• 88 keys, velocity sensitive
• Hammer action
• Weighted "Grand Feel Compact" keyboard with Ivory touch
• Piano samples based on Shigeru Kawai Competition Grand & Kawai EX concert grand pianos
• 19 high quality sounds
• 192 voices
• Reverb effects
• Smart operation via Piano Remote App (Android / iOS)
• Virtual Technician
• 279 Piano Music Songs
• 40 Concert Magical Songs
• 10 demo songs
• Metronome function with 7-time signatures
• Linear recording function, 3 songs, 1 track up to 10.000 notes
• 2x 20-watt stereo speakers
• Four hands mode
• Adjustable music desk
• High-quality power supply for clean playback
• Bluetooth audio & MIDI
• 2 headphone outputs
• USB MIDI
• Keyboard cover

Sounds

The digital sound generation provides a total of 19 first-class sounds, which can be given the finishing touch with various reverb effects if required. The piano samples are based on the impressive concert grand pianos Shigeru Kawai Competition Grand and Kawai EX. In an elaborate process, all 88 keys of these extraordinary instruments were carefully recorded, analyzed and made playable in this perfection. In this way it was possible to bring out the special characteristics of these concert grand pianos in detail and to create an excellent sound image. Due to the 192 voices, the CA-401 is fully polyphonic playable, which is also positively noticeable when playing together in pairs. Part of the sound generation is also the "Virtual Technician", which grants access to detailed adjustment options that only the instrument maker at the factory or a piano tuner can influence on a purely mechanical piano. The linear recording function records your playing in note form. For this purpose, there are three single-track memory locations with a total capacity of up to 10,000 notes. This is useful, among other things, to check yourself, but also to replace a third and fourth hand on the instrument.

Speakers and other details

The 2x 20-watt stereo speaker system shines with new audio components and an optimized power supply, both of which support clean sound reproduction. Other innovations in the Kawai CA-401 are an improved user interface and OLED display that ensures a more intuitive operation, the SHS headphone system (Spatial Headphone Sound) which provides so-called psychoacoustics for spatial depth when using headphones and the Grand Feel Pedal System, which adapts all the features of the pedal system of the Shigeru Kawai SK-EX concert grand piano.