Yamaha CP5 Digital Stage Piano

The Yamaha CP5 Stage Piano takes the core sounds and technology of the CP1 and offer them in instruments that are both flexible and affordable enough to appeal to a wide range of people. In fact, the Yamaha CP5 adds a wide range of sounds to the CP1. Clavs, organs, strings and more make the CP5 perfect for church, and live situations where everything needs to be performed on one keyboard. Moreover, the CP5 features not only Virtual Circuit Modeling effects, but many effects taken from the Motif XS line of synthesizers. The Yamaha CP5 has the same NW-STAGE wooden action keyboard as same with the CP1.

The core Spectral Component Modeling technology added with a wide range of sounds

A unique new SCM (Spectral Component Modeling) tone generation system faithfully recreates the 17 selected sounds of acoustic and vintage electronic pianos and responds to the player's touch to provide more creative expression than ever before possible. Moreover, the Yamaha CP5 has 305 additional sounds and various effects to make them perfect for wide musical applications.

*The Spectral Component Modeling system starts with a more fundamentally different tone generation system than Yamaha has ever used before. By combining Sampling and Modeling technology, it optimizes tone generation for each instrument so that every nuance of the player's touch is translated into expressive tone.

Customizing totally original piano sounds

Allowing you to freely build your own acoustic and electric pianos by selecting different components of piano types, amplifiers, and effects, the Yamaha CP5's Spectral Component Modeling technology makes easy work of recreating standard vintage sounds or realizing unique, original sounds. With your instruments assembled, you can then adjust various parameters of the physical components like "Hammer Stiffness" or "Striking Position" to create an even more diverse range of exciting piano sounds.

New NW-STAGE wooden keyboard offers matched tone and touch

Using technology and experience from 100 of building Yamaha Acoustic Pianos, the new 88-key NW-STAGE wooden keyboard featured in the Yamaha CP5 Stage Piano offers the perfect playability for stage performance . It minimizes keyboard vibration, and the synthetic ivory keytops feel great when you are playing. This keyboard technology effortlessly reproduces the true feeling of acoustic and electric pianos.

Record and playback functions for MIDI and audio

Your Yamaha CP5 Stage Piano can record keyboard performances as MIDI data and store them internally for playback whenever required; alternatively, you can also record these performances as audio data on a USB flash-memory device.

What's more, these and other Wave files from a USB flash-memory device can also be edited by using the bundled Cubase AI5, which offers more convenience for playing demo tracks in live stage or edit live recording in the studio.

* You will need CD Burning Software in order to create a CD.

Mic Input with a variety of effects

Fitted with a MIC INPUT jack and wide variations of effects, the Yamaha CP5 is ideal tool for vocal keyboardists to sing and play live. By combining the audio playback, it will strongly support the performance of a single musician.