Yamaha ARIUS YDP-145 Digital Piano - Classic and Elegant Home Piano for Beginners and Hobbyists, in Black

Product Information

The Yamaha YDP-145 is a top-notch digital piano that offers a realistic playing experience similar to that of an acoustic piano. Its advanced sound sampling technology, solid construction, and adjustable touch response make it a reliable and impressive instrument. A technology known as sound balance ensures that the piano sounds its very best no matter what volume you set. This means the YDP-145 is easy on the ears even when playing for longer periods of time. The stereophonic optimizer effect gives a more natural spacious sound when playing through headphones.

FlowKey is one of the world's most popular apps for learning to play the piano. Even beginners can learn to play a wide array of songs on their acoustic piano, digital piano or keyboard in next to no time. The flowkey piano app is the ideal companion for those starting to learn the piano. Choose your favourites from a wide range of songs and start playing right away or learn in the traditional way with one of the many tutorials available. Dual mode is what we normally refer to as ‘Layer mode’, which allows users to layer two sounds such that they are triggered simultaneously on each keypress.

For your consideration

You should get an instant answer on whether your application has been successful, though in some rare cases Klarna or V12 may need to look at the application in more detail. The YDP-145 has the same detailed sound—from the lower keys to the higher keys—full of clarity and rich in colorful harmonic content. It gives you extraordinary expressive power and nuance, that authentically responds in your daily practice as well as your most emotion-filled performances. Beyond the improved speaker system power is their upgraded key action called GH3 with heavier weighted keys, a quieter key movement, 3 electronic key sensors per key instead of the 2 key sensors per key in the models below this one, and the addition of proprietary synthetic ivory & ebony feel key tops. However, I do feel the key action is much too firm and heavy especially when playing with a lighter, softer touch. METRONOME. Pressing the metronome button activates the in-built metronome. Tempo, time signature and volume of metronome sound can be changed. With regard to the synthetic ivory and ebony key-tops, decades ago in real acoustic pianos, those keys were made with real ivory & ebony placed on the key tops to give those surfaces those organic materials to help absorb sweat from the fingers along with have a natural grain or texture on those keys offering a better grip on the keys for the fingers. The YDP-165 keys now offer a similar tactile playing experience with this synthetic material.

Choose from a total of 10 different instruments voices including pianos electric pianos harpsichords strings and more. It's possible to layer two voices together to create even more sound combinations and Duo mode allows two people to play the piano at the same time with both upper and lower registers sounding the same - ideal for teacher and pupil type situations. We really like the YDP-S35 and what it does for its price, but we wish the piano had a better key action and better internal speaker system for more realistic piano sound reproduction. The YDP-145 features a piano Voice sampled from Yamaha’s flagship CFX concert grand piano—a renowned piano that delivers sparkling highs and a powerful resonant bass combined in a superbly expressive sound. You may wonder how it is possible to have 32, 64, or even 128 notes playing simultaneously, if there are only 88 keys and we never play them all at once. This will not be an issue if you’re a pianist who primarily uses the default CFX concert grand. I’m just the type of keyboardist who loves pushing a digital piano to its limits by using all of the available features.

Setup & Checked In Our Workshop Before Despatch

The 88-key, graded hammer-action keyboard perfectly captures the expression and control of a real grand piano, where the action shifts from heavier to lighter as you move up the keyboard. Modern features such as the Stereophonic Optimizer and Intelligent Acoustic Control allow for a perfect balance and sound at all volumes and whilst using headphones, whilst an external device connection allows you to expand the features of the piano using your smart device. The YDP 145 and S35 are similar in many aspects, apart from the cabinet design. The same can be said for the YDP 165 and S55. The Yamaha YDP 145 Digital Piano offers incredible realism in its feel and performance. Featuring the soundset of a painstakingly sampled Yamaha CFX piano - Yamaha's flagship concert grand - the YDP 145 uses cutting edge resonance modelling and an intelligent physical cabinet design to recreate the natural vibrancy and reverberation that you would experience when playing an acoustic grand piano. The digital and physical design of this piano combine to beautifully showcase both the sonorous lows and the sparkling highs of the fantastically well-recorded concert grand.

With an 88-key piano action, the GHS (Graded Hammer Standard) keyboard reproduces the touch of an acoustic piano, from a naturally heavy feel in the lower key to a lighter touch in the upper octaves. The GHS keyboard provides a grand piano-style response and feel, allowing rapid note repetition and authentic expressive control. Moreover, there’s a half-damper feature that authentically replicates the damper action on a grand piano, providing rich expressive variation.

Yamaha YDP 145 Digital Piano, Black Overview

Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC) claims to dynamically adjust the sound quality based on the overall volume of the instrument. MASTER TUNING. The central tuning of the keyboard can be changed in steps of 0.2 Hz. The default pitch is the standard 440.0Hz for Middle A. The flagship of Casio’s Privia range, this console piano pairs their Tri-Sensor II Hammer Action keyboard with an advanced AiR sound engine and triple pedalboard. The RP701/F701 also includes Roland’s SuperNATURAL sound engine, which combines conventional sampling with some nifty software modeling to produce its piano sounds. While some might describe the piano tones as ‘sterile’ due to their clean, close-mic’d sound, I’d still consider them perfect for practice and general use. Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC) provides a full, balanced sound with rich lows and clear highs even at low volume. Whilst playing at low volumes, one will often struggle to hear the bass and treble in as much detail as normal. Yamaha's IAC function automatically adjusts the sound whilst the volume control makes fine adjustments to the speaker system, ensuring that you can always enjoy the utmost sound quality even at low volumes. Immerse yourself in your playing

Personally, I didn’t touch this setting during my playtest, as I struggled to hear any differences when this effect was turned on and off. Purists might want to turn this off. Collection and delivery costs are included for the first 2 years in the event of an item becoming faulty Besides being a fully-specced, great-sounding digital piano, the big selling point of the CSP ‘Smart’ Clavinovas is the StreamLights guide system that uses a strip of LEDs across the width of the piano to tell you what notes to play and when. A genuinely useful educational aid when coupled with the Smart Pianist app, this makes the CSP range an attractive proposition for beginners looking for an innovative way to learn piano. The YDP-145 and the YDP-S35 both come with Yamaha’s Graded Hammer Standard ( GHS) key action, which is the same action found on their predecessors. One big difference here is Casio’s Tri-sensor Scaled Hammer Action Keyboard II key action. It’s name is a mouthful, but the key action itself is pretty good. In my opinion, these surpass Yamaha’s GHS keys in terms of realism and playability.

In terms of additional features, the list isn't terribly long. The damper pedal supports half-pedalling, a standard characteristic in an acoustic piano and therefore an essential feature in premium digital pianos, which means that the sound sustains more the further you depress the pedal. There’s a built-in metronome but no onboard rhythm patterns, Yamaha’s Intelligent Acoustic Control function optimally corrects the sound balance for a natural effect according to the overall volume of the piano, and the Stereophonic Optimiser recreates the spacious sound characteristics of a grand piano even while wearing headphones. Meanwhile, all Arius models come with a library of 353 built-in songs, including 50 famous classical pieces that are also represented in an accompanying book of sheet music.