Yamaha NP-V60 Keyboard
Stock code: 69552
Features
- The Yamaha NPV60 features a Graded Soft Touch Keyboard
- 489 instrument sounds
- 160 accompaniment styles
- Learning technologies including Performance Assistant
- Sustain pedal socket
- Backlit LCD display screen
A welcome innovation in Yamaha's distinguished keyboard range, the NP-V60 Piaggero - a name combining "Piano" and "Leggiero" - Italian for "light" - is more than merely a 76-note keyboard with an impressive Graded Soft Touch action. This keyboard incorporates 489 instrument sounds, 160 accompaniment styles, and a great-sounding speaker system - all in a package weighing just 6.3 kilograms.
For the aspiring pianist, gigging musician or travelling composer, the Yamaha NP-V60 Piaggero is a natural choice. The most portable high-quality 76-note keyboard ever produced, Yamaha have incorporated an excellent expressive Graded Soft Touch action, where the lower-end keys have a gradually heavier resistance than the higher-end keys. This makes it easier to play like a real piano, allowing your musical expression to shine through. Many of the instrument sounds are taken from Yamaha's higher-end keyboards, incorporating Sweet! and Cool! Voices. The range of accompaniments cover every musical style you would wish to play, with the Music Database function making the NP-V60 extremely easy to set-up in order to play the suggested songs with exactly the right accompaniment and instruments. In short, the Yamaha NP-V60 is the logical choice for high-quality sounds with ultimate portability - at a very reasonable price.
Graeme Lindsay-Foot, Dawsons Music Warrington
| Speaker Output | 2 x 6 Watts |
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| Product Range | No |
| Colour | Black |
| Keys | 76 keys |
| Free Accessories | Music Rest | Adaptor |
| Synthesizer Type | No |
| Connectivity Details | Headphones Input, MIDI, USB |
| Key Stage | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 |
| Manufacturers Link | Yamaha NP-V60 Keyboard |
| Model Name | Yamaha NP-V60 | Colour | Black | SIZE/WEIGHT | Dimensions | Width | 1228mm | Height | 111mm | Depth | 312mm | Weight | 6.3kg | CONTROL INTERFACE | Keyboard | Number of Keys | 76 | Type | Box type keys (E0-G6) : Graded Soft Touch Keyboard | Touch Response | Yes | Other Controllers | Pitch Bend | Yes | Display | Type | Custom LCD | Size | 92mm x 42mm | Backlight | Yes | Colour | Blue LED | VOICES | Polyphony | Max | 32 | Preset | Number of Voices | 489 (116 Panel Voices + 361 XGlite Voices + 12 Drum/SFX Kits) | Featured Voices | Sweet! Voice x 5 Cool! Voice x 3 | EFFECTS | Types | Reverb | 9 types | Chorus | 4 types | Master EQ | 5 types | Functions | Dual/Layers | Yes | Split | Yes | Panel Sustain | Yes (in menu) | ACCOMPANIMENT STYLES | Preset | Number of Preset Styles | 160 | Fingering | Multi / Full Keyboard | Style Control | ACMP ON/OFF, SYNC STOP, SYNC START, START/STOP, INTRO/ ENDING/rit., MAIN/AUTO FILL | Custom | User Styles | Yes | Other Features | Easy Song Arranger | Yes | Music Database | 305 song titles for quick keyboard setups | One Touch Setting (OTS) | Yes (Incl. Voice List) | SONGS | Preset | Number of Preset Songs | 30 | Recording | Number of Songs | 5 | Number of Tracks | 6 (5 Melody + 1 Chord) | Compatible Data Format | Playback | SMF 0/1 | FUNCTIONS | Registration | Number of Buttons | 4 Pads x 8 Banks | Lesson/Guide | Performance Assistant Technology (PAT) | Chord | Performance Assistant Technology (PAT) | Chord, Chord / Free | Overall Controls | Metronome | Yes | Tempo Range | 11 - 280 | Transpose | -12 to 0, 0 to +12 | Tuning | + - 100 cents | STORAGE AND CONNECTIVITY | Storage | Internal Memory | 1.8MB | Connectivity | DC IN | DC IN 12V | Headphones | Yes | MIDI | Yes | USB TO HOST | Yes | AMPLIFIERS AND SPEAKERS | Amplifiers | 6W + 6W | Speakers | (12cm x 6cm) x 2, 5cm x 2 | POWER SUPPLY | Power Supply | AC Power Adaptor : Yamaha PA-150, or batteries (Six "AA" size, LR6 or equivalent batteries) | Power Consumption | 10W | BUNDLED SOFTWARE | CD-ROM | Yes | ACCESSORIES | Included Accessories | Music Rest | Yes |
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Overall Rating Posted on 13/08/2012 by NickS
I bought this around a year ago for strings, organ, brass and piano use in a cover band. It does all this pretty well for this price point. I don't yet have a use for helicopter, barking dog, etc. Banks of presets allow you to select a chosen voice fairly rapidly; options let you mix e.g. organ with bass in the left hand (split), or piano and strings (dual). You can change parameters like reverb, relative volume of the split/dual, etc., on each voice I haven't used the record and accompaniment functions so can't comment on those features. Grand piano sounds are good enough for my purposes.
Limitations: NP-V60 does NOT have MIDI IN/OUT sockets; it does MIDI over USB. It does not have USB for memory sticks, or an arpeggiator, like the V80. Using the supplied power unit there is some buzz/whine on the audio output that you'll only notice when it's seriously amped up. Despite the "graded soft touch", it feels more a keyboard than a Clavinova-style digital piano.
Oddities: Some apparent duplication of voices, e.g. brass and strings, but with the sustain pedal one becomes continuous while the other decays but more slowly.