Casio Celviano AP-460

Nothing beats listening to a live melody on a grand piano, but with our houses getting fuller, and our toys getting smarter, electronic music is gaining ground. Casio, with its Celviano series of electronic pianos, has been trying to perfect this new musical instrument, and with its AP-460, it has been able to hit all the right notes.

Just playing the scale on the AP460 gets you in the mood, the way the notes sustain, making you focus on the sound coming out of it. It’s enough to glue you to your seat. To generate the lovely sound, Casio uses a new technology it calls AIR. The AP460 is the first to use it, and it delivers detail and realistic sound with a damper resonance, as if you were listening to a real piano. The AIR technology also compensates for the speed at which hammers strike the strings for different velocities and key ranges, all the better to produce perfect tones.

The AP-460 has a USB Midi source in case you want to hook it up to your computer to create more music. It also features a built-in-library of 60 songs that can be practised using its dual headphone outputs, or if you want, its onboard 20 watts x 2 speaker system.

This piano features a USB and an SD card slot to load more tracks. It can play 256 notes in polyphony, and in case you want to be in the centre of a big hall where you are playing, there are four types of digital hall simulators, four types of chorus simulators, as well as a ‘brilliance’ setting.

You can even record about 25 minutes per song and play it back later, and if you want to change the sound from its default ‘grand piano’ mode, you have 18 other high quality tones to play with.

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