CVP900

To let you enjoy incredibly realistic touch, the CVP-900 features the "Natural Keyboard" with the same kind of wooden keys used for acoustic pianos. As with Yamaha's earlier GH (Graded Hammer effect) keyboard, key weight is graded from heavier in the lower registers to lighter in the higher. To further assure authentic touch, the grading is in 6 steps in the "Natural Keyboard" as opposed to 4 in the GH keyboard.

For even more realism it uses a new hammer action that lets you feel the hammers and cushions as you play. And there are two sensors – one under each key and one under each hammer. The key sensor detects when the damper is on or off, while the hammer sensor detects velocity to provide the same responsiveness as a grand piano's keyboard when playing fast, delicate passages. All this plus the warmth and texture of natural wood keys in an instrument delivering touch and control closer than ever to that of the real thing – the CVP-900.

Authentic key touch and sound aren't all the CVP-900 offers – it's ready to add a touch of beauty and elegance to any room, too. Modeled along the lines of a grand piano, it boasts a wood cabinet with a polished ebony finish and attractive back frame and rim.

Providing full-color graphics and handy messages, this new extra-large LCD enables smooth, easy operation and quick access to desired features and functions. You can even enjoy music score and lyric indications for more performance flexibility as well as sing-along karaoke fun with family and friends.

If you're looking for more performance versatility, you've found it. In addition to incredibly realistic Piano and XG voices, the more than 800 voices in the CVP-900 include a range of exciting new sounds. Sweet! voices let you enjoy delicate nuances like wind and brass instrument vibrato. Live! voices offer stereo samples of acoustic instruments for live feel, while. Cool! voices deliver the original detailed sound of electric instruments. You can also take advantage of Natural! voices, which use a vast amount of memory to assure optimum reproduction of other sounds.

The new accompaniment styles cover virtually any musical genre. Each style also has three intros and endings, four variations, four fill-ins and one break. Depending on what song you'd like to play, Music Finder lets you search for suitable accompaniment styles using various criteria such as genre, keyword, and tempo.

The convenient Follow Lights function provides guide lamps over the keyboard light-up to show you which notes to play. Learn to play popular melodies while professional orchestrations embellish your performance. You don't play along with the recordings, the recordings literally play along with you! So whether you've had a hundred lessons or zero, every member of the family can make music on the CVP900 the instant it gets delivered.

Pressing one button is all it takes to find out what a CVP Clavinova has to offer. Once you read and hear the Voice, Style and Function demos, you'll want to sit down and start playing with these features yourself. And don't worry about complex operations – there's also a handy Help function offering detailed explanations when required.

In addition to a superb musical instrument, CVP Clavinovas give you a 16-track digital recording studio. You can create complex performances one part at a time, using any of the voices available. Or, for more accuracy, you can also perform step recording entering notes in one at a time. Once you've finished recording, you can save your efforts to the internal flash ROM or a floppy disk.

Use your Internet connection to take advantage of a virtually limitless selection of the most up to date music software and accessories to enhance your Clavinova experience. The great new yamahamusicsoft.com website has something for everyone, whether playing, listening, or singing along. Custom-designed song software for your Clavinova gives you a wide range of professionally programmed backing tracks and songbooks for you to play along with, including many styles of music and a wide array of popular songs. Style Disks provide an authentic sounding rhythm section to accompany your playing in various rhythm sections, and for budding composers, there's XGworks – a superb compositional tool that allows creative harmony between the Clavinova and the PC.

The CVP-900 offers a choice of 120 built-in "Song Book" songs, with accompaniments, covering a wide range of musical genres. Using the LCD display, you can display the scores of all the songs plus the lyrics of many selections as well.

This allows you to store complete setups of the CVP-900 for instant recall whenever you need them. All it takes is the touch of a button to completely change the entire sound of an instrument, a handy feature for live performances. You can store your setups in the internal flash ROM or onto a floppy disk.

For even more flexibility, you can assign any of the available functions, such as Sostenuto and pitch-bend, to a pedal of your choice. You can also customize the CVP-900 by specifying how far down the damper pedal has to be pushed until the damper effect starts working. This lets you achieve the optimum degree of pedal sensitivity for your playing style.

As well as a fine musical instrument, you can use a CVP Clavinova for sing-along karaoke fun with family and friends. Plug in a microphone, load a karaoke floppy disk, and you're ready to go. The CVP-900 offers the professional features like a Compressor and Noise Gate, a Talk Button and Vocal Harmonizer. Plus, for display of lyrics on a TV screen, the CVP-900 features a Video Out jack.

In addition to a regular metronome sound, a human voice beat counter is available in five different languages. You'll be surprised at the effect a voice has on how hard your child practices!

Need a piano sound quickly? Press the Piano Button to disengage all other features and instantly return to the "Grand Piano 1" voice.

Music from different eras and countries around the world is often based on different scales. With a CVP Clavinova, you can easily switch between Equal Temperament, Pure Major, Pure Minor, Pythagorean, Mean Tone, Werckmeister, Kirnerger and Arabic 1/2 scale tunings.

The CVP-900 features a convenient music clip to hold books open securely to the music rest while playing. The CVP-900 also come with "50 Greats for the Piano", a book of popular piano music scores complete with two-part recordings on a floppy disk. This is ideal for practicing hands-separate, you can practice one hand while the CVP-900 plays the other!