Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
The Sound Quality, Range of features . |
| Disadvantages: |
Not loud enough |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
----Introduction + basics----
As we all know (or most of us know) Yamaha are a great make for musical instruments and the PSR-240 isnt an exeption. The keyboard has a very modern look with a great 4x10 cm screen on it, the range of instruments, the range of styles, the range of built in songs the buttons that help you navagate your way round the keyboard and the numeric keypad next to the screen. The keyboard has 36 white keys and 25 black keys. ( I dont know whether this is good because I dont play but it is great for me.)
----What it looks like----
BBBBB F C D BBBBB
BBBBB F F BBBBB
BBBBB F BBBBB
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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okay as you can see I have tried to maka a drawing of the keyboard but I have failed miserably the b's f's c's 'd are more spaced out across the top. but here is the key...
A = The note keys
B = The Speakers
C= Little Screen
D = Keypad
EEEEEEE= Help Keys + the volume and on/off switch.
FFFF - Those are arrow keys.
And the rest is where they show you the keys for the voices and different styles etc.
----The Screen----
The screen is a great little feature as with most keyboards nowadays they come with screens but this one is unique...... On the screen it has eveysingle key so when you press it the key that you pressed lights up on the screen. The screen also has a stave which tells you what notes you were playing but in its musical position. It also has two hands clapping to the beat or style that you have. In the top left it has 3 number digits which tells you what voice you are playing....e.g if you wantes the trumpet sound in the area which I have not marked it says : Trumpet 068 ...so you would type in 068 and the trumpet sound will play.
----The Help Keys-----
These dont help you as in help you to compose a piece of music they help you in that they say do you want accompanyment on or off or when would you like to start the beat on here is also has a chord guide which will give you a suggestion on what chord to play if you didn't know that specific chord then it would show you. It has a feature called intro/ending when you hit this button and you are about to play a piano pice then the drums might guide you in or when you are ending the drums might crash (cymbols). The most popular voice on the keyboard is the grand piano and yamaha have recognised this and put a little grand piano sign on it and a metronome with it 9a metronome give you clicks as crotchets to time you in to your piece. In the help keys area is the master volume and personally it is too quiet. And also the on/off button.
----The buttons around the screen----
On the left hand side of the screen their is like arrow keys and these will gouide you through the following non physical features (but non physical I mean not by a touch of a button) : Tempo - This allowes you to control how fast the style or accompanymeny is going, Multi Pad - This allows you to have two voices goin at the same time, and accompanyment volume.
----The technical parts----
On the back of the keyboard their is a imput socket that says "IN" and that means you can connect it to your computer by USB 1 and if you use a program like Cubase XS (R.R.P £39.99) then you can play and record it on your computer and their is another input socket called OUT this allowes you to create music on the computer and play it or add to it on your keyboard. Their is a headphone socket and a power socket.
----Stuff I fogot to mention -----
When I got the keyboard it came with some introductory keyboard "do-it-yourself" and it came with a power pack. The sound quality on this keyboard is awesome I tested it with a real piano and they could nottell the difference. This keyboard also has touch sensitive keys. The
price for the keyboard is around £149. But it is really easy to use.
----Conclusion----
If you are a begginer then I reccomend then you got this keyboard but if you are more of an advanced user then I reccomend then you buy a more better keyboard this one has a good range of features and was perfect for me but if you are buying it in a music shop ask if you can have a go...
If you have any comments on how to improve this or any of my other reviews please tell me!
thanks for readind ste231191
