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Illustrated Guide to the CP1
U.R.G., Pro Audio & Digital Musical Instrument Division, Yamaha Corporation
©2009 Yamaha Corporation
WR95750 909 MWDH**-01A0
Printed in Japan
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Only Yamaha could bring so much to the stage piano: Perfect marriage of keyboard touch and sound was possible only thanks to our extensive knowledge and experience of the building of acoustic pianos. Unrivalled richness of tone is a direct product of our tireless participation in the development of pianos for stage and recording environments. And against the backdrop of our continued stage-piano production since introducing the CP70 and CP80 in the seventies, we have remained loyal to t
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The CP1 Concept Contents In the CP1, we have recreated the unique sounds not only of acoustic pianos, vintage electric pianos, and synthesizer piano voices, but also of the effect units, amplifiers, and other equipment commonly used with each in actual performance and recording settings. As shown below, these Piano Block 01 Piano Type & Pre-Amplifier Units instruments and devices are recreated as four different types of structural block – namely, Piano, Modulation Effect, Power Amplifi
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Piano Block 01-1 Acoustic Pianos Piano Type & Pre-Amplifier Units Each of the CP1's Piano blocks The acoustic piano voices of the CP1 effortlessly reproduce the comprises a Piano Type unit and distinctive sounds of Yamaha grand pianos, which are among the a perfectly suited Pre-Amplifier best in the world. When an acoustic piano is played live as part of a unit. Whenever you choose a band, the sound thereof is normally picked up using a number of 01 piano type, therefore, the ide
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S6B CFIIIS CF 3Band, CF 2Band S6 3Band, S6 2Band The CFIIIS is the crowning glory of Yamaha's Made possible through lavish application of concert grand piano range. Distinctive for its CFIIIS techniques and technologies, rich harmonic overtones, this piano marries a the Yamaha S6B grand piano is produced at rich, deep low-mid register with clear and the same plant, using carefully-selected parts, bright highs. and under the strictest quality and Our insistence on sonic excellence ex
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01-2 Electric Pianos CP80 CP80, CP88 Whenever an electric-piano key is played, a hammer mounted on the Striking its strings with an authentic grand keyboard strikes a resonator such as a string or reed. The vibration of the piano action and using pickups to convert resonator is converted into an electrical signal by a pickup, and this signal their vibration into an electrical signal, the is then amplified and adjusted to produce a sound. Featuring pre-amp units CP80 is an electric
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Rd I Rd II 71Rd I, 73Rd I, 75Rd I 78Rd II, Dyno Producing a sound that became inseparable The latter half of the seventies saw remarkable progress in making instruments louder in response to the demands of the times. A child of this from the jazz, rock, and pop music of the period, the Rd II electric piano employed the latest advances in technology to realize a unique, brilliant sound that was free of distortion even at seventies, the Rd I is now practically high volumes. With plastic replacin
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In order to allow for extremely-flexible creation of piano sounds, the Sound Enhancement CP1's Piano Block features a wide range of sophisticated parameters for each piano type and the associated pre-amp. What follows is an introduction to some typical examples of parameters for acoustic and electric piano sounds. Wr Piano Type Unit Pre-Amplifier Unit 69Wr, 77Wr Damper Resonance Level Bass, Treble, Overtone Sharing the limelight with the Rd pianos in The Pre-Amplifier unit has been provide
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01-3 Synthesizer Pianos DX7 DXEP 1, DXEP 2, DXEP 3, DXEP 4 The CP1 can also faithfully reproduce the piano sounds of the classic Operating on the principle of FM tone generation, the Yamaha DX Series debuted at the beginning of the eighties as the world's first digital Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. A synth produces sound by manipulating synthesizers. The number of different sounds available and their sensitivity to different playing styles left musicians around the world in awe. signal w
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Small Phaser Touch Wah, Pedal Wah 816 Chorus The Small Phaser effect can be used to Touch Wah and Pedal Wah effortlessly Famous for combining eight DX7s in reproduce the smooth, beautiful phasing reproduce the acoustic and melodic a single rack unit, Yamaha's TX816 Modulation sound much loved by countless musicians characteristics of many of the seventies' featured a thick, detuned chorus from the seventies onwards. In addition to leading filter sweep effects. All of your sound reprod
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Power Amplifiers Compressor Power Amplifier / Compressor Block 71Rd I 78Rd II Compressor 376 For further shaping of piano Adding warm, vintage-type Particularly well suited to Compressor 376 emulates the acoustic characteristics of the sounds, the Power-Amplifier / distortion, 71Rd I is ideal for chorus-type effects, the 78Rd II analog compressors found in practically every recording studio. Compressor block can be used to enhancing the acoustic nuances power-amp/speaker This compress
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Rich Hall, Rich Plate, Rich Room Inheriting the audio characteristics of the ProR3 digital reverberator, the Rich Hall, Rich Plate, and Rich Room reverb algorithms produce a natural sounding reverberation with a smooth decay. Reverb Block The Reverb block provides a host of exquisite reverb algorithms originally developed by Yamaha We hope that this brief introduction has for use in professional-audio Woody Room 04 applications. Each of this block's reverb types is introduced br
