The Korg CONCERT C-540 88-Note Real Weighted Hammer Action Piano In Dark Rosewood Finish. Elegant design blended with modern music technology.
The Korg CONCERT C-540 combines the elegance of an acoustic piano with a sophisticated design that will be at home in any interior. The C-540 features modern-looking front legs and a dark rosewood finish for a calm feeling. The key cover is the same gently-closing type as used on acoustic pianos, ensuring peace of mind during children's lessons. These instruments are designed for simple operation and ease of use. The C-series is an example of Korg's "Piano eXperience" philosophy developed from extensive research into every aspect from sound-creation to speaker system design, with the aim of producing the most beautiful sounds possible. The piano sounds in PCM memory were sampled from a world-class grand piano, with four levels of keyboard dynamics for the C-540. In addition, the C-540 also meticulously samples the subtle mechanical sounds that occur when the hammer returns to its original position after striking the string, as well as the sympathetic resonance that envelopes the entire piano when you hold down the damper pedal, reproducing the deep and beautiful sonic experience that you enjoy when seated at a real grand piano. Every detail of this expansively rich sound is under your expressive control. The Korg C540 uses the Real Weighted Hammer Action 3 (RH3) keyboard that is also found on Korg's top-class synthesizers, and that is based on the same mechanism as a grand piano. Excessive springiness is eliminated to ensure excellent response for any type of passage, ensuring that the keys will return as quickly as if they were being pulled up by your fingers. The hammers of this Japanese-made keyboard are graded into four weights, with a heavier playing feel in the lower register and lighter feel in the high register. Each unit is carefully made in the Miyama-cho factory in Kyoto, famed for its superb level of craftsmanship. With environmental concerns in mind, the hammers are made without lead. A Key Touch Control function lets you change the way that your playing strength will affect the sound output. This allows you to enjoy performing with the optimal response for your own playing touch.
The C-540 contains a speaker system with two tweeters that reproduce the high frequencies and two large-diameter woofers to carry the lows, for a spacious and powerful sound. In addition to twenty demo songs that introduce the sounds and a piano lesson feature, the C540 provides 185 songs that include famous pieces for everyone to enjoy, as well as standard piano practice pieces. The pedals are an indispensable element of piano performance, and this instrument provide all three standard pedals: damper, soft, and sostenuto. The damper and soft pedals support half-pedaling for more expressive control, and the C-540 also lets you assign the pedals to control an effect or other functions. For example you can use a pedal to apply a glide effect that slightly lowers the pitch, switch a rotary speaker effect, or switch the recorder between play/stop without taking your hands off the keyboard. In addition to acoustic piano, the built-in sounds include the expressive electric piano and jazz organ sounds required for so much of today’s popular repertoire. Also featured are church organ, strings, harpsichord and more. The C540 gives you forty different sounds in total. You can use Layer mode to freely combine these sounds in your performance (with individually adjustable volume balance). There's also a Split mode that lets you split the keyboard at the desired point and play different sounds in each area. Using the Performance function you can edit and save up to thirty sets of sounds. These sets contain the sounds you've chosen for Layer mode or Split mode (up to two sounds) as well as effect settings, and can be recalled at a touch of the performance button.
A powerful recorder function lets you record your own performance, up to two parts and a maximum of 45,000 notes per song. Recorded songs can be copied to a computer via USB, as SMF format MIDI data. Finally, the C-540 provides effects such as reverb that simulate the reverberation of a concert hall (eight types, 128 levels) and chorus that makes the sound richer (six types, 128 levels). It also provides twenty-four different insert effects used by professional musicians to make their sound stand out, such as rotary speaker, tremolo, delay, and phaser.
The main features of the Korg CONCERT C-540 include:
- Sophisticated, modern design featuring chic dark rosewood colour scheme
- The key cover is a soft-landing type that closes gently, providing the same experience of quality as on a fine acoustic piano
- Based on Korg's own philosophy of "Piano eXperience," this instrument uses carefully sampled sounds that capture the resonances of a real grand piano, and deliver a rich and beautiful piano sound that responds to the expressive touch of the player
- Korg's original Real Weighted Hammer Action 3 (RH3) keyboard provides excellent response for repeated notes
- The speaker system faithfully reproduces deep sounds with superb presence
- The C-540 provides 40 different high-quality sounds, Layer mode and Split mode are also available
- The C-540 contains 205 demonstration songs
- The convenient metronome function lets you select various time signatures; choosing an accent or a bell to signify the first beat
- Choose from 37 different drum patterns that make your lessons more enjoyable
- Two headphone jacks - an ideal feature for piano duets, for sharing a song you've practiced, student and teacher/parent lessons, or for late-night practice
- A convenient USB connector allows you to transmit and receive MIDI data, or to save a recorded song as SMF format MIDI data on your computer
Korg Concert C-540 88-Note Real Weighted Hammer Action Piano (code 50872)
A convenient USB connector allows you to transmit and receive MIDI data, or to save a recorded song as SMF format MIDI data on your computer.
£1,079.99 (inc vat)