Who needs a compact, lightweight, focused on the essential digital piano which is easy to carry and can be used even on the stage, which is not wrong here.
Focuses on the essentials, a number has advantages:
- No buttons, switches, controllers, displays too much that keep the music more. "Keep it simple" - also a visual digital piano fits better into the living room as an egg-laying "Wollmilchsäue" with a superior number of controls.
- Very good 88-key keyboard. An amazingly "real" feel - unusual in this price range.
- A digital piano takes an excellent piano sound. This one is very good. Two piano sounds are available that fit for a variety of musical genres. The two e-piano sounds are great. The more a Yamaha DX-7 like, the other reminiscent of the good old Fender Rhodes. Very useful.
- A metronome provides the right clock. More play features are not available.
- The operation of essential functions (activation metronome, choice of timbre) is easy.
- The internal speakers are visually beautiful hidden but sound amazingly well! Even better, however, the sound is in the use of a (good) headphone.
- It is a multi-stage Hall available.
- The keyboard can be split, which is advantageous when scheduled with the piano teacher.
- There is a Layer function available to combine two sounds together (Example: Piano + Strings), the possibility of the two timbres to transpose by an octave.
- The touch response weighted keyboard can be adjusted in several steps - important, for example, if more the sacred organ sounds are to be used and the velocity then rather disturbing.
On the essence focused, however, is also a few drawbacks to make:
- More than ten timbres are not available. The piano and electric pianos are excellent, the rest is weakening even more.
- In addition to MIDI IN / OUT is unfortunately only a headphone output. So you can even live on stage. Beautiful but would m. E. An additional audio output.
- No frills like recorder or the like.
- There can be only a sustain pedal Connect. Who needs two or three pedals that needs something to fall deeper into their pockets and buy, for example, the Yamaha P-105.
- Some functions (polling demo songs, setting Hall, transpose one of the two layers ...) are not intuitively accessible. You have to look in the (supplied printed) manual here first in order to know which key on the keyboard is used in combination with the function key in order to achieve the desired. A typical disadvantage of reduced operating - visually beautiful * and * everything does not go easily accessible just after all.
To my mind, the Yamaha P-35 is a stroke of luck for those who need a small budget, a very well sounding digital piano with an excellent keyboard, which is quite versatile.
What I would have liked, but given the price does not want to lead to a devaluation of the device:
- Instead of the two sacred organ sounds, I would at least have liked a Hammond B3 sound.
- A Jazz Piano Sound is also missing.
As I said, that would all * for me * round out completely, but it would be unfair to deduce a devaluation of the really, really good instrument.
A tip even when it comes to stand for the Yamaha P35:
There Yamaha the original stand (Yamaha L-85), which is perfect for the P35 when the digital piano is to stand permanently in the living room. A very simple, but in my opinion, smart and above all stable thing.
Who wants the Yamaha P35 also like to carry and take to the stage for the coming, for example, a shear stand (X-Stand) in question. Here is to be noted however that most of these stands have a depth of 35-40 cm and bearing only at the end of the two support pipes have a rubber coating. However, the P35 has only a supporting depth of about 25 cm! Besides the fact that the use of these stand look the pipes far beyond the instrument, the P35 then is not on the two rubber linings on, but at least partly on the bare steel pipe - with the result that it slips and not really stable stands. An example of such - only conditionally suitable - stand is apparently often have ordered here "Classic Cantabile X Keyboard Stand Double braced (height adjustable in 5 steps, foldable, stable, Black)".
It is also better. For example, the König & Meyer 18930 Keyboard Stand (under 40 euros) is specially designed for stage piano and has a circulation area of only 25 cm - look no pipes over and the Yamaha P35 is completely on the rubber linings. The König & Meyer stands are also made of very high quality and precision. So my clear and unequivocal recommendation.
