If you're looking for a portable weighted keyboard with line out for your church, it's hard to recommend the FP90.
For around Php100,000, you get a nicely textured 88 weighted keys with bluetooth capability and a 3 sliders for controlling the equalizer and volume sliders for individual parts which I found useful for controlling the volume of the layered voice or sound.
There's also the piano designer buried in the function menu where you can change the parameters of the piano sound to your liking including the brightness and if the lid is open or not.
However during my play test, I found the piano sound surprisingly underwhelming. It sounds muffled or lifeless. No amount of tinkering with the equalizer and piano designer made it sound perfect in my ear.
It could be because of the speakers. Either way, you might find a need to buy a separate amplifier or good headphones to do the piano sound justice which is unthinkable for a piano costing this much. The Yamaha P-125 and DGX-660 is much cheaper and sounds subjectively better.
The other sounds are okay. The strings sound rich and very playable. The pipe organ is passable.
The bluetooth app works for both Android and iOS. However, it's almost useless when trying to use it to control and play along with auto-accompaniment because of the horrible lag (at least on Android). As a live performer, you might as well forget that this feature exists. Beginners who are learning to play piano may find its other features helpful though.
If you are a church pianist looking for just a good weighted keyboard and piano sound, consider the FP30 or FP60 instead. For Yamaha, there's the P-125 if you want portability. The Yamaha DGX-660 trades portability for more features including auto-accompaniment style controls and more voices.
Available at: Yupangco Music Stores
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