Yamaha YPG635 88-Key Weighted Portable Grand

Brand: Yamaha
Category: Musical Instruments

List Price: ~~$1,299.00~~
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 2580

Media: Electronics
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 131.8
Dimensions (in): 59.6 x 22.8 x 13.3
The Yamaha YPG-635 is an 88-key weighted graded hammer action portable keyboard. Upgrades from the previous model include 64-note polyphony, a beautiful matching bench and an optional three-pedal unit, along with additional DSP (Digital Signal Processing) effects that enable realistic sounding Distortion Guitar and Rotary Organ. It also includes USB MIDI and USB to Device for removable storage, along with a high resolution Live! Grand stereo sample, song recorder, score and lyric display.

MPN: YPG635
Model: YPG635
UPC: 086792881089
EAN: 0086792881089
ASIN: B001D02914

Release Date: May 1, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Affordably priced 88-key portable keyboard boasts an authentic grand piano-like touch
•	30 built-in songs plus 70 more on included CD-ROM for you to learn to play using the Yamaha Education Suite
•	Two USB ports on the back for recording and playing back MIDI files as well as saving tracks
•	Two-way stereo speaker system, bass boost, and digital signal processing for enhanced sound
•	Decorative wooden stand, PA150 adapter, and sustain pedal included

Lyric, Chord And Notation Display

The YPG-635 can display the score to a song whether it comes from the Internet, the internal selections or ones that you record yourself, and the pages scroll automatically when a song is played back--no more page turning. And for singers, the screen also displays chords and lyrics to XF compatible songs. And for those that want to learn to play, notation adds a new dimension to the Yamaha Education Suite, allowing you to hear a song while you follow the notes in the display.

USB Connectivity Brings Music Directly To Your Keyboard

The YPG-635 has 2 USB ports on the back with the following functionality

USB TO HOST is plug and play simple for recording and playing back MIDI files, as well as transferring data to and from your computer.
USB TO DEVICE is for connecting optional peripheral USB storage devices like floppy disk drives and thumb drives. When a USB flash memory is inserted in this instrument's USB TO DEVICE terminal, user songs created on the instrument and the registered settings can be saved to or loaded from the memory medium. USB flash memory can also be used to transfer song data downloaded from the Internet to the instrument, where it can be used with the performance assistant technology and the Yamaha Education Suite features mentioned below. Furthermore, user songs saved to USB flash memory in MIDI file format can also be used with these features.

Ease of Operation

There are many tools in the keyboard that make it easy to be a power user from the first day you own the keyboard.

Expandable Music Database: Complete keyboard setups by song title. The keyboard selects an appropriate voice for the right hand melody, the correct musical style and the correct tempo. Simply call up a song title and start playing.
One Touch Setting (OTS): Provides you with a recommended voice with effects for each Style. For example, on a jazz style OTS might be piano, for a Latin style it might be acoustic guitar and for a rock style it might be a guitar with overdrive etc.
Registration Memory: Set the keyboard up just the way you like and take a digital snapshot by memorizing it to one of the Registration buttons. Load and save up to 16 Registrations to User memory. The Registration buttons are conveniently located just above the keyboard.
Performance Assistant Technology: Performance assistant technology is a feature from Yamaha that guarantees that you can't play a wrong melody note or chord. Here's how it works. Select a song, press the Performance.

The USB ports on the rear of the keyboard allow you to play back MIDI files, record songs played on the keyboard, and transfer files from your computer.

Yamaha Education Suite

The YPG-635 has 30 built-in songs plus 70 more on included CD-ROM for you to learn to play using the Yamaha Education Suite. The songs are separated into left and right hand parts, providing 7 levels of lessons plus a convenient chord dictionary.

Three keyboard lessons for each hand
- Waiting Mode: stops the playback of a song until you find the correct note and then continues.
- Your Tempo Mode: Learn to play the correct notes with the correct timing. Song playback tempo will vary to match the speed you are playing at. The song will slow down when you play wrong notes, so you can learn at your own pace.
- Minus One Mode: Here's where you can perfect your technique. The song will play at the normal tempo, minus the part you have chosen to play. Play along while listening to the song.
Lesson Grading – monitors your progress as you practice each lesson and gives you a grade.
Repeat and Learn – The song location will move back four measures from the point at which you pressed the button, and playback will begin after a one measure count-in. This section will repeat allowing you to practice until perfect!
Chord Dictionary – shows you how to play chords and tells you which chords you are playing by displaying the notes and chord names on the LCD screen.

6-Track Sequencer: Record Your Own Music

Imagine capturing your child's first performance or writing and recording your own songs. With the YPG-635, you have the equivalent of a built-in multi-track recorder to record one or multiple instrument parts at a time and assign each part to a different track. Six tracks are provided to accommodate sophisticated melodies, chord accompaniment and rhythm parts.

It comes with an attractive matching stand.

Sound Quality

2-Way Speaker System: Separate woofers and tweeters deliver sounds with clarity and precision for more lifelike instrument voices.
Bass Boost System: A special port on each speaker adds a powerful impact to bass sound reproduction.
Stereo (Not just 2 Speakers): We all know that stereo sound adds realistic character and spatial depth. But how can you tell if the portable keyboard you're looking to purchase is stereo or not? With Yamaha, the answer is simple. All Yamaha Portable Keyboards are true stereo.
Digital Signal Processing (DSP): Enhances sound quality with sophisticated digital effects like Harmony, Reverb & Chorus.
Advanced Wave Memory (AWM): Yamaha Advanced Wave Memory technology delivers amazingly realistic sound.

Digital Effects

Yamaha has long been a world leader in digital signal processing technology. In fact, Yamaha professional audio products are found in most professional recording studios around the world. The YPG-635 takes full advantage of this know-how, giving you an extensive range of twenty-nine, top-quality reverb effects that simulate playing in everything from a small room to a large spacious concert hall and twenty-four chorus effects that add richness to electric pianos and guitars in particular and 182 DSP types for adding everything from distorted guitars to rotary speaker effects. You'll also find 26 types of Harmony effects for your melody part.

Full Keyboard Mode

The YPG-635 delivers on its piano theme with a special mode of fingering called Full Keyboard Mode. This allows the player to play the keyboard like a piano; for example a chord with the right hand and bass notes with the left. When using the accompaniment feature, the virtual band will follow these chords. Traditional portable keyboards normally require you to chord on the left side of the keyboard, in the bass section, which is foreign to most piano players. The YPG-635 is also capable of this mode, for those who prefer it.

Digital Music Notebook

Digital Music Notebook is a multimedia Internet service that enables you to preview, purchase, download and print learn-to-play music books and chart-topping sheet music. From scales to chords to your favorite riffs, Digital Music Notebook is jam-packed with all the secrets you need to master your instrument. Add accompaniments, record and mix yourself, sing karaoke with friends, learn new techniques while having a blast--Digital Music Notebook delivers everything you need to bring music alive! And it's included with the YPG-635.

Realistic Sounding Voices

The YPG-635 comes equipped with 130 panel voices, 12 drum/SFX kits plus 361 XGlite voices. Special voices include Sweet! Clarinet, Trumpet, Muted Trumpet, Flute, Pan Flute, Soprano & Tenor Saxes, Trombone, Cool! Voices including Galaxy Electric Piano, Suitcase Electric Piano, Electric Piano, Organ and Rotor Organ and Live! Voices including Grand Piano, Warm Grand Piano and Orchestra.

Sweet! Voices reproduce all the natural expression and vibrato of their respective acoustic instruments
Cool! Voices feature long samples of electronically amplified instruments
Live! Voices use stereo samples to ensure the most accurate reproduction of each instrument's natural presence, resonance and vibrato
Dual Mode allows you to combine two voices across the keyboard at the same time--for example piano and strings.
Split Mode allows you to select a different voice for each hand--for example piano for your right and bass for your left. The combinations are limited only by your imagination.

64 Note Polyphony and 16 Part Multi Timbrel

In electronic keyboards, the more sounds made at the same time--polyphony--the more memory is needed. Obviously, more is always better, because too little polyphony can cause dropouts in dense passages of music. The YPG-635 has 64 notes of polyphony and will play back 16 different parts or sounds at once (16-part multi timbrel); enough for the most demanding needs.

Metronome

Just what the teacher ordered! A fully adjustable metronome is just a button push away.

Customer Reviews:

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Amazing Keyboard Feel - Great Sound December 5, 2008
N. J. Simicich (Labelle, FL United States)
141 out of 147 found this review helpful

If you've ever moved a real piano, you know the problem. Moving a piano needs to be done by a professional. Pianos need tuning.

But, at the same time, nothing is quite like a real piano. The feel of playing one, the sound - hundreds of years of development have combined to bring the sound and feel to its current state and, when it all comes together, there is nothing quite like it.

But that comes at a price. Did I mention tuning? Action tuneups?

So was developed the keyboard - and the keyboard feels like a keyboard - the action is wrong. And it does not have the rich sound of a piano.

So we arrived at the electric piano. Early electric pianos were neither fish nor foul - they were partially mechanical devices that still needed to be mechanically tuned. The actions were more or less horrible. The sound was that of an electric piano, not a real piano.

The Yamaha sounds like a piano - within the limitations of its speakers. Its action? Better than some real pianos and much less likely to need an action tuneup.

And all the benefits that you can get from modern electronics. Full DSP so that you can get simulated concert hall acoustics if you want.

This is an amazing item. It comes with 30 songs programmed into it, and 70 more on an included CD - and if you are inclined to learn them, it can teach them to you. More music can be downloaded using the software provided and your computer can load them into the piano or you can use a thumb drive to move them. You can learn the left and right hand parts separately. It will show you the music, and the corresponding piano keys that you need to press on the little display. You can start slow - and it will wait, patiently, until you find and press the correct key.

(For Christmas I downloaded a number of Christmas Carols in Standard Midi Format - put them on a USB thumb drive and then plugged the thumb drive into the piano - it was able to play all of them as a midi player - and, for at least some of them, it could teach them to you - I believe that it may be a matter of determining how to select the right ans left hand parts, which I have not managed to do yet - the instructions are not simple. But it worked instantly as a player piano).

At the same time it accompanies you, or not, as you choose.

I first tried this piano in a store - it was lined up with a bunch of other electrics and it had the best action of any of them - the action was clearly the most piano like - in fact, I thought that it had a better feel than some of the real pianos, in terms of consistency and smoothness while still being weighted properly.

The triple pedal attachment gives you a soft pedal, a full sustain, and a left hand sustain, just as the better pianos do (this is an option which I recommend).

The ONLY downside, in my opinion, is the size of the display. It is actually rather tiny, and, as far as I can tell, there is no way to attach an external display.

In my opinion, the controls are reasonably intuitive. And there is one button that you can press which says, "get out of my way and just be a piano".

This is the home piano of the present - frankly, while you need real pianos in concert halls, and even in piano bars, this is what you want in your home - for the kids to play and learn piano on, to plink Christmas carols out on, and to play yourself. Record your music. We need music.

This is the piano of the apartment dweller - because it has a volume control, and a headphone jack. And it can be moved up and down the steps.

I'm not a piano expert. I'm surprising my wife with one of these for Christmas, though. I think she will be really happy with it.

I strongly recommend the optional pedal assembly. The keyboard comes with a portable keyboard style pedal that does sustain, but the triple pedal assembly has a piano pedal feel, and has soft, full sustain, and sostenudo, (which means, in this context, that it will sustain keys you are holding as you press the pedal, but not those that you press after you press the pedal). It takes a few minutes to install, and precisely fits the stand that comes with the keyboard.

5 out of 5 stars

Amazing keyboard! December 2, 2008
J. Denton (Lincoln, NE)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful

Wow! I couldn't be happier with this keyboard. It feels and sounds just like a real piano, not to mention the other 500 sounds you can get from it. We were looking for something for our 9 yr old son to start piano lessons on without buying a piano that might just gather dust in a few years. The entire family has been enjoying this keyboard. In fact, our kids are choosing to play it over video games and tv. It has great sound, even without an amplifier, and is very easy to use. It has enough features to keep our children entertained for hours and yet still has the ability to sound and feel like a real piano for serious practice. It is well worth the price.

5 out of 5 stars

Great digital piano March 8, 2009
Scott M. Thompson (Missouri, USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

I have been wanting to upgrade my keyboard for a while, and I finally decided that I was ready for the investment. I wanted to do it right. I live in an apartment, so I wanted to play a "real" piano in a more manageable way. I only did a few hours of research, and it seemed to be clear that Yamaha manufactures solid digital pianos and are the industry leader. The YPG-635 seemed to be right in my budget and had everything I wanted. I bought the item with one-day shipping because I couldn't wait. The keyboard rocks. I love the design/look and the feel of the weighted keys. The assembly was painless. The sound is simply amazing. Although the maximum volume is not as loud as I would imagine, the internal amp and speakers always supply a clean, crisp sound. The voices are great. The Live! Grand Piano effect sounds just the grand piano I played as a kid at the ole 'rents house. I highly recommend this digital piano for all novice piano players. I am almost certain that this is the best digital you can buy under $1000.

5 out of 5 stars

Great keyboard for the price January 4, 2009
P. Ziolek (High Point, NC United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

I am very pleased with this keyboard after owning it for a month. I like the action of the keys and the "ease of use". I have played many keyboards the past 20 years and this is one of my favorites.
Although the sound reproduction through the speakers is very good, there is nothing like a good set of headphones attached. Close your eyes and it's easy to imagine the original instrument playing.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent for the price December 4, 2009
J. C. (Los Angeles, CA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

I bought this digital piano/keyboard several months back and I find it to be an excellent digital (recreational) piano.

I decide to buy this model because it has sequencer built in it (to start composing), has quite realistic piano sounds (other sounds sound a bit cheesy though), and looks great! Its however a bit on the heavy side so if you plan on taking it out for performances, I would look to buy a true portable/stage piano.

Several things I noticed about this piano
1)for the piano sounds, at first the sounds don't seem like they sustain for as long as the real piano. But then, after I played around with the reverb and the chorus effect, its now sustaining as long as a real piano would.
2) the keys are slightly heavier, and maybe even a little more sluggish than an acoustic piano (which I have). The piano sounds, although sound very realistic, lacks the depth/variation of an acoustic (shouldn't be surprising though). So if you are planning on advacing your piano playing skills, this is not the piano to practice/play on for too long.
3) there should be some presets for quickly linking to various instruments/styles/effects. Its nearly impossible to change voices quick enough in the middle of the song due to having to find the voice/style/effect with the wheel/keypad. Not a big problem if you don't change your settings in the middle of the song (which I don't) but if you plan on playing complicated compositions, this is not the model you are looking for. I bypass this issue using the sequencer.
4) the onboard speakers are adequate for a moderate sized living room at maximum setting. I haven't found it necessary to buy supplemental speakers but if you plan to use in a hall, probably need to supplement it with more powerful speakers.
5) the sustain pedal that comes with the piano is alright but I would get the FC4 as the factory pedal has too little depth, which sometimes makes it hard to know whether its really engaged or not. I also think the 3 pedal system is probably not necessary as it gives "soft"- which you can turn down the volume, "sustain", which you can do with factroy sustain pedal or FC4, or "sustenuto" which you probably shouldn't have to use if you are playing advanced piano compositions requiring sustenuto not supposedly to be played on a digital piano in the first place - above just my opinion about the 3 pedal system.

Overall, after comparing it with numerous other models (casio/roland/korg/yamaha), I think this is an overall best beginner/intermediate recreational digital piano with a excellent piano sounds and with loads of features for an excellent price.

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