Rating  - Perfect Instrument For What It Does
I was looking at the Clavinova 409 but it was $10,000+ and the Tyros II and other arrangers seemed too cluttered; Thus, I was happy to find the YPT 400 because it had the Clavinova's easy to use interface and included the styles, voices & song features for about $200. The YPT 400 is also light enough to be carried around in a shoulder bag.
Thus far, I'm playing ryhthm patterns on it and I create them with Overture 4 ([...]) and then download them into my YPT 400; The good news is: I can now count ryhthms subconciously!
Hence, I must say that the onboard metronome is great and it takes little effort to change its tempo and time signature and I use it a lot since I like setting the time signature to 8/4 (for example) when I practice the 8 note patterns in Hanon's exercise book.
The main reason why I got my YPT 400 was to update my S90ES at a very reasonable price and I'll be learning what having a fully featured Clavinova 409 might mean to me.
The only things I would change are: (1) there is no MIDI out port so I'd add a MIDI port; the MIDI driver (for PC) only supports one channel so I'd add support for multiple channels.
But those two things are unimportant in the overall picture since, most importantly, the YPT 400 is an easy to use instrument that has relatively full featured capabilities.
Rating - A whole lotta keyboardin' goin' on
Not long ago, my venerable Yamaha synthesizer was finally wearing out after many years of faithful service. I needed to find a portable keyboard of the same octave range that had a lot of features for not too much money -- and that had a piano touch rather than an organ touch (like my old keyboard did).
Leave it to Yamaha to live up to its reputation. This keyboard is simply incredible for the retail price (let alone as reduced at the time of sale). It has more bells and whistles (rhythms, instruments, and much more) than I will ever likely use. It can be used profitably by a whole range of musicians, from the beginner to the professional -- and Yamaha's online support (including MIDI tracks, tutorials and much more) is simply top-notch. Do be sure to get a piano pedal with this, though -- you'll need it for sustain effects (whereas my old keyboard simply had a button for those).
I was surprised to get a large folding stand along with the keyboard, as the stand is not described as being part of the package. It's probably a good thing, as this keyboard is sustantially heavier and wider than my old keyboard.
Rating  - Yamaha Key Board
The keyboard is just what I wanted. The stand is a dud. It came minus a necessary screw and has a wrong-sized foot bar so is unusable. This is a big inconvenience. I would recommend the keyboard but forget the use of the stand!
Rating - Excellent sound and fun to play
Receive my order faster than I expected. Excellent shipping speed. This is the first time buying digital keyboard. Love the quality built as well as it sounds for the cost I paid. Played at the maximum volume, sound got distorted a little, but it doesn't bother us.
Rating - Yamaha - vs - Casio
I just recieved my YPT-400 a couple of days ago and everything went smoothly. It was shipped promply and arrived when promised and everthing intact and accounted for. You have to put the stand together, which was a breeze. The stand has stops for the keyboard which the one I got with my Casio did not, so the keyboard does not slide around. The sounds
of the Yamaha compared to the Casio (CTK 671 which I think they stopped making) is like day and night) I bought the Yamaha for my wife for her Birthday, and she loves it, especially the education feature. It really is almost a professional grade keyboard. All the songs loaded and plus the ones you can download on it are really pretty cool and sound great and you can turn off any instrument of the song in order to play yourself. I think anyone starting out would to play this thing, you can sound like a professional in no time at all. The accompanyment sound are tight and better than the casio. All and all, a great deal for the money and I think an overall better keyboard than the Casio's I've owned and own, and might have to get my own to stop being jealous of my wifes.
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