Yamaha PSRS500 61-Key Arranger Workstation Keyboard

The heart of the Yamaha PSRS500 is in total of 283 realistic instrument voices, 361 XGlite voices and 15 Drum /SFX kits. Yamaha's highly acclaimed Sweet! Cool! and Live! Voices let you play with all the expressive nuances of the original instruments, and make your performances come alive!

Built-in Sound System
Drawing on our long-standing expertise in acoustics and sound reproduction as well as your advanced technology, we've given the PSR-S500 a built-in sound system that perfectly complements the authentic Voices inside. Exceptionally clear and powerful sound in a small, portable package.

Live!, Cool! and Sweet! Voices
A huge palette of acoustic and electronically amplified instrument sounds. A blend of long, stereo and multi-layered samples is used to fully capture the natural presence, resonance, expression and vibrato of the real instrument.

Dynamic Styles
Everything you need to make high-quality music is right here - at your fingertips. The PSR-S500 provides fully automatic, fully realized accompaniment with drum, bass, guitar, piano, organ, strings, and more - with 150 built-in Styles, expertly programmed for playing a wide variety of music genres.

Easy to play, Easy to use
The PSR-S500 is an absolute joy to play. With the simple, logical layout of the panel controls and the full dot LDC display, you get complete at-a-glance control over the workings of the entire instrument. The Style, Song and Voice controls as well as the One Touch Setting buttons are conveniently located for optimum operation. In music creation, in performance - the PSR-S500 is remarkably easy to use.

USB TO DEVICE Terminal
Insert a USB flash memory in the USB TO DEVICE terminal on the instrument. It would let you save or load the registered settings and user songs created on the instrument.

Easy Performance with Music Notation Display
When you play back a song, the corresponding score will be shown on the display as the song plays. This is a great way to learn how to read music. If the song contains lyric and chord data*, the lyrics and chords will also appear on the score display. * No lyrics or chords will appear on the display if the song you are using with the score display function does not contain the appropriate lyric and chord data.

Music Database
You want to play music in your favorite style, but you're not sure how to select the best voice and style for the type of music you want to play ... simply select the appropriate style from the Music Database. The panel settings will automatically be adjusted for the ideal combination of sounds and style!

Technical Info

Keyboard
Type: Organ Style

Number of Keys: 61

Touch Response: Yes

Display
Type: Full Dot LCD

Color: Monochrome

Size: 320 x 240 dots 4.2 inch

Back Light: Yes

Score Display: Yes

Lyrics Display: Yes

Other Controllers
Pitch Bend: Yes

Tone Generation
Tone Generating Technology: AWM

Polyphony
Number of Polyphony: 32

Preset
Number of Voices: 659 (283 Panel Voices + 361 XGlite Voices + 15 Drum/SFX Kits)

Featured Voices: 10 Sweet! Voices, 16 Cool! Voices, 6 Live! Voices

Compatibility
GM: Yes (System Level 1)
XG lite: Yes
XF: Yes

Accompaniment Styles
Number of Preset Styles: 150

Variations: Main x 4

Sections: Intro x 3/ Ending x 3 / Main x 4 / Fill x 4

Fingering: Multi / Full Keyboard

Custom
User Styles: Style File Format

Other Features
One Touch Setting (OTS): 4 for Each Style, with OTS Link

Music Finder/Music Database: Yes

Recording
Number of Songs: 5

Number of Channels: 9 (8 Melody + 1 Chord)

Song Data Capacity: Maximum number of notes, approximately 10,000 (when only "melody" tracks are recorded) Maximum number of chords : approximately 5,400 (when only "chord" tracks are recorded)

Compatible Data Format
Playback: SMF

Recording: Original File Format (Convertible into SMF)

Effects
Reverb: 25 Types

Chorus: 30 Types

Equalizer: Preset Master EQ x 5

Accompany Style Related
Auto Harmony: 26 Types

Registration Memory
Number of Button: 8 (x 8 Banks)

Overall Controls
Tempo Range: 11 - 280

Transpose: -12 to 0, 0 to +12

Tuning: 415.3 - 440 - 466.2 Hz

Storage
Flash Memory (Internal): 800KB

External Drives: Optional USB Flash Memory (via USB TO DEVICE)

Connectivity
USB: Yes (TO HOST / TO DEVICE)

Headphones: Yes

AUX Pedal: 1 Foot Switch

DC In: Yes

Accessories
Music Rest: Yes

Bundled Software
CD-ROM: Musicsoft Downloader, USB-MIDI Driver

Amplifiers and Speakers
Amplifiers: 12W + 12W

Speakers: 12cm x 2 + 3cm x 2

Power Supply
Power Supply: Adaptor (PA-301/PA-300)

Power Consumption: 25W

Dimensions (WxHxD): (37-1/4 x 5-1/8 x 15-7/8)in., 946 x 130 x 402 mm

Weight: 7.5kg (16 lbs., 9 oz)