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The AnyTime ATX4 hybrid instruments blend Kawai’s masterful acoustic piano craftsmanship with advanced digital piano technologies. Each piano begins with the solid foundation of Kawai’s award-winning upright and grand pianos, offering class-leading features such as the Millennium III action, considered to be the world’s finest upright and piano actions.
Equipped with Kawai's most advanced digital and sound technologies, AnyTime ATX4 instruments are also premium digital pianos that can be played silently with headphones. Players can practice new pieces in silence using a variety of high quality sounds, use the built-in metronome then record their performance, or play along with tracks from a Bluetooth-connected smart device.
K-500 Aures2
With its taller 130 cm height and well-designed scale, the K-500 offers a rare combination of power, dynamic range and tonal richness. Now enhanced with AURES technology, this model utilizes its expansive solid spruce soundboard to project digital sound with unparalleled depth and presence. Pianists can experience the authentic physical vibration and majestic resonance of a premium upright at a controlled volume, ensuring that its exceptional musical character is preserved for practice or performance at any hour.
Eboni Poles
The AURES AR2 instruments incorporate Kawai’s latest digital piano sound technologies from the highly regarded Concert Artist and Novus product lines. When playing through headphones or when AURES mode is active, pianists can enjoy the beautiful sound of the flagship Shigeru Kawai SK-EX full concert grand piano, stunningly reproduced using the advanced SK-EX Rendering sound engine.
The SK-EX Rendering engine’s multi-channel sampling captures the sound from different points of the Shigeru Kawai concert grand.
This modern technique not only allows a broader range of tonal characteristics to be recorded and reproduced, but also improves the connection felt between the keyboard and piano sound, resulting in a more lively and authentic response to changes in dynamics.
This naturally expressive Shigeru Kawai sound is further enriched by resonance algorithms which model the complex tonal interactions produced by the strings and various other parts of an acoustic piano.
SK-EX Rendering generates resonances for the damper pedal and all 88 keys progressively, allowing the AnyTime ATX4’s digital piano sound to behave just like an acoustic piano.
Supplementing the beautiful acoustic piano voices, the AnyTime ATX4 pianos digital sound engine also features an excellent selection of additional instruments, ranging from electric pianos and drawbar or church organs, to strings, human choirs, and synth pads, inviting musicians to add greater variety to their performances.
Furthermore, the Dual playing mode also allows two different sounds, such as grand piano and strings, to be layered together for a richer, more luscious tone, while the Split and Four Hands modes divide the keyboard into two independent sections with separate sounds for each. The volume balances and other settings for each playing mode can also be easily adjusted using the dedicated PianoRemote app.
The AURES AR2 utilizes the piano's real wooden soundboard to project sound. High-performance transducers channel the digital engine’s tone directly through the solid spruce, creating a naturally expansive and organic resonance. This allows you to experience the physical vibration of the instrument at any volume, delivering a rich acoustic atmosphere even during quiet evening practice.
Experience the luxury of acoustic resonance at any hour, without the need for headphones. The AURES AR2’s Soundboard Speaker System allows you to adjust the volume of the entire instrument while preserving the organic vibration of the wooden soundboard. Whether you’re playing at a whisper-quiet level during a peaceful evening or enjoying the full depth of a concert grand, the authentic feel of a piano is always at your fingertips.
In addition to the acoustic muting and digital sound features, AURES AR2 instruments are also equipped with the latest iteration of Kawai’s advanced Soundboard Speaker System. This innovative technology utilises four high-performance transducers which are strategically placed onto the upright or grand piano's solid spruce soundboard. These transducers channel the AURES AR2 instrument's digitally generated sound through the large wooden soundboard, resulting in a naturally acoustic tone that is more expansive than that produced by traditional cone speakers.
Switching to AnyTime Mode is easy and intuitive. For upright models, simply depress the center Mute pedal and slide it to the left. This instantly silences the acoustic strings, transitioning your instrument into the digital world.
Unlike conventional muting systems, the brand new GP Touch Muting System allows pianists to enjoy exactly the same grand piano touch feeling in both normal and muted playing modes. This unique design ensures that the acoustic keyboard action remains exceptionally responsive and balanced, allowing the full range of dynamics to be expressed with natural fluency.
The AnyTime ATX4 pianos’ precise hammer movements are measured with Kawai’s Integrated Hammer Sensing System (IHSS), which utilises high-resolution contact-less optical sensors to provide greater accuracy then conventional key-based sensor systems.
This more advanced approach reproduces the mechanical flow of the upright and grand pianos’ actions more closely, allowing the full range of dynamics to be expressed by the instrument’s powerful digital piano sound engine with natural fluency.
Designed to meet the connectivity needs of modern pianists, digital features are exclusively controlled via the Kawai PianoRemote app. Once paired to a smart device via Bluetooth® MIDI and Audio, owners can enjoy a wide variety of music-related apps, use the built-in metronome to record their performance, or stream high quality audio directly through the instruments’ headphones.
The digital features of AnyTime ATX4 pianos are exclusively controlled via the Kawai PianoRemote app, available for both iOS and Android devices.
PianoRemote provides a range of functions, including sound selection and customisation via the Virtual Technician feature, performance record and playback with integrated metronome, and a built-in piano music library consisting of hundreds of classical pieces to enjoy – all accessible from an attractive, intuitive user interface.
The AnyTime ATX4 pianos’ Spatial Headphone Sound (SHS) technology enhances the depth and realism of the instrument’s digital piano sound when listening through headphones or earphones. The player can select one of three different acoustic presets that adjust the spatial positioning of the sound, while also helping to reduce auditory fatigue when using earphones or headphones for extended periods of time.
In addition to featuring a premium quality headphone amplifier, AnyTime ATX4 instruments also allow players to specify the type of headphones connected (Open, Semi-open, Closed, In-Ear, Canal, etc.) to ensure an optimal listening experience.
