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Yamaha Clavinova® Digital Pianos

 
 

YAMAHA CVP407 CLAVINOVA DIGITAL PIANO 

Catalogue #CVP407

 

Yamaha Clavinova CVP407

 

 

NEW for FALL 2007!!

 

The ultimate in piano enjoyment - plus a wealth of comprehensive, sophisticated music-making features

 

 

 

Available in Dark Rosewood (CVP407R)

 

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The CVP-407 has all the luscious, expressive sound of a real acoustic grand piano with 4-level sampling, key-off sounds, stereo sustain, string resonance and more. The NW keyboard with wooden white keys effectively reproduces the authentic touch, weight and feel of a real grand piano. The amazing iAFC effect recreates the richly textured resonance of a piano soundboard for even greater realism. The CVP-407 is packed with hundreds of dynamic voices, including the ultra-realistic, expressive Super Articulation Voices and Mega Voices, as well as 408 accompaniment styles. It also has a USB Audio Recorder that lets you capture your entire performance including style and song playback, as well as your singing and easily bring it to your computer for CD burning or uploading to websites.

 
 

 
 

Natural Wood (NW) Keyboard

The special Natural Wood keyboard uses real-wood white keys, to reproduce as closely as possible the experience of playing an actual acoustic grand piano. The authentic touch and feel of the keys goes far beyond existing electronic keyboards, realistically recreating the hardness of the keys, the balance between the weight of the key and hammer, and the characteristic weight gradations of the keys � heavy in the low end, light in the high register � to make you feel as if you're playing a real grand piano. Moreover, this specially crafted keyboard lets you use techniques only possible on grand pianos, such as playing the same note successively and having the sounds blend smoothly even without use of the damper pedal, or playing the same key quickly and having perfect articulation without the sound cutting off unnaturally.

 

Advanced Wave Memory (AWM) Dynamic Stereo Sampling

The AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) is a sampling system which creates sound close to that of an acoustic instrument by using digital technology to record the instrument sound and applying high-quality digital filter technology to the recorded audio samples. The waveform of the sound created by playing the key of an acoustic piano differs depending on the playing strength from pianissimo to fortissimo. The AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling can produce such dynamic nuances by recording samples of various playing strengths. The greater the number of samples used, the higher the expressive quality and potential becomes.

 

Super Articulation

Introducing a completely fine level of sonic realism and musical expressiveness. The remarkably authentic Voices feature the unique performance characteristics of each instrument, the expressive finger-slides on the guitar, or the breathy, legato phrasing of a saxophone. Never before have such string, wind and brass instruments, played live with a keyboard, sounded so convincing or so real!

 

MegaVoice Technology

It features multiple samples across the keyboard with sophisticated velocity switching - for incredibly authentic instrument sounds. It contains not only the basic samples of the instrument but also the performance techniques used with it. On a guitar for instance, players will hear open and mute string sounds, dead notes, hammering effects, slide effects, harmonics and a wide range of strum and body noises. In technical terms, MegaVoice duplicates an instrument's behavior. In sonic terms, this gives the keyboard stunningly realistic sounds.

 

Natural! Voices

These rich and luscious Voices are comprised mostly of keyboard instrument sounds and are especially intended for playing piano and other keyboard parts.

 

Live!, Cool! and Sweet! Voices

A huge palette of acoustic and electronically amplified instrument sounds. A blend of long, stereo and multi-layered samples is used to fully capture the natural presence, resonance, expression and vibrato of the real instrument.

 

iAFC (Instrumental Active Field Control)

This sophisticated technology outputs sound picked up by built-in microphones together with the Clavinova's internal sound through rear speakers, making automatic adjustments to create a richer sound that best matches the acoustic characteristics of the room you're playing in. It also uses signal processing to reproduce an authentic damper effect. When the damper pedal is pressed, it delivers discretely sampled overtones, harmonics and resonance to recreate the warm and spacious sound.

 

USB Audio Recorder

You can record your performance as audio data to a USB storage device. Connect a microphone or guitar to the instrument and enjoy recording a guitar and keyboard performance together, or record your singing along with song playback.

 

16-track song recorder

Use the built-in song recorder with up to 16 tracks to create complex, multi-part arrangements one instrument at a time. After recording, save to the internal memory, which retains data even when the power is switched off, on a storage device, or to a PC.

 

Guide Lamps

The key guide lamps indicate the notes you should play, when you should play them, and how long you should hold them down. You can also practice at your own pace - since the accompaniment waits for you to play the notes correctly. Here, mute the right- or heft-hand part and try practicing the part using the guide lamps.

 

Piano Reset Button

This convenient, easy-to-use feature completely and automatically reconfigures the entire CVP for optimum piano performance. No matter what settings you've made from the panel, you can instantly call up the piano settings by a single button press.

 

LAN Port

LAN Port is for a wired internet connection the same as a LAN terminal you see on a computer. Stay connected and directly access to the Yamaha's special service "Internet Direct Connection (IDC)" without a computer. Once you're online with IDC, you can download your favorite contents straight to your instrument. And that's just the beginning - the fun and excitements start from there!

 

USB TO DEVICE Terminal

Insert a USB flash memory in the USB TO DEVICE terminal on the instrument. It would let you save or load the registered settings and user songs created on the instrument, as well as read data from the connected device.

 

USB TO HOST Terminal

Dive in and take advantage of the wide world of computer music software. Connections and setup are exceptionally easy, and you can play back your computer recorded parts with different instrument sounds - all from a single instrument.

 

Online, On-demand Music (IDC)

Bring your instrument online and tap into the worldwide music network! Yamaha has created a new, essential online service for musicians everywhere: Internet Direct Connection (IDC). IDC lets you connect the instrument directly to the Internet, without a computer, letting you delve into thousands of MIDI songs on our custom website, and download your favorite music for playback on the instrument.

 

Large LCD display

A large LCD display provides attractive graphics and helpful messages for quick access and error-free operation. It provides comprehensive and easy-to-understand control of its operation. The display indicates chords, scores, lyrics, voice and style information, and more.

 
 
 

 
 

Control Interface

Keyboard

Type
Number of Keys
Touch Sensitivity
Natural Wood (NW) Keyboard
88
Yes

Display

 
Type
Color
Size
Score Display
Lyrics Display
Wallpaper Customization
Full Dot LCD
Color
640 x 480 dots
Yes
Yes
Yes

Pedal

 
Number of Pedals
Functions
Half Pedal
3
Volume, Sustain, Sostenuto, Soft, Glide, Song Play/Pause, Style Start/Stop, etc.
Yes

Voices

Tone Generation

Tone Generating Technology
Number of Dynamic Steps
Number of Sampling Banks
Stereo Sustain Samples
Key-off Samples
String Resonance
AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling
3
50
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polyphony  
Number of Polyphony 128 + 128
Preset  
Number of Voices
Featured Voices
590 + 480 XG 19 Drum/SFX Kits + GM2 (+ GS Voices for GS Song playback)
38 S. Articulation Voices, 38 Natural! Voices, 23 Sweet! Voices, 39 Cool! Voices, 56 Live! Voices, 10 Organ Flutes!, 18 Mega Voices

Compatibility

 
GM
XG
XF
Yes
Yes
Yes

Custom

 
Sound Creator
Yes

Accompaniment Styles

Preset

Number of Preset Styles
Featured Styles
Sections
Fingering
408
316 Pro Styles, 34 Session Styles, 36 Pianist Styles, + MegaVoice Styles, S.Articulation Styles (used by preset styles)
Intro x 3, Main Variation x 4, Fill x 4, Break, Ending x 3
Single Finger, Fingered, Fingered On Bass, Multi Finger, AI Fingered, Full Keyboard, AI Full Keyboard

Custom

 
Style Creator  
Yes

Other Features

 
One Touch Setting (OTS)
Music Finder/Music Database
4 for each Style
Yes

Songs

Recording

Number of Channels
Song Data Capacity
16
3.2MB (for all User Data (Song, Voice, Style, Registration))
Compatible Data Format
Playback
Recording
SMF (Format 0 & 1), ESEQ, XF, Style File
SMF (Format 0)

Effects

Acoustics

Reverb
Chorus
IAFC
Master EQ
Part EQ
34 Preset + 3 User
30 Preset + 3 User
Yes
5 Preset + 2 User
27 Parts
Functions  
Dual
Split
Yes
Yes

Accompany Style Related

Vocal Harmony  
60 Preset + 10 User

Functions

Lesson/Guide

Guide
Guide Lamp
Performance Assistant Technology (PAT)
Follow Lights, Any Key, Karao-Key Vocal CueTIME
Yes
Yes

Demo/Help

 
Demonstration
Help
Function, Voice, Style
Yes
Registration Memory
Number of Buttons
8, with Regist. Sequence/Freeze

Overall Controls

 
Metronome
Tempo Range
Transpose
Tuning
Scale Type
Yes
5 - 500, Tap Tempo
Yes
Yes
9 types
Miscellaneous  
Language for Display
Direct Access
PIANO Button
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
Yes
Yes

Storage and Connectivity

Storage

Flash Memory (Internal)
External Drives
3.2MB
Optional USB Flash Memory, USB Hard Disk Drive, etc. (via USB to DEVICE)
Connectivity  
USB
Headphones
MIDI
AUX Pedal
AUX Audio In
AUX Audio Out
Microphone
Video Out
To Host, To Device
x 2
In/Out/Thru
Yes
(L/L+R, R)
(L/L+R, R)
Input Volume, Mic./Line In
Yes
Accessories  
Music Rest
Music Clips
Headphones Hanger
Yes
yes
Yes

Bundled Software

CD-ROM
Other
Yes
Sheet Music Book
Amplifiers and Speakers
Amplifiers
Speakers
60W x 2 + 20W x 2
(16cm + 5cm + 3cm (dome)) x 2 + 10cm x 2

Cabinet

Key Cover

Key Cover
Folding
Cabinet  
Color/Finish

Dark Rosewood

Size/Weight

Dimensions

Width
Depth
Height
1,432mm (56-1/2")
609mm (24")
885mm (34-7/8")
Weight  
Weight
84kg (185lbs., 3oz.)
   

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