We're excited to take a trip back to the 70s with this month's additions to the Premium Styles catalog! With an upbeat horn section and a middle of the road groove that would make Tony Orlando and Dawn proud, this 70s MOR Pop Style is sure to get you on your feet. Our 70s 12/8 Jazz Ballad Style is sultry and smooth with grinding organ and sizzling backbeats. This one brings it all together.
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New Premium Styles: 70s MOR Pop & 70s 12/8 Jazz Ballad!
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New MIDI Songs from Bruno Mars, The Rolling Stones and More!
Excited to play classic songs on your keyboard, but find that your left hand doesn't quite know what your right hand is up to? Still challenged now and then with mastering the necessary coordination to make it all come together? We've added several new MIDI Songs to our catalog at YamahaMusicSoft.com that utilize a special file format designed to allow for independent practice of each hand
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The Beatles, Coldplay, The Lumineers & More New in NoteStar
We are excited to release another 30 songs in the NoteStar store this week. This time around we have a great mix of tunes in the Solo Piano Series, Full Band Series and Full Band With Vocals Series.
Grab your iPad and head to the NoteStar store to preview and purchase new additions from The Beatles, Coldplay and The Lumineers, as well as essential works from Mozart, Handel and Bach!
Enjoy!
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The Spring Sale! Save 20% on Everything at Yamaha MusicSoft
Spring has sprung at Yamaha MusicSoft. Brighten up your Clavinova, portable keyboard, Disklavier or other MIDI keyboard with this special Spring Sale! From now until Wednesday, May 1st, save 20% on everything* sold at Yamaha MusicSoft. Check out the latest Yamaha Premium Styles, MIDI Song downloads, PianoSoft, Custom Audio Backing Tracks, sheet music and more!
Enjoy the sale!
-Jonni
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New Styles: Slow Jazz Ballad, Kids Songs 2, Ho Hey Folk, Gangnam Dance and More
We've added several new Styles to our catalog at Yamaha MusicSoft!
Slow Jazz Ballad is complete with three intros and endings and four style variations. Use this Premium Style to play your favorite slow jazz tunes from "At Last" to "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most", and beyond.
Kids Songs 2 a perfect way to get children interested in music. Play classics such as "Row, Row, Row Your Boat
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Interview with PianoSoft Artist, Bryan Pezzone
We recently had a wonderful chat with Bryan Pezzone, performer on the PianoSoft album "Let the Sunshine In - The 5th Dimension". In addition to performing on countless Yamaha PianoSoft albums, Bryan is well known for his versatility and virtuosity as a recording and performing artist, improviser and composer. He performs with many major symphony orchestra associations, tours widely with the jazz
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MIDI Sale! Save 20% at Yamaha MusicSoft
Save on all MIDI songs, including sports anthems to celebrate the upcoming big game festivities.
Now through Sunday, June 22, save 20% on all titles in our MIDI catalog, including "Dare La La La (Brazil 2014),""To Brazil,""Waka Waka (This Time for Africa),""We Are One (Ole Ola)" and more.
*Offer cannot be combined with other promotions. Sale ends June 22nd at 11:59PM PDT.
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Summer Sale! Soak up the savings with 20% off everything at Yamaha MusicSoft.
There's still time to save 20% on everything sold at Yamaha MusicSoft. Now through Wednesday, July 30th, enjoy summer savings on MIDI Songs, Style Files, PianoSoft, Yamaha Premium Packs, Voice and Style Expansion Packs, and more!
*Offer cannot be combined with other promotions. Sale ends July 30th at 11:59PM PDT.
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How to change the Main Voice on a Yamaha Premium Song - CVP-609
Yamaha Premium Songs are MIDI files designed to work perfectly with the high-quality Voices in your instrument. Each Premium Song is a multi-track MIDI file that are made of Voices hand-picked by a producer.
Although these MIDI files sound great as they are, some models allow you to change out the Voices chosen for the file. Using a Yamaha CVP-609 Clavinova, let’s walk through the steps to
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How to use One Touch Settings - PSR-S950
One Touch Setting (OTS) is a powerful feature that you can use on your PSR-S950 to optimize your performance instantly. OTS uses programming features within a Yamaha Style to select the Voice that sounds best with a particular Style Variation.
Today, we are going to learn about OTS, OTS LINK, and how to load a Style File you have purchased from Yamaha MusicSoft. Let's get started.
On the
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The Talent Behind the Sounds: Interview with Sound Designer Peter Krischker
This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Peter Krischker, the mastermind behind the Easy Sounds Synth Voice Libraries. Peter has been working with Yamaha Synths for over 30 years and he brings a wealth of sound design and programming experience to every product he creates. We were thrilled to hear his insight into the artistic process.
We spoke with Peter about one of his favorite Synth
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Behind the Scenes with Jim Leahy
The aurora borealis over the site of 2014 Yamaha e-Competition
This week we went behind the scenes with Jim Leahy, a
long-time member of the Yamaha Remote Live team. Jim records live music events for broadcast on
DisklavierTV and captures studio performances for our PianoSoft library. This
summer Jim traveled to Alaska to record the finals of the Yamaha e-Competition,
then crossed the
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Hidden Feature – How to perform a “ritard” with a style ending
When playing a song, it’s important to lead your listener along
through arrangement, and give musical hints as to what is coming next. For
example, it should be obvious to the listener when you are about to end the
song. Stopping abruptly at the end with no hint that it was coming leaves the
song sounding incomplete and unprofessional. To solve this, quite often in pop
music the song simply
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Acclaimed K-Sounds grand piano and organ libraries for MOTIF XF, MOTIF XS, and MOXF now available through Yamaha MusicSoft!
For over a decade, Yamaha has innovated in the realm of music production synthesizers/workstations, notably in 2001 with the release of the very first MOTIF. Since then, instruments like the MOTIF XF, MOTIF XS and MOXF stand as some of the best-sounding, most requested instruments in the music industry.
Now, for new owners of these Yamaha Synths (and also for some current owners), things just
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Kooky Karaoke – a fun way to enjoy special voice-changing effects on your Clavinova!
The Yamaha Clavinova CVP and Tyros instruments feature
several different voice effects, including ones that drastically change the
sound of your voice. Just plug in a microphone to your instrument, locate the
voice effects section, and you’ll be enjoying a whole new level of music!
Craig Knudsen, Yamaha Clavinova artist, has taken this
technology and merged it with a classic
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It's a Grand Slam! Little-Known Facts About Our Triple Play Artists
To celebrate the upcoming WorldSeries, we selected nine
iconic artists who knock it out of the park. Then we picked three hit songs
from each artist to create collectible MIDI Triple Play bundles. If you missed
any of these bundles during the first nine innings of our Take Me Out to the
Ball Game promotion, you can now purchase all of these bundles during our Grand
Slam week http://4wrd.it/
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Yamaha CVP Series: How to use the Guide and Score functions on your Clavinova
One of the best features of the CVP Series Clavinovas is the ability to learn any MIDI Song using the Guide and Score functions.
Guide Function: When you have a song selected and press "Guide", the Clavinova will play the intro of the song, then wait for you to play the first note. The note will be highlighted by either a red or green light.
Score Function: You can display the musical notation
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Sing This Season!
Did you know your keyboard has a built in karaoke machine? With a lyric-enabled instrument such as a Yamaha Clavinova CVP-series or DGX digital piano, Tyros, or PSR-S arranger workstation, you can enjoy singing along with your favorite songs. If you love singing then you’ll love Yamaha’s catalog of thousands of downloadable MIDI Song files
that contain lyrics. Read on for a quick how-to guide
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Frozen! Watch a demo of how to use the new Smart PianoSoft album to Disney's Frozen
One of the most innovative products available to Yamaha Disklaviers is Smart PianoSoft. This is a downloadable album of companion MIDI data that goes along with some of your favorite albums.
Speaking of favorite albums, what kid (and yes, adult) doesn't love the enduring soundtrack from Disney's Frozen? In this video post, we'll use this popular (and compatible) soundtrack to demonstrate the
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Happy Thanksgiving! From us at Yamaha MusicSoft
All of us at Yamaha MusicSoft wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! In the video below, some of the staff share what they are thankful for.
We hope your holiday is full of joy and good food!
- JG
Yamaha MusicSoft
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