Piano By Yamaha
DGX650 Review
The Yamaha DGX 650 comes with a vast range of interactive features that make it an outstanding digital piano for both beginners and experienced pianists.
Editors Overall Rating
9.6/10
Detailed review of YAMAHA DGX650
Yamaha is a known brand in the world of technological products and the digital piano sphere is no different.
Introducing the Yamaha DGX 650 is clear maintenance of the same high standards that they maintain. This piano comes with a vast range of interactive features that make it an outstanding digital piano.
The interactive software goes beyond helping you in playing the piano to helping you learn to play perfectly. This implies that a low skill level is not an impedance, the interactive feature is there to make sure of this.
Standard action guarantees that you get just the tone you want with a touch of an acoustic piano for spice. This piano is accompanied by Damper Resonance DSP and Pure CF sampling.
This provides the Yamaha DGX 650 with an all too accurate replica of the sounds from the acoustic version of this piano.
The Pure CF sampling also comprises recordings of a grand piano concert of Yamaha. Using a USB audio recorder that had to be included, you can easily record your performances and share.
The piano also offers the player an opportunity to experience contemporary music via a classic piano touch.
Besides, feel free to check our previous reivew of Best Yamaha 88 Key Digital Piano and Best Digital Piano With Weighted Keys.
General Features Of Yamaha DGX 650
Dimensions
The Yamaha DGX650 stands at 761mm with the stand while the instrument height alone is about 146mm. It has a keyboard stand of 1399mm and a width of 1397mm.
It features a depth of 445mm which is similar to the keyboard stand. Overall weight with the keyboard stand is 29.5 while the weight is at 22.5kg.
Control Interface
The Yamaha DGX650 comes with a standard 88 keys with the jets possessing a Graded Hammer Standard Keyboard feature.
The touch responses range from soft, medium and hard to fix. The display type is Full-Dot LCD and Pitch Bend is present. It has a monochrome color and comes in 320 X 240 dots.
Apart from options of contrast, the control interface also has a Lyrics Display function, Score Display function and the language display on the panel in English.
Effects
The Yamaha DGX 650 boasts of 44 chorus types, 35 reverb types, 5 Master EQ types, and 237 DSP types. It comes with the Intelligent Acoustic alongside with the Intelligent Acoustic Control or the IAC.
Voices
The Damper Resonance can be found here alongside the Pure CF Sound Engines. Total polyphony at 128, alongside the number of voices standing at 147 + 15 Drum/SFX Kits along with 381 X Glite.
The categories include 1 natural voice, 7 cool voices, 8 sweet voices, and 9 live voices. It is compatible with GM and X Glite as well.
Songs
The total number of preset songs stands at 100 while it also comes with 5 recorded songs. 6 tracks consisting of 1 chord and 5 melodies.
If recording consists of only melody tracks, there could be up to 30,000 notes for 1 user song. Options for recording and playbacks are also available with the Compatible Data Format.
Functions
The total number of buttons for registration stands at 4. And like other recent models, the DGX650 has the Yamaha Education Suite to help you learn alongside a chord dictionary.
Other features include the Demonstration, Recording and the Playback which are all done in .wav. The transpose ranges from -12 to 0 and 0 to +12.
Also, overall control comprises Metronome and the Tempo Range is from 5-280. Tuning is also present alongside the Portable Grand Button otherwise known as the Piano Button.
Other Notable Features
Storage and connectivity comprise an internal memory of approximately 1.7MB that comes with a USB Flash Memory.
A headphone, DC IN 12V, pedal unit, a sustain pedal, USB to both device and host and an AUX-in port are other connectivity features. The amplifiers are 6W x 2 while the speakers are 12cm x 2 and 5cm x 2.
Power consumption is 13 W and an adaptor equivalent of PA – 150. Main accessories include a Keyboard Stand, Footswitch, Music Rest and AC Power Adaptor.
Playing Features Of The Yamaha DGX 650
Yamaha p115 vs dgx 650
Comparing the Yamaha p115 vs dgx 650, the Yamaha DGX 650 guarantees an exclusive experience of playing an actual acoustic piano. However, the major difference lies in a comprehensive buildup of different features.
These features are intended to help you as a player draw on the inspiration that you need. Here are the main playing features of the Yamaha DGX 650:
Pure CF Sampling
Pure CF sampling guarantees that you would fully experience full grand piano sound from a Yamaha CFIIIS Concert. The sample is delicately recorded under very controlled conditions such that the sounds are ethereal and identical.
GHS Keyboard
Just like a number of other Yamaha keyboards, the DGX 650 makes use of their GHS weighted system. This system is included to give the keyboard a genuine acoustic sensation with the keys found at the top lighter than the keys at the bottom.
The DGX 650, however, steps it up a notch with realistic harmonic action. When a key is struck with the damper pedal present, the sympathetic vibrations of the note can be heard and this provides an acoustic realness.
Massive Speakers
The Yamaha DGX 650 boasts of some very powerful stereo speakers present in large enclosures. They have separate woofers and tweeters which aid in presenting pure treble.
This pure treble has powerful bass and is pretty much distortion-free. It also guarantees excellent dynamic control.
Some of the other playing features that are worthy of note include the Style Recommender, the smart chord, monitor speakers as well as lyrics display and easy-to-read score.
Technical Highlight
22.5 kg
Weight
88
Number of Keys
549
Number of Voices
128
Number of Polyphony
Conclusion
"This portable grand is definitely one of the best you can find in the market today. I enjoyed playing it and my hands never get tired even after playing for more than 5 hours."
The learning features that accompany it ensure that you get more than sufficient value for the price you would pay.
Some of the features typically require auxiliary devices such as USB flash drives or a computer. However, these are commonplace in the average home and therefore doesn’t pose a problem.
While the model is not so much suited to professionals in terms of the features and the sound quality, you can be certain that it is a great way to become a professional player.