Yamaha Arius YDP S55 Digital Piano

Take your piano playing to the next exciting level with the new Yamaha ARIUS models. The Yamaha Arius YDP S55 Digital Piano is a slimmer, more compact equivalent of the Yamaha Arius YDP 165. The Yamaha ARIUS YDP S55 digital piano offers an acoustic piano’s rich, authentic sound, together with a wide array of cutting-edge digital features for an exceptional playing experience. Express yourself with an ARIUS digital piano and let the music take you where you want to go.

With their meticulously crafted keyboards, the ARIUS Standard series instruments deliver the rich sound of a grand piano and provide the most luxuriously expressive piano performance possible. Moreover, the YDP S55 newly features Yamaha’s unique Virtual Resonance Modeling Lite (VRM Lite) and tone escapement construction.

Enjoy playing with rich, realistic sound — even with headphones. The YDP S55 now includes a feature that makes the sound gentle on your ears.

Compatibility with Yamaha’s free Smart Pianist app lets you connect a smart device and perform operations such as Voice selection and Song playback. Moreover, since the app has 353 songs with sheet music you can view as well as song recording features, it’s an exceptionally useful practice tool.

The Yamaha Arius YDP S55 Digital Piano is suitable for developing students and advanced players, offering all the conveniences of an electric piano without sacrificing the performance of an acoustic piano.  It is at the entry-level end of the Arius range.

CONNECT:  to a wide variety of educational, music creation or music entertainment apps on a computer or mobile device through USB-midi-function, Wifi or Bluetooth. The Smart Pianist app is available for all iOS & Android devices, letting you access features and adjust or save your preferred settings with ease.

METRONOME: included.

OUT IN PLUG: included – connect the Arius YDP S54 to yet another speaker.

STEREOPHONIC OPTIMISER: adjusts the spacing of the sound and the separation from the instrument, resulting in a natural and spacious, realistic surround sound quality when using headphones.

RECORD: your performances with a single touch of a button.  You can record up to 2 tracks for simultaneous playback, allowing you to record both hand separately or allowing you to overlay different voices and parts. Recordings are created in the Standard MIDI file (SMF) format, which can be played back on a computer using compatible software (not included).

Please don’t hesitate to give us a call to discuss different variations available for all our digital pianos. Here at A. Hanna & Sons Pianos Ltd, we are able to create bespoke digital piano bundles including a variety of accessories. As a family business, we always strive to offer the best possible service to our customers.

For the larger YDP 165 version of the Yamaha Arius YDP S55 Digital Piano, please CLICK HERE.

Features

Keyboard:

• Graded Hammer 3 (GH3) keyboard with 88 keys and synthetic ebony and ivory keytops
• Meticulously sampled from Yamaha’s flagship CFX grand piano
• 10 voices
• 192-note polyphony
• New Virtual Resonance Modeling Lite (VRM Lite)
• 2-track recording (1 Song)
• 50 Classic Preset Songs, 303 Lesson Songs
• Dual function; Duo mode
• Stereophonic Optimizer, Intelligent Acoustic Control
• USB to HOST terminal
• Headphones: standard stereo phone jack x 2

Amplifiers:

• 20W x 2
• Speakers: 12 cm × 2
• Folding Key Cover

CFX Grand Piano

The new ARIUS models all feature a piano voice sampled from Yamaha’s flagship CFX concert grand piano — a renowned piano that delivers sparkling highs and
a powerful resonant bass combined in a superbly expressive sound. All ARIUS models have the same detailed sound — from the lower keys to the higher keys — full of clarity and rich in colourful harmonic content. It gives you extraordinary expressive power and nuance, that authentically resonates in your daily practice as well as your most emotion-filled performances.

Feel

With an 88-key piano action, the GH3 (Graded Hammer 3) keyboard and GHS (Graded Hammer Standard) reproduce the touch of an acoustic piano, from a naturally heavy feel in the lower keys to a lighter touch in the upper octaves. The GH3 keyboard of the YDP-165 and YDP-S55 even provides a grand piano-style response and feel, allowing rapid note repetition and authentic expressive control. Moreover, there’s a half-damper feature that authentically replicates the damper action of a grand piano, providing rich expressive variation.

One of the allures of the grand piano is the sympathetic resonance created by the vibration of the entire instrument. All ARIUS models elaborately reproduce this rich sympathetic resonance through a groundbreaking technology called Virtual Resonance Modeling Lite (VRM Lite). VRM Lite creates a richly varied sound by simulating the complex sympathetic tones created when the vibrations of the strings are propagated to the soundboard and other strings, corresponding to the timing and intensity of key playing and pedalling.

Tone Escapement

The YDP-165 and YDP-145 use a newly developed tone escapement construction on the back of the cabinet that emanates sound from inside
the piano. This allows you to experience the natural sound radiation and three-dimensional resonance akin to that of an acoustic piano.

Built-in sounds

Naturally, all ARIUS models have an authentic grand piano sound, but they also feature various other built-in instrument sounds, with a total of 10 Voices – including electric piano, organ, vibraphone, and strings.

Smart Pianist

All ARIUS models also have 353 built-in songs, including 50 famous classical songs, and 303 comprehensive practice exercises from famous composers, such as Beyer, Burgmüller, Czerny, and Hanon. The instrument is also compatible with Yamaha’s free Smart Pianist app – simply download the app to your smart device and connect it to the instrument. With the Smart Pianist app, you can easily operate the various Voice functions of the instrument and use it to view scores of the built-in songs. It also features a comprehensive Piano Room function for changing the piano sound’s tonal quality and resonance settings.

Sound Balance

All ARIUS models employ new technology that optimally corrects the sound balance according to the volume you set – giving you an exceptionally natural sound that’s easy to listen to and is gentle on the ears, even when playing for a long time. It also has a Stereophonic Optimizer effect that lets you enjoy the natural, spacious sound you experience sitting in front of an acoustic grand piano, even when wearing headphones.

Design

The piano cabinet has a slim depth that lets you neatly install it in any room, and makes for a chic, stylish design that effortlessly enhances your living space. Moreover, you can choose from a variety of colour variations to find the one that suits your interior and personal taste.

Specifications

Condition: New
Dimensions: Width 135.3cm x Height 79.cm x Depth 30.9cm (Depth is 31.7cm with key cover open, 38.2cm with anti-fall brackets attached).
Weight: 40kg
Colour/Finishes: Black, White
Pedals: 3
Keys: 88