Kurzweil top digital concert pianos are the guarantee of high level stage performing and studio work. The brand name, most powerful synth engine, plenty of splendid sounds and decent keyboards make any musician dream about these instruments. Chris Martirano of AMS company will demonstrate you some what the happy medium is all about – have a look at 6-octave Forte7 and Artis7.

Generalmusic, an Italian company which used to be quite popular, has found the investor from Finland and now is trying to break through the fortification of the today’s market with its new digital stage piano Promega 2+ which will be produced as a Generalmusic instrument. The fact that it’s going to have “GEM” on it will surely attract many musicians. The keyboard features a classic interface, uses sample playback and physical modeling techniques to generate waveforms though offers a bit limited sound library for a contemporary stage piano. Anyway, it sounds really great leaving no doubt about the quality and the panels look fine – as compelling as its voices. We’re convinced it’s right what you need to take on stage but it comes with the price which might seem too heavy to do it.

Roland’s digital stage piano surely hit the first day of NAMM 2017. Roland entitled it a “Stage Revolution” and we’ll try to find out whether it’s something new or the modification of something familiar and most important whether there is any point for Kurzweil to panic about its Artis/Forte series.

The fact that Roland, Kurzweil, Yamaha and Kawai can’t afford ignoring the mid-range segment (they smart enough to know that it would be foolish of them) and even more – they treat it with care and attention – is proven by the attractive quality of their stage pianos: RD-800, Artis, CP4 and probably the most stunning among them MP7 tempting with its impressive functionality. A professional pianist would agree to perform having any of them (at least once, but would anyway). These compact digital instruments include a big choice of key sounds and can be easily taken in tour. Here we’ll review a few most catching models and the full list is always ready at hand – just click our catalogue.

When companies equip their cult instruments with a professional keyboard and at least the basic controller set featuring their brand parameters they can easily entice any modular system die-hard fan as well as any touring musician. They don’t aim at the target audience they literally shoot each and every one who’s ever been into professional music. We’ll review the coolest stage synthesizers which used to shake the market and keep on doing it right now - Roland Jupiter-80, Radikal Technologies Accelerator, Access Virus Total Integration 2, Clavia Nord Stage 2EX, Kurzweil PC3A and even that marvelous beast John Bowen Synth Design Solaris!