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CVP-809GP
Yamaha CFX & Bösendorfer Imperial Piano SamplesBinaural SamplingGrandTouch™ Keyboard with Counterweights and EscapementLinear Graded HammersColor Touch PanelChord LooperPlaylistBluetooth AudioSuper Articulation 2 (SA2) Voices
The flagship Clavinova. With all of the CVP-809 features in a sumptuous grand piano-style cabinet, the CVP-809GP adds a touch of splendor to any room.
Sound reverberates through the entire body of the CVP-809GP just like a grand piano, and spreads throughout the room to create a warm acoustic ambience. The sumptuous grand piano cabinet adds a touch of splendor to any room.
More Voices & Styles
Among the 1,605 on-board Voices in the CVP-809GP, there are plenty of non-piano Voices. In combination with the wide array of backing Styles, you'll be able to enjoy great-sounding performances with polished introductions and endings and authentic band and orchestra accompaniments across a wide array of genres, including jazz and pop.
Play your favorite tunes as they are written, or try your hand at arranging and recording your compositions with built-in USB Audio recording.
Two world class concert grands in one digital piano
The Yamaha CFX, our flagship 9’ concert grand piano, offers sparkling highs and a powerful resonant bass with a sound that projects to the furthest reaches of any concert hall. The Bösendorfer Imperial is a piano known throughout its long history for its classic Viennese sound. Both are outstanding pianos characterized by distinctive traits of power, versatility, subtlety and lightness, and both are found only in a Clavinova digital piano.
VRM physical modeling—the distinctive reverberation generated by the entire body of a concert grand piano
In a grand piano, sound resonates throughout the body of the instrument, producing a rich reverberation that envelops the listener in sound. This phenomena is reproduced perfectly in the Clavinova through Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM). It calculates the various states of the strings for each of the 88 notes on the keyboard, from one instant to the next, and timing and depth of damper pedals pressed. This technology allows for vivid, bright, richly-varied expression that reflects the limitless number of factors inherent in piano performance.
From staccato to legato—superbly expressive sound that responds to the player’s touch
Featuring Yamaha Smooth Release technology, Clavinova offers the crisp tone heard when playing staccato as well as the lingering sound produced by releasing the keys more. This provides finely-nuanced response to the pianist’s playing.
Smooth tonal transformations perfectly matched to key pressure
Sound in an acoustic piano attenuates over a long time. Pianists can change the volume of the sound—as well as its dynamics—to achieve both mellow and bright tones by simply changing the pressure they apply to the keys.
The Clavinova features long, carefully-sampled recordings of notes on a piano, reproduces them in rich detail and utilizes unique Yamaha technologies to achieve smooth tonal transitions in response to the touch of the player.
Additionally, the Clavinova has been repeatedly tested and adjusted by numerous pianists in order to attain a performance feel similar to that of a grand piano.
Key-Off samples
The moment a pianist’s fingers are lifted from the keys of a grand piano, subtle changes occur in the instrument's tone as the damper is lowered onto the strings to mute its sound. Key-Off samples feature actual recordings of these changes, offering a faithful reproduction of the most subtle changes in the piano’s sound, allowing for a more realistic performance.
A fully immersive concert grand experience—even with headphones
Advanced binaural sampling technology uses samples from the CFX, the Yamaha acclaimed concert grand piano, recorded with specialized microphones that capture locational information and other nuances discerned by the human ear. The resulting sound is so natural, so enveloping, that you’ll soon forget you’re even wearing headphones at all.
Once you choose the Yamaha CFX Grand Voice and put headphones on, the binaural sampled sound is automatically ready and no additional settings are required. Now with or without headphones, you can fully enjoy the concert grand experience at home.
The Stereophonic Optimizer—a new kind of headphone experience
When using headphones, the Stereophonic Optimizer lets players enjoy the dispersed sound heard when sitting in front of an acoustic piano. With the Stereophonic Optimizer, Voices sampled from acoustic pianos* appear to come from the body of the instrument. This provides a comfortable, natural experience that removes the drawbacks of performing with headphones.
* The CFX Voice utilizes binaural sampling technology
Speaker innovations by Yamaha include Spruce Cones and Twisted Flare Ports
Drawing from its experience in building both acoustic pianos and high-end speakers, Yamaha CVP-809 and CVP-809GP speaker cones use pulp from the same spruce wood used to make acoustic piano sound boards.The result is a more natural, piano-like attack to the sound that is more piano-like when you play the keys.
The Twisted Flare Port, a new Yamaha technology, offers a clearer bass sound. The flared and gently twisted shape evenly diffuses the air flow through the port. Compared to a conventional port, the Twisted Flare Port reduces air turbulence noise, contributing to clear and accurate low frequency reproduction.
Limitless Possibilities
Connect a mic to your CVP-809GP and enjoy Karaoke with Harmony with your friends and family! In addition to on-screen lyrics that appear, the CVP-809GP will add natural harmonies to your voice as you sing, and can even mute the vocals or songs from your audio music library or change the tempo and pitch of the songs themselves.
Built on a Legacy of Concert Grand Piano Craftsmanship
Grand Piano keyboards are characterized by a light feel when played gently, and a heavier feel when played with more strength. Conversely, a non-grand piano keyboard has a uniform resistance regardless of whether the player uses a gentle or heavy touch. This has traditionally been one of the most significant differences between the touch of a grand piano and that of a digital piano. However, when developing GrandTouch keyboard action, Yamaha sought to reproduce the true key resistance that is unique to the grand piano, with greater fidelity. The result is an instrument with a more responsive touch, offering a greater dynamic range than ever before. Now you can experience a much more controlled, nuanced sound when playing softly, or powerful, brighter tones when playing with a stronger touch — just like that of a grand piano.
Achieve True Balance
Pianists prefer grand pianos not only because of the way they sound, but also because of the way the keys respond to their touch. When grand piano keys are struck, there is a certain weight or resistance to the touch. Similarly, when keys are released, they return to a resting position based on the balance between the key and the internal mechanics of the keyboard. It is difficult to reproduce the natural return of the keys of a grand piano in a digital piano, due to differences in the mechanics. Yamaha carefully studied these characteristics when developing the GrandTouch keyboard, and has now reproduced this fine balance in the Clavinova digital piano. The result is GrandTouch - detailed grand piano feel that allows for uniform tone control, precise rhythm and smooth melodic expression - fundamental to an exceptional musical performance.
Leverage Your Artistic Expression
When playing a digital piano, the back area of the keys may prove to be a challenge to full musical expression. This is because the back of the key is closest to the fulcrum of the action. The closer to this pivot point that you strike the key, the less leverage you have and the more strength you need to apply. The greater length of GrandTouch keys give the player MORE leverage, allowing for better expressive control, even at the backs of the keys. This is the same support length found on the Yamaha S3X premium grand piano (as of April 2017), and is the longest support length used on any digital piano.
We Didn’t Let Any Detail Slide
Our fingers are more sensitive than we think, and for pianists, the texture of the piano keys is extremely important. The GrandTouch keyboard features white keys made from the highest quality synthetic ivory, developed independently by Yamaha. The black keys are finished in synthetic ebony. Synthetic ivory keytops reproduce the tactile surface of the real ivory keyboards once used in older acoustic pianos. It features highly absorbent material that prevents fingers from slipping even after hours of practice, while retaining the ideal texture and feel. Resulting from well over a century of experience in making acoustic pianos, this exclusive Yamaha technology achieves a finish that feels natural and comfortable. In addition to the feel, the appearance and fine texture of these keys is unmatched by any other digital piano, and is sure to inspire pianists from the moment they experience it.
Escapement mechanism of Clavinova Keyboards
The escapement mechanism in a grand piano moves the hammers away from the strings quickly after they strike them, in order to prevent any interference with string vibration. This mechanism produces a slight clicking sensation when the keys are pressed gently. Since Real Grand Expression offers players superb sound, touch and pedaling, we decided to create an escapement that delivers outstanding playability, repetition, and response without impeding performance. The Clavinova keyboards feature an escapement mechanism that reproduces this sensation near the bottom of the key dip. They have been designed in such a way that the click is discernible only on the lightest keystrokes, similar to the keyboard of a grand piano. These keyboards have been adjusted to provide additional friction that balances key repetition and response without impeding performance.
88-key Linear Graded Hammers—the first digital piano keyboard ever to feature realistic weighting on every key
Every single key on a grand piano keyboard is weighted differently. This is because the strings for each note are slightly thinner and shorter in the treble register, becoming thicker and longer towards the bass register. The 88-key Linear Graded Hammers of the Clavinova is the first-of-its-kind to faithfully duplicate this graded touch with differing weights and key return on each one of its keys. This results in a feel and response that is astonishingly like that of a grand piano, and allows players to gain an appreciation of a more authentic touch.
The GP Response Damper Pedal provides an authentic grand piano pedal feel
Using the damper pedal subtly alters the nature of a piano’s sound and is essential to providing the pianist with all the necessary expressive tools to convey their musical vision.
Clavinova digital pianos feature a damper pedal that continually detects depression depth and allows halfpedaling, which lets players make minute adjustments to pedal depression and return, changing the depth and character of their piano sound.
Specs
CVP-809GP
Size/Weight
Dimensions
Width
1,430 mm (56-5/16")
Height
913 mm (35-15/16")
Depth
1,236 mm (48-11/16")
Weight
Weight
125 kg (275 lb, 9 oz)
Packing Box
Width
1,570 mm (61-13/16")
Height
620 mm (24-7/16")
Depth
1,410 mm (55-1/2")
Control Interface
Keyboard
Number of Keys
88
Type
GrandTouch™ Keyboard: wooden keys (white only), synthetic ebony and ivory key tops, escapement
Touch Sensitivity
Hard2, Hard1, Medium, Soft1, Soft2
88-key Linear Graded Hammers
Yes
Counterweight
Yes
Pedal
Number of Pedals
3
Half Pedal
Yes
Functions
Sustain, Sostenuto, Soft, Glide, Song Play/Pause, Style Start/Stop, Volume, etc.
GP Response Damper Pedal
Yes
Display
Type
TFT Color LCD
Size
9.0 inch (800 x 480 dots)
LCD Brightness
Yes
Touch Screen
Yes
Color
Yes
Score Display Function
Yes
Lyrics Display Function
Yes
Text Viewer Function
Yes
Language
English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian
Panel
Language
English only
Cabinet
Key Cover
Key Cover Style
Folding
Music Rest
Yes
Music Clips
Yes
Voices
Tone Generation
Piano Sound
Yamaha CFX, Bösendorfer Imperial
Binaural Sampling
Yes (CFX Grand Voice only)
Key-off Samples
Yes
Smooth Release
Yes
Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)
Yes
Polyphony
Number of Polyphony (Max.)
256
Preset
Number of Voices
1,605 Voices + 58 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices
Featured Voices
17 VRM Voices, 36 Super Articulation2 Voices, 301 Super Articulation Voices
Custom
Voice Edit
Yes
Compatibility
XG, GS (for Song playback), GM, GM2
Effects
Types
Reverb
65 Preset + 30 User
Chorus
107 Preset + 30 User
Master Compressor
5 Preset + 30 User
Master EQ
5 Preset + 30 User
Part EQ
27 Parts
Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC)
Yes
Stereophonic Optimizer
Yes
Insertion Effect
358 Preset + 30 User
Variation Effect
358 Preset + 30 User
Vocal Harmony
54 Preset +60 User
Functions
Dual/Layers
Yes
Split
Yes
Accompaniment Styles
Preset
Number of Preset Styles
675
Fingering
Single Finger, Fingered, Fingered On Bass, Multi Finger, AI Fingered, Full Keyboard, AI Full Keyboard
Style Control
INTRO x 3, MAIN VARIATION x 4, FILL x 4, BREAK, ENDING x 3
Custom
Style Creator
Yes
Other Features
Music Finder
-
One Touch Setting (OTS)
4 for each Style
Style Recommender
-
Chord Looper
Yes
File Format
Style File Format (SFF), Style File Format GE (SFF GE)
Songs
Preset
Number of Preset Songs
50 Classics + 303 Lesson Songs + 50 Popular
Recording
Number of Tracks
16
Data Capacity
approx. 3 MB / Song
Recording Function
Yes
Compatible Data Format
Playback
SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
Recording
SMF (Format 0)
Functions
Demo
Yes
Registration
Number of Buttons
8
Control
Registration Sequence, Freeze
Playlist
Number of Records
2,500 Records
Lesson/Guide
Lesson/Guide
Follow Lights, Any Key, Karao-Key, Your Tempo
Guide Lamp
Yes
Performance Assistant Technology (PAT)
Yes
Piano Room
Yes
USB Audio Recorder
Playback
WAV (44.1kHz, 16bit, stereo), MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3)
Recording
WAV (44.1kHz, 16bit, stereo), MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3)
USB Audio
Time Stretch
Yes
Pitch Shift
Yes
Vocal Cancel
Yes
Miscellaneous
Metronome
Yes
Tempo Range
5 - 500, Tap Tempo
Transpose
-12 - 0 - +12
Tuning
414.8 - 440 - 466.8 Hz (approx. 0.2 Hz increments)
Scale Type
9
Display Out
Yes* (by using a commercially available USB display adaptor**)
Bluetooth
Yes (Audio)
Storage and Connectivity
Storage
Internal Memory
approx. 2 GB
External Drives
USB Flash Drive
Connectivity
Headphones
Standard stereo phone jack (×2)
Microphone
Input Volume, Mic / Line In
MIDI
IN / OUT / THRU
AUX IN
Stereo mini
AUX OUT
L / L + R, R
AUX Pedal
Yes
USB TO DEVICE
Yes (x 2)
USB TO HOST
Yes
Amplifiers and Speakers
Amplifiers
(40W + 30W + 20W) × 2 + 80W
Speakers
(16 cm + 5 cm + 2.5 cm (dome)) × 2 + 20 cm, Spruce Cone Speaker, Twisted Flare Port
Power Supply
Power Consumption
Power consumption is described on or near the name plate, which is at the bottom of the unit.
Accessories
Accessories
Headphones (HPH-150/HPH-100/HPH-50), Footswitches (FC4A/FC5), Foot controller (FC7), USB wireless LAN adaptor (UD-WL01), Wireless MIDI adaptor (MD-BT01/UD-BT01)
*CVP-800 series generates a 800 x 600 size image for external display. The size of CVP-800 series main display is 800 x 480, so there will always be blank areas at the top and bottom of the image.** A list of compatible display adaptors for CVP-800
High-end models feature the GP Response Damper Pedal, which offers a grand piano-style resistance curve, starting out light to the touch and growing heavier as the pedal is depressed further. This allows players to become accustomed to the nuances of delicate pedaling.
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