Can anyone recommend a Digital Piano?

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Hi:
I'm looking to buy a Digital Piano for recording purposes. Presently, I'm recording with a Yamaha keyboard that has synth effects, but I'm not entirely satisfied with the sound that I'm getting from it. Therefore I'm considering buying a Digital Piano for around two hundred dollars. I'm hoping to get one that has a great piano sound ( I would like one that sounds close to a baby grand or even a grand piano if that's possible.) and that possibly has some synthesizer options that I can use with it too. Also, I need one that allows for an instrument cable that can be plugged into it so that I can plug that cable into my M Box 2 Mini. Right now, I'm looking at a Casio CDP 100, but I'm not certain about one. So, can anyone recommend a good digital piano for me?
Thanks.
carsoste
 
If you can get a CDP 100 for under $200, you're getting a hell of a deal. Digital pianos typically cost in the thousands.
 
Casio Privias (a few different types of models out there) are actually quite good sounding, and run from $500 to a $1000, new. Their keyboard feel is actually quite good and the piano sound is also. The additional sounds they bundle on them are not great, though, in my opinion.

As far as getting a synthesizer bundled in along with a digital piano, then what diggy_dude wrote is aptly noted. Programmable synthesizers that are really good start at at least $500, and then when you get digital piano technology tossed in, you are taken to a new level of a machine, known as a workstation. Expensive.

I'm not familiar with CDP 100.
 
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Toddskins said:
Programmable synthesizers that are really good start at at least $500
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I paid $150 each for two Casio FZ-1s. They're remarkably advanced. Besides 16-bit sampling and additive synthesis, you can draw a waveform on the LCD screen with the cursor keys. This was in 1983!

A Casio CZ series phase distortion synth (similar to Yamaha's DX series but easier to program) or the more advanced VZ series interactive phase distortion can be had for well under $200. The one awesome Casio you'll most likely never find because they're so rare is the HT-6000, and I still got mine for under $500.

Stay away from the "tone bank" keyboards. Those aren't programmable and are based on unbelievably crappy instrument samples. They're the main reason pros regard Casio instruments as cheesy toys.
 
Hi:
Thank you both so much for your great suggestions, I will look into them.
All the best,
carsoste
 
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