Archive for January, 2009

Yamaha EZ-200 Portable Grand Piano

Lighted Keyboard

Learn to play the “EZ” (Easy) way. Follow the lights to play your favorite songs and it is that simple n EASY.

The Yamaha EZ-200 portable Grand piano has 61 Full-size touch sensitive keys. The EZ-200 has guide lamps and 100 songs built-in to the keyboard and you have the options to select whether you want to play the left or right hand part. With Yamaha’s “Touch Response” the keyboard responds like an acoustic piano.

Yamaha is a market leader in acoustic pianos and EZ-200 Portable Grand piano is an example and proof due to its clarity. In fact , all Yamaha’s Portable Keyboards have one feature in common, i.e., Stereo-sampling technology. In addition, the keyboard also includes a Sustain Pedal jack for playing and practicing piano pieces and Yamaha Education Suite is available to teach and guide you to learn to play the right and correct way and style. The EZ-200 is equipped with both General MIDI (GM) and XGlite compatible and 367 Voices to choose from using the convenient One-Touch Setting. As MIDI is the pathway keyboards communicate with computers, you have access to thousands of MIDI song files on the Internet.

The EZ-200 features 32-Note Polyphony and (16 Part Multi Timbrel) will play back 16 different parts of sounds at once, enough even for the most demanding needs. Yamaha also capitalize on its Digital Signal Processing Technology to produce 9 top quality Reverb effects; and the first in this price range. The reverb effects can simulate playing in any kinds of environment. These are all the benefits that derived from this modern electronic portable Grand piano.

Yamaha EZ-200 61 Full-Sized Touch Sensitive Lighted Keyboard Bundle: Includes Professional Headphones, Keyboard Stand, and Power Supply

Yamaha YPG-635 Piano Focused Portable

Portable Digital Piano

The Yamaha YPG-635 is a portable Grand Piano Keyboard, with 88-key weighted hammer action keyboard. This portable keyboard boasts an authentic grand piano and better than some real pianos and less likely needs an action tune-up. In addition, the YPG-635 comes with an attractive matching keyboard stand, DSP (Digital Signal Processing) effects to enhance sound quality like Chorus, Reverb and Harmony, CD-ROM, lyrics, chord and score (notation) display, Sustain Pedal jack, Headphone jack and AC Power Adaptor.

The YPG-635 has USB TO HOST and USB TO DEVICE, for recordings song and playing back MIDI files, saved user created songs, transfer and download songs data. The song recorder allows you to record your own music to a different track while there are 6 tracks to accommodate rhythm, chord accompaniment and melodies.The keyboard is equipped with 130 panel voices, 12 drum/SFX kits plus 361 XGlite voices. Special Voices like Live (example Grand Piano and Orchestra), Sweet and Cool Voices are also included in it’s features. The YPG-635 features 64 Note Polyphony and will play back 16 different types of sounds at once.

This amazing keyboard can teach and guide you to play and practice to perfect if you learn using the Yamaha Education Suite. You can learn the right and left hand parts separately. The display will show you the music, and the corresponding piano keys that you need to press. You can start slow – and it will wait, patiently, until you find and press the correct key before it continues. The YPG-635 is suitable for all level of players and it is worth the price.

 

 

Yamaha TYROS 3 Arranger


The Yamaha Tyros3 features a vast range of voice technologies from Organ, Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Accordion to Saxophone, just to name a few. Tyros3 has Yamaha’s FSX (Flight Simulator X) keyboard actions, 61-key and touch sensitive.Tyros3’s Super Articulation 2 gives you a direct control of the original instrument real vibrator and a detailed control of musical expression of each voice. There are 450 Styles (Pop & Rock, Latin, Swing & Jazz, Country and many more) to choose from and they are suitable for both beginners as well as professional musicians because Styles follows a player’s chord progressions.

Tyros3 other features includes:- Music Finder, Music Finder+, One Touch Setting, Registration Memory and Score Display. Music finder is a popular feature which allows you to search your favorite songs on the Music Finder song list. Whereas, Music Finder+ assists you to search for songs not on the list, by accessing to songs library online. Thereafter, the sheet music of your selected song will be downloaded directly to Tyros3’s display by internet direct connection. The OTS (One Touch Setting) feature provides four different professionally created registration for each Style. Just select a Style and the One Touch Setting and you can start playing the keyboard.

The Tyros3’s Registration Memory can store virtually unlimited Voices, Sounds and Effects. You can set what is stored and recalled. A single press of a button and you can recall. Tyros3 is compatible with all SMF (Standard Midi File) song software. Score (notation) display in TFT (Thin Film Transistor) display screen can be enhance by changing score size, adding note name, coloring the pitches and so forth. The Tyros3 can bring out the best in each voice, styles and it is also user friendly. Though the price range is on the higher side compared with other branded Arranger workstation but, to all professional musicians take a closer view of TYROS3.