GEAR REVIEW
OUTSIDE THE BOX: YAMAHA’S NEW CP KEYBOARDS | Ed Kerr
KEY FEATURES
• Intuitive interface allows player to
easy change sounds and effects in
real time
• Palette of piano and keyboard
sounds is beautifully realistic
• Great feeling piano action
Well, I didn’t film the unboxing, but a few days of beautiful grand piano sounds, among them
ago I had an amazing experience getting my Yamaha’s CFX, the Bosendorfer Imperial and
CP88 out of the box. Yamaha sent me one so Yamaha’s C7. Also available here are the
I could familiarize myself with it for upcoming Yamaha U1 upright, the CP80 and others.
conferences. I’d read about Yamaha’s new Note, too, that the player can select how much
keyboard, how the interface was a radical new damper resonance to be heard, making the
design, but until I’d hooked it up in my studio, I realism of the sound even greater. Any player
couldn’t know how radical. is likely to find a favorite acoustic piano sound
• Seamless Sound Switching eliminates
abrupt cutoffs when changing
sounds The first word I’d use to describe the keyboard • Use keyboard for computer’s audio
interface is intuitive. The engineers at Yamaha have The E section contains a great variety of electric
come up with something truly unique. It’s not piano sounds. Classic tine pianos from the
just user-friendly. It’s player-friendly! 1970s are well-represented, and one can also
quickly here. Mine is the C7.
choose from Wurly and Clav sounds. Effects
Unboxing videos. Really? Have you ever Power the CP on and you’ll see a simple like touch wah, chorus and phaser are easily
watched one? Me too, partly out of skepticism display. It shows the letters P, E and S above added to these sounds too.
that people really watch someone take each other on its left edge. These letters something out of a box. Ready? Shrink wrap represent the three sections you choose from The S section is the Sub section. Here’s where
has been removed. Here goes. I’m. Opening. to build your sound. The P section contains a a player will find a broad range of pad sounds,
The. Lid. variety of piano sounds. They include a number string sounds, organs, chromatic percussion
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May 2019
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