The World Best weighted Midi Piano keyboard EVER !! ❤️❤️❤️

No other midi keyboard comes remotely close and it feels like you are playing a real steinway grand piano. The simplicity and just so Beautiful in every way.

Only selling as I am moving and don’t have room to accommodate it and 99% of my time is on guitar otherwise, I would NEVER sell.

Stand and peddle Included


if you a looking for this midi piano then you probably already know how awesome and realist it is !!!!

Kawai VPC1 88 Key Virtual Piano Controller w/Various Accessories MIDI Keyboard

With the controller-only VPC-1, Kawai has gone minimalist, leaving just (and I really shouldn’t say “just”) an exquisite graded piano action with real wooden keys and very ivory-like key surfaces. The net effect is a first-rate physical piano feel which, when married to one of today’s superb software pianos, gets better and better as you play it and encourages you to master musical passages that would normally make you feel trepidation.

The VPC-1 ships with the substantial Kawai triple-pedal array that convincingly emulates half-pedalling and after-pedalling on the damper as well as correct behaviour of the sostenuto and soft pedals. There’s MIDI in/out and a USB port that will power the unit, so you don’t need the power supply unless you’re controlling a sound source via five-pin MIDI. The “killer app,” though, comes in the form of touch curves that were customized by working closely with the makers of four popular software pianos: Synthogy Ivory II, Native Instruments Alicia’s Keys, the Galaxy Pianos, and Modartt’s physically-modelled Pianoteq.

The action

A real grand piano action is a Rube Goldberg contraption of moving parts that translates the downward motion of your fingers into the upward motion of a felt-covered wooden hammer. Along the way, this mechanism has to shock-absorb the key after your finger strikes it, keep the hammer from bouncing back and forth, lift dampers on a per-string basis, and do other things that let you transform subtle (and not so subtle) forces into musical tones.



Kawai’s solution to the complaint “Why doesn’t my controller really feel like a piano?” is to adopt a real piano mechanism. They craft their keys, white and black, from long pieces of wood that balance on a pivot point; so when you play you feel real-world resistance and the see-saw motion of a weighted, balanced key. Like on a real piano, the VPC-1 key doesn’t directly strike the noise-making apparatus but instead actuates a second mechanism, and that generates the MIDI velocity information. That info is then read by three sensors instead of the industry-standard two. This helps you repeat notes quickly and accurately, even when you barely play the tops of the keys. Kawai has also built-in let-off simulation, that little bump you feel at the bottom of a very soft keystroke, to subtly resist your finger motion and let you navigate soft passages with greater nuance. Think of it all as “physical modelling” in its most literal sense.


Too Beautiful & Precious to ship so collection is preferred or arrange a man with a Van

(I am based in London UB7 9BZ)


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Listed9 months ago
ConditionExcellent (Used)
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Brand
Model
  • VPC1 Virtual Piano Controller
Finish
  • Black
Categories
Year
  • 2013 - Present
MIDI I/O
  • USB MIDI
  • MIDI Input
  • MIDI Output
Key Size
  • Full Size
Number of Keys
  • 88 Keys
Keyboard Action
  • Weighted

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