a plus if you’ve got a home studio but you also use your computer for other purposes. It’s extremely lightweight and compact, and this means that it’s very easy to tuck underneath your desk on top of a sliding shelf or something. The M-Audio Hammer 88 is again a very suitable piano for composition, geared much more towards electronic and non-classical music than the other pianos on this list. This is useful to composers, because sometimes that’s all they really need the ability to send MIDI signals to a computer in order to make their music.
However, we can’t really call it a piano, as it’s more of a MIDI controller. This means that if you are a piano composer, or you like to do your composition the old fashioned way, it’s very easy to simply place a laptop on top of the piano and connect them together, or use the optional music stand to put some staff paper on and write to your heart’s content. The one thing that really stands out about this piano is that while it’s great for connecting up to your electronic devices, it is a fully fledged digital piano, with a great action, great inbuilt sounds and a fantastic speaker system. This is a great feature for those running legacy workstations or for people who want to hook this up to a MIDI-only device. It’s also got MIDI IN and OUT, which is a little unusual nowadays as most pianos tend only to include USB to HOST. This allows you to directly control an app such as Sibelius or Cubase from within your desktop environment, making this piano the perfect choice for recording studios or home composition workstations. What’s more is that the YDP-515 features USB-to-host capability, meaning that you can connect it straight to a Windows PC, and with a special USB-C converter dongle, a MacOS device.
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This allows you to control the digital piano’s inbuilt sounds, as well as enabling you to directly control an app such as Symphony Pro or Garageband. You can connect it directly to an iOS device such as an iPad.
This piano allows you to do several things that make it extremely suitable for composing. It combines all the facets of a great digital piano for performing as well as being our pick for the best digital piano for composing. This is the most expensive model on the list, but in our opinion, it’s also the best. If you’re looking for a piano to start learning on, or you’re looking for a piano that feels most like an acoustic piano, you’re better off looking at these reviews: Which digital piano has the best sound?and The 5 Best Digital Pianos for Beginners. We've mainly looked at how suitable they are for composition.
We haven’t been too worried about the action or the built-in sounds in this review. Ultimately, music composition is not just about writing piano music. We’ve also looked at their price there are options for all budgets.
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I’ve picked them mainly based on their ability to be hooked up to a laptop or computer and whether they are portable and light to allow them to be incorporated into a home PC setup. These pianos will work in a home environment or a studio environment, and they can even be used for piano practice if you want them to. There’s something for all budgets and for all genres. When it comes to picking the best digital piano for composing, we’ve narrowed down the choices to four options on the market today.