Yamaha PSR-E313 Portable Keyboard

The PSR-E313 has a huge collection of professional sounding voices which is called XGlite. Only Yamaha’s most excellent keyboards have the ability to hold up and reproduce Yamaha’s XGlite voices which results in a remarkable sound quality and approximately 500 voices to select from, presenting even superior compatibility with both 3rd party and Yamaha XG software. With Yamaha’s “Touch Response” the PSR-E313 keyboard responds like an acoustic piano. On an acoustic piano, striking a key harder will produce a louder sound, striking it softer will produce a softer sound. The Yamaha PSR-E313 includes one-button simple to record function.

Yamaha PSR-E313 Portable Keyboard

The PSR-E313 takes full advantage of Yamaha’s digital signal processing technology results an wide range of nine, top-quality reverb effects that simulate playing in everything from a small room to a big spacious concert hall and four chorus effects that add richness to electric pianos and guitars in particular. The PSR-E313 includes Dual and split keyboard modes of which the Dual mode allows you to combine two voices across the keyboard at the same and the Split Mode allows you to select a different voice for each hand. The PSR-E313 comes with 102 built-in songs and an interactive lesson system, divided into left and right hand parts, for learning them. In addition, you have the facility to connect to a computer, download more songs from the Internet into the internal Flash ROM, and use all of the Yamaha Education Suite V5 features to help you learn to play them. Read more »

Yamaha PSR-E213 Portable Keyboard

Yamaha PSR E213

The yamaha PSR-E213 has 102 built-in songs for beginners learn to play, using the Yamaha Education Suite. The songs are separated into left and right hand parts, providing 7 levels of lessons plus a convenient chord dictionary. LISTEN & LEARN the melody or rhythm of a selected song. The TIMING mode allows you to play the melody or chord by pressing any key using the correct timing and WAITING mode stops the playback of a song until you find the correct note and then continues. Chord Dictionary feature shows how to play chords and tells which chords are playing by displaying the notes and chord name on the LCD screen. Lesson Grading feature monitors progress while practicing each lessons two and three and gives you a grade.

The PSR-E213 has 32 notes of polyphony and will play back 16 different parts or sounds at once; enough for the most demanding needs.

The PSR-E213 also has auto accompaniment styles that “follow” your playing. Simply select a style of music from the 100 built-in Styles, play a single note or chord on the left side of the keyboard and play your melody on the right side. The PSR-E213 will create a backup band and “follow” you through the song. You can play your songs and try different genres of music.

The PSR-E213 is both General MIDI (GM) and XGlite compatible, you have access to thousands of MIDI song files on the Internet. Read more »

Yamaha 88 Key Portable Grand Keyboard YPG-635

The Yamaha YPG-635 has an 88-key weighted graded hammer action keyboard with authentic grand piano-like touch; heavier in the low end, lighter in the high, and amazingly responsive. The YPG-635 has 30 built-in songs plus 70 more on included CD-ROM for you to learn to play using the Yamaha Education Suite. The songs are separated into left and right hand parts, providing 7 levels of lessons plus a convenient chord dictionary. The YPG-635 comes equipped with 130 panel voices, 12 drum/SFX kits plus 361 XGlite voices. Special voices include Sweet! Clarinet, Trumpet, Muted Trumpet, Flute, Pan Flute, Soprano & Tenor Saxes, Trombone, Cool! Voices including Galaxy Electric Piano, Suitcase Electric Piano, Electric Piano, Organ and Rotor Organ and Live! Voices including Grand Piano, Warm Grand Piano and Orchestra. The YPG-635 delivers on its piano theme with a special mode of fingering called Full Keyboard Mode. This allows the player to play the keyboard like a piano; for example a chord with the right hand and bass notes with the left. When using the accompaniment feature, the virtual band will follow these chords.

Yamaha YPG-635 88-Key Keyboard

The Yamaha YPG-635 has 64 notes of polyphony and will play back 16 different parts or sounds at once (16-part multi timbrel); enough for the most demanding needs. The Yamaha YPG-635 takes full advantage of this know-how, giving you an extensive range of twenty-nine, top-quality reverb effects that simulate playing in everything from a small room to a large spacious concert hall and twenty-four chorus effects that add richness to electric pianos and guitars in particular and 182 DSP types for adding everything from distorted guitars to rotary speaker effects. Read more »