Product Overview
Yamaha's best-selling P-series continues to set the standard for home digital pianos. The P-S500 combines CFX and Bosendorfer Piano Samples and an 88 GHS (Graded Hammer Standard) keybed with an intuitive touchscreen panel to deliver a fully immersive interactive playing experience. Connect to the Smart Pianist app from your smart device via USB cable or wireless Bluetooth to unlock extensive instrument controls and configuration tools. Open up a world of app-generated scores featuring your favorite songs and learn to play along using the stream lights above each key to guide you on your journey. 430 onboard songs allow you to play the melody with the backing of a full band arrangement. Integrated Audio To Score auto-generates accompaniment scores from songs you input so you can jam along with the original track. With Virtual Resonance Modeling driving two of the world's most iconic grand piano's, the P-S500 will become your new Muse!
Yamaha PS500-YAM Includes:
- Owner’s Manual
- Online Member Product Registration
- AC adapter PA-500 (May not be included depending on your area.)
- Music Rest
Yamaha PS500-YAM Features:
- Stream Lights show you which notes to play and when to play them
- Interactive Smart Pianist app offers full control of major functions and unlocks hundreds of voices, styles, lessons and more
- Audio to score turns your favorite songs into a piano score
- Follow key and stream lights help you learn songs
- Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial piano samples
- 1/4" microphone input allows you to connect a microphone so you can sing along
- Yamaha's VH audio processing engine adds vocal harmony to your Karaoke performance
- Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) allows for vivid and richly-varied expression
- The Touch Sensor Control Panel disappears when not in use to hide the powerful technology beneath the classic piano cabinetry
- GHS weighted action is heavier in the low keys and lighter in the high keys, just like an acoustic piano
Yamaha PS500-YAM Specifications:
- Dimensions: Width 1,329 mm (52-5/16")
- Height: 167 mm (6-9/16")
- Depth: 410 mm (16-1/8")
- Weight: 21.8 kg (48 lb, 1 oz)
- Packing Box
- Width: 1,457 mm (57-3/8”)
- Height: 311 mm (12-1/4”)
- Depth: 531 mm (20-7/8”)
- Keyboard
- Number of Keys: 88
- Type: GHS (Graded Hammer Standard) keyboard with matte black keytops
- Touch Sensitivity: Hard2, Hard1, Medium, Soft1, Soft2, Fixed
- Display
- Type: Full dot LCD
- Size: 80 × 16 dots
- Language: English, Japanese
- Score Display Function: Yes (*)
- Lyrics Display Function: Yes (*)
- Panel
- Type: Touch sensors
- Language: English
- Voices
- Tone Generation
- Piano Sound: Yamaha CFX, Bösendorfer Imperial
- Binaural Sampling: Yes (“CFX Grand” only)
- Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM): Yes
- Key-off Samples: Yes
- Polyphony (max.): 256
- Preset Number of Voices: 660 (When not connected to Smart Pianist: 100)
- Featured Voices: 13 VRM Voices, 111 Super Articulation Voices, 25 Natural! Voices, 27 Sweet! Voices, 47 Cool! Voices, 58 Live! Voices, 29 Organ Flutes! Voices
- Compatibility: (For song playback) XG, GS, GM, GM2
- Effects
- Types
- Reverb: 58 types (When not connected to Smart Pianist: 5 types)
- Master EQ: 5 Preset + User (*)
- Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC): Yes
- Stereophonic Optimizer: Yes
- Vocal Harmony: Yes (44 Preset)(*)
- Functions
- Dual/Layers: Yes (*)
- Split: Yes (*)
- Accompaniment Styles
- Preset
- Number of Preset Styles: 370 (When not connected to Smart Pianist: 100)
- Featured Styles: 328 Pro Styles, 25 Session Styles, 3 Free Play Styles, 13 Pianist Styles
- Fingering: Chord Detection Area Full, Chord Detection Area Lower (*)
- Style Control: INTRO x 1, ENDING x 1, MAIN x 4
- Songs
- Number of Preset Songs: 403 (When not connected to Smart Pianist: 100)
- Recording
- Number of Tracks: 16 (*)
- Data Capacity: Depending on the Smart Device
- Recording Function: Yes (*)
- Compatible Data Format
- Playback: SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
- Recording: SMF (Format 0)
- Functions
- Lesson/Guide: Correct Key, Any Key (*), Your Tempo (*)
- Guide Lamp: Stream Lights (4 steps)
- Piano Room: Yes (*)
- USB Audio Recorder
- Playback: Supported format by the Smart Device
- Recording: WAV/AAC
- USB Audio
- Time Stretch: Yes (*)
- Pitch Shift: Yes (*)
- Vocal Cancel: Melody Suppressor (*)
- Miscellaneous
- Metronome: Yes
- Tempo Range: 5 – 500, Tap Tempo
- Transpose: -12 – 0 – +12
- Tuning: 414.8 – 440.0 – 466.8 Hz
- Scale Type: 9 (*)
- Audio Recorder/Player Recording Time (max.): Depending on the Smart Device
- Audio to Score: Yes (*)
- Registration Memory: Yes (*)
- Storage and Connectivity
- Internal Memory: Depending on the Smart Device
- External Drives: Depending on the Smart Device
- Connectivity
- Headphones: Standard stereo phone jack (× 2)
- Microphone: Mic input (standard mono phone jack), input volume
- AUX IN: Stereo mini
- AUX OUT: Standard phone jack (R, L/L+R)
- AUX Pedal: Yes
- Pedal Unit: Yes
- USB TO DEVICE: Yes
- USB TO HOST: Yes
- iPad: 5 V, 2.1 A
- DC IN: 24 V
- Amplifiers and Speakers
- Amplifiers: (20 W + 6 W) × 2
- Speakers: (Oval (12 cm × 6 cm) + 2.5 cm (dome)) × 2
- Power Supply
- Power Supply: PA-500
- Power Consumption: 40 W (When using PA-500 AC adaptor)
- Auto Power Off: Yes
- Accessories: Owner’s Manual, Online Member Product Registration, AC adaptor PA-500 (May not be included depending on your area.), Music Rest, Footswitch, USB cable (USB Type A – USB Type B), USB conversion cable (USB Type A – USB Micro B / USB Type A – USB Type C)
