Experience outstanding playing response with the Grand Touch keyboard with escapement, synthetic ebony and ivory keytops, for classic piano feel plus amazing digital features.
This new Clavinova features Yamaha’s acclaimed Genos Sound Engine for outstanding response teamed with advanced features for nearly unlimited playing options.
A large color touch panel makes it easy to see Voice and Style assignments and for quick access and adjustment of numerous features and settings. With the new Chord Looper, you can record chord progressions that the Style engine loops for experimenting with two-hand playing or soloing without having to play the changes. Plus, Playlist attaches settings for instant recall, such as Style, MIDI/audio song, Registration Memories, to any song you create.
When you purchase from Keyboard Concepts, Southern California’s authorized Yamaha dealer, you have the reassurance that Yamaha experts are standing by with hands-on local support and a promise of extremely competitive pricing.
Put Your Hands On Two World-Class Concert Grands

The CVP-805 gives you two renowned pianos known for their distinctive power, versatility, and subtlety: the 9-foot concert grand Yamaha CFX and the Imperial from Bösendorfer. With Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) you get vivid, richly-varied expression for truly resonating sound. VRM calculates the various string states from one instant to the next for each note on the keyboard As a result, the Clavinova sound features a seemingly limitless number of elements in common with an acoustic piano.
A Keyboard With Concert Grand Piano Craftsmanship
The GrandTouch keyboard with linear graded hammers is Yamaha’s most advanced digital piano action ever, giving you the touch, feel and dynamic range of a concert grand.
Most-Used Features Are A Touch Away
With the CVP-805, your 7-inch color touch screen allows you to see Voice and Style assignments and to quickly access and adjust features and settings. Simply touch, slide, swipe or rotate contents in the screen for access to different functions and to make adjustments. Other panel buttons are placed in easy-to-see and reach locations.
Voices That Sound Amazingly Real
To achieve realistic expression Yamaha’s Super Articulation Voices intuitively, authentically and intelligently add just the right amount of the natural nuances of non-keyboard instruments. You don’t have to learn a thing; simply play and let SA Voices do the rest.
Harmonize With Yourself
Take the stage with pro-quality background singers for the ultimate Karaoke party. Plug in a microphone, and Yamaha’s latest VH2 (Vocal Harmony 2) engine creates realistic harmonies that enrich your voice and can even correct your pitch. Enjoy karaoke backing on songs stored in your CVP-805 or downloaded from YamahaMusicsoft.com. If the song data includes lyrics, they’re shown on the display while the words change color as the song advances, telling you exactly when to start. Or, display the lyrics on a TV screen for everyone can join in. The display output via USB feature can mirror your display, or show text for karaoke songs on an external monitor using a compatible USB to HDMI adapter.
Learn To Play Hit Songs
You’ll feel like you joined the band using the You Are the Artist series software to perform music by superstars like Adele, Coldplay, Elton John and Taylor Swift Through a partnership with music publishing giant Hal Leonard, Yamaha has prepared professionally arranged backing tracks to their best-selling songbooks. You can find “You Are the Artist” series books wherever quality print music is sold, then simply download the song files at www.yamahamusicsoft.com/xg.
Never A Wrong Note
Focus on playing the rhythms while the Performance Assistant Technology (P.A.T.) takes over playing the right notes. All it takes is enabling P.A.T., pressing play, and playing along with the MIDI song. Even first-time players will sound great because any note you hit fits in perfectly. It’s also a great feature for practicing rhythms without the distraction of notes that sound off.
Play Hit Songs One Light At A Time
With the Follow Lights-orchestrated song files you don’t play along with a recording, the recording plays along with you with fully-arranged orchestrations and arpeggios. Guide Lamps illuminate over the right keys to teach you classic melodies at any tempo and if you don’t play the right notes, the song waits until you do.
Get Ready To Jam
Piano Room with Session Mode lets you back to select a piano and choose the type of room you’re in, and even invite virtual session musicians to play along as you practice and perform in 40 different musical styles The musicians automatically follow your harmonies and volume expression in either full-keyboard mode or split mode. They can be activated and deactivated and with the touch of a single button, you can even record sessions.
Riff To Your Heart’s Content
Free yourself from playing your chord changes: Chord Looper lets you record chord progressions that the Style engine loops for you, so you can experiment with two-hand playing or soloing. Great for playing two-hand parts on top of Styles, or for the songwriter, you now have the freedom to try out various vocal parts or melodies for each song section without committing to a full song arrangement. And, you can record the chord changes or the entire song.
Instant Recall For Settings
With Playlist, you can attach and instantly recall numerous settings such as Style, MIDI/audio song, Registration Memories, set of Voices and more, to any song record you create. No more reconfiguring; just select the song title from Playlist and start performing
What’s The Difference Between The CVP-705 & CVP-805?
With the CVP-805 you get:
- Grand Touch keyboard action with Linear Graded Hammers (vs NWX)
- Binaural CFX sampling
- Chord Looper
- Piano Room with Session Mode (vs. no session mode)
- 1,315 Voices + 49 Drum/ SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices vs 984 Voices + 33 Drum/SFX (vs. 847 Voices + 28 Drum/SFX)
- 525 Styles (vs 470)
- Bluetooth audio
- Playlist (vs. Music Finder Database)
- USB to HOST audio/MIDI interface
- Smart Pianist (Audio to Score) compatibility
Even More Features
- Yamaha CFX and Bӧsendorfer Imperial Grand Piano Samples
- Binaural Yamaha CFX Sampling
- 1,315 Voices + 49 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices
- 14 VRM Voices
- 535 Styles
- GrandTouch keyboard with Linear Graded Hammers
- Synthetic ivory keytops (wood is used for the white keys), escapement
- Bluetooth Connectivity (with optional UD-BT01
- Wireless audio and wireless MIDI with iOS devices
- MP3/WAV Audio Playback & Recording
- Smooth Release, Key-Off and Damper Resonance samples
- Real Grand Expression (RGE) sound engine; 256-note polyphony; dual-layer capability
- 16-track, 250 song recorder, and USB audio recording lets you share your music
- Soft, sostenuto, and damper pedals; glide, song play/pause, style start/stop, volume, etc
- 45-watt + 20-watt stereo amplifiers
- USB to HOST audio/MIDI interface
- USB to Device Data Storage X2
- Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)
- Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC) provides optimum tone at any volume level
- Stereo Aux In & Out
- Microphone input
- AC Cable vs. Adapter
- Stereo Headphone Jacks x 2
- 5-year parts and labor, in-home limited warranty