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Yamaha REFACE CP Portable Electric Piano and Vintage Keyboard Sound Engine, Synthesizer

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The manual kindly provides a few examples of old-style sounds, in case you’re at a loss how to conjure a typical psychedelic rock or reggae organ, but it’s hard to go far wrong. With so many four-operator FM synths hitting in the same decade, their sound became a mainstay of the then-nascent dance music scene.

Yamaha Reface CP – Thomann UK

Each has a ‘re-imagined interface’ and all are streamlined, focused and ready to play wherever you happen to be, thanks to built-in speakers, battery power and mini keyboards. Multi-Saw mode delivers EDM-friendly chord and lead sounds, with the Mod slider controlling the detuning amount and Texture adding a sub-oscillator. The same philosophy extends to the YC organ: only one of its inspirations comes from Yamaha’s own stable. Thanks to its maturecircuitry, thesound is warm and rich and has all the artefacts and intricacies of the original. As far as conventional keyboard technique goes, I’d rate myself closer to Klaus Schulze than Rick Wakeman, but even I struggled to cope with the reduced scale.I have a PC but I don’t like the idea of using one for music, although It would give me a better sound. The five effects are in series: Overdrive into a tremolo/wah unit followed by a chorus/phaser, then a delay followed by a reverb. 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). Great care has been taken to ensure accuracy in the preparation of this article but neither Sound On Sound Limited nor the publishers can be held responsible for its contents.

YAMAHA Reface Series Keyboards - Performer IN-DEPTH REVIEW: YAMAHA Reface Series Keyboards - Performer

Yes, I know there's this clean piano sound if you do such and such with the selector button - just give it to me as an option and kill that toy piano. Finally, the effect processors both have a selection of distortion, touch-wah, chorus, flanger, phaser, delay or reverb. I'm not crazy about the Rhodes II or Clav emulations - nothing wrong with these sounds, they simply don't float my boat. 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. The rotation speed is controlled on the fly via a lever that’s in the same spot as the pitch-bender on the CS and DX.Of the patches provided, you’ll find FM favourites such as brass, electric pianos and bells along with an echoing acoustic guitar, basses you’ll never lose in a mix, bright leads, snarky leads, weird digital gunk and even several convincingly dreamy pads. There doesn’t appear to be any means of sending patches to a regular SysEx librarian program either. Cons: Probably the only one would be the three octaves, but this can be solve with an external midi keyboard.

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