Ring modulation and FM are the last two oscillator types, with ring modulation the most striking. You’re given independent pitch control over two input oscillators and, as with the legendary CS synths, it’s your route to mad, metallic, bellish wails. I’d have loved control via a CS80-style ribbon and was slightly disappointed that the oscillator pitches were stepped, not continuously variable. In contrast, FM, with its audio-level oscillator modulation, is rather too lo-fi and digital to ever set the pulse racing, but it’s worth having for those moments of dissonant weirdness. When Mod is cranked to the max, you gain a glitchy noise generator. The CP’s sounds, and the playability of those sounds, will have many users longing for a full-size keyboard No organ would be complete without a rotary speaker effect, which is here controlled by a small lever (or the modulation wheel via MIDI). The speed can be flipped from fast to slow, with realistic transitions built in and even a ‘stopped’ mode, where the movement is temporarily paused. Personally I’d have liked the ability to fine-tune the Leslie speeds and depth but as rotating speaker effects go, this one is highly credible. The way I see it it really doesn’t matter, lots of critics are paid in some way to review any product.

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Sweetwater Sound, 5501 U.S. Hwy 30 W, Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Get Directions | Phone Hours | Store Hours Connect a USB cable to your computer. You can now transmit and receive MIDI from the reface to your DAW. The speakers will still be engaged if you connect cables to the L/Mono and R Outputs. If you want to disable the speakers, do this: The Reface keyboard line was inspired by the form factor of the Yamaha CS-01, a mini synth that featured a built-in speaker. The new keyboards use a similar form factor, but have sound engines designed to recall four different Yamaha keyboard lines. To turn the unit off, turn the volume all the way down, and press the Power button again. Disabling internal speakers

A looper is present here too, and it’s very similar to that of the DX, just without the benefit of a screen. The main limitation is that this looper must always start with a note and recording is ended by the rather awkward movement of the slider from record to play position at the correct time. Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician and sound designer known for his layered, processed sound that combines influences from a range of genres spanning electronic, hip-pop, and more. ... Yamaha's Reface mini keyboards put classic sounds in compact instruments". Engadget . Retrieved 26 February 2023. At the end of the synthesis chain is a set of effects that really help to fatten the sometimes “flat” sound of FM synthesis. Like the CS, there’s distortion, phaser, chorus/flange, and delay. You also get a touch sensitive wah (yes!) and a basic hall reverb. The CP is gonna be where traditional pianists and keyboard players find a home. Less emphasis on synth, waves, and sound shaping, the CP has shades of the old CP80 electric grand and features a number of cool keyboard/piano modes that sound incredible. Seriously, we were excited to just sit down and play – yeah, we know tweaking is great, but sometimes you just want to play a piano and get a piano sound. So the CP’s on-board tones include clavinet, early and late ’70s tine electrics, toy piano and of course the CP80 electric grand (recreated here with surprising authenticity). Also very cool is the inclusion of stompbox-like fx, so you don’t have to run external guitar pedals (delay, drive, chorus, reverb). All very useable, all very easy to dial in with the on-board tactile knobs.

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Credit is provided by a panel of lenders with whom we have a commercial relationship (so we cannot provide independent advice).Yamaha Leak Entire Line of Reface Synths; Here They Are". CDM Create Digital Music. 6 July 2015 . Retrieved 26 February 2023.

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Synthesis. The Reface CS’ sonic range belies its simple front panel, making it nearly impossible to come up with a bad sound. That’s not to say that it’s incapable of sonic complexity, but the way it’s all implemented makes experimentation fun regardless of your synthesis skill level. I like hardware and I play live mostly. This apparatus is almost ideal because I love the sound of a Rhodes piano but: It handled well in all these circumstances and it delivered great sounds and easily customizable parameters. Would somebody point me to a hardware equivalent to this keyboard, soundwise, that doesn’t cost more than 500 and doesn’t require a computer? Editor Stephen Fortner is a far bigger Hammond-head than I am, and having spent time with a Reface YC, he opined, “The B-3 and Leslie emulation are way better than I expected. Maybe a notch under a current top-end clonewheel, but just a notch. I’d totally gig with this.”

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The sound quality and "feel" of the instruments is impressive. For most purposes this little Yamaha can replace the real stuff and nobody would notice. Certainly not in the context of a mix. I can use my hardware workstation as a controller and get that e-piano sound my workstation doesn’t have. MIDI. This proprietary connection accepts the included Yamaha MIDI break-out adapter to connect standard MIDI cables.