Yamaha YDS-150 Digital Saxophone

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YDS-150 Digital Saxophone
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Overview

Yamha YDS-150 Digital Saxophone

Play the saxophone anytime, anywhere. Featuring the Integrated Bell Acoustic System, this is a unique digital saxophone that lets you control the volume and still maintain a seamless sense of expressive unity with the instrument.

Blowing into the mouthpiece resonates through the entire instrument - a vibration you can feel in your lips, fingertips, and even your heart. Integrated Bell Acoustic System, created by the fusion of acoustic and digital technologies, delivers an incredibly authentic, gorgeous sound that even feels and responds as if you were playing an acoustic instrument.

The YDS-150 can be connected to the free Rec’n’Share app for smart devices from Yamaha, making it possible to play along with audio data stored on the device and capture the performance as a sound recording or movie that can be shared online. Rec’n’Share includes a function that can change the playback tempo of the original music, an AB repeat function that repeats playback of a specified A-B section, a function that can analyze and add an appropriate click track to the original music, and other features that make practice more productive and enjoyable.

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Features

Volume Control 

Tamp down your volume while retaining the tonal colors of a saxophone. Fifteen volume levels and a headphone jack allow you to enjoy playing, without worrying about being too loud.

Integrated Bell Acoustic System
Yamaha's unique Integrated Bell Acoustic System gives you the best of both worlds—high-quality digital sound with the full expressiveness of an acoustic wind instrument. This new, advanced system, consists of a speaker unit, enclosure, acoustic pipe and a real brass bell, responds to your breath from the mouthpiece, and digitally creates sound that drives the speaker, causing the brass bell to resonate and vibrate. In fact, the entire instrument resonates with the sound, and that vibration comes back to you—to your mouth from the mouthpiece and to your fingertips from the keys. The result is an instrument that breathes, moves and vibrates along with your playing, giving you all the expressive feeling of an acoustic saxophone with the comprehensive capabilities of a digital instrument.

Mouthpiece
In order to enable the most naturally expressive and comfortable playability, the YDS-150 features a mouthpiece designed the same as that of an acoustic saxophone. It can also be conveniently removed for easy maintenance.

Key Layout
The key layout is based on Yamaha’s acoustic saxophones, providing seamless usability. You can also change fingering using a dedicated app.

Brass Bell

The high-quality brass bell is made of the same material as used on Yamaha's acoustic saxophone. Drawing on our extensive know-how and experience of making acoustic instruments, we designed this bell to gorgeously reproduce the long reverberation peculiar to wind instruments as well as the delicate sonic nuances sounds when playing pianissimo. Moreover, the authentic resonance causes the entire instrument to vibrate, and lets you truly feel the music as you play it.

Breath Sensor
The breath sensor detects the strength (pressure) of your breath, allowing you to control not only the strength, but also the tone of your sound as you play.

Full-scale Sampling
We teamed up with professional performers to sample the sounds of Yamaha acoustic saxophones—soprano, alto, tenor and baritone—meticulously recorded in whole tones, so that you can enjoy a natural sound without any hint of incongruity.

Saxophone Tone In 4 Types, 56 Presets
Includes 56 different voices for the soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, to handle a variety of genres and styles. You can also play with the voices of other instruments, like the shakuhachi, flute, electronic instruments, and more, giving you a total of 73 voices to work with.

External Connection Terminals
The YDS-150 comes equipped with an auxiliary input terminal for connecting devices such as smartphones, allowing you to connect to an external audio source* to feel like you’re playing in an ensemble.

*Sound must be output from the headphone jack.

Specs

Width

110mm

Height

699mm

Depth

103mm

Weight

1.0kg not including batteries

Bell Material

Yellow Brass/Gold lacquer finish

Key systems

Fingering same as Saxophone, High-F#, Front-F, Low A

Additional Controller

Analog controller

Tone Generating Technology

AWM Sampling

Number of Voices

73 voices (incl. 56 sax voices)

Key

Eb, Bb, CSync with voice

Tuning

427.0Hz440.0Hz453.0Hz, approx. 0.5Hz increments

Bluetooth

MIDI + Audio input only - no audio output

Effect

5 typesfor Headphones

Audio Out

Stereo-mini jack for headphones or amplifier

AUX IN

Stereo-mini jack

USB TO HOST

micro USB Type-B

Power Supply

USB Power Adaptors:5V/1A (micro USB Type-B), batteries (four “AAA” size alkaline [LR3]) or Ni-MH rechargeable [HR3] batteries)

Power Consumption

4.5W (When using USB Power adaptor)

Auto Power Off Function

YES

Included Accessories

Mouthpiece set (Mouthpiece for YDS, Reed, Ligature, Mouthpiece cap), Soft case, Strap

Product IDBYDS150

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