Yamaha PSR-S900 Information

Posted By James Woodcock On 18th May 2007 @ 09:03 In | 64 Comments

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With 891 instrumental voices PSR-S900 offers the player a huge sonic palette. Most of these voices are coming from high end models – including 20 Live! Voices, 26 Cool! Voices and 22 Sweet! Voices as well as 15 Mega! Voices and even 23 Super Articulation Voices included.

The amazing Super Articulation voices open a completely new level of sonic realism and expressiveness. You’ll feel as if you’re playing the real thing! Super Articulation Voices give you the unique performance characteristics of each instrument and are perfect for playing solo passages and legato melodies, intelligently adding the right expressive nuances to your performance as you play. The expanded range of Mega! Voices feature various playing techniques and performance sounds – such as finger slides and fret noise on Guitar Voices and shakes on Trumpet voices – designed specifically to enhance playback of the 305 built-in Styles.

For each Style there are four One Touch Setting so that you get the perfect instrumental setting by pressing just one button. The OTS-Link-Function allows you to change automatically through the One Touch Setting just by changing the Style-variation.

If you want to play a certain song and don’t know which style to choose, the powerful Music Finder feature can help. Simply select a song title or a keyword, all appropriate panel settings are reconfigured to match the genre, including the appropriate voices, style and effects. Music Finder+ also works with the Internet Direct Connection (IDC) feature, allowing you to download additional free Music Finder records and collections in addition to the wide selection built in to the instrument.

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The colour LCD display shows the song notation of a MIDI file (score) as well as lyrics (for MIDI songs that have score and lyric data). A special display function allows you to show text files you’ve created on a computer – making it possible to display lyrics for songs that maybe don’t have lyric data, or for creating your own onscreen chord charts and song memos. And to get your karaoke party swinging, PSR-S900 has a Video Output so that you can show the keyboard’s display on a TV or projector.

Connect a microphone and automatically have backing singers mixed with your voice – that’s the PSR-S900′s Vocal Harmony Feature. . A powerful Bass-Reflex-speaker system and 2 x 12 watts amplification guarantees outstanding realism of sound, whilst the integrated Network-connector (LAN-Port) ensures ease of use with Yamaha’s unique Internet Direct Connection (IDC) feature. The USB to device connection opens the possibility to connect USB storage devices such as thumb drives to the instrument, giving you virtually unlimited memory capacity for user registrations, styles and songs. The USB connection also allows you to make your own CD-quality recordings at home with a minimum of fuss, utilizing the new USB Audio Recorder.

Key Feature Comparisons

  Tyros 2 PSR-S900 PSR-S700 PSR-S500
Keys 61 61 61 61
Panel Voices 514 392 317 283
Polyphony 128 128 96 32
Super Articulation Voices 42 23 0 0
Sweet! Voices 23 22 11 10
Cool! Voices 39 26 18 16
Live! Voices 58 20 14 6
Organ Flutes Yes Yes Yes No
Styles 400 305 205 150
USB Audio Recorder No Yes No No
Multipads Yes Yes Yes No
Vocal Harmony Yes Yes No No
Microphone Yes Yes No No
Display Type VGA Colour 7.8inch QVGA Colour 5.7inch QVGA B/W 5.7inch QVGA B/W 4.6inch
LAN Port No Yes Yes No
Internet Direct Connection Yes Yes Yes No

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