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Your Inner Musician

 

Musical talent is within you – it merely needs the right instrument to bring it out and let it flow. The new CVP400 Series Clavinova is just that instrument. With its exceptionally realistic Instrument Sounds, dynamic background Styles, wonderful expressiveness, comprehensive features and stunning sound – the Clavinova helps you tap into your inner musician, and fully develop the musical talent you know is deep inside.

 

Discover a new world of music online!

 

Connect to the Internet – right from your Clavinova

Use your Clavinova to log onto Yamaha's special IDC website – without a computer! With the Internet Direct Connection (IDC) service, you can access the Internet right from the LCD display of the instrument and directly download styles or song files from our site. Once they're downloaded, you can immediately play these style and song files on your Clavinova! All you need is an appropriate high-speed Internet connection (not dial-up) and you will have full access to the convenient Internet Direct Connection services.

 

Download. Learn. Play. Your one-stop source for music!

Digital Music Notebook (DMN) is a convenient multimedia Internet service that lets you preview, purchase, download and print learn-to-play music books and sheet music. If you want to play along, sing along, or just listen – Digital Music Notebook has a huge and growing variety of titles that help you get the most out of your Clavinova. From scales and chords to your favorite riffs and songs, DMN is packed with everything you need to master your instrument. Add accompaniments, record your performance, mix parts in the music as you want, sing karaoke with friends, learn new techniques – Digital Music Notebook has all the tools you need to bring out your musical talent and make music come alive!

 

Putting it all together with Music Finder+

You want to play a certain song, but you might wonder: What Style should I use? What Instrument Sounds should I select?

The Music Finder+ feature puts it all together for you. It's like having a professional music producer on hand, one who knows just what instruments to use for every kind of music, one who knows just how to arrange parts for the kind of music you want to play. Music Finder+ features literally thousands of preset records – each with its own specially selected Style, Instrument Sounds and effect settings.

 

What's new in Music Finder+?

Music Finder+ takes the original Music Finder feature and expands it with the power of the Internet. Music Finder+ provides access to a huge online library of song setups that you can download directly to your Clavinova (using the Internet Direct Connection service). The setups are free and available individually as "Records" or conveniently grouped into "Collections." Musical styles grow and change constantly, and the extensive Music Finder+ library – with 5,000 Records and growing – is an ideal way to keep pace with those changes. The Music Finder+ also has useful "Performance Guides" that contain digital sheet music to help you learn how to play and get the most out of your Music Finder Records.

 

Advanced features and technology – for your enjoyment
 

Demos

The Demos on the instrument are more than just example pieces of music – they also provide helpful, easy-to-understand introductions to the features and operations of the instrument. In that sense, the Demos are a handy, interactive 'mini-manual' to the CVP – complete with sound demonstrations and text showing what it can do for you.

 

Vocal Harmony

The Clavinova features an input jack that lets you connect a microphone to sing along with your keyboard performance. Better yet, there's a Vocal Harmony effect (with 60 presets) that creates automatic vocal harmony backing parts for your singing – perfectly pitched, matching the type of music, and based on the chords you play!


Songs

The Clavinova comes with an extensive variety of pre-programmed Songs with complete rhythmic backing and accompaniment. Notation for each Song appears in the display and special Guide Lamps light to show you which keys to play. The instrument also features comprehensive recording features, allowing you to craft complex, multi-instrument compositions and arrangements.


Music Finder

If you want to play a certain type of music or a specific song and don't know which Style to choose, the powerful Music Finder feature can help. Simply select a song title or keyword, all appropriate panel setting are reconfigured to match the genre, including the appropriate Instrument Sounds, Style and effects. Music Finder+ also works with the IDC feature, giving you instant access to additional free Music Finder records and collections to help when your favorite song or music isn't on the instrument.


Authentic accompaniment for your performance – Styles

The newly improved auto accompaniment Styles of the CVP make music so much more enjoyable and open up a whole new world of performance possibilities. The wide range of Styles include dynamic backing band parts for pop, R&B, rock, Latin, jazz, movie music and classical – letting you play like a pro, in absolutely every genre. The authentic accompaniment of these Styles has been meticulously crafted by top musicians worldwide and refined by pro studio engineers for the best possible quality.


Instrument Sounds

Unmistakably grand, the new CVP400 Series Clavinova puts the luscious, expressive sound of a real acoustic grand piano at your fingertips. The amazingly authentic piano sounds at the heart of this instrument were sampled from a full concert grand piano smoothly blended for the most natural dynamic changes. Special care was also taken to accurately reproduce the complex sound nuances when the dampers fall back onto the strings strings (Key Off), the rich sound when the damper pedal is pressed (Sustain), and even the special phenomenon when the hammer hitting the strings of one key causes the strings of other keys to vibrate (String Resonance).

 

Whatever type of music you play, the Clavinova series ensures you'll always have the right Instrument Sound to perform with. Hundreds upon hundreds of authentic, powerful and dynamic Instrument Sounds (also known as Voices) are built into the instrument that cover virtually every instrument category.

 

Organ Flutes Voices

These special Instrument Sounds give you that vintage organ sound heard in Gospel, Blues, Jazz and Rock music. Onscreen virtual tone bars let you adjust the individual footages and percussive sound, just as on an actual organ, while a realistic rotary speaker effect gives you the richly textured, animated effect of a rotating speaker.

 

 

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