Yamaha Arius YDP-144 Digital Piano - Classic and elegant home piano for beginners or hobbyists, in black

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The matte coating also makes the YDP-164 resistant to fingerprints, which is encouraging news for people with sweaty palms. This ARIUS digital piano is a finely crafted instrument made possible by the culmination of over a century of advanced Yamaha technologies and expertise. Real pianos are always a short space away from the player, but headphones play closely-mic’d samples near your ears. Compatibility with Yamaha’s free Smart Pianist app lets you connect a smart device and perform operations such as Voice selection and Song playback.

Unlike previous Arius models and the current new ones where Yamaha is still using the same key actions as before, the Arius pianos YDP-144, YDP-S54, and YDP-164 have a completely new piano sound chip that takes care of all of these previous issues I had complained about in terms of the quality of the acoustic piano sound. All the rest of the time the student is practicing on their piano (or keyboard) at home to try to recreate a good piano playing experience. Reading your reviews, I’ve decided to go for either a KDP110 (or KDP120, as is now available) or the YDP164.

Some digital pianos and keyboards suffer from sample cut off during play, and a high polyphony count prevents that. All in all, it’s safe to say that the Yamaha YDP-144 is a very good value for money option for beginners and intermediates alike.

Play along as the chords scroll by, all the while hearing the song play back through your instrument's speaker system. The new models are nearly identical to the older ones including the key actions with the exceptions of a more realistic piano sound engine on the new models, the back of the cabinet (YDP-145/165) have sound projection ports in them, and a couple of other things. I keep my opinion, but compared to the superior CFX sampled sound engine, the comparison is kind of even. Binaural sampling also ensures simulates a sense of space, and Yamaha does this very well, even better than their competitors.So, if you have an Android device, don’t worry, you will probably be able to use this app in the near future. Despite having only 10 voices versus the 24 different voices of the P125, those 10 voices are very high quality. The furniture cabinets are fairly attractive with the YDP-144 and YDP-164 having the more traditional furniture type pedestal cabinets with slide out key covers and the YDP-S54 having a compact contemporary furniture cabinet with fold down key cover that is pretty cool because it folds down flat and gives the entire piano top a nice flat surface when closed up. After succeeding with this initial step, you can configure and save settings, select voices and create recordings all through your mobile device. Naturally, your opinion may differ from mine, so be sure to try these out to discover what works best for you.

There are no audio outputs, audio inputs, no Bluetooth wireless capability, no USB flashdrive input, etc. But to really enjoy the piano sound chip technology you need to play this piano at a much louder volume in the YDP-144 of at least 80% volume, especially if you want to hear the new organic elements of the piano sound chip better. When they are at a teacher's studio that amount of time is generally about 30 minutes per week for a lesson.It not only makes playing the piano a lot more fun, but you can also impress your family and friends by playing their favorite songs. This is an important aspect of correct and natural piano sustain pedaling and it is a good thing that Yamaha has that feature. It’s quite unfortunate that you can only save one song in the onboard memory at a time, so external media is a must. So, as far as design is concerned, the Yamaha P125 vs Yamaha YDP-144 battle is almost like comparing apples and and tomatoes.