We continue to write about different music instruments. Whether you are looking for a reasonably priced piano replacement or are about to record your own music, especially songs without too many instrument parts, you might be interested in acquiring an electronic keyboard.
Today there is a huge variety of keyboard musical instruments to meet your very needs: pianos, digital pianos, MIDI keyboards, PSR keyboards, portable keyboards, workstations and various types of synthesizers. While standard pianos have 88 keys, electronic keyboards offer three different sizes to choose from. A 76-key model as well as 61-key one is good enough up to the intermediate skill-level, while 49-key being the smallest keyboard standard size, is just for beginners.
Such manufacturers as Yamaha, Casio, Korg, Roland, Kawai, Emu, Kurzweil and Technics offer a wide range of musical keyboards, which vary greatly in prices and features. Yamaha ranks second to none in digital signal processing technology among a large number of professional musicians, educational institutions, related industries and consumers.
Yamaha renowned acoustic pianos line features the YPG-235 76-Key Portable Grand Piano elaborated for a student or performer looking forward to bridge the gap between acoustic piano and portable keyboard. 76 Graded Soft Touch action piano-style keys are specially designed to suit both the starters and the experienced professionals, while 6-track sequencer allows recording original compositions and performances.
The YPG-235 carries on the Yamaha tradition of quality and functionality with the last piano-focused features including:
- 76 piano-style keys with Graded Soft Touch, which allow you to produce a louder note by pressing the key harder, mimicking a piano;
- 6-track sequencer, which records one or multiple instrument parts at a time and assigns each part to a different track. Six tracks are presented to accommodate sophisticated melodies, chord accompaniment and rhythm parts.
- USB port and Flash ROM to download new songs, styles and keyboard set-ups from your computer or pop your newly recorded song in a portable USB drive;
- the interactive Y.E.S. (Yamaha Education Suite) feature, which helps you to set your own tempo and monitor your progress as you learn;
- Yamaha 489 GM and XGlite compatible voices plus 5 Sweet and 3 Cool voices feature for even more expressive playing;
- Split and Dual modes, which let you play bass notes with your left hand controlling a string section with your right;
- Easy Song Arranger feature, which allows you to remix MIDI files so you can play them your own way;
- Performance Assistant Technology* : with the Chord Mode on you’ll never play a wrong melody!
- 32 notes of polyphony and 16 different parts or sounds played back at once (16-part multi timbrel);
- Backlit LCD, panel lights, pitch bend wheel;
- Portable Grand Button: turns your portable keyboard into a stereo-sampled piano.
To produce true stereo, amazingly realistic sound there are 9 reverb, 4 chorus and 5 preset Master EQ effects, as well as 26 types of harmony and 160 styles plus user (SFF) styles including intro, ending, A/B and 2 Fill variations.
The Yamaha YPG235 keyboard comes with 6W + 6W amplifier, 12 cm x 2/ 3cm x 2 built-in speakers, headphone jack and a sustain pedal jack for practicing playing the piano pieces. The beautiful instrument is available on eBay for $320-$389 or at the Amazon price of about $340..
The YPG-235 high-tech keyboard with a decent price tag is the one, which beginners won’t be confused or intimidated with and more seasoned players with a high enough skill-level are sure to appreciate. Capture the precious moments of inspiration and create high-quality musical parts with the variety of features for songwriting fully represented in YPG-235 portable grand piano!
Yamaha YPG-235 Portable Grand Piano Photo Review
Yamaha YPG-235 Front View
Yamaha YPG-235 Front Panel View
Yamaha YPG-235 Front Panel Details Views
Yamaha YPG-235 Performance Data Transfer Scheme
Yamaha YPG-235 Portable Grand Piano Video Review
Yamaha YPG-235 Preset Demo Song: “Boogie-Woogie”
