Digital Piano Shopping Checklist

Keyboard Action

• $\gt 200 \text{mm}$ pivot length
• Triple sensor
• Escapement

Pedal

• Half pedal support (both by the sound engine and MIDI output)
• “Damper fade” (play a lower chord while pressing the damper pedal, then quickly release and press the pedal again)

Sound engine

• String resonance (Hold some lower keys then play a higher note)
• Pedal resonance (Play the same note with and without pedal)
• Key-off resonance (Hold a key silently then release)
• Key action noise
• Damper noise
• Reverb can be turned off

I/O

• Headphone jack
• MIDI (USB and Bluetooth)
• Line out

Useful tool

Midi Message Viewer: https://github.com/Bigstool/midi-message-viewer