High Performance and Big Value in a Digital Home Piano
In the market for a digital piano for your home? If performance and value are your top concerns, Sweetwater has an excellent suggestion: the Kawai KDP120. With its trim footprint and attractive finish, the KDP120 will grace any room. The KDP120 is packed with advanced technology and features such as onboard Alfred lessons and Dual and Four Hands modes to further you and your family’s developing pianistic skills. Kawai’s Responsive Hammer Compact II keyboard action gives you the feel of a real acoustic piano, while Harmonic Imaging technology with full 88-note stereo sampling and 192-note polyphony deliver a great selection of impeccable grand piano and other instrument sounds.
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The feel of a real acoustic grand piano
Kawai developed their Responsive Hammer Compact II action used in the KDP120 to capture the distinctive feel of an acoustic grand piano. With an innovative hammer-sensing key detection that provides consistent upward/downward motion, this action gives you a natural, smooth piano playing experience. Just as acoustic piano hammers are heavier in the bass and get lighter as you move up toward the treble end of the keyboard, the Responsive Hammer Compact action uses different hammer weights that are graded for each playing range. This fastidious attention to detail gives you maximum stability when playing fortissimo passages, while giving you the delicate pianissimo control you need.
Harmonic Imaging technology delivers stunning sound
Sit down at the Kawai KDP120 and play. The stunning piano sound you hear is none other than the meticulously sampled sound of a handcrafted 9-foot Kawai SK-EX concert grand piano, with all 88 keys painstakingly recorded and faithfully reproduced using Kawai’s Harmonic Imaging technology. This proprietary process accurately re-creates the immense dynamic range of the grand piano, giving you a truly impressive measure of expressiveness, from ppp to fff. If this was the only sound onboard the KDP120, it would be a fabulous value, but there’s an entire collection of amazing sounds available, including orchestral strings, electric pianos, organs, vibes, harpsichord, choir, and more.
Features to nurture your development as a pianist
Kawai’s KDP120 digital piano includes a 3-song recorder, which lets you record your performances to internal memory and play them back at the touch of a button. What’s more, there’s a cool lesson feature that helps aspiring pianists learn the piano using an onboard collection of etudes from Burgmüller, Czerny, and Beyer, as well as songs from popular Alfred course books. You can practice left- and right-hand parts for each piece separately, and adjust the tempo to master the more difficult passages. Dual and Four Hands modes (and dual headphone jacks) let you collaborate with a teacher or a duet partner, while 192-note polyphony is more than ample to ensure that all your notes are heard. Kawai’s Grand Feel pedal system replicates the feel and functionality of a real grand piano triple-pedal system. An improved sliding key cover and elegant finish complete this irresistible package.
Kawai KDP120 Digital Piano Features:
- IMPROVED Responsive Hammer Compact II action
- IMPROVED Modernized sliding key cover appearance
- NEW Low Volume Balance feature for optimized expression at low levels
- NEW Support for latest PianoRemote and PiaBookPlayer apps for iOS/Android
- Harmonic Imaging sound technology
- Full 88-key stereo sampling
- 9-foot Kawai SK-EX concert grand piano sounds, full 88-key sampling
- Piano sounds: Concert Grand, Mellow Grand, Studio Grand, Modern Piano
- Damper Resonance simulation
- Other sounds: Classic E.Piano, Modern EP, Jazz Organ, Church Organ, Harpsichord, Vibraphone, String Ensemble, Slow Strings, Choir, New Age Pad, Atmosphere
- 192-note polyphony
- Dual and Four Hands modes
- Internal 3-song recorder
- Onboard Metronome
- Flexible Virtual Technician function with Smart Mode feature
- Sonic enhancement: Reverb (6 types), Brilliance, Low Volume Balance
- 2 Headphone outputs
- Enhanced SHS Headphone Sound with Headphone type settings
- 5 Headphone EQ types
- Convenient Bluetooth MIDI and USB-MIDI connectivity
- Internal Songs: Sound Demo (15 songs), Concert Magic (40 songs)
- Onboard Burgmüller, Czerny, Beyer etudes and Alfred lesson songs
- Grand Feel pedal system: Damper (half-pedal support), Soft, and Sostenuto
- 20W x 2 stereo speaker system
- Includes Matching padded bench and Music Rest
