Yamaha CLP480 Clavinova With Bench - Polished Black

The Yamaha CLP480PE features a weighted 88-note keyboard, with linear graded hammer action. Unlike other Clavinovas, the CLP480PE has three built-in amps (Tri-Amp System) to produce a rich, well-defined tone across the entire register. An authentic grand piano sound is produced by the GP soundboard speaker and Yamaha's latest RGE sound engine. The CLP480PE also plays XG-compatible data, enabling you to play alongside an orchestra or any backing track.

The model's white keys have been crafted from natural wood and are overlaid with Yamaha's synthetic ivory, producing a natural finish with added grip, giving a more natural feel and responsive feedback. The synthetic coating also ensures easy cleaning. The Yamaha CLP480PE offers four touch sensitivity modes: light, medium, heavy and fixed, adapting to the player's personal style and deftness of touch. With three pedals (damper with half pedal effect, sostenuto, soft), the piano is equipped to provide excellent tonal clarity even in the most complex and dense passages. The GP response damper pedal produces a rich acoustic sound, and is ideally suited for flowing arpeggiated passages where precise pedal work is important.

The Yamaha CLP480PE has a rich acoustic tone that is powered by Yamaha's Real Grand Expression sound engine. There is a choice of tone settings, including stereo sustain samples, key-off samples, string resonance, smooth release and damper resonance. A maximum polyphony of 256 notes caters for the demanding pianist, ensuring a distinct clarity throughout dense and complex passages. The CLP480PE also offers a wealth of voice settings, including 38 voices, 480 XG voices, 12 drum/SFX kits, GM2 and GS (GS voices for GS Song playback). There are a number of effects including: 5 reverb settings, 3 chorus settings, 7 brilliance settings, 12 DSP settings, IAC (Intelligent Acoustic Control), dual and split functions.

There are 16 voice demo tracks and 50 piano tracks preloaded on the Yamaha CLP480PE, and you can record a maximum of 250 songs and 16 tracks. Settings are neatly displayed on the backlit LCD display. The CLP480PE features a Tri-Amp system, comprising: (30W + 30W + 20W) x 2 + 20W x 2. A GP soundboard speaker delivers this rich tone through speaker box dimensions of: (16cm + 8cm + 2.5cm) x 2 + 8cm x 2 (6 5/16" + 3 1/8" + 1") x 2 + 3 1/8" x 2.

The CLP480PE has transpose, tuning and tempo range settings (in 5 languages), allowing you to play along to your favourite tracks that are written in a different key, or to provide the piano accompaniment for an ensemble. You can record your performance data to USB flash memory as an audio file (WAV) and store it on a computer to track your progress, burn to CD, or even upload to portable media players for listening on the go.