Yamaha CP40 Review & Comparison & Best Price

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Yamaha CP40 is designed by Yamaha for specific purpose, stage piano. It’s light weight, focused function, and simplicity. Unlike other workstations and synthesizers, Yamaha CP40 has intuitive and convenient button layout and LCD indicator. Yamaha CP40 contains sound of vintage electric piano to Yamaha’s current best grand piano CFX, CFIIIS, and S6. Yamaha CP40 Has 88-key Graded Hammer Action, and with the combination of grand piano sampling, players will be able to feel real grand piano.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZgg96e5Mus

Brief introduction video of Yamaha CP40

 

Yamaha CP40 Sound Demo

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(based on Yamaha CP4)

 

Layer (Dual layer) | Yamaha CP40 has layer function, with this technique, you can play two different sounds simultaneously on one key. You will be able to play ‘piano and string’ sound or ‘piano and organ’ sound simultaneously on one key. You will be able to make the performance more beautiful and will give you more enjoyment.

Yamaha CP40 layer

Split | Yamaha CP40 has split function that you can play two different instrument sounds on each hand within a keyboard. For example, left hand can play vibratone, right hand can play piano; it gives effect of one person playing two different instrument sound.Yamaha CP40 split

Voices|

Yamaha CP40 has Yamaha MOTIF synthesizer based voice library, it has 297 voices.

Acoustic Piano sound|

Yamaha CP40 CFIIIS voice
Yamaha CFIIIS grand

CFX grand piano sound- Yamaha CP40 has CFX piano sound which is powerful, projects to the end of any concert hall, even over symphony orchestra. Yet, it is delicate and expressive.

CFIIIS grand piano sound – Yamaha CP40 has CFIIIS piano sound which is hand-crafted grand piano. It is resonant, has darker quality in mid range, and fits well with small ensemble.

S6 grand piano sound – Yamaha CP40 has S6 piano sound which has copper-wound strings that make its sound very warm, harmonious,mellow, and resonant. It goes well with quiet vocals and ballads.

Vintage Electric Piano|

Yamaha CP40 contains vintage electric piano sounds of CP80, DX7, RD I, RD II….

Yamaha CP40, CP80
Yamaha CP80
Yamaha CP40, DX7
Yamaha DX7

Virtual Circuit Model (VCM)|

Yamaha CP40 has VCM function, here is an example video of VCM effect from Yamaha.

 

Color| Available in black

Warranty| Yamaha CP40 provides 3 year part and labor warranty.

Portability|

Yamaha CP40 portability

Yamaha CP40 only weighs 36lb (16.3kg), very easy to carry compared to other digital pianos; has light and professional design.

 

 

Specs(Yamaha CP40 official website spec)

Keyboards

CP40 STAGE 88-key Graded Hammer (GH) keyboard

Voices

Tone Generation Tone Generating Technology SCM (Spectral Component Modeling) + AWM2
Polyphony Number of Polyphony (Max.) 128
Preset Number of Voices 297(CF:15, Rd:3, Wr:6, CP80:8, DX:18, Clav, Organ:49, Strings, Choir, PAD:67, Others:117, Others(Drum):14)

Effects

Types Reverb 11 types
Chorus 9 types (46 presets)
Master Compressor 1 type (7 presets)
Master EQ 3 bands
Insertion Effect 62 types (226 presets) × 2 Parts

Performances

Performances User 128 * Performances 65 to 128 are identical copies of Performances 1 to 64.
Parts 2

Connectivity

Connectors Line Out UNBALANCED [L/MONO] and [R] OUTPUT jacks (standard mono-phone)
Headphones [PHONES] jack (stereo-phone)
Foot Switch [SUSTAIN] and [ASSIGNABLE] FOOT SWITCH jacks
Foot Controller 1 jacks
MIDI [IN] and [OUT] MIDI terminals
USB [TO HOST] and [TO DEVICE] USB terminals

Size/Weight

Dimensions Width 1,332mm (52.4″)
Height 163mm (6.4″)
Depth 352mm (13.8″)
Weight Weight 16.3kg (36 lbs.)

Other

Controllers Pitch bend wheel, Modulation wheel, Part slider × 2, [MASTER VOLUME] dial, Data Dial, MASTER EQUALIZER slider × 3
Display 40 characters × 2 lines, Character LCD with back-light
Power Consumption 8W
Additional package contents AC adaptor (PA-150 or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha), FC3 foot pedal, Owner’s Manual, Online Manual CD-ROM (containing Reference Manual, Synthesizer Parameter Manual, and Data List)

 

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