Yamaha 401 Owner's Manual - Page 10

Introduction Enhanced Realism and Natural Expressiveness Authentic Acoustic Piano-like Touch with Graded Hammer (GH) and Graded Hammer 3 (GH3) Keyboard The Clavinova is the next best thing to a real piano. It features an exceptional natural piano touch and expressive response-thanks to the remarkable Graded Hammer keyboard. Just as on an actual grand piano, the lower keys are heavy in touch and the higher keys are light, with all the natural gradations in between. The CVP-405/403 features the enhanced, improved Graded Hammer 3 (GH3) technology, providing performance functions and expressive power found only on grand pianos, such as having repeated plays of the same note perfectly articulated, even when playing at high speed or with partial key release. Audio Recording (CVP-405/403) Recording Your Performance as Audio page 60 You can record your performance as audio data to a USB storage device. Connect a microphone or guitar to the instrument and enjoy recording a guitar and keyboard performance together, or record your singing along with Song playback (in karaoke fashion). Playing the Instrument Playing Piano Voices page 28 With just the press of a button, you can reconfigure the entire instrument for optimum piano performance, no matter what settings you've made from the panel. Now you can enjoy performing and practicing with authentic grand piano sounds and response-instantly. Playing Other Instrument Voices page 32 The instrument gives you not only various realistic piano Voices, but also features an exceptionally wide variety of authentic instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Perform Along with a Full Band -Song Playback page 35 Play along with previously recorded Song data, and fill out your solo performance with the sounds and arrangement of an entire band or orchestra. Ease in Playing Backing Parts with Songs, -performance assistant technology page 43 The new performance assistant technology features make it exceptionally easy to play professional-sounding backing parts along with Song playback. Playing Melodies along with Auto Accompaniment, -Style Playback page 44 Use the Style playback features to automatically produce full backing parts and accompaniment, while you play melodies on top. It's like having an expert ensemble playing behind you. Select an accompaniment Style-such as pop, jazz, Latin, etc.- and let the instrument be your backing band! 10 CVP-405/403/401 Owner's Manual