Yamaha REFACE YC Portable Combo Organ with Vintage Organ Waves and Effects
Yamaha reface keyboards are designed around the practical needs of contemporary musicians. The name of the series, “reface,” is a conflation of the idea of reimagining and the legacy of Yamaha’s many groundbreaking keyboard instrument interfaces. Among the innovations that it hearkens back to are the legendary CP80, DX7 and CS5 keyboards. This is the reface YC, which has as one of its chief orientations the authentic organ timbres from the Yamaha Combo Organ. The reface series is small. Incredibly small. But unlike miniature keyboard instruments of the past, the reface touch is satisfying and expressive, and the sound is nothing short of spectacular. The reface family of keyboards features built-in speakers and is battery operable so you can create on the go. An aux line in allows you to play along with MP3 players or whatever other audio device you wish to use. Add MIDI and USB connectivity, and the preface’s capacity to interface with external devices is vast. Reface YC gives you the unique expression of drawbars, rotary speaker, percussion and effects for a complete organ experience that fits under your arm. Five different organ models take you from vintage tone wheel to transistor to classic Yamaha YC combo organ at the turn of a dial. Each organ model features unique percussion behavior plus distortion and reverb effects to get that perfect sound – just pick your model and start shaping your sound using the nine retro-style drawbars. Take your playing to the next level and plug in a Yamaha FC7 expression pedal for the total organ experience. For keyboardists needing great organ sound you can carry under your arm, Reface YC is a Mobile Mini Keyboard with five unique organ characters and realistic organ control and behavior. Unlike expensive “clone wheel” organs, Reface YC features a complete organ interface you can hold in your hand and easily fits into your keyboard rig.
Product Features
- Combo Organ Sound Engine with five vintage organ Waves
- 128-note polyphony ensures dropout-free performance
- Reface YC has all the controls needed to play organ: drawbars, percussion, vibrato and rotary speaker control
- HQ mini keyboard (37-keys) allows fast, natural performance with premium feel and response
- Built-in speaker system lets you play any place, any time!
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… spent more time than is necessary playing with this stupid little (and well made) music machine I have spent more time than is necessary playing with this stupid little (and well made) music machine. Do yourself a favor and skip this purchase and buy something that is terrible so that you won’t be like me and waste your time composing angelic music, skip work, skip showering, skip brushing your teeth, have your teeth fall out, get fired and dumped because you are a lazy no-good hippie that makes incredible keyboard sounds that no one will pay you for because you don’t even leave the house…
By far one of the best portable keyboard instruments I’ve ever used By far one of the best portable keyboard instruments I’ve ever used. I got the CP and I don’t really need any effects for this since the onboard effects are excellent. I kind of wish Yamaha sold just a board with the effects from this on it. The keys are great quality for a keyboard instrument and the sensitivity is set so that it is pretty easy to hit the same note velocity, but not so sterile you lose dynamics. All of the different electronic piano sounds are great for what they are too (I…