Why I recommend this? Because as someone whose's been practicing piano for a couple months now, if you try to play chords or do more improvisation with your music.

Playing on 61 Keys "Unweighted" Keyboard is completely different feeling, because it feels like you're playing a synth as opposed to playing on Grand Piano, which gives you a hard time transitioning from that than to real Grand Piano.

Unweighted Keys are better for more rhythmic type of hand movement playing a idea you have in mind, but Weighted Keys are for the more naturalistic feeling of playing a real piano, and it gives your production a bit more realism.

Again, all preference tho

But yeah, that's it.

Tip of the day

Here's more info on this

I thought 88-Keys put out a weighted MIDI keyboard (Keeboard)

My keyboard I use to practice on

Idk if I can prove this but I feel like my fingers are too big lmao, I feel like imma get arthritis trying to do certain progressions

U got one of these @op ?

It'll only give the production more realism if the person records their play 1:1 and/or dont end up quantizing their project to hell - you can do this even without a keyboard you can just use you pc board it hss nothing to do with the midi or hardware just you playing & wether or not you quantize too much or only draw in

I personally prefer unweighted for actual beat making, it makes easier to change chords and to "bounce" the keys more for rhythms in the type of beats i do - rap and house

I prefer weighted for actual play or freestyle days - not focused beat making

But you dont need either to sound more realistic, that a you, habits and prgramming type of thing

I just program the velocity for every single note manually in the DAW myself cause i'm a f***ing chad

True s***, there's plenty of ways to make the piano sound more realistic. I just find it more interesting messing with "Weighted Keys".

I just copped the M-Audio's Hammer 88.

It hasn't come in yet, but when I was messing with Pianos that my college has in the classroom. It felt complete different from me playing on my 61 Key MIDI.

Damn imma look into it

Preesh