YDS-150

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Brand: Brass and Woodwind
SKU: YDS-150

Blowing into the mouthpiece resonates through the entire instrument—a vibration you can feel in your lips, fingertips, and even your heart.

SPECIFICATIONS

Specifications

Size/Weight

Dimensions: Width 110mm Height 699mm Depth 103mm
Weight: 1.0kg not including batteries

Material

Bell: Yellow Brass/Gold lacquer finish

Control Interface

Key systems: Fingering same as Saxophone
High-F#:
Front-F:
LowA:
Other Controllers: Analog controller

Voices

Tone Generating Technology: AWM Sampling
Preset Number of Voices: 73 voices (incl. 56 sax voices)

Key

Key: Eb
Bb:
C (Sync with voice):

Functions

Overall Controls Tuning: 427.0 - 440.0 - 453.0Hz
approx. 0.5Hz increments:
Wireless: Bluetooth Audio

Effects

Types Effects: 5 types (for Headphones)

Storage and Connectivity

Headphones: Stereo-mini
AUX IN: Stereo-mini
USB TO HOST: micro USB Type-B

Power Supply

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

Accessories

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

Features

VOLUME CONTROL
INTEGRATED BELL ACOUSTIC SYSTEM
MOUTHPIECE
KEY LAYOUT
BRASS BELL
BREATH SENSOR
WHOLE-TONE SAMPLING OF PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS
AUTHENTIC SAXOPHONE TONE
OTHER FEATURES

VOLUME CONTROL

The rich sound of the saxophone is captured in all its beauty for you to play, yet the instrument can be as quiet as you want. You can adjust the volume over a range of 15 steps, and enjoy playing without worrying about the volume—day or night. And if you want total silence and focus completely on your performance, simply connect a set of headphones.

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 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 of the saxophone is essential for playability and feel, and the YDS-150 has been designed based on Yamaha’s flagship model of acoustic saxophone for the most natural playability and smoothest feel. In addition, you can use the dedicated app to change the fingering and customize it to your own needs.

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

Simply by blowing into the mouthpiece and playing the keys with correct fingering, you can produce a perfect acoustic saxophone sound—like a professional player—without having a perfect embouchure (mouth shape). The YDS-150 has a breath sensor that detects the intensity or pressure of your blowing, letting you minutely control not only the volume of the sound but also the tone.

WHOLE-TONE SAMPLING OF PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS

The YDS-150 uses sampled sounds of Yamaha's acoustic saxophones—soprano, alto, tenor and baritone—meticulously recorded in whole tones with professional players, letting you fully enjoy performing without any unnatural sound.

AUTHENTIC SAXOPHONE TONE

The YDS-150 lets you instantly change the tonality, range, and timbre of each of the saxophone types—soprano, alto, tenor or baritone. Moreover, each of these saxophone types have different saxophone Voices that correspond to various playing techniques and musical genres, from vibrato playing and jazz to classical music. In total, the YDS-150 has 73 instrument sounds, with 56 saxophone Voices, and many other instrument sounds—including electronic instruments, as well as acoustic wind instruments such as shakuhachi, Irish pipe, and more—letting you perform authentically in virtually any music genre.