Yamaha PSR-S550B
Arranger Workstation
Item: YHPSRS550B
PSR-S550B entry-level Arranger Workstation offers professional features like USB MIDI and storage, 16-track sequencing, 64-note polyphony, unique Regional Voices and Drum Kits and full XG compatibility, making it a wonderful addition to any serious musician's collection of keyboards. Like other Arranger Workstation keyboards, there are dedicated Registration, One Touch Setting and Octave buttons on the panel and Style and Voice category buttons to get you where you want to go quickly. Other pro features include Mixer Function for song playback, 3 Intros, 4 Variations and 3 Endings to the Styles, Style Creator function and great sounds from inherited Sweet!/Cool!/Live! Voices from the Tyros and PSR-S900/S700.
Sound Quality: large selection of realistic Voices
The PSR-S550B gives you the realistic voices you need to sound your best, drawing on some of the recent technologies of other Yamaha Arranger Workstation keyboards. You'll find a vast selection of 294 realistic instrument voices, 480 GM/XG Voices and 22 drum/SFX kits. Included is a selection of Regional Voices and Drum Kits (Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern) and special piano, guitar, brass and flute Voices from Tyros, PSR-S900 and PSR-S700.
Just below the Voice category buttons are buttons that allow you to Split and Layer Voices, turn the Harmony, Touch and Sustain on and off, dedicated DSP button and Upper Octave transpose buttons.
LCD displays lyrics, chords, notation
Have you ever played a song and wondered what it would look like as sheet music? The PSR-S550B can display the score to a song whether it comes from the Internet, the internal selections or ones that you record yourself, and the pages scroll automatically when a song is played back. No more page turning! This is a great way to learn how to read music. And for singers, the screen also displays chords and lyrics to XF compatible songs.
Yamaha PSR-S550B
Arranger Workstation
Features:
- Mixer function allows you to change track volume, panning, reverb and chorus during song playback
- Music Database (MDB): 600 complete keyboard setups by song title
- One Touch Settings: four factory recommended setups for each Style in the keyboard
- Registration Memory: digital snapshots of all of your keyboard settings (8 memory buttons x 8 banks)
- Transpose: easily transpose the keyboard and songs to the best key for you
- Metronome: useful for practice and for recording tracks to the built-in sequencer
- Tap Tempo: set the tempo for the next song exactly where you want it by tapping this button
- Style Creator Function
- Supports original Style production and editing of internal Styles, including using Regional Voices
- 2-Way Speaker System: Separate woofers and tweeters deliver sounds with clarity and precision for more lifelike instrument voices
- Bass Boost System: A special port on each speaker adds a powerful impact to bass sound reproduction
- Function Button: 51 Functions provide a wide range of both detailed and overall instrument parameters, such as adjusting the tuning, setting the split point, and editing the voices and effects
- LCD Contrast Control
- Mute Independent Song Parts
- Play Songs Saved to USB Flash Memory