Yamaha Mg82cx Stereo Digital Effects

Yamaha Mg82cx Stereo Digital Effects Pic

Yamaha Mg82cx Stereo Digital Effects Photo

Yamaha Mg82cx Stereo Digital Effects Image

Yamaha Mg82cx Stereo Digital Effects Pic

When sitting down to play the Yamaha CVP509 Clavinova Digital Piano you without delay recognise it is something special. Yamaha’s top of the range CVP Clavinova (barring the CGP1000 and CVP409 GP) the CVP509 offers the player everything they could perhaps ask for in terms of playability, features and aesthetics.

Yamaha’s reputation is rock solid but in recent years a lot of people have felt that you once in a while compensate a little bit too much for the name. Over the last year I feel Yamaha out an splendid range together with perfective price points. For the cash (the Yamaha CVP509 Polished Ebony version sells online for around £5158.40) you get an array of sounds, complex recording features and perhaps the nicest piano sound and touch I have ever seen on a digital piano.

The actual keyboard uses synthetic ivory keytops and real wood white keys. The key surface is soft and somewhat porous, giving the keys added grip and a natural friction that lets you play easily. This makes the piano experience very realistic and similar to playing an acoustic piano.

When you play an highpriced acoustic piano, you may vary not only the volume of sound, but likewise the expressiveness: lively, gentle, and so on. Thanks to AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling, you get the same response from the Yamaha CVP509. This is achieved by sampling sounds at more than 10 dissimilar levels of keystroke strength. From these, three to five levels are cautiously selected, depending on the model chosen, to offer more elaborated tonal variations. As you play, the Clavinova reproduces subtle divergences in nuance according to your touch, ranging from pianissimo to fortissimo. To construct the piano sample Yamaha applied their CFIIIS full concert grand piano which was tuned to the most eminent possible condition. They then applied Yamaha’s distinguishable Pure CF Sampling technique to sample all of it is sounds, in order to invent the CVP509 Clavinova Digital Piano sound. As a result, you get enjoyment from the same natural tonal response as a top-quality piano.

This model uses Yamaha’s super articulation technology. This is mainly applied on the Clavinova’s woodwind sounds. Basically Super Articulation allows the player to accurately play instruments the way they would sound acoustically. For example when playing one of the piano’s saxophone sounds you may bend or slide notes, to “join” dissimilar notes together, or to add expressive subtle differences in meaning or opinion or attitude at the end of a note. This engineering science means that if you were to go from a sure note to another you may genuinely listen the holes of the instrument closing as you would on the real instrument. This is severely impressive and makes for an special playing experience. In my sentiment this makes the CVP509 the perfective remainder among the Tyros and a pure piano product taking features from both kinds of instrument and combining them.

Megavoices are used on the piano to create stunningly realistic sounds. For me this is best shown on the Clavinova’s classical guitar sample. Players will listen open and mute string sounds, dead notes, hammering effects, slide effects, harmonics and a wide range of strum and body noises. Put plainly Megavoices genuinely mirror the instruments conduct and react accordingly.

The piano uses instruments active field control (IAFC) which is sophisticated engineering science outputs sound picked up by built-in microphones together with the Clavinova’s internal sound through rear speakers, making automatic adjustments to give rise to a richer sound that best matches the acoustic characteristics of the room you’re playing in. It likewise uses signal processing to reproduce an authentic damper effect. When the damper pedal is pressed, it delivers discretely sampled overtones, harmonics and resonance to recreate the warm and spacious sound.

Recording your music is a breeze with USB Audio input and MP3 Playback. Simply plug in a mic and take pleasure in recording your voice over the piano sound. All the general elements of a Yamaha Clavinova are on the CVP509 including a LAN port for easy access to the web where you will find a host of helpful features, new sounds etc on the Yamaha site. The piano comes with the sameness Yamaha stool, my only gripe here is that this stool is not adjustable, nevertheless this would in all likelihood add a lot of cash to the cost which personally I would rather spend on the piano itself. The display uses a nice huge bright 7.5″ screen which without doubt or question shows scores, instrument selections and all the other features. I found that even under bright lighting condition the screen did not glare which is always a bonus.

To sum up, the Yamaha CVP509 Clavinova Digital Piano is an splendid choice and well worth the apparent investment. I cannot in truth fault the product at all as it ticks all the boxes for me not only in terms of it’s piano sounds and playability but likewise the host of other choices that are built in. Simple to use you may be making superb and realistic sounding pieces in no time at all.