Yamaha P-S500 Smart Piano Black

Yamaha P-S500 Smart Digital Portable Piano

Yamaha Smart Pianos

So what makes a Smart Piano? .. Firstly it's a premium quality piano like the CLP series but it's really clever. It has loads of tuition books for you to develop technique, play along books for you to relax and enjoy and it will produce piano music from your own favourite MP3's.

So why should I consider buying one? .. If you want to learn to play properly or you want are serious about improving, the tuition books are amazing. They are tried and tested and work. It doesn't matter what standard you are at they will improve sight reading, technique and timing.
You might want to play and sing-a-long to your MP3, the P-S500 has mic input and the app will convert any song to a readable score (it's gives chords or arrpeggio`s, not the full score). You`re then able to record the whole thing as an MP3

It`s worth mentioning that `books` are all stored in the app on the tablet.. there`s no clutter

The new Yamaha P-S500 digital piano is a finely crafted instrument with remarkably authentic sound and expressive sensitivity. If you're just starting out on the piano or you simply want a beautifully stylish piano in your home - the P-S500 combines slim style with great features such as Stream Lights to start your very own piano playing journey.

Yamaha Yamaha P-S500 digital piano is a smart piano that that syncs the Stream Lights function, which shows the player which keys to play, with the Smart Pianist app, helping you with your piano lessons.

Yamaha PS-500 features

• Compatible with Smart Pianist app installed to a smart device
• Stream Lights feature helps you perform even if you can't read music notation
• Enjoy playing along with the 403 preset Songs, covering a wide range of genres from pop music to classical music
• "Audio To Score" function converts your favorite audio songs into piano Accompaniment Scores
• Authentic Yamaha CFX & BÖsendorfer Imperial concert grand piano Voices
• Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)
• 88-note weighted GHS keyboard
• Huge variety of 660 high-quality
• instrument Voices, including Super Articulation Voices
• Built-in Auto Accompaniment
• features with 370 Styles
• Microphone input and automatic
• Vocal Harmony

Control with Smart Device

Simply connect the instrument to a smart device and use the dedicated Smart Pianist app to access all instrument controls and configuration tools. You can also enjoy powerful features such as app-generated piano scores of your favorite songs that help you learn and play along.

Streaming Lights show you the way

Red and blue lights above each key show you which notes to play, and when to play them. This extraordinary feature helps you learn how to play, and practice, without ever having learned how to read music, making learning more fun than ever before!

Play your personal favorites or songs from the built-in library

The Yamaha P-S500 features 403 built-in songs covering a wide range of genres, from pop songs to classical pieces. You can play the melodies along with the backing of a full band arrangement. The powerful Audio to Score feature automatically creates piano accompaniment scores from your favorite audio songs so you can play along with the original recordings.

The P-S500 is about Piano Quality

Two of the world's finest grand pianos

Yamaha P-S500 features piano sounds captured from the flagship Yamaha CFX concert grand and the famed Viennese BÖsendorfer Imperial grand. These piano samples put two of the world's finest and most prominent concert grand pianos at your fingertips.

A fully immersive concert grand experience-even with headphones

Binaural sampling is a method of sampling in which special microphones are placed on a mannequin's head in the same positions as the pianist's ears to capture piano sounds the way that they sound in reality.

We chose this method to create the ambience and full, natural resonance of acoustic pianos in the P-S500. This makes pianists feel as though they are sitting at a grand piano even when they play with headphones on. The experience is so pleasant that they forget they are wearing headphones, no matter how long they continue to play.

Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)

In a grand piano, strings and sounds resonate throughout the entire body of the instrument producing a rich reverberation that envelops the listener in sound. Not only are the strings you are playing vibrating, but other strings ring as a reaction to ones you play. This is one reason the piano sound is so complex and rich.

This phenomena is reproduced perfectly in the P-S500 through Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) which calculates the various states of the strings for each of the 88 notes on the keyboard from one instant to the next. As a result, the P-S500 reflects the limitless number of factors inherent in playing an acoustic piano such as which keys are pressed, the strength with which the keys are played and pedal timing.

Authentic piano touch, 88-note weighted GHS keyboard

The Yamaha Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) keyboard features a weighted action with heavier touch in the low end and lighter touch in the high end, just like the hammers inside an acoustic piano. Great for the aspiring pianist, practicing on the GHS action builds the proper finger technique and strength for when the time comes to perform on an acoustic piano.

Voices

The Yamaha P-S500 is equipped with 660 varied, high-quality Voices including stunning pianos, electric pianos, organs, brass, strings, percussion, and more. From breathy saxophones to ringing guitars and warm, resonant strings, the P-S500 impressively replicates sounds down to the finest nuances. Thanks to acclaimed Super Articulation technology, the distinctive characteristics of each instrument are reproduced in incredible detail as you play.

Styles

Accompaniment and rhythmic backing patterns (called "Styles") covering a wide range of musical genres, including pop, jazz, and many more, lets you single-handedly recreate the sound of a full band or orchestra.

Audio and MIDI recording

The P-S500 lets you record your own performances in two different formats: audio and MIDI. Audio recording allows you to capture your playing conventionally, which you can then play back on your smart device. MIDI recording, on the other hand, lets you record up to 16 tracks, with separate left- and right-hand parts or complex multi-instrumental arrangements.

Microphone connection and Vocal Harmony

Since a microphone can be connected to the P-S500, you can enjoy singing along with your keyboard performance or along with Song playback. Moreover, you can apply various studio-quality effects such as chorus to your singing voice, and even cancel the vocal part on audio recordings-letting you sing along with (or instead of!) your favorite artists and groups, and enjoy performing even more.

Smart Pianist

Play your favorite songs right away with the "Audio To Score" function

Smart Pianist features an "Audio To Score" function that automatically creates a piano accompaniment score from songs on your smart device, allowing you to enjoy playing along with your favorite tunes.

Backing band accompaniment that you can sing along with

Enjoy accompaniment from a dynamic backing band, even when you're playing by yourself. The accompaniment provides a wide variety of patterns across a range of genres to match your performance. You can also connect a microphone and sing along with harmony functions that allow you to automatically create a chorus backup for your performances, even when you're singing alone.

Concert grand piano sound at your fingertips

The Yamaha P-S500 features piano Voices created with samples from Yamaha's flagship CFX concert grand piano and the world renowned BÖsendorfer concert grand. These superb instruments reproduce the way sound echoes differently in different venues such as halls, cathedrals, and smaller rooms, and even recreate the subtle changes in tone that occur when the lid of a grand piano is opened or closed. With keys that rebound quickly for rapid playback of repeated notes, the P-S500 offers a feel strikingly similar to that of an actual grand piano.