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Best music keyboards - how to choose.

What are the best music keyboards for you?

Your best keyboard is one that contains the features you need. You should never pay extra for features you will have no use for. It's important to know exactly what your needs are.

In choosing your best music keyboards you may have questions on what amount of polyphony is best for you. In fact I get lots of questions from visitors to this site with relation to polyphony. When it comes to polyphony, the more the better.

Polyphony has to do with the number of notes that can play together simultaneously. So if a keyboard says 16 notes polyphony, it means that no more than 16 notes will play together at the same time. 128 notes of polyphony means that as many as 128 notes can sound together simultaneously.

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Lots of polyphony is particularly important if your keyboard comes with a sequencer and you're interested in doing complex compositions where several parts play together. In that case YOUR best music keyboards should have nothing short of 98 or 128 notes of polyphony. If your keyboard doesn't have enough polyphony notes/parts will cut off.

If you're basically playing one or two voices at a time, you don't really need lots of polyphony. Maybe you'll mainly be using your keyboard as a piano substitute. In that case 32 or 64 notes will do.

Polyphony choices include 16 or less, 32 to 64, 98-128, and 128 and over.

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