🎹Roland GP607 vs Kawai DG30 Digital Grand Piano Review & Comparison - Bluetooth MIDI🎹

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Merriam Pianos YouTube channel. In this video, we’ll be comparing two digital baby grand pianos to see how they stack up against one another with the venerable Roland GP607 and the brand new Kawai DG30.

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GP607 Piano Tone

When comparing these two instruments, in some ways you can think of this battle coming down to piano sampling vs piano modeling. The GP607 uses Roland’s SuperNATURAL Piano Modeling engine, which is an entirely modeled piano sound engine. Sound modeling generates a piano tone in real-time as opposed to triggering a sample like sample-based sound engines do.

The default piano tone features limitless polyphony and is highly detailed, with lots of upper harmonics. There’s also a tone of user control over various sound-related parameters through Roland’s Piano Designer, with the ability to customize variables like damper resonance, string resonance, and lid height among many others. You can access this via the touch screen, or through the Piano Designer app on a smartphone or tablet.

Beyond the SuperNATURAL limitless polyphony piano tone, there are 306 additional sounds with a still powerful 384 notes of polyphony. The quality is studio-level across the board.

The speaker system here is definitely beefier than the speaker system in the DG30. There are 5 speaker cones that are being driven by a total of 70 watts of speaker power via 3 distinct amplifiers.

DG30 Piano Tone

The DG30 utilizes Kawai’s Progressive Harmonic Imaging tone engine, which is a multi-layer, multi-dimensional, individual note sample set of the SK EX, EX, and SK5 grand pianos. A preference between the tone of the DG30 vs the GP607 is ultimately going to come down to personal opinion as both are undoubtedly serving up a high-quality piano tone.

In terms of the speaker, the DG30 is packing less power with 40 watts of total power, being delivered through two larger speakers and two tweeters. Out of the box, in my opinion, the DG30 needs a bit of a tweak via the Virtual Technician mode to optimize the sound engine, where the GP607 sounds more optimized right off the bat. Something to keep in mind if you get a chance to try out a DG30 in a showroom - play around with the Virtual Technician a little bit!

GP607 Piano Action

The GP607 uses Roland’s PHA50 action. This is an action that I’m personally very familiar with as it’s featured in my own RD-2000 stage piano. It’s a hybrid wood/plastic action that is generally regarded as one of the better actions available on the market.

I can personally speak to the excellent durability of this action. My RD-2000 has received 100’s of hours of borderline abusive stage use and I haven’t had a single issue to date with the action.

DG30 Piano Action

While Kawai is calling this action the Responsive Hammer III Action (RHIII), interestingly, this is not the same RHIII that has been on the market for a few years now.

Kawai has redesigned the sensor strip, and the key movement from side-to-side has been reduced. This action has a triple sensor, counterweights, let-off simulation, and ivory touch key tops.

This is a fast, responsive action, and arguably the top plastic action currently on the market.

Which action do I prefer? This is tough to answer, but my first impression is that I would probably prefer playing classic music on the DG30 due to a slightly faster repetition speed, though I’d prefer playing jazz and pop on the GP607. That said, these are both great actions.

GP607 & DG30 Features/Connectivity

When it comes to the features and connectivity of these two instruments, there’s a lot of commonalities. Both have Bluetooth MIDI and Bluetooth Audio, meaning you can use either instrument as a Bluetooth speaker.

The user interfaces are quite different from one another, and overall I’d say I prefer the interface on the GP607. Both have ¼” audio outputs, two headphone ports, as well as USB ports.

Conclusion:

These are both excellent instruments and a really great option for someone looking for the aesthetics of a baby grand with the functionality of a modern digital. Given the price differences, one could argue the DG30 is a better value, but you’ll definitely want to check both out to see what’s right for you.

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