Powerful features for playing live at a sweet price!

The Yamaha CP-33 Stage Piano is a fantastic instrument, especially for its modest price. It boasts 88 weighted keys with graded hammer effect, 28 voices including 3-layer piano samples, sustain half-pedaling, and 2 effects processors. It has MIDI in/out and USB for computer connectivity, and 64-voice polyphony.

Made to be played
Like all fine instruments, the CP series keyboards simply beg to be played. Sit down with one, and the instrument becomes an extension of your hands and your musical imagination. The authentic piano voices and rich expressiveness come alive at your touch, and the sound is big enough to blast through a full band onstage yet nuanced enough to work magic in an intimate club

Expressive power
Yamaha's extensive experience in crafting fine acoustic pianos was key in creating the ultimate digital pianos. Yamaha's advanced Graded Hammer Effect (GHE) action gives all keys an authentic resistance that increases from the top register to the lower just as on an actual acoustic piano. Which means that you can naturally pound out thunderous low notes with your left hand and let the fingers on your right dance and fly with the high notes. This keyboard practically plays itself, working with you not against you and brings out the very best in your performance.

Sound choice
Crafting the authentic sound of the CP series involved extraordinary attention to detail. Yamaha used meticulously recorded stereo samples of top-quality instruments, taken at various playing strengths, and included subtle elements such as Stereo Sustain (open strings while pedaling), and even Key-Off Samples (recordings of felt dampers coming to rest on vibrating piano strings) providing the most authentic sounding and finely nuanced acoustic piano voices possible. There's also a wide variety of other dynamic sounds, including vintage electric piano, organ, guitar, strings, and much more.

Stay in control
As master keyboard controllers, the CP-33 stage piano lets you take command of your gear. Play and control external synthesizers and tone generators (such as the MOTIF-RACK ES) during your performance. Assign different internal voices to different sections of the keyboard or even create complex, multi-textured layers of sound. There are two instrument Zones on the CP-33, with dedicated Zone sliders on the panel that let you easily tweak the level of each instrument as you play. You can also freely reassign the sliders and wheels to control other sonic characteristics of the connected gear as desired, such as sound attack, decay, brightness and filter cutoff.

Take center stage
Step out front and make your presence known. The CP-33 has a special Mono Piano sound, complete with a compression effect, designed specifically for live performance. It has the punch and power to stand out, even in full band situations.

Lock it up
Onstage, you need to make sure everything goes smoothly. Sometimes an errant hand (yours or someone else's) can touch the panel controls and change your special settings, giving you a rude surprise in the middle of your performance. The Panel Lock button lets you prevent that, keeping all settings fixed and secure, until you're ready to change them yourself.

Light and compact
Despite its full 88-key keyboard, realistic grand piano sound and extensive features, the CP-33 is exceptionally compact, light and portable. It goes wherever you go, sets up anywhere you need, and gives you complete piano performance everywhere you play.

Pedal to the metal
The CP series keyboards give you the same pedal control as an actual grand piano. The CP-33 has Sustain Pedal and AUX jacks (which can be configured as Soft or Sostenuto, or even Expression). On certain piano sounds, Sustain can be partially applied reproducing the "half-damper" effect of slightly muting the resonating strings on a real piano.

Yamaha CP-33 Stage Piano Features:

• 88 keys with graded hammer effect weighted action
• 64-note polyphony (max.)
• 3-layer piano samples with Dynamic Stereo Sampling
• Samples for key-off, sustain pedal, and string resonance
• Sustain half-pedaling
• 28 panel voices
• 2-zone dual and split voice modes with 2 control sliders
• 2 effects processors
• Pitch bend and modulation wheels
• Metronome
• 48-character LCD display
• MIDI in/out
• USB for computer connectivity
• Headphone jack
• Stereo 1/4" outputs
• Aux pedal input
• FC3 foot pedal included

Amazing features and playability for its price. Order today and get more board than you pay for.

Yamaha CP-33 Stage Piano

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Great Stage Piano

Posted by KeysMan from TN on Nov 7, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician for 20+ years, recording

Reviewer's Play Style: Contemporary Christian, Jazz

This is a great sounding piano for the price. This is really good for live performance. The sound cuts through the mix. I use another board to midi though, and get some additional sounds and I have mine run through a sonic maximizer, and it sounds really good. It isn't a workstation, or have a lot of unuasable sounds for live perfomance. But, this is a solid piece that plays really well. The weight of the keys feel like a real piano, and not a toy. This is a great live performance board, that is easy to use on stage.

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Good...to a point

Posted by Henri J from Atlanta GA on May 5, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: rock,jazz

Bought without playing it first. A bit shocked as to the heavy feel of the keys, but I got used to it. Now its like a real acoustic. Wish the tone was weighted a bit more in the mid range as the bass seems to over power during live playing. Built like a tank and quite heavy. The best tones are the pianos of course. The organs are really worthless. Strings a re a bit better but lack flexibility. Its also a bit confusing to set up a variation using dual sounds but overall its a nice setup for gigging - - just keep in mind that this is primarily a piano. If you want additional sounds, get a synth.

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Good...to a point

Posted by Henri J from Atlanta GA on May 5, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: rock,jazz

Bought without playing it first. A bit shocked as to the heavy feel of the keys, but I got used to it. Now its like a real acoustic. Wish the tone was weighted a bit more in the mid range as the bass seems to over power during live playing. Built like a tank and quite heavy. The best tones are the pianos of course. The organs are really worthless. Strings a re a bit better but lack flexibility. Its also a bit confusing to set up a variation using dual sounds but overall its a nice setup for gigging - - just keep in mind that this is primarily a piano. If you want additional sounds, get a synth.

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Great piano sound!

Posted by DominiKeys from Georgia on Apr 16, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Music Director/Worship Leader

Reviewer's Play Style: Worship, Rock, Latin

I love this piano. I use it at church and I've taken it on different gigs around the southeastern U.S. We bought it because I was using a Roland RS-9 synth and wanted a better piano sound. This definitely fit the role and you get a lot more than what you pay for.

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I'm Conflicted

Posted by Snake from New Orleans, LA on Jan 17, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Musician, Musical Director

Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz, Blues

I'm conflicted about this keyboard. It feels like a good upright piano, and some of the samples are very good. But it seems that the touch is a bit light. I have a P-80 and I've never had to set the touch more than medium. On the CP33, I have the touch set to hard, and I wish it was harder. The note "A" an octave and a half above middle C has a harsh clink when struck with an accent. This happens in more than one sound. Setting the piano to "hard" touch and "mellow" can help, but it doesn't eliminate it. I'll probably keep it, but I wish Yamaha had been more careful with the samples.

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