Sunday, July 11, 2010
Yamaha DGX640 Digital Piano Announced
Yamaha have announced their DGX640 digital piano
Yamaha's most piano-like Portable Grand ever, with its weighted Graded Hammer Standard keyboard action and wide selection of piano Voices. Selecting a sound is as easy as keying in a number, and recording virtuoso performances is simple with the built-in recorder. The Yamaha Education Suite and USB connectivity add functionality.
Just as on a traditional acoustic piano, the keys of the lower notes have a heavier touch, while the higher ones are more responsive to lighter playing. The keyboard's sensitivity can even be adjusted to match your playing style.
This Graded Hammer technology also enables the instrument to provide authentic touch in a lightweight instrument. The matte finish of the black keys enhances the keyboard's luxurious appearance.
Amazingly Realistic and Dynamic Sounds
Yamaha's highly acclaimed Sweet! and Cool! Voices deliver incredibly natural and very dynamic sound. Use the Pitch Bend wheel and hear these Voices--especially the Sax and Trumpet--truly come alive!
Live!, Cool! and Sweet! Voices
A huge palette of acoustic and electronically amplified instrument sounds. A blend of long, stereo and multi-layered samples is used to fully capture the natural presence, resonance, expression and vibrato of the real instrument.
Digital Signal Processor (DSP)
237 types of the DSP effect can be added to the Main and Dual Voices. These range from reverb-like ambience effects to distortion and other dynamic processing tools that let you enhance the sound, or completely transform it.
Easy Song Arranger
n addition to each song's default style, you can select any other style to play the song with the Easy Song Arranger feature. This means that you can play a song that is normally a ballad, for example, as a bossa nova, as a hip-hop tune, etc. You can create totally different arrangements by changing the style with which a song is played. You can also change the song's melody Voice and the keyboard Voice for a complete change of image.
Umbrella Music played the Yamaha DGX640 at this year's Frankfurt show, this is what Matt Jonns had to say:
The Yamaha DGX640 digital stage piano is a real step up from he DGX630. The piano sound is a lot nicer with more punch behind the sound. Because the speakers have more power and the sound is more realistic this makes the general sound so much more advanced from the previous model. The sweet! and cool! voices on this model are lovely, the saxophone sound in particular is incredibly realistic.
All the features from the old model have been kept including the USB connectivity.
I really like the new colour as well, it really is nice to have a choice other than the usual cherry and silver finish.
Umbrella Music will be the first in the UK to receive shipment of the DGX640's and as usual stock is likely be slow to initially start coming in so pre order your's today!
Buy the Yamaha DGX640 digital stage piano here