Yamaha CP50 Professional Stage Piano
Designed for professional stage use, the CP range combines a host of innovative new features with Yamaha's legendary high quality playing action and sounds. Amongst the most interesting thing about the CP range is the fully customisable Spectral Component Modeling feature. Yamaha have gone to great lengths to carefully sample and emulate the features of 17 classic acoustic and vintage electric pianos and synths. On top of that the CP range features hundreds of other sounds and effects so that you can fully customise your patches down to the finest details such as "hammer hardness" and the compression that is being used.
The CP50 is a compact and lightweight professional piano which also features a sound set based on the flagship CP1, thanks to the Spectral Component Modeling System. The CP50 offers over 215 voices and, like its range partners, also offers the ability to customise sounds and effects. The 88-key Graded Hammer action faithfully reproduces the feel of it's traditional counterparts by producing a heavier response in the lower register and a slightly lighter touch in the higher keys, exactly like an acoustic instrument. The CP50 also offers record and playback functions as well as a range of professionally arranged rhythms for added live performance options.
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Here's what Yamaha say about the CP50
The CP50 take the core sounds and technology of the CP1 , but it's flexibility and portability make perfect for the working pro on the go. The CP50 adds a wide range of sounds to the CP1. Clavs, organs, strings and more make the CP50 perfect for church, school and live situations where everything needs to be performed on one keyboard. The CP50 features not only Virtual Circuit Modeling effects, but many effects taken from the Motif XS line of Synthesizers. The CP50 has a graded hammer action and a light-weight, portable design.
A unique new SCM (Spectral Component Modeling) tone generation system faithfully recreates the 12 selected sounds of acoustic and vintage electronic pianos and responds to the player's touch to provide more creative expression than ever before possible. Moreover, CP5 has a 215 additional sounds and various effect to make them perfect for wide musical applications. *The Spectral Component Modeling system starts with a fundamentally different tone generation system than Yamaha has ever used before. By combining Sampling and Modeling technology, it optimizes tone generation for each instrument so that every nuance of the player's touch is translated into expressive tone.
Customizing totally original piano sounds
Allowing you to freely build your own acoustic and electric pianos by selecting different components of piano types, amplifiers, and effects, the Spectral Component Modeling technology makes easy work of recreating standard vintage sounds or realizing unique, original sonic palettes. With your instruments assembled, you can then adjust various parameters of the physical components like "Stiriking Position" to create an even more diverse range of exciting piano sounds.
88-Key Weighted Graded Hammer Action
The keyboard of the CP50 utilizes Yamaha's GH (Graded Hammer) technology to reproduce the true "feel" of a grand piano keyboard action, with heavier touch in the lower keys, lighter touch in the higher keys, and subtle gradations of weight and response throughout. Thanks to the input of concert-level, professional pianists during its development, the GH keyboard features superb balance and remarkable consistency.
Record and playback functions for MIDI and audio
Your CP50 can record keyboard performances as MIDI data and store them internally for playback whenever required; alternatively, you can also record these performances as audio data on a USB flash-memory device. What's more, these and other Wave files from a USB flash-memory device can also be editted by using the bundled Cubase AI5, which offers more convinience for playing demo tracks in live stage or edit live recording in the studio.
Specifications
- Maximum Polyphony: 128
- Tone Generator: SCM (Spectral Component Modeling) + AWM2
Performances
- Performances: Preset: 10 x 4 groups x 3 banks
- User: 10 x 4 groups x 3 banks
- External: 10 x 4 groups x 3 banks (USB Flash Memory)
- Parts: 3
- Voice Block: 12 piano voices(SCM + AWM2) + 215 other voices (AWM2)
- Modulation Effect Block: 49 types
- Reverb: 8 types
- Master Compressor: 3-band
- Master Equalizer: 3-band
Rhythm
- Number of Kits: 14
- Number of Patterns: 100
Control Interface
- Keyboard: 88 keys, GH keyboard
- Display: 24 character x 2 lines, vacuum fluorescent display (VFD)
- Controllers: Pitch bend wheel, Master volume, Knobs 1 to 3, Part volume x 3, Master equalizer x 3
Connectivity
- Connectors: Line Out: L/MONO,R (Unbalanced)
- Headphones: Headphones jack (stereo-phone)
- Foot Switch: SUSTAIN, ASSIGNABLE
- Foot Controller: x1
- MIDI: IN, OUT, THRU
- USB: TO HOST, TO DEVICE
Size/Weight
- Width: 1,381 mm
- Height: 165 mm
- Depth: 332 mm
- Weight: 20.9 kg
Other
- Power Consumption: 7W
- Additional package contents: Power adaptor PA-150 (or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha) , Foot pedal FC3, Owner's Manual, Owner's Manual CD-ROM, Software DVD-ROM (Cubase AI)
