ELS-03 Series

Key visual of the ELS-03 series, showing a person performing on the instrument.

Your Music in Color

The Live Expression Control feature allows you to translate your musical ideas into sound in real time for the world to enjoy.

Create something new every time you play—even the same song can take on a different hue if you have the freedom to make changes and explore music to the fullest!

The two ELS-03 Series lines, Class X and Class G, are tailored to different goals and playing styles.

Class G

Our standard model with Live Expression Control, After Touch Extension and other key functions, along with a variety of new features that will bring out the individuality and creativity of any player. Recommended for those who just want to enjoy playing or who are looking to build on their playing skills.

Class X

A flagship lineup featuring FSX-i keyboards in addition to Live Expression Control, After Touch Extension and other functions of the Class G model to enable a richer performance experience. Class X models also offer Polyphonic After Touch for even more nuanced expressive control when playing at a higher level. Recommended for players looking to refine their playing style or explore new possibilities in musical expression.

Full-Palette Playing

This one-minute video illustrates how Live Expression Control effects allow players to offer their musical ideas and inspirations to the world. Explore the new horizons that Electone brings.

New Features: Explore Your Own Style of Music

Enhanced After Touch and Live Expression Control that enables you to control the output in real time let you go beyond the instrument presets to capture the emotions and inspirations of the moment.

Explore your own style of music, built on the physical and emotional nuances of your playing.

Live Expression Control: Express What You Feel in the Moment

Assign Filter, Rhythm Part Mute, or any of 40+ parameters to the expression pedals, footswitches, and sliders to give yourself more options while you play. With limitless combinations, you can add more color to your output by tapping into your musical ideas and whatever inspires you in the moment.

Sliders

Nine sliders let you control the volume and brilliance of each Voice section and adjust the organ flute footage. You can also assign functions to each slider to suit your own preferences, giving you custom control over your performance.

Move the sliders a little or a lot to produce everything from subtle changes to dynamic transitions. The unique flexibility sliders offer—such as controlling multiple sliders at once—allows you to bring more freedom and expression to your playing.

Expression Pedals

The two expression pedals and the footswitches allow you to assign various functions in addition to the conventional volume control and pitch bend capability. Being able to operate them with your feet while playing with both hands greatly expands your expressive range.

Enhanced After Touch Opens the Door to More Possibilities

After Touch links the volume and timbre of the sound to how far down you press the keys after playing them. With enhanced After Touch, you can adjust various parameters to make acoustic instrument voices sound more realistic and explore entirely new possibilities of expression, weaving dramatic sonic changes and subtle nuances into your performance with just the tips of your fingers.

After Touch Extension

In addition to timbre and pitch, you can use the LFO to adjust volume, pitch, and filtering. This allows a broader range of variation and lets you change the timbre and modulation in real time as you play. The strength of your touch on the keys lets you bring out the rich expressiveness of acoustic instruments or craft more distinctive synth sounds.

Polyphonic After Touch (Class X only)

Yamaha’s new FSX-i keyboards detect the pressure applied to individual keys. This means that you can control After Touch effects on each key with each finger, even when playing multiple notes at once.

For example, in a guitar voice, you can apply vibrato to the melody alone, while holding other notes in a chord. In strings voices, you can dig into the subtler nuances of a string ensemble. And in synth voices, you can adjust the pressure on different notes in a chord to create incredibly mellow sounds. This feature does more than make acoustic instrument voices sound more realistic—it also reflects your sensitivities in greater detail and depth.

Videos of Live Expression Control in Action

Watch four different Electone performers play “Londonderry Air” using Live Expression Control. Note how the extensive expressive capabilities of the ELS-03 Series allow players to express their individuality.

Tenma Kawakami

Enjoy a drum and bass arrangement performance.
Daiju Kurasawa

Enjoy a jazz performance with a vintage organ sound.
Masahide Nakano

Enjoy a rock arrangement performance with Vocal Harmony.
Yuki Wada

Enjoy a symphonic arrangement performance.

A New Sound Experience

An inspiring palette of sounds, authentic vintage organ tones powered by VCM technology, and an immersive audio experience make it even more exciting to play, experiment, and explore.

Rich Organ Sound

Yamaha’s proprietary Virtual Circuitry ModelingTM (VCM) organ tone generator faithfully simulates vintage tone wheel organs.

VCM produces realistic digital simulations of vintage equipment output based on detailed analysis of the behavior of the components. Explore authentic organ sounds and rotary speaker effects, with nine sliders that can function as drawbars to help you shape the voices more intuitively.
Extensive Voice, Rhythm, and Registration Menus

Bring your musical ideas to life by selecting from among 1,697 AWM voices (plus 94 VA voices on Class X), 1,009 preset rhythm patterns, and expanded registration menus optimized to a broad range of genres. The versatile Simple category is enhanced with easily accessible content for any setting.
Performer-Centric Sound

Featuring sound production and acoustic design optimized for the player at the bench, offering an immersive playing experience that enhances satisfaction.

Greater Freedom While You Play

A large touch screen designed for easy operation even while performing and expanded keyboard offer more expressive potential than ever before, channeling your inner creativity directly into sound through your fingertips.

More Keys

All models now feature a 49 and 61 key keyboard, eliminating the limitations on arrangements caused by a lack of keys. The lower keyboard offers a wider range, allowing two-handed performance.
Large LCD Touch Panel

The large LCD touch panel is easy to see and use while playing.

Compare Models

Compare the major differences between the four ELS-03 Series models to find the right one for you.

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	ELS-03G	ELS-03X	ELS-03XR
Class	G	X	X
Live Expression Control	YES	YES	YES
After Touch (Upper/Lower Keyboard)	YES	YES	YES
After Touch (Pedal Keyboard)	-	YES	YES
After Touch Extension	YES	YES	YES
Polyphonic After Touch	-	YES	YES
Horizontal Touch	-	YES	YES
Detachable Stand	YES	YES	-
Included Bench	Folding Bench	Folding Bench	ELS-03XR Bench
More Information	Product page	Product page	Product page