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Yamaha CSP 150 Piano

Yamaha CSP-150 Clavinova in Polished Ebony Finish

https://youtu.be/jv0QYDdEFhw The Yamaha CSP-150 Clavinova Smart Piano combines the craftsmanship of a beautiful digital piano with the ease and power of an iPad to help you learn to play any song from your iTunes library. The CSP-150 comes with 700 high quality instrument sounds and a weighted keyboard with synthetic ivory white keys and wood grain ebony keys for exceptional touch and expressive response. And the free Smart Pianist iOS app recognizes the chords from nearly any audio file in your iTunes library to create instant sheet music and chord charts! Together with the CSP-150’s streaming lights note-learning system, it’s never been easier to learn to play your favorite songs!
Clavinova is an innovative lineup of digital pianos that have continued to evolve while seeking to provide the touch and tone of a concert grand piano—the ultimate symbol of piano excellence. This authentic grand piano experience is the product of the knowledge and expertise that Yamaha has accumulated over more than 100 years of crafting acoustic pianos. Utilizing state-of-the-art technology to achieve grand piano quality, Clavinova digital pianos offer an inviting playing experience that is perfect for players of all levels. They emulate the touch and tone of a grand piano to make the transition from digital to acoustic piano a seamless and enjoyable one.
With two world-renowned concert grand pianos available at the touch of a button, the CSP Series lets you choose the perfect piano tone for the music you want to play. Offering far more than just sampled sounds, the CSP Series reproduces the Yamaha CFX concert grand and the legendary Bӧsendorfer Imperial in meticulous detail.
Yamaha’s advanced binaural sampling technology is now available on the Clavinova. The technology uses samples from the CFX, Yamaha’s acclaimed concert grand piano, recorded with specialized microphones that capture locational information and other nuances discerned by the human ear. The resulting sound is so natural, so enveloping, that you’ll soon forget you’re even wearing headphones at all.
The CSP-170 features hundreds of high-quality instrument Voices including "Natural!", "Sweet!" and "Cool!" Voices sampled specially to compliment the instrument types. Yamaha's Super Articulation Voices (SA) add genuine performance attributes of the real musical instruments as though they were being naturally performed by a virtuoso of that instrument instead of from the keys of a piano keyboard. Examples include "fret noise" or "body knocks" from a guitar or the "inhales", "exhales" and glissandos from wind instruments. By simply varying your touch and playing techniques or using the pedals, SA voices will add significant authenticity to your sound.
One of the defining features of a CSP Clavinova is the multitude of different Styles that can be controlled in real-time by playing chords on the keyboard. Accompaniment Styles introduce ensembles of virtual musicians to your performances in a variety of musical genres. From small jazz ensembles to full orchestras, you control what chords or harmony they play by what you play, plus you control the dynamic of the ensemble. Developed by professional session musicians from around the world, Styles add authentic, studio-quality backing players to your performances - even when you play by yourself.
The touch of the CSP-150 keyboard has been praised by pianists for a performance feel that makes you forget you’re playing a digital piano, offering authentic response to the force of your touch and a natural key return. Utilizing the same hammering system and spring-less mechanism as a grand piano, GH3X actions accurately reproduce the touch of an acoustic piano from the heavy feel in the lower register to the lighter touch in the upper octaves.
The escapement mechanism in a grand piano moves the hammers away from the strings quickly after they strike them, in order to prevent any interference with string vibration. This mechanism produces a slight clicking sensation when the keys are pressed gently. Since Real Grand Expression offers players superb sound, touch and pedaling, we decided to create an escapement that delivers outstanding playability, repetition, and response without impeding performance. The Clavinova keyboards feature an escapement mechanism that reproduces this sensation near the bottom of the key dip. They have been designed in such a way that the click is discernible only on the lightest keystrokes, similar to the keyboard of a grand piano. These keyboards have been adjusted to provide additional friction that balances key repetition and response without impeding performance.
Our fingers are more sensitive than we think, and for pianists, the texture of the piano keys is extremely important. The NWX keyboard features white keys made from the highest quality synthetic ivory, developed independently by Yamaha. The black keys are finished in synthetic ebony. Synthetic ivory keytops reproduce the tactile surface of the real ivory keyboards once used in older acoustic pianos. It features highly absorbent material that prevents fingers from slipping even after hours of practice, while retaining the ideal texture and feel. Resulting from well over a century of experience in making acoustic pianos, this exclusive Yamaha technology achieves a finish that feels natural and comfortable. In addition to the feel, the appearance and fine texture of these keys is unmatched by any other digital piano, and is sure to inspire pianists from the moment they experience it.
Keyboards fulfill the vital role of transforming emotion from your fingertips into sound and therefore, must be smooth to play in order to maintain superb touch for prolonged performances. That is why Yamaha has fitted Keyboard Stabilizers to all 88 keys, offering players a natural touch and improving the stability and durability of the keyboard.
In a grand piano, strings and sounds resonate throughout the entire body of the instrument producing a rich reverberation that envelops the listener in sound. Not only are the strings you are playing vibrating, but other strings ring as a reaction to ones you play. This is one reason the piano's sound is so complex and rich. This phenomenon is reproduced perfectly in the Clavinova through Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) which calculates the various states of the strings for each of the 88 notes on the keyboard from one instant to the next. As a result, the Clavinova reflects the limitless number of factors inherent in playing an acoustic piano such as which keys are pressed, the strength with which the keys are played and pedal timing.
The speakers attached to the body exhibit a phenomenon in which, if nothing is done, the volume of the sound will increase due to the resonant frequency of the body. Conversely, installing pipes with the same resonant frequency within the body suppresses this resonance. Acoustic optimizers utilize this phenomenon. This improvement of the sound is something that has only been possible thanks to Yamaha‘s thorough knowledge of the internal acoustic characteristics of musical instruments.
You can enjoy karaoke backing with songs stored in your Clavinova or downloaded from YamahaMusicsoft.com. The lyrics are shown on the Smart Pianist app and the words change color as the song advances, so you know exactly when to come in. Plug in a microphone, and you can sing along with your playing. The Vocal Harmony engine creates advanced sounding harmonies, enriching your voice and is even capable of correcting your pitch!
The recording function featured in Clavinova digital pianos allows you to record your performances* with a single touch, which is useful when you want to review your playing objectively. Additionally, you can record up to 16 tracks for simultaneous playback, so different hands can be recorded separately or overdub parts with different Voices. *Recordings are made in MIDI format, and can also be recorded to Smart Pianist App
Record performances to Smart Pianist App and create audio files* you can save and play back on a Smart device.
Smart Pianist App supports not only wired connection but also wireless connection via UD-WL01, Wi-Fi USB wireless LAN adaptor. Specifications
Size/Weight
Dimensions
Width
1,412 mm (55 5/8″) (Polished finish: 1,418 mm (55-13/16″))
Height
1,040 mm (40-15/16″) (Polished finish: 1,040 mm (40-15/16″))
Depth
465 mm (18-5/16″) (Polished finish: 466 mm (18-6/16″))
Weight Weight
58.0 kg (127 lb, 14 oz) (Polished finish: 61.0 kg (134 lb, 8 oz))
Control Interface
Keyboard
Number of Keys 88
Type
GH3X (Graded Hammer 3X) keyboard with synthetic ebony and ivory keytops, escapement
Touch Sensitivity
Hard2, Hard1, Medium, Soft1, Soft2, Fixed
88-key Linear Graded Hammers
Counterweight No
Pedal
Number of Pedals 3
Half Pedal Yes
Functions
Sustain, Sostenuto, Soft, Glide, Style Start/Stop, Volume, etc.
GP Response Damper Pedal
Display
Type
depending on the Smart Device
Size
depending on the Smart Device
LCD Brightness
Touch Screen
depending on the Smart Device
Color
depending on the Smart Device
Score Display Function Yes*
Lyrics Display Function Yes*
Text Viewer Function Yes*
Language
26 Languages (English, Japanese, Germany, French, Spanish, etc.)
Panel Language English
Cabinet
Key Cover Key Cover Style Sliding
Music Rest Yes
Music Clips Yes
Voices
Tone Generation
Piano Sound
Yamaha CFX, Bösendorfer Imperial
Binaural Sampling
Yes (Yamaha CFX Voice only)
Key-off Samples Yes
Smooth Release Yes
Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) Yes
String Resonance VRM
Damper Resonance VRM
Polyphony Number of Polyphony (Max.) 256
Preset
Number of Voices
692 Voices + 29 Drum/SFX Kits
Featured Voices
14 VRM Voices, 113 Super Articulation Voices, 27 Natural! Voices, 27 Sweet! Voices, 63 Cool! Voices, 69 Live! Voices, 30 Organ Flutes! Voices
Compatibility
(for song playback) XG, GS , GM, GM2
Effects
Types
Reverb 58 Preset
Chorus
Master Compressor
Master EQ
5 Preset + User
Part EQ
Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC) Yes
Stereophonic Optimizer Yes
Insertion Effect
Variation Effect
Vocal Harmony VH (44 Preset)
Functions
Dual/Layers Yes
Split Yes
Accompaniment Styles
Preset
Number of Preset Styles 470
Featured Styles
396 Pro Styles, 34 Session Styles, 4 Free Play Styles, 36 Pianist Styles
Fingering
Chord Detection Area Full, Chord Detection Area Lower
Style Control
INTRO x 1, ENDING x 1, MAIN x 4, FILL IN x 4
Other Features
Music Finder
One Touch Setting (OTS)
File Format
Songs
Preset Number of Preset Songs 403
Recording
Number of Tracks 16
Data Capacity
depending on the Smart Device
Recording Function Yes
Compatible Data Format
Playback
SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
Recording
SMF (Format 0)
Functions
Lesson/Guide
Lesson/Guide
Correct Key, Any Key, Your Tempo*
Guide Lamp
Stream Lights (4 steps)
Piano Room Yes
USB Audio Recorder
Playback
Supported format by the Smart Device
Recording WAV/AAC
USB Audio
Time Stretch Yes
Pitch Shift Yes
Vocal Cancel
Melody Suppressor
Miscellaneous
Metronome Yes
Tempo Range
5 – 500, Tap Tempo
Transpose -12 – 0 – +12
Tuning
414.8 – 440.0 – 466.8 Hz
Scale Type 9
Audio Recorder/Player Recording Time (max.)
depending on the Smart Device
Audio to Score Yes
Registration Memory Yes
Storage and Connectivity
Storage
Internal Memory
depending on the Smart Device
External Drives
depending on the Smart Device
Connectivity
Headphones