Yamaha PS500 WH Digital Piano

The Yamaha PS500 Digital Piano is a smart piano that can show you which keys to play using the unique Stream Lights function. Fully integrated into the Smart Pianist app, the PS500 is sure to help you progress on your musical journey.

Intuitive Control with Your Smart Device

Simply connect the instrument to a smart device and use the dedicated Smart Pianist app to access all instrument controls and configuration tools. You can also enjoy powerful features such as app-generated piano scores of your favourite songs songs that help you learn and play along.

Stream lights show you the way

Red and blue lights above each key show you which notes to play, and when to play them. This extraordinary feature helps you learn how to play, and practice, without ever having learned how to read music, making learning more fun than ever before!

Play your personal favourites or songs from the built-in library

The instrument features 403 built-in songs to classical pieces. You can play the melodies along with the backing of a full band arrangement. The powerful Audio to Score feature automatically creates piano accompaniment scores from your favourite audio songs so you can play along with the original recordings.

Two of the world's finest grand pianos

PS500 features piano sounds captured from the flagship Yamaha CFX concert grand and the famed Viennese Bosendorfer Imperial grand. These piano samples put two of the world's finest and most prominent concert grand pianos at your fingertips.

Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)

In a grand piano, strings and sounds resonate throughout the entire body of the instrument producing a rich reverberation that envelops the listener in sound. Not only are the strings you are playing vibrating, but other strings ring as a reaction to the ones you play. This is one reason the piano sound is so complex and rich.

This phenomena is reproduced perfectly in the PS500 through Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) which calculates the various states of the strings for each of the 88 notes on the keyboard from one instant to the next. As a result, the PS500 reflects the limitless number of factors inherent in playing in an acoustic piano such as which keys are pressed, the strength with which the keys are played and pedal timing.

Authentic Piano touch, 88-note weighted GHS keyboard

The Yamaha Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) keyboard features a weighted action with heavier touch in the low end and lighter touch in the high end, just like the hammers inside an acoustic piano. Great for the aspiring pianist, practicing on the GHS action builds the proper finger technique and strength for when the time comes to perform on an acoustic piano.

Voices

The PS500 is equipped with 660 varied, high-quality Voices including stunning pianos, electric pianos, organs, brass, strings, percussion, and more. From breathy saxophones to ringing guitar and warm, resonant strings, the PS500 impressively replicates sounds down to the finest nuances. Thanks to acclaimed Super Articulation technology, the distinctive characteristics of each instrument are reproduced in incredible detail as you play.

Styles

Accompaniment and rhythmic backing patterns (called "Styles") covering wide range of musical genres, including pop, jazz, and many more, lets you single-handedly recreate the sound of a full band or orchestra.

Audio and MIDI recording

The PS500 lets you record your own performances in two different formats: audio and MIDI. Audio recording allows you to capture your playing conventionally, which you can then play back on your smart device. MIDI recording, on the other hand, lets you record up to 16 tracks, with separate left-and-right-hand parts or complex multi-instrumental arrangements.

Microphone connection and Vocal Harmony

Since a microphone can be connected to the PS500, you can enjoy singing along with your keyboard performance or along with Song playback. Moreover, you can apply various studio-quality effects such as chorus to your singing voice, and even cancel the vocal part on audio recordings- letting you sing along with (or instead of!) your favourite artists and groups, and enjoy performing even more.

Wireless connection with Smart Pianist

Smart Piano App supports not only wired connection by also wireless connection with the optional UD-WL01 Wi-Fi USB wireless LAN adaptor.

Features:

• Available in a beautiful black and white finish
• 88-note weighted GHS keyboard
• Compatible with the FREE Smart Pianist app (Android/iOS) installed on a smart device, it unlocks the Audio to Score function and converts your favourite audio songs into piano accompaniment scores
• Streams Lights feature you perform even if you can't read music notation
• Enjoy playing with the 403 preset Songs, covering a wide range of genres, from pop to classical music.
• Massive variety of 660 high-quality instrument Voices, including Super Articulation Voices
• Built-in Auto Accompaniment features 370 Styles
• Features world-renowned Yamaha CFX & Bosendorfer Imperial concert grand piano Voices
• Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)
• Microphone input and automatic Vocal Harmony
• *Optional L300 B/WH wooden stand, LP1 B/WH 3-pedal unit and BC108 BK