Yamaha PSR-E323 keyboard, 61 normal keys with touch response, 482 sounds, 106 styles,102 internal songs, Music Finder, 1 One Touch Setting to style, 32...
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Advantages: A tremendous instrument for the musically minded Disadvantages: -
...really getting hooked on the likes of Jimmy Smith (a jazz organist), so I turned my attention to the electric organ.
My first instrument was a small Lowry Holiday followed by a small Hammond (great keyboard sound, but rotten base). In my twenties, I turned professional and purchased a small Yamaha with Leslie speaker - (a sort of spinning speaker inside a cabinet that produced a rich sound). Because of it's light weight for portability and reasonable prices compared to most other organs, I have stayed loyal to Yamaha ever since. I now own a HE 8 (old technology now, which I will soon be updated no doubt) and a PSR3000 - a 61-key electronic keyboard, which is the focus of this review.
What I Like About The Yamaha PSR 3000 is the sound quality and a huge range of "voices" - these are synthetic sounds that even the most critical...
derek-j-a
26.01.2007 ·Read review
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Review of Yamaha PSR 3000
Advantages: The Sound Quality, Range of features. Disadvantages: Not loud enough
...----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...
ste231191
29.04.2005 ·Read review
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Review of Yamaha PSR-240
...Yamaha have produced some great keyboards over the years, that have given the buyers endless hours of pleasure and entertainment, not to mention those who want to just listen. They are definitely my personal preference as the sound reproduction is much more like the real thing, IE; Piano, Violin, Pipe Organ and so on.
The model I use and have done for about 5 years is the PSR5700. Although it's quite old now the features are more than enough, and even meet the needs of on stage use easily.
As with all the Yamaha range it comes with a good selection of preset voices, in fact this one has 99, but there are actually more because you can retune each instrument individually and save the sounds in yet another bank of 99. And again on top of that you have the standard midi voice bank along with effects like the pitch and modulator wheels...
Trev1000
30.03.2001 ·Read review
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Review of Yamaha PSR5700
Advantages: Great features, easy to use, quality sound Disadvantages: None really - although custom style feature a little limited
...; and now they are branching out more into the higher market band scenes etc., they're trying to put their talented Japanese bulk up there with such famous names as Corg, Roland and Technics.
I arrived home that day then, as excited as a dog going through a butcher's scrap bin, armed with a CD containing all the demos and vital statistics of the latest Yamaha PSR range. It's worth noting at this point to any potential buyers, that although these CDs are informative and helpful, their content, especially the so called "demonstrations" of the keyboard's capabilities should be taken at face value? Remember that the masterpieces that you hear more or less definitely haven't actually been played; they've been composed on a computer and played through the keyboard in an attempt to lour you into the "God! I could be doing this!" frame of mind. But...
craiggy_boy
05.10.2001 ·Read review
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Review of Yamaha PSR 630
Advantages: As useful as a mains hammer drill, except where extremes of power are needed. Disadvantages: Needs regular use to get the best from the batteries
.../recharged frequently it’s fine. Leave it unused until the actual emergency arrives and it’s useless, it’s limp orange glow being just sufficient to help find the candles and matches!
Well, that’s a long preamble to an opinion on a cordless drill but I hope it helps set the scene on cordless tools in general, and the fact that you should only buy them if they are going to get regular use. (Unless they start putting better battery-types in them, that is.)
My Swiss-made Bosch 12v Cordless drill (PSB12VSP-2)comes as part of a pair with a smaller tool (PSR 120)intended mainly as a screwdriver (although it drills wood OK), in a smart carrying case. They are both “drill-shaped”, i.e. with a pistol-grip and trigger.
Screwfix are currently asking £189 for the set, but I bought mine a few months ago in Hereford for £149...
Advantages: 76-keys, loads of sounds, midi, sustain pedal socket, great all-in-one Disadvantages: More keys only make you want even *more* keys (ie. full-length 88)! Could have easier controls for reverb/DSP/etc
...I've gone through a lot of keyboards in a few years, all of them Yamaha. I had a PSR-28 long ago, which soon had to be upgraded to something with full size keys and sustain etc... then I discovered the foot pedal, so the new keyboards had to have that included. Then I got into computer music and so any new keyboard simply had to include MIDI in/out ports.
For the money I had to spend (or, credit I was prepared to stoop for), the DGX-200 was perfect. It looks great (nice big blue-lit screen), it sounds great, and because of its computer-connection options, it's basically infinitely expandable. The other keyboards higher up in the DGX series are obviously much more desirable (both have floppy drives, the 500 has 88 keys), but the features they add to this cheaper model are only luxuries in the end. If you have a computer, and you...
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