New Demo Disk Brings Vocal Harmony Feature
to Life on CVP200 Series

amaha-authorized dealers have a new resource to strengthen showroom demonstrations of the Clavinova CVP207/ 209/900 digital pianos. The Vocal Harmony Demonstration Disk uses automatic settings and carefully chosen musical selections to show off the pianos' remarkable Vocal Harmony, Karao-Key, Vocal CueTIME, and Total Pitch Correction capabilities for prospective buyers.

"This disk cuts right to the chase, right to the harmonies," explains Product Manager Dane Madsen. "It brings up the right settings simply by selecting a song, and includes tunes that make use of these features all the way through. To understand what these vocal options are all about, a customer doesn't have to watch the salesperson page through menus, or wait until a song's second verse for the harmony to start, like in a 'true to the original' karaoke disk."

Vocal Harmony is a feature that takes a singer's microphone input and reproduces it as up to three separate vocal performances in perfect harmony. Karao-Key lets users control the timing of the Clavinova's accompaniment by pressing any key on the instrument to mark each syllable as they sing, while Vocal CueTIME automates that process by recognizing the correct vocal pitch and synchronizing the accompaniment to match.

The amazing Total Pitch Correction feature takes singing in any pitch, even a deliberate monotone, and reproduces it so that each note comes out in the correct pitch. So for the song Lean On Me, for example, it doesn't matter what notes are sung into the mic because only the correct ones will come out of the Clavinova's speakers.

The musical selections on the disk are standards, rich with passages that make use of the CVP200 Series vocal capabilities. The tunes include Lean on Me, Can't Help Falling in Love, Love Me Tender, Red River Valley, Witch Doctor*, Disco Feel*, Tomorrow*, Popeye the Sailor Man*, God Bless America*, and The Chipmunks' "Christmas Don't Be Late."* No matter how they actually sing, the Clavinova will make sales prospects sound like Popeye, an opera star, and a "Chipmunk."

Because of the wide variety of vocal processing features built into the CVP207, CVP209 and CVP900 models, the process of demonstrating them all in the showroom needed to be streamlined so that buyers could grasp them quickly. This demonstration disk thoroughly answers that need. Yamaha dealers should already have received it in the mail. Extra or replacement copies can be requested free by calling 888-926-2424 and ordering part number KCVHDD200.

*These selections take advantage of a Voice Modification feature that is only available on the CVP209/900.