CVP-405/403/401 Owner’s Manual
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Introduction
Enhanced Realism and Natural Expressiveness
Authentic Acoustic Piano-like Touch
with Graded Hammer (GH) and Graded
Hammer 3 (GH3) Keyboard
The Clavinova is the next best thing to a real piano. It features an exceptional natural
piano touch and expressive response-thanks to the remarkable Graded Hammer key-
board. Just as on an actual grand piano, the lower keys are heavy in touch and the higher
keys are light, with all the natural gradations in between.
The CVP-405/403 features the enhanced, improved Graded Hammer 3 (GH3) technol-
ogy, providing performance functions and expressive power found only on grand pianos,
such as having repeated plays of the same note perfectly articulated, even when playing
at high speed or with partial key release.
Audio Recording (CVP-405/403)
Recording Your Performance as Audio......................................page 60
You can record your performance as audio data to a USB storage device.
Connect a microphone or guitar to the instrument and enjoy recording a gui-
tar and keyboard performance together, or record your singing along with
Song playback (in karaoke fashion).
Perform Along with a Full Band
—Song Playback.........................................................................page 35
Play along with previously recorded Song data, and fill out your solo perfor-
mance with the sounds and arrangement of an entire band or orchestra.
Ease in Playing Backing Parts with Songs,
—performance assistant technology .........................................page 43
The new performance assistant technology features make it exceptionally
easy to play professional-sounding backing parts along with Song playback.
Playing Melodies along with Auto Accompaniment,
—Style Playback .........................................................................page 44
Use the Style playback features to automatically produce full backing parts and
accompaniment, while you play melodies on top. It’s like having an expert ensemble
playing behind you. Select an accompaniment Style—such as pop, jazz, Latin, etc.—
and let the instrument be your backing band!
Playing the Instrument
Playing Piano Voices ................................................................ page 28
With just the press of a button, you can reconfigure the entire instrument for
optimum piano performance, no matter what settings you’ve made from the
panel. Now you can enjoy performing and practicing with authentic grand
piano sounds and response—instantly.
Playing Other Instrument Voices ..............................................page 32
The instrument gives you not only various realistic piano Voices, but also features an
exceptionally wide variety of authentic instruments, both acoustic and electronic.