Explore new levels of creativity with Yamaha’s Smart Pianist App!

As the name suggests, the Piano Room within Smart Pianist is designed for those who want to focus on playing the piano as a solo instrument.  Within the Piano Room, you can customize the sound characteristics of a selection from Yamaha’s premier piano voices, including Yamaha’s CFX 9-foot concert grand, a Bösendorfer Imperial grand, a Yamaha U1 upright piano, and even a honky-tonk upright piano.  You can adjust the lid position, brightness, tuning, room acoustics (reverb), string resonance, and many other settings to make the sound of the piano your own.  Save your favorite settings to the app’s registration memory so you will always have quick access to your customized voices.

Choose from a wide range of instrument voices to play on your Clavinova or AvantGrand piano.  The number of options vary by piano model, with some models offering up to 1,605 instruments (CVP909) to choose from.  You can layer multiple voices together, split the keyboard and add another voice in the bass, change octaves and balance the volume levels of your voice selections.  Let your imagination run wild and unleash your creativity!

Do you have a favorite voice combination?  Are you needing to save special settings for a song you are learning?  Have you transposed a song to a more “friendly” key signature?  Use Smart Pianist’s Registration Memory to save your customized settings for quick recall later.

Love them or hate them, a metronome is an invaluable tool for learning.  The Smart Pianist App incorporates a customizable metronome to help you during those practice sessions where steady rhythm is a necessity.

Do you want to take the metronome to the next level?  Leave the simple clicking of a metronome behind and use professional drum backing tracks instead.  Students who use drum tracks tend to internalize rhythm quicker than those who simply use a metronome.  These tracks help fill in rhythm gaps and help the player to better feel the beat.

Do you want to be the pianist in a band?  Add a bass line and other supporting instruments to the drum tracks and become the soloist by selecting from a library of accompaniment styles (CVP and CSPmodels only).  Add and introduction and ending for a realistic band experience.

You can select from a library of built in songs, ranging from finger exercises and method books to classical and popular music, all included with accompaniment tracks and digital sheet music.  Not only can you play with the included library, but Smart Pianist allows you to expand your music through MIDI files, a PDF sheet music reader, and “audio to score” which automatically creates a piano accompaniment score from the music already on your smart device.

Utilize the recording feature available on all Yamaha Clavinova and AvantGrand models to capture and share your music with friends and family.  Whether you’re playing solo piano, using any other instrument voice, or playing with the band accompaniments, you can record it all and share your creativity with others.  The record button is always available on every screen of the app for quick access no matter what you are doing.  You can record in either MIDI or audio formats.  Choose MIDI for the flexibility to edit or overdub additional tracks.  Audio recordings can be easily shared and listened to on any audio device.