Yamaha EZ250i 61-Key Portable Keyboard

Manufacturer's Description for Yamaha EZ250i 61-Key Portable Keyboard

The new EZ-250i lighted keyboard from Yamaha has a touch-sensitive keyboard, a stereo-sampled piano voice and dynamic filtering, Yamaha's Portable Grand feature, 480 voices including GM and XGlite, Split and Layer, Yamaha Education Suite training, 100 accompaniment Styles, stereo Bass Boost speakers, digital effects and more!

This keyboard also comes bundled with Konami Keyboard Mania software so that once you're done practicing, simply connect the 250i to your computer via the convenient USB jack and challenge yourself to a multi-level game against the computer (Windows). And without even knowing it, you're still learning to play music!

Features

32-note Polyphony

61 touch-sensitive lighted keys

Digital effects

PC Button: Snapshot memory of your MIDI settings

USB Port

Songbook: 80 built-in songs

Yamaha Education Suite

Bass Boost System

Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

Advanced Wave Memory

Konami Keyboard Mania Software

Keyboard learning in the 21st Century - Konami Keyboard ManiaM
The EZ-250i is the first and only keyboard from Yamaha that comes bundled with Konami Keyboard Mania music software for the PC (Windows® only). Simply connect your keyboard to your computer via USB and let the games begin. This software challenges you to find notes on the keyboard (which light up to make it easier) before they disappear off the computer screen.

There are different levels including practicing your timing as the notes drop or finding the actual pitch of the notes. In addition, there are variations that stop and wait for you to find the notes and then continue on. You can choose any tracks of the music that you like (even the drum track!) and load in new General MIDI songs that you download from your computer - for example from the Internet. The game is entertaining, fun and challenging, and best of all you're learning timing, pitch and other music fundamentals.

Sound Quality
The EZ250i has a touch-sensitive keyboard, features a stereo-sampled piano voice and dynamic filtering; technology previously reserved for much more expensive, professional keyboards. In addition, you'll find that playing piano is fast and easy with Yamaha's Portable Grand function. One dedicated button brings up a great sounding piano, stunningly rich and authentic in its sound and exceptionally responsive to your playing touch, as well as setting up the keyboard to play as a piano in full keyboard mode. But it doesn't stop there.

The EZ-250i comes equipped with 480 Voices that include all the sounds of the orchestra, synthesizer patches, 10 Drum Kits and 2 Sound Effects Kits. It is both General MIDI (GM) and XGlite compatible, making it compatible with pretty much every MIDI file available anywhere.

And no matter what level of playing ability your at, you'll appreciate being able to build combinations of your favorite sounds. For example, you could layer piano and strings and play both sounds at the same time. With 480 voices to choose from, the combinations are only limited by your imagination. zZounds is an authorized dealer of Yamaha products.

Specifications

Keyboard: 61 Standard Keys (C1-C6) with Touch Response

Display: Large Backlit LCD

Yamaha Education Suite: Timing, Waiting, Minus One, Chord Dictionary, Grading using lighted keyboard

Songs: 80 Songs separated into Left and Right hand parts for learning

Voices:
- Total Number: 480
- Compatibility: General MIDI (GM) & XGlite
- Piano Voice Quality: Stereo
- Dual/Split: Yes/Yes
- Drum Kits: 10 + 2 SFX Kits
- Polyphony: 32 note max.

Auto Accompaniment:
- Styles: 100
- Variations: Intro, Main A/B, Ending, Fill-in x 2
- Control: Accompaniment on/off, sync-start, start/stop, intro/ending, main A/B (auto fill)
- One Touch Settings: 1 per style

Digital Effects:
- Reverb: 9 types
- Chorus: 4 types
- Harmony: 26 types

Panel Controls:
On/Off, Master Volume, Portable Grand, Metronome, PC Button, Touch Control On/Off, Lesson R/L, Chord Dictionary, Function, Style Controls, Tap/Tempo, Song Select, Style Select, Voice Select, Demo, Numeric Selector, Harmony, Dual, Split, Sustain

Function Controls:
- Volume: Accompaniment, Metronome, Split Voice, Dual Voice, Song.
- Other: Split Voice Select, Dual Voice Select, Split Octave, Dual Octave, Tuning, Rev type & Depth, Chorus type & Depth, Transpose

Interface: USB MIDI IN/OUT, USB Song Transfer

Auxiliary Jack: Phones / Aux. Out L/R, DC in, Foot Switch

Amplifier: 2.7W + 2.7W

Speakers: 12 cm x 2

Rated Voltage: DC 10 - 12 V

Dimensions (W x D x H): 36.3 x 14.8 x 5.2 in. (933 x 370 x 129 mm)

Weight: 11.66 kg (approx. 5.3 lbs)