Yamaha P-S500 88-Key Portable Digital Piano (White)

Whether you`re a beginner or revisiting your piano-playing past, the Yamaha P-S500 (White) is a smart digital piano that`s fully integrated into the Smart Pianist app to provide an enjoyable high-quality playing experience with features that accelerate learning, foster the joy of music, and help you progress on your musical journey. Connect your phone or tablet and use the app to take advantage of hugely fun and comprehensive performance capabilities like the Stream Lights function that tells you which keys to play and when to play themenabling you to perform even if you can`t read music notation. You can also play along to any of 403 preset songs with your own backup band, or play along with automatically generated piano scores of songs you already have in your music library.

The P-S500 puts the sounds of two acclaimed concert grand pianos at your fingertips: the Yamaha CFX and the Bsendorfer Imperial. The piano combines a Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) keyboard with 88 weighted keys and Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) technology to provide an authentic piano-playing experience. A wide variety of superb instruments sounds is provided to spark your creativity including classic synthesizers, vibrant strings, percussions and drums, guitars, and more. Use the 1/4" input to connect a microphone, so you can sing along while you play and hear your voice through the instrument`s speakers. You can also record your performances and musical ideas with studio-quality audio that gets saved directly to your smart device for easy sharing with friends and family. The keyboard ships with a music rest, and a PA-500 AC power adapter.

P-S500 Digital Piano at a Glance

• 88-note weighted GHS keyboard
• Authentic Yamaha CFX and Bsendorfer Imperial concert grand-piano sounds
• 256-note polyphony
• Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)
• 660 high-quality instrument sounds, including Super Articulation Voices
• 52W stereo speaker system, 2 headphone jacks
• Compatible with Smart Pianist app installed to a smart device
• Stream Lights feature helps you perform even if you can`t read music notation
• Enjoy playing along with the 403 preset Songs, covering a wide range of genres from pop music to classical music
• Audio-to-score function converts your favorite audio songs into piano accompaniment scores
• Built-in Auto Accompaniment features with 370 Styles
• Microphone input and automatic Vocal Harmony function
• Audio and MIDI song recorders
• USB Audio and MIDI connectivity to Mac/Windows computer and iOS/Android device

Intuitive Control with Your Smart Device

• Simply connect the P-S500 to a smart device and use the dedicated Smart Pianist app to access all instrument controls and configuration tools. The app also analyzes your favorite songs right out of your music library using chord-tracker technology.

Stream Lights Show You the Way

• Red and blue lights above each key show you which notes to play and when to play them. This extraordinary feature helps you learn how to play and practice without ever having learned how to read music, making learning more fun than ever before.

Audio to Score for Your Personal Music Library

• Audio to Score scans your music library in your smart device, analyzes the audio, and then produces a piano score, allowing you to learn how to play your favorite songs.

Play Your Personal Favorites or Songs from the Built-In Library

• The instrument features 403 built-in songs covering a wide range of genres from pop songs to classical pieces. You can play the melodies along with the backing of a full band arrangement.

Yamaha CFX and Bsendorfer Imperial Piano Samples

• P-S500 features piano sounds captured from the flagship Yamaha CFX concert grand and the famed Viennese Bsendorfer Imperial grand. These piano samples put two of the world™s finest and most prominent concert grand pianos at your fingertips.

Authentic Piano Touch, 88-Key Weighted GHS Keyboard

• The Yamaha Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) keyboard features weighted action with heavier touch in the low end and lighter touch in the high end, just like the hammers inside an acoustic piano. Great for the aspiring pianist, practicing on the GHS action builds the proper finger technique and strength for when the time comes to perform on an acoustic piano.

Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)

• Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) 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 P-S500 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.

A Fully Immersive Concert Grand Experience

• Binaural sampling is a method of sampling in which special microphones are placed on a mannequin™s head in the same positions as the pianist™s ears, to capture piano sounds the way that they sound in reality. This makes pianists feel as though they are sitting at a grand piano even when they play wearing headphones.

660 Instrument Sounds

• The P-S500 is equipped with 660 varied high-quality sounds including stunning pianos, electric pianos, organs, brass, strings, percussion, and more. From breathy saxophones to ringing guitars and warm, resonant strings, the P-S500 impressively replicates sounds down to the finest nuances.
• Thanks to acclaimed Super Articulation technology, the distinctive characteristics of each instrument are reproduced in incredible detail as you play.

Playing Along with Your Own Backing Band

• 370 accompaniment and rhythmic backing patterns (called Styles) covering a wide range of musical genres, including pop, jazz, and many more, lets you single-handedly recreate the sound of a full band or orchestra.

Audio and MIDI Recording

• The P-S500 lets you record your own performances in two different formats: Audio and MIDI.
• Audio recording allows you to capture your playing conventionally, which you can then play back on your smart device.
• MIDI recording, on the other hand, lets you record up to 16 tracks, with separate left- and right-hand parts or complex multi-instrumental arrangements.

Microphone Connection and Vocal Harmony

• A microphone can be connected to the P-S500, enabling you to enjoy singing along with your keyboard performance or along with Song playback.
• You can apply various studio-quality effects such as chorus to your singing voice, and even cancel the vocal part on audio recordingsletting you sing along with (or instead of) your favorite artists and groups, and enjoy performing even more.

Optional Wireless Connection with Smart Pianist App

• Smart Pianist App supports not only wired connection but also wireless connection with the optional UD-WL01 Wi-Fi USB wireless LAN adapter.

EAN: 889025132824