Everything about this instrument from the high-quality sturdy chassis and case to the knobs and sliders is professional grade. Perhaps not a well-known feature is the hidden acoustic piano sound that can be accessed by parking the sound selector between two sound patches and powering the unit on.Definitely recommend this keyboard.

Amazing sounds, no weighted keys but that’s nbd

The build quality and sound are excellent

Fantastico in tutto, il feeling con i minitasti, i suoni, gli effetti... addirittura gli speaker interni sono sorprendenti: il volume globale è basso ma il suono è sempre perfetto (e per volumi più importanti, amplificandolo urla da paura!)Davvero un ottimo prodotto, non leggerissimo ma robusto e (sembra) affidabile.Ultraportatile dovunque, usato con le batterie ormai mi accompagna dovunque :-D

I bought this for the Wurlitzer patch and for that it is worth it alone. The tremelo effect and a bit of reverb in combination with The Wurlitzer sounds fantastic. I recommend using headphones or a keyboard/drum amp or a P.A. speaker to get the best sound. The onboard speakers, although functional, do not do the sounds justice. The other patches are great too. Some of my other favorites are the Rhodes I, and the secret grand piano function (Google it). Overall, very pleased with my purchase.

Definitely go for it if you’ve been playing around with soft synths and you need something real. I’m a guitarist first, so adding a synth was on my list at some point (as writing tool, tracking etc).I love the no menu approach, totally tactile, no learning curve (just get stuck in and make some noise!). Highly recommend the cs, I’ve got it setup permanently in my home studio into a stereo DI. Incredible sound for such a small instrument.

If you're looking for a quality keyboard to experiment with basic subtractive synthesis, this synthesizer is very good for its price point. The quality of the sound is excellent and the actual sound design you can do on here is accessible to a beginner like me but also not terribly limiting. Mini keys can be a dealbreaker for some but if you like mini keys or are ambivalent about them, this key bed is fantastic quality and feels better to me than some cheaper full size key beds. I don't have any sort of electric/electronic audio setup to use with this keyboard, so one thing I would've liked is a standard headphone jack, but there's a stereo headphone jack if you have some nicer stereo headphones, and the speakers built in are really nice anyway. Great product overall

shipping seemed slow. but it's becoming the new normal- otherwise very happy with the keyboard.. it's got classic ep voicing, and effects... the mini keys take a bit of getting used to .. but are a lot of fun to play..using it to practice learning the blues scale.

I held back on buying this for quite some time, wanting an electric piano like a Wurli or Rhodes, but not having the space for it, nor the available funds for expensive auctions. I had thought about going all DAW (Arturia and NI have great emulations as well as Logic X); I had thought about going with a higher end electric piano, but size is a big issue for me, as I only have a home studio and that's constrained to a small space in my apartment.This keyboard has the tones I wanted, in a physical device that fit my space. I know that in my DAW I can get the tones I wanted, but the form factor here makes this portable enough so I can sit away from my studio (say on my couch) and jam out. I am planning on taking this to work and playing when I need a break. It was easy to drop into the mix, it kind of cuts through the mix out of the box without much from the mixer or DAW.What took me by a pleasant surprise was how decent the speakers are. After hearing volcas and roland boutique speakers, I just assumed I'd need headphones (which this sounds quite gorgeous with btw) - the speaker sound is a bonus treat for the player. But for couch-surfing piano playing, the speakers do great. I think it'd be hard to hear them if you had a gig with other musicians and it'd be hard to hear if the person was in the back of a place... but it has flexible routing for i/o that makes it easy to adapt for the space you're playing in.The stomp-box style effects are good - although I think the drive could be a bit more crunchy. The wah only sounds good to me in the Clav setting. The tremolo was great, kind of giving me a bit of control over the attack. The chorus is lush, i prefer the phaser. Both the delays were above expectation. The reverb is nice, adding richness, but don't expect the best from the reverb. I'll probably stick a reverb pedal at the tail of this to get a really rich shimmer.The CP's got a good high and low tone, but i'd keep the tone set more to the middle, where it really sings. In my "sea" of analog and digital synths, drum and groove boxes. The keys are small, like any mini keyboard, and work as a midi controller. but vice versa the minijack midi has a splitter, so you can also hook in your midi controller of choice if you have stubby fingers or the muscle memory that makes using this harder.Overall - i'd go with it as is. That's what made me buy it - out of the box, with nothing added just by itself - it is a great electric piano.

Here’s the skinny on this little keyboard.If not for the keys on this instrument, what would you have? A MIDI module the size of a Mac Mini, perhaps? Maybe a Focusrite Clarett 2i2? I’d buy that in a heartbeat, too! But, the designers at Yamaha must have considered that, and to provide more “fun”-ctionality, they made this a very portable, playable, sonically capable keyboard. Sure, the keys are small, sure there’s no velocity or after touch. So? Are you REALLY going to use that keyboard every day? EVERY DAY? Maybe in a mobile setting, yes, but not while you’re MIDI’ed to an 88-key controller. That’s really where the Reface series shines. With an inexpensive 88-key (73, or 61, perhaps), and the YC / CP Refaces, you’ve got your classic organ and e-piano tones in a very portable package. Integrate the entire series? Eh, why not? It’ll make my rehearsal rig so much lighter (and fun to tinker with) and versatile.Now - about the YC!1. The VoicesThe Reface YC features five classic organ tones you know and love:- Hammond (H)- Vox (V)- F (Farfisa, 60’s Italian transistor organ)- A (Ace Tone, 60’s Japanese transistor organ)- Y (Yamaha’s classic transistor organ)I’m a Hammond fan, so I’ve been spfending most of my time tinkering with the draw bars and other settings with this voice. I think I’ve got a good tone reminiscent of Jon Lord’s organ tone in Highway Star.Each voicing sounds accurate enough to my ears, although I’m sure purists will point out the error of my ways for imagining a Hammond B-3 sound coming out of this keyboard.2. FeaturesKeyboard - 128-note polyphony (can you hit 128 keys on this guy? Sure, just glissando up and down about 4 times with the sustain pedal connected/depressed). Seriously though, if you’re MIDI’ed to an 88-key, then what are you worrying about? Also, the keyboard can be used to manage the settings of the keyboard itself (see User Manual).Effects - Percussion (adds click noise to tone) / Distortion / Reverb / Vibrato | Chorus / Rotary speaker with manual control of Slow/Fast/Stop/Off settingsMIDI - mini port requires custom combo mini-DIN MIDI plug Y-cable, with separate In/Out connections (provided); with the cable, you can run MIDI in and out (no thru), chaining multiple devices. My setup will use a single MIDI in to 4 MIDI port out, so I can use a single controller to manage up to four different modules (Hey - great idea to plan for additional Refaces! Yeah!).Speakers - Yes, this keyboard does have two tiny 3” speakers, and yes - it is stereo. Will you use them much? Maybe, maybe not - Yamaha did design the keyboard to turn the speakers off completely, effectively disabling them until you reset the keyboard. They do sound pretty good, considering their size.Power - Multiple power sources available to you: ultra-portability via USB-bus powered device (laptop, iPad with appropriate interface, USB “juice box” batteries for recharging cell phones), 6 AA batteries, or the included power brick.Ports - two 1/4” TRS audio L/R output; mini-DIN MIDI combo in/out; USB type-B (handy for connecting to computer DAW, for example, battery pack, etc.); 1/4” TRS expression pedal; 1/4” stereo headphone jack; 1/8” stereo AUX IN (play along with your MP3s, for example).Things I haven’t tried yet, but eventually will:- Connecting to my computer, linking to a DAW and using it to record/playback- Connecting to my iPad; there’s a handy app for that...to manage your keyboard’s tone settings and a whole lot of other useful things performing musicians will appreciate- Get the keytar kit for this, since it can run on batteries, and I can roam about the country wirelessly using a dual XVIVE U2 system- Contact Yamaha designers and petition them to build an AIO Reface, sans keys.I’d buy this again. Sure!

El Reface CP es el mejor juguete que me he comprado en mucho tiempo. Si... solo son sonidos de pianos electrónicos de los 70... pero, ¿a quién le importa? Los sonidos suenan increible y los efectos le dan el empuje que les hace falta para hacerlo fantástico. El tamaño es el mismo de un microkorg, un poco más angosto, incluso las teclas son del mismo tamaño, la diferencia está en el peso o touch. Se siente mucho mejor, como si fuera un verdadero piano. Aun no lo pruebo con un pedal de sustain, pero así como está me parece que funciona muy bien y no lo necesito, pues compenso con el reverb o el chorus. También debo aclarar que lo utilizo para hacer acordes y muy poca melodía (ya ha pasado más de un mes y lo ocupo más para hacer melodías, vaya que si es un todo terreno). El toy piano suena tan bonito, espero no abusar de él demasiado.Lo ocupo para grabar en live y utilizo una interfaz us-1800 de tascam y complemento los sonidos con un maschine 2.Me gusta la textura del material negro, le problema es que se ensucia muy fácil y también se le hacen rayones, pero bueno... eseya ea problema mío.

Un teclado mas que genial, si lo conectas por midi a un teclado de 88 teclas tienes todos los efectos y sonidos con en un piano electrónico. es una maravilla y su sonido 60s es único.

Keyboard arrived in excellent condition. The keyboard has settings for Hammond organs and other organs that were popular during the 1960s to 1980s.I like the variety of tones. Drawbar organs provide an almost infinite variety of tones. You can use the same drawbar settings with Hammond, Yamaha and other settings on the keyboard and end up very different tones for the same drawbar configuration. So you end up being able to get five tone variations from that one drawbar set.You can add for vibrato, percussion, distortion, reverberation. With vibrato and chorus, one can change the depth. There is a simulator that simulates rotary speaker sounds - slow and fast.The Yamaha YC is one of the most flexible keyboards I have seen. The only thing that could be done to improve the keyboardist to give it 44 or 61 full-size notes.