If you like light key action, the FP-30 will be your favorite I guess. My guess is that you can count them on the same amount of hands you play with. I really wonder how many people active on this forum are running into limitations of any quality brand DP keybed because their skills outperform the action of the board. Main points usually are repetition, triple sensor for pp repetitions and speed of key return. If you read it from people here in the forum who compared it to DP's in the store, most people here will chose a DP from Kawai, Roland or Yamaha. If you read reviews from people owning the Artruia Keylab 88 or NI S88 MK1 on the big selling stores, aside from some quality control issues on the Arturia ,generally speaking people are quite satisfied with the action. To my liking the FP-30 is way too light but that's what it is all about: personal preference. They didn't have it on display so I could not testdrive it. Mind though that according to the store where I got my SL88 Studio from told me that the Grand (TP/40) even feels a tad heavier than the Studio which already is quite heavy. But still i prefer classical compositions. Honestly i hoped for the TP/40 ( my question Tjong for you is: am i ok with Sl88 Mk2 compared to the FP30 or i will notice a difference in worst with this switch? Please notice i play piano in a very light way. If you are fine with the action after some hours of getting used to it and all your techniques can be performed, just be happy with it and don't look back is my advise I played my mother's early 20th century Grotrian Steinweg Upright a lot and I never found a digital board with a similar feel. One thing they all have in common: nothing plays like the real thing. I tested out lots of keybeds also in the more expensive area. And really important, a very nice velocity response. Less sluggish than my Roland RP-301 (Which has a Ivory Feel G) which sits in the living room. This board is stiff but after a couple of hours play I'm already used to it and it feels very solid. Playing it for several hours I noticed the velocity response was not that good so I traded it for the SL88 Studio. My first choice was the Korg D1 so I bought that one. The MK2 most likely has an adapted TP100LR (more damped to make te keybed more silent and therefor has a slight different feel) considering the price and the fact that it has fatal inside.įor what it is worth I recently compared the FP-30, with the Korg D1 and the SL88 Studio (TP100LR). Tomorrow i will open the Mk2 and cry, after crying i will think about what to do. For some reasons the FP-30 has a "strong" and elastic response which is really great. At least would be cool to change and modulate the pitch. Honestly i was just attracted by leds and monitor, it's not really necessary for me an integration. Hi Halherta, and thank you so much for the very good explanation. These options do not give you fancy LCDs/RGB LEDs with NI integration though, but will be plenty functional. If I really wanted a decent Fatar action based midi controller that could potentially rival the FP-30's action, I'd consider the Studiologic SL88 Grand with its TP40Wood action or the Doepfer LMK2+/PK88 with their TP40GH actions. If NI integration is important for you, Native s88 Mk2 is probably a good deal.If action is more important the FP-30 is in my opinion better. Fatar actions make many decent / good actions as well that can be found in Nords so they're not intrinsically bad. You find something similar in the Dexibell Vivo P7 which is also quite expensive. Also the Fatar action in it is not necessarily bad just not the greatest. The Native s88 Mk2's biggest advantage is the NI integration.