Factory-New Yamaha Reface YC arrived quickly, well-packed, perfect. OMG it is so much fun! The keys are super-tiny - smaller than mini. But the controls are awesome and the sound is superb. Thanks so much!

The Yamaha YC has a Beautiful Hammond Oregon Sound for a Small keyboard. I love the Leslie & Draw Controls ( rotary speed & footage ) Along with the Octave, Wave, Vibrato/Chorus, Percussion and the Effect Controls, You can create that one special Sound that will make your music Great.I wished Yamaha would have incorporated an outlet to control the rotary speed with a foot pedal and that the keys were a little bit larger. Overall Very Nice Keyboard with Big Hammond Oregon Sound.

Absolutely perfect!!!

Excelente sonido !

I wanted a portable keyboard to connect to my iPad for playing and making music. I had gotten a small midi keyboard that was okay, but ultimately disappointing. So I started searching and tripped across the reface series. It's battery powered, it's very well built, its built in voices are very good. With a little creativity, it can even make some pretty wild sounds (see Dr. Mix on youtube for ideas). There is an aux in that allows you to plug in from an iPad or metronome or whatever your fancy is. In midi send/receive mode the drawbars work very well with the Arturia Vox and B3 organs (and probably the Farsifa). The swell pedal (gotta get the swell) works as a midi expression controller as well. I added a Yamaha bluetooth midi dongle so I could play the iPad over BTLE. It is easy to run the batteries out because I get really into playing it, so I added a 12v dc battery pack to my toolkit. The mini keys are amazingly playable and the octave switch is super convenient to use, unlike so many other keyboards. The on-board speakers are easy to overdrive, so a good pair of headphones makes sense, and besides I go all mental with it - nobody needs to hear that. The Reface YC has allowed me to regain the one thing I missed about playing guitar, portability. Oh yes, you can save presets as well as download presets via QR-Code and direct sync with an app on your phone or a web browser on your desk top. There is a sound community Soundmondo where all the sounds are archived for all the Reface models. Its easy to save your own particular presets to soundmondo as well. This thing is so awesome that my spouse got me the Reface CS too!

Here’s the skinny on this little keyboard.If not for the keys on this instrument, what would you have? A MIDI module the size of a Mac Mini, perhaps? Maybe a Focusrite Clarett 2i2? I’d buy that in a heartbeat, too! But, the designers at Yamaha must have considered that, and to provide more “fun”-ctionality, they made this a very portable, playable, sonically capable keyboard. Sure, the keys are small, sure there’s no velocity or after touch. So? Are you REALLY going to use that keyboard every day? EVERY DAY? Maybe in a mobile setting, yes, but not while you’re MIDI’ed to an 88-key controller. That’s really where the Reface series shines. With an inexpensive 88-key (73, or 61, perhaps), and the YC / CP Refaces, you’ve got your classic organ and e-piano tones in a very portable package. Integrate the entire series? Eh, why not? It’ll make my rehearsal rig so much lighter (and fun to tinker with) and versatile.Now - about the YC!1. The VoicesThe Reface YC features five classic organ tones you know and love:- Hammond (H)- Vox (V)- F (Farfisa, 60’s Italian transistor organ)- A (Ace Tone, 60’s Japanese transistor organ)- Y (Yamaha’s classic transistor organ)I’m a Hammond fan, so I’ve been spfending most of my time tinkering with the draw bars and other settings with this voice. I think I’ve got a good tone reminiscent of Jon Lord’s organ tone in Highway Star.Each voicing sounds accurate enough to my ears, although I’m sure purists will point out the error of my ways for imagining a Hammond B-3 sound coming out of this keyboard.2. FeaturesKeyboard - 128-note polyphony (can you hit 128 keys on this guy? Sure, just glissando up and down about 4 times with the sustain pedal connected/depressed). Seriously though, if you’re MIDI’ed to an 88-key, then what are you worrying about? Also, the keyboard can be used to manage the settings of the keyboard itself (see User Manual).Effects - Percussion (adds click noise to tone) / Distortion / Reverb / Vibrato | Chorus / Rotary speaker with manual control of Slow/Fast/Stop/Off settingsMIDI - mini port requires custom combo mini-DIN MIDI plug Y-cable, with separate In/Out connections (provided); with the cable, you can run MIDI in and out (no thru), chaining multiple devices. My setup will use a single MIDI in to 4 MIDI port out, so I can use a single controller to manage up to four different modules (Hey - great idea to plan for additional Refaces! Yeah!).Speakers - Yes, this keyboard does have two tiny 3” speakers, and yes - it is stereo. Will you use them much? Maybe, maybe not - Yamaha did design the keyboard to turn the speakers off completely, effectively disabling them until you reset the keyboard. They do sound pretty good, considering their size.Power - Multiple power sources available to you: ultra-portability via USB-bus powered device (laptop, iPad with appropriate interface, USB “juice box” batteries for recharging cell phones), 6 AA batteries, or the included power brick.Ports - two 1/4” TRS audio L/R output; mini-DIN MIDI combo in/out; USB type-B (handy for connecting to computer DAW, for example, battery pack, etc.); 1/4” TRS expression pedal; 1/4” stereo headphone jack; 1/8” stereo AUX IN (play along with your MP3s, for example).Things I haven’t tried yet, but eventually will:- Connecting to my computer, linking to a DAW and using it to record/playback- Connecting to my iPad; there’s a handy app for that...to manage your keyboard’s tone settings and a whole lot of other useful things performing musicians will appreciate- Get the keytar kit for this, since it can run on batteries, and I can roam about the country wirelessly using a dual XVIVE U2 system- Contact Yamaha designers and petition them to build an AIO Reface, sans keys.I’d buy this again. Sure!

Un teclado mas que genial, si lo conectas por midi a un teclado de 88 teclas tienes todos los efectos y sonidos con en un piano electrónico. es una maravilla y su sonido 60s es único.

Keyboard arrived in excellent condition. The keyboard has settings for Hammond organs and other organs that were popular during the 1960s to 1980s.I like the variety of tones. Drawbar organs provide an almost infinite variety of tones. You can use the same drawbar settings with Hammond, Yamaha and other settings on the keyboard and end up very different tones for the same drawbar configuration. So you end up being able to get five tone variations from that one drawbar set.You can add for vibrato, percussion, distortion, reverberation. With vibrato and chorus, one can change the depth. There is a simulator that simulates rotary speaker sounds - slow and fast.The Yamaha YC is one of the most flexible keyboards I have seen. The only thing that could be done to improve the keyboardist to give it 44 or 61 full-size notes.

Nice little unit overall. My main beef is that the "chorus" and "vibrato" effects are utterly indistinguishable- as are the Vox and Yamaha organ settings!

The voices are spot-on to the original instruments. Hammond is authentic, and Yamaha has really nailed the Vox Continental. To get the most authentic sound, you need to know a little about the original instruments' capabilities, like the fact that the 49-key Vox didn't have the 5 1/3 and 1 1/3 drawbars, the Farfisa mainly used 16', 8', and 4' in the early days (you can make the string sounds a bit brighter with a hint of 2' or 1'). Modulation is the weak spot here. The Leslie sound seems a little forced, and the upper horn sounds as if it has been miked from more than 2 sources because the chorale is too fast, and the chorus lacks shimmer of the original Hammond. But the Vibrato is very good and tweakable. This is a great, lightweight instrument that is surprisingly well-built. And if it is connected via MIDI to a full-size keyboard, it could be taken to a gig to cover occasional organ, provided there was something Leslie-like to pipe it through. If you consider yourself more of an organ player, you wouldn't take this to a gig - even as a sound module. But it's perfect for taking anywhere and the battery life would get you through a full night. It's useful for practice, learning or woodsheding songs, and taking along for when your pals pull out their acoustics.The best thing is if you just need a break and feel like jamming with yourself, it's handy and takes up little room. That's what I wanted it for, and in that application it fulfilled my expectations - and more.