25 May, 2010
The Yamaha YPT-220 is an entry-level portable which incorporates all the cool features that most of us look forward in a portable keyboard. The YPT-220 features 61 regular-sized keys, with Organ style, 32-note Polyphony, 375 high-quality instrument voices including Stereo Grand Piano, 361 XGlite voices, 12 Drum Kits and Sound Effect Kit, 100 preset accompaniment styles, 102 built-in songs, Yamaha Education Suite (Y.E.S.), Reverb Effects – 9 types, LCD display, Portable Grand Button are all the diverse features included into one power house musical instrument.
For students learning to play, the Yamaha YPT-220 Portable Grand features reset the entire keyboard into the industry best piano sounds with a touch of a button, including the setting up of the keyboard to play as a piano. And the Yamaha Education Suite teaches students to perform and play the 102 built-in songs in easy lesson steps. Additionally, when it is time to perform the YPT-220 also functions as a user friendly keyboard, with rich reverb effects enable you to add rich, concert-hall ambience to your performance. Together, these Effects, Styles and Voices enable player creates cool sounds, many styles and more.
The Yamaha YPT-220 portable keyboard weight merely 9lbs 11oz . Additionally, it can also be battery operated with six “AA” size batteries. However, batteries can only last for a few days if you practice daily. If you are budget conscious or have limited space the Yamaha YPT-220 is a good choice.
Yamaha YPT-220 61 Key Personal Keyboard with AC Adapter
4 Jul, 2009
The new Yamaha MOTIF XS6 provides robust and high quality sounds, and exceptionally wide selection of realistic sounds to triggers your creativity, with on board 355 MB of samples and waveforms. A single voice could comprise of eight distinct sound Elements. Yamaha is prudent with details and the sound quality of the recorded concert grand piano sound, electric piano, new acoustic piano and orchestral samples are worth the money spent. The Yamaha Motif XS6’s new feature, the Expanded Articulation (XA) tone generation system enable you to recreate realistic sound and natural performance techniques more effectively, which are difficult to create on electronic keyboards. XA also allows you to assign Elements to On or Off panel switches and swipe sounds within a Voice in real time. The Motif XS6 has a full set of effects; insert (Insertion), send (System) and Virtual Circuitry Modeling (VCM) effects.
Obviously, the Motif XS6 has a variety of sophisticated features and everything you need to make professional quality music and perform live performance. The most robust is Arpeggio, which lets you trigger a variety of sequenced phrases from the keyboard. There are approximately 6,000 different Arpeggio phrases on board, and you can have four different Arpeggios, playing four different instrument parts, running simultaneously-in perfect sync. The music making possibilities are virtually endless. Have a drum Voice play an automatic rhythm, add an Arpeggio bass phrase, and fly in other instrument phrases as the inspiration hits you. Everything stays in sync, and follows your chord changes. Another robust feature is the Integrated Sampling Sequencer, which seamlessly combines audio and MIDI recording. Install optional DIMM modules (up to 1 GB) and record the audio directly to tracks on the MOTIF XS6. Record your vocals or acoustic guitar (with a microphone), electric guitar, bass, or short rhythm loops from a sample CD. There’s also a Slice feature that automatically chops up your rhythms and riffs into their individual beats and notes, letting you manipulate the component parts of your sample loops as MIDI data-enabling you to easily change tempo and rhythmic feel, without disturbing the pitch or sound quality.
The compact and lightweight Motif XS6 features 61 keys, new natural FSX keyboard and weight approximately 14.8 kg. Even though, the XS6 incorporates all the advanced technology and massive features however, it is still exceptionally user-friendly and reasonably price. Alternatively, The Yamaha Motif XS also comes in 76 keys and 88 keys Portable Keyboard.
3 Jun, 2009
The NEW Yamaha YPG-235 is a reasonable price Piano-Focused portable. The YPG-235 features 76 piano-style keys but with Graded Soft Touch (GST) action. This unique portable keyboard comes with a special Full Keyboard Mode, a function which allows player to choose between playing either the conventional or contemporary piano style. The YPG-235 incorporates Yamaha’s AWM technology and digital effects (reverb, chorus and harmony) to enhance sound quality and boost its robust stereo sound system. The result is an amazing realistic sound with clarity.
The YPG-235 also features USB connectivity and general MIDI compatibility, as well as almost all of the same high quality voices, which separate the YPG-235 from many other models in their price brackets. Besides the piano, the multitude of stringed instrument voices are amazingly realistic. The YPG-235 has on-board 30 songs and Yamaha Education Suite. You can learn to play the songs using this very systematic and interactive piano lesson system and chord dictionary. The YPG-235’s 6-track sequencer allows you to record, mix and simulate your songs with accompaniments (melodies, chord and rhythm).
Yamaha is well-known for its technology innovations and prudent with details. Similarly, the YPG-235 comes with top-quality digital effects, like 9 reverb effects, 4 chorus effects and 26 harmony effects to enrich your performance. If you are looking for a 76-Keys Portable Grand piano, the Yamaha YPG-235 is a good alternative and reasonably price.
