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CP4 Audio Demo: Musical demo of the 9' CFX Premium Concert Grand Piano
CP4 Stage: check out the sounds of the 9' CFX Premium Concert Grand Piano voice.
This is a quick thing I put together featuring the CFX 9 foot concert grand voice in the CP4 Stage. I tried to play as dynamically as possible to give you a sense of just how deeply expressive this instrument really is. There are some things to listen for with the CFX voice (in the A.PIANO1 voice category) as compared to the other two pianos (the CFIIS--which is A.PIANO2--and the S6--which is A.PIANO3). The CFX has a very prounouced fundamental pitch, and that quality really allows individual notes to "pop out". The individual notes in a dissonant chord are really much more distiguishable to my ear, yet there is a nice warmth to the instrument as well. It is a very different voices. compared to the other two voices. I should really stress different, not necessarily better. I'll cover those two in another blog post...
About the author
Yamaha Synthesizer Product Specialist Blake Angelos has over thirty years of experience with music hardware and software. An expert in music technology, Blake has conducted numerous clinics, master classes and presentations throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. In his role as Product Specialist for the Synthesizer Department Blake appears in many product videos and artist interviews, writes many articles for YamahaSynth.com and co-hosts a regular Podcast called “Behind the Synth”.
Before his work with Yamaha, he taught music theory and jazz studies courses at Arizona State University; managed a technology-focused music store in Seattle and was a production supervisor at Microsoft, where he led a team that developed groundbreaking interactive music content for the Microsoft Network. Blake holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master of Music degree from Arizona State University. Blake currently resides in Bellingham, Washington with his family, and between his travels around the world for Yamaha, he performs as much as possible with several jazz and creative music groups in Bellingham, Seattle and other places in the Pacific Northwest.
