Yamaha PSR-S900

The PSR-S900 gives you the same ultra high quality sounds found on the top of the line model and features a newly designed panel layout that makes operating and playing exceptionally easy and intuitive. All panel controls and buttons are right in front of you, logically arranged for optimum performing convenience allowing you to seamlessly switch settings as you play. The new USB audio recording feature makes it incredibly easy to capture your entire performance including your singing, and files are saved as wave files for porting to a computer. Super Articulation Voices give you incredibly realistic instrument sounds.

USB Audio Recorder
Here's one of the most impressive new features of the PSR-S900 — the USB audio recorder. It allows you to directly record the sound of the instrument to an optional USB drive as digital audio data for pristine, absolutely noise-free audio quality. Naturally, you can record your voice, guitar or other acoustic and electric instruments as well, and mix them with the PSR-S900 sound. Once complete, transfer your files to your computer and share your music. Imagine going from a brilliant idea to a recorded CD in minutes.

Super Articulation Voices
The Super Articulation Voices of the PSR-S900 are truly inspirational. These 23 remarkably authentic Voices feature the unique performance characteristics of each instrument — for example, the expressive finger-slides on guitar, or the breathy, legato phrasing of a saxophone — and are perfect for playing solo passages and legato melodies, intelligently adding just the right expressive nuances to your performance. Never before have stringed, wind and brass instruments — played live with a keyboard - sounded so convincing or so real!

Large 5.7" QVGA Color Screen
The LCD on keyboards is your connection to the instrument, whether its selecting a voice, reading sheet music or browsing songs and styles on the Internet; bigger is better and color is better yet — like the 5.7" QVGA display found on the PSR-S900. Color adds a new dimension to the different screens you use to control your music, but is most appreciated on ones with a lot of knobs and faders like the mixing screen. As with your TV or computer screen, after seeing and working with a color screen, youll wonder how you ever got along without it.

Microphone Input, Vocal Harmony and Video Out for Real Time Performance
Whether you sing for fun or for a living, the PSR-S900 has features that help you sound great. The keyboard is equipped with a microphone input (Mic not included) and a professional 4-part vocal harmony function (4 parts including your original voice), which transposes your voice in real time to provide authentic sounding harmony. Add a choir to provide more depth and emotion to a ballad or expand your singing range with the unique Gender function. The harmony function can be triggered in real time from 3 different sources; left hand chords, right hand notes or from a track in a MIDI file. There are literally thousands of song files available from many different sources on the Internet that contain lyric and harmony information that makes the whole process plug and play. Call up the song and follow the lyrics in the screen, or connect the video out jack to your television for a family get-together or for audience participation in a club environment. The lyrics advance as the song does and the harmony will come and go at the appropriate times. And because it's MIDI, you can change the key without altering the sound. Once your friends and family try it, your biggest problem will be getting the microphone back!

MegaVoices
The MegaVoices feature various playing techniques and performance sounds — such as finger slides and fret noise on guitar Voices — designed specifically to enhance playback of the built-in Styles. Simply hold down a chord while you play, and enjoy some of the most astonishingly realist, expressive accompaniment you've ever heard.

Virtual Drawbars
If you are a fan of that vintage organ sound, then look no further than the PSR-S900 Organ Flutes. One press of the Footage button calls up a graphical representation of nine virtual drawbars and assigns the increment/decrement buttons under the screen for controlling them. You can make adjustments in real time that Virtual Drawbars Display include flute footage volume, rotary speaker speed and type, organ type, vibrato, percussive attack and length, response and EQ. Once you get it the way you like, then simply save the new voice and call it up any time you like. And because the PSR-S900 has two Foot Pedal jacks, you can assign one to control rotary speed for smooth, hands free operation.

Ease of Operation
There are many tools in the keyboard that make it easy to be a power user from the first day you own the keyboard.

USB Connectivity
The PSR-S900 has 2 USB ports on the back, USB To HOST and USB to DEVICE. USB to HOST is plug and play simple for recording and playing back MIDI files from your computer. Storage Device USB to DEVICE is for connecting optional peripheral USB devices like floppy disk drives, thumb drives and hard drives for storing data like song and Style files and audio recordings.

LAN Port for on-line, on-demand music
You will need your computer to activate an account, but once that is done, you can browse through Songs and Styles and download music directly into your keyboard, play it, score it and learn it — no computer required. All you need is an appropriate high-speed Internet connection (not dial-up) and network, and you have full access to the convenient Internet Direct Connection services.

A Keyboard with More Style
The PSR-S900 features Styles (accompaniment patterns) in a variety of different musical genres including Rock, Jazz, Latin, Country and Dance. As you play chords with your left hand, the selected Style will automatically provide drums, bass, guitar, strings, organ and horn parts. This is live playing at its best. For even greater diversity, the PSR-S900 offers four sections to the built-in Styles. For example, you could use the A section for the Verse, B section for the Chorus, C for the Bridge and D for a Solo. In addition, each Style has three different Intros and Endings with dedicated panel buttons, and will automatically fill, if you like, between sections.

Dynamic Voices and Effects
A keyboard can only sound as good as the speakers that reproduce its sound. The stereo speaker system in the PSR-S900 has been specially designed to faithfully reproduce the powerful dynamics and subtle overtones of the onboard voices and music styles. The keyboard comes with 891 voices, is 128-note polyphonic and has 4 Effects blocks plus Reverb and Chorus. Additional sound features include a selection of special samples called Super Articulation Voices, MegaVoice, Sweet!, Live! and Cool! voices.

Professional Connections
Connectivity ports include the following:

• LAN Port for connecting to the Internet
• USB to DEVICE
• USB to HOST
• MIDI In/Out
• Foot Pedal 1/2
• Video Out
• DC IN (PA-300 Adapter included)
• 1/4" R/L Output Jacks
• 1/4" R/L AUX IN Jacks
• MIC/LINE IN with input volume rotary knob and LINE/MIC switch

Compatible with commercially available song/style data including:

• GM — General MIDI
• XG GM2 — General MIDI 2
• XG — Yamaha extended Voice set
• GS — for GS song playback
• DOC — Yamaha Disk Orchestra Collection
• SMF with lyrics — Standard MIDI File
• KAR — Karaoke files
• XF — Songs with lyrics and/or chords
• SFF — Yamaha style file