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Adam Berzowski here with Kraft Music and today we're going to take a look
at the Yamaha P-115 Digital Piano. For the best deals on the P-115 be sure to take a
look at the Kraft Music Bundle offers. Bundles are going to include accessories you are going to need,
like a pair of headphones, a bench or a stand.
These Bundles are put together at a nice discount price.
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The P-115 is part of Yamaha's extremely popular P-series of digital pianos
and it one of our best selling interments here at Kraft Music.
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The Yamaha P-115 has 88 hammer weighted graded keys just like an acoustic grand piano.
They're wighted so they feel heavy like a piano and they are grated meaning
they are a little heavier on the left and gradually become lighter as you move up to
the right providing a real authentic experience when you're at the piano.
Today we're showing the P-115
with the optional furniture stand and triple pedal board. The pedal board features
all three pedals just like you'd find on a grand piano, the soft, the sostenuto, and
the sustain. For the best value on this combination, be sure to take a look at our home Bundles.
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P-115 features three different grand piano tones to suit your style of playing.
There's a concert grand, a bright grand, and a dark and mellow grand.
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In addition to the acoustic piano sounds found in the P-115, you are also going to find a
variety of electric pianos. There's a vintage tine electric piano, Yamaha's very own DX electric
piano, and new for the P-115 a reed style electric piano.
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This piano features three different organ sounds. There's a church organ, a jazz organ, and new for
the P-115 a rock organ. Jazz and rock organ are commonly played through rotary speakers.
There is a rotary speaker simulation built right into the P-115. And when you connect
the optional triple pedal unit you'll have rotary speaker control.
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Rounding off the sound selection, you're going to find a vibraphone, strings, harpsichord,
an electric bass, and an acoustic upright bass.
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The P-115 can layer and it can split.
A layer is when you hear two sounds at once all the way across the keyboard.
A common layer would be piano and strings. You can also split the P-115 and that means you are
going to have one sound on the left hand and a completely different sound on the right.
A common split might be, a bass on my left and a piano on my right.
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P-115 has a built in metronome to help with your time keeping during practice. In addition
to the metronome, there's also a variety of drum patterns you can play along with.
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P-115 has a feature called pianist style, and these are arpeggios, accompaniment parts,
you hold the chord in your left hand, you'll hear the pattern play then you play
the melody along in your right hand.
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The P-115 has ton of connectivity.
First of all, there's not one but two headphone jacks located on the front of the instrument.
If you need to practice late at night or early in the morning, you don't anyone else to hear you
plug in your headphones, the speakers will automatically turn off and only you will
hear the sound of the piano. Two ports, so if you are working on a duet with someone else,
you both could be in headphones.
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The speaker system in the P-115 sounds great.
But if you want to enhance your sound by adding a subwoofer, you can using the line
level outputs. Get a great deal on a subwoofer in our Plus Bundles. You can also use these
line level outputs if you're performing at a church, school, or on stage
to connect to a larger sound system.
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If you'd like to connect your P-115 to your home computer
for use with educational, notation, or recording software you can do so by utilizing
the USB port located on the rear of the instrument. A new feature on the P-115 is the ability
to connect your IOS device to the piano with the USB port and an Apple adapter and control
many parameters of the piano. Access your sounds, make your splits, make your layers,
access the metronome, and the drum patterns. Let's take a look at how that works.
So here we are with the iPad, the Apple adapter, and the USB cable connected to the piano.
I've downloaded the free app from the app store, and now we're going to launch it.
First thing I see are my variety of sounds, and they are shown here all on one page and a few more
on the next page. Or I can take a look at them more close up and one at a time.
And there they are. Harpsichord, vibraphones, organs, so they are all right there.
And you select them simply by touching it.
I can access my split and my layer by touching this icon up here.
Now there's a variety of things I can do, and right now we want to do a dual,
that's a layer. So I touch that dual button and here it shows me what's going to be in
the left hand and what's going to be in the right and I can scroll through the variety
of sounds and make those selections.
If I go back one, now I can make a split
and here I'm going to choose what's in my left hand again simply by scrolling through and making
the selection, and the right hand simply by scrolling through and making a selection.
If I touch the little wrench icon, I have even more parameters to control.
First of all the volume balance between the left and the right and where on the keyboard I want
the spit point to be. You can transpose the keyboard, either from the piano or from the
app. And I would get to that right over here, here's my transpose, and now I can select
whether I want to transpose up or down within half steps.
Now let's access the metronome and rhythm section.
I'd like to point out that if you don't have an iPad, all of these
parameters we are looking at are accessible from the front panel of the piano.
Here is where I choose what beat I want to hear, if I'm looking for a drum pattern or if I'm looking
to divide my metronome clicks, here I'll say, three and it will highlight every third,
my tempo, how fast or slow I want it to be, how loud I want it to be. And if I go past the
divisions of the metronome beat, that's where I'll find my drum patterns. There they are,
swing, a jazz waltz, a bossa nova and you can start and stop, have an intro and an ending
and again still with volume control and tempo control.
Let's play along with some drum patterns.
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Now I want to select the pianist style and have some auto accompaniments to
play along with. So we'll go back over here and there it is, pianist style and I can choose
a variety of styles right over here. Slow rock, blues, swing, boogie. Again with my
tempo control, volume control, and where I want my split point to be.
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When you receive your P-115 here's what you can expect to find in the box,
of course the keyboard, it's music rest, the owner's manual, the power supply, and the foot sustain switch.
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Whether you're using the piano in the home, school, traveling in a band,
we're going to have a Bundle that's going to include accessories you are going to need.
If you are on the go, folding stand, folding bench, carrying case. If it's a permanent
fixture, furniture stand, triple pedals, matching bench, perhaps a subwoofer. Be sure to take
a look at our Bundles. You'll save yourself some money and you'll save yourself some time.
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Once again, my name is Adam Berzowski here with Kraft Music, and I would
like to thank you for watching and learning about the P-115 with me today. If you have
questions about this or any of our products, we hope that you will contact us.
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