Yamaha YC61 61 Key Organ Stage Keyboard

Yamaha YC61 61 Key Organ Stage Keyboard

Designed for gigging keyboardists, the YC61 features a newly designed Virtual Circuitry Modeling (VCM) Organ engine with physical drawbars, extensive real time control and authentic Acoustic/Electric Piano and FM synth sound.

How do you reproduce the warm, authentic sound of an organ in a compact stage keyboard? You build an organ engine the Yamaha way, from the ground up. Yamaha's proprietary Virtual Circuitry Modeling (VCM) recreates the circuits of vintage analog EQs, compressors and phasers right down to the transistors and resistors to capture the subtleties other digital simulations can’t. Whether you’re playing grand piano, upright piano, electric piano or more, YC61 gives you authentic keyboard sounds for any genre of music.

Yamaha puts your favorite classic organ sounds in one powerful, compact stage keyboard. YC61 models three organ vintages - just out of the box, well-traveled and character-rich vintage. Need more? Go under the hood to adjust key click, leakage, rotary speaker speed and more to get the one-of-a-kind organ tone you've been searching for.

YC61 brings you the authentic sounds of classic rotary speakers with no maintenance required. Choose from two faithfully modeled rotary speaker profiles – clean and full or dirty and aggressive – and adjust top or bottom rotor speed for total control.

VCM re-creates the sound and behavior of vintage effects and high-end studio signal processors by modeling the circuits down to the original analog component level.

In 1983, Yamaha introduced the iconic sounds of FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesis to the world with the launch of the DX7. Now YC61 brings FM synthesis to the organ for a new generation of players. Simply switch to FM Organ and your drawbars control 8 FM Operators that send a pure sound with massive low end. Add rotary speaker or amp sim effects for character and vibe. Intuitive controls make it easy to discover new sounds. Or recreate classic transistor organ tones from warm to reedy to buzzy by choosing one of three popular FM Organ modes.

At Yamaha, they put everything they’ve learned over the last 100 years into everything you touch. With a totally redesigned waterfall keyboard and the perfect action, the YC61 feels the way an authentic organ was meant to feel. It’s no wonder more players reach for Yamaha keyboards than any other.

The all new Waterfall keyboard on the YC61 is the result of painstaking traditional organ keyboards research refined with feedback from top keyboard artists. The result is an authentic keyboard action designed to accommodate organ technique and expressive acoustic and electric pianos, synth leads, brass sections and more.

YC61 isn’t just designed to be played. It’s made to be bumped, jostled, scratched, crammed in a van, stuffed in an overhead bin and adored by players and fans, gig after gig. In short, it’s built to last, like the company that stands behind it.

The nine drawbars on the YC61 have the footages and ratcheting you expect in an organ. But there’s more to our drawbars than meets the eye. See-through drawbar stops with customizable LED light color make it easy to see differences between simulated upper and lower configurations and play in split mode. It’s like having a virtual set of drawbars to give you more sounds, more flexibility and more choices than you ever thought possible in a compact stage keyboard.

YC61 is made for long jams, not long menus. The intuitive interface gives you fast and easy splits, layers and sound-shaping directly from the front panel. Proving that compact doesn’t have to mean complex.

Mobility
YC61 weighs an amazing 15 pounds, 10 oz. (7.1 kg). Which means it’s compact and light enough for you to be your own roadie. But with a sound that players who can afford roadies will appreciate.

Soft Case
Before you rock, roll. YC61 is available with a premium soft case. Both case feature zippered compartments for storing pedals and other accessories.

YC61 feature a built-in USB stereo audio and MIDI interface for Mac, PC and iOS. With a single USB cable, you can record the YC61 audio and MIDI to a DAW and play and monitor virtual instruments.

Specifications

• Number of Keys - 61
• Type - Semi-weighted Waterfall keyboard, initial touch

• Tone Generating Technology - VCM Organ, AWM2, FM
• Number of Polyphony (Max.) - [VCM Organ + AWM2]:128 *Total of VCM Organ and AWM2, [FM]:128
• Number of Live Set Sound - 160 (Preset Live Set Sounds:80)
• Number of Voices - 145 (Organ:6 / Keys:139)

• Insertion Effect - Organ 1 systems (Pre Drive) / Key A 2 systems (1: 32 types, 2: 32 types) / Key B 2 systems (1: 32 types, 2: 32 types)
• Effect - 32 types
• Speaker/Amp - 6 types (Rotary Speaker: 2 types, Amp: 4 types)
• Reverb - 1 type
• Master EQ - 3 band (with sweepable Mid)

• Line Out - OUTPUT [L/MONO]/[R] (6.3 mm, standard phone jacks, UNBALANCED)
• Headphones - [PHONES] (6.3 mm, standard stereo phone jack)
• Foot Controller - FOOT CONTROLLER [1]/[2], FOOT SWITCH [SUSTAIN]/[ASSIGNABLE]
• MIDI - MIDI [IN]/[OUT]
• USB - USB [TO HOST]/[TO DEVICE]
• AUX - INPUT [L/MONO]/[R] (6.3 mm, standard phone jacks)

• Connectors - [AC IN]
• Display - Full Dot LCD (128 x 64 dots)
• Additional package contents - Owner’s Manual x 1, Power cord x 1

• Width - 35-1/4" (896 mm)
• Height - 4-1/4" (108 mm)
• Depth - 12-3/16" (309 mm)
• Weight - 15 lb (7.1 kg, 10 oz)