PSR225PC

Kit includes: Yamaha PSR225 MIDI Keyboard; MIDI-to Joystick Adapter - Connect your keyboard to your computer; Yamaha AC Power Adapter - Eliminates the need for batteries; Voyetra Discovering Keyboard Software; Voyetra MIDI Orchestrator Plus Software. The Yamaha PC Music Studio Kit is designed as a complete, turnkey system for anyone with a PC and an interest in music. Each PSR225PC features a powerful Yamaha keyboard, interactive and educational software and all the necessary accessories to let your PC teach you how to play the keyboard and create your own music.

Included with the PSR195PC and PSR225PC, this software lets you learn basic keyboard skills to play and read music right away. Multimedia Keyboard Lessons: Notation, theory and technique are taught through full motion video and exercises to entertain and educate.

Discovering Keyboard Game Room: Featuring musical games, the game room is designed to entertain and educate at the same time. Discovering Keyboard Tour: Features a multimedia history of keyboard instruments.

The Keyboard Songbook provides an expandable collection of music including folk, classic, holiday and patriotic tunes. Understanding MIDI and Synthesis: Describes how electronic keyboards make music while explaining how your keyboard and computer work together.

Included with the PSR195PC and PSR225PC, MIDI orchestra Plus is designed to turn your multimedia PC into a complete desktop MIDI recording studio. Create multitrack MIDI recording of your own music. Modify pre-recorded MIDI songs any way you want to. Compose songs, step-by step. Print music from any MIDI file. Includes a wide variety of MIDI files, drum tracks, video demos and more.

The PSR225 features an easy-to-use sequencer for recording your performances or composing original songs. Six tracks are provided to accommodate sophisticated melodies, chord accompaniment and rhythm parts. Parts can be recorded in Step or Real-time recording mode to suit your music style and playing preferences.

The PSR225 uses digital stereo samples of an actual grand piano and a keyboard with TOUCH RESPONSE to achieve its remarkable and expressive piano tone. With a touch of a button, the keyboard will instantly exit any other mode and have the grand piano voice ready for you to enjoy. By pressing the Style button Piano Accompaniment Styles will be available as well. A built-in Metronome function can also be selected anytime by pressing the icon-shaped button.

The PSR225 lets you create rich and colorful textures by adding up to four effect categories to any voice with the built-in Digital Effects Processor. Choose from 8 types of Reverb, 4 types of Chorus, 33 types of DSP effects, and 26 types of Harmony. The level of each selected effect can be independently adjusted for individual keyboard voices; Main, Dual and Split.

The Yamaha Education Suite is a set of functions dedicated to making learning and practicing music easier than ever before. With a complete ensemble of interactive musical guides and functions, the PSR225 will lead you through a musical adventure.

Chord Guide functions for developing left-hand playing skills. The PSR225 includes a Smart Chord function, which plays and displays the appropriate chords of any selected key signature. With most other keyboards you have to press two or three notes to play minor and seventh chords. Smart Chord, however, plays the correct chord in any given key just by pressing a single key, allowing you to concentrate on your performance.

For learning chords and their relationships, Yamaha's exclusive Chord Dictionary will show you how to play any chord as well as display the chords as you're playing.

Ideal for beginners who want to focus on their timing and right-hand melody, the EZ Chord function plays the proper left-hand chord change by pressing any key. Simply program the chord changes into the EZ Chord memory and play — no need to worry about playing the wrong chord. The Owner's Manual also includes a quick guide to chord theory.

The One Touch Setting function instantly configures all the settings of the PSR225, such as melody voice, tempo, and accompaniment volume, to match any music style you select. Two Hundred preset One Touch Settings are available as well as 16 user settings for storing your favorite keyboard settings.

Add the excitement of an entire orchestra to your playing. The PSR225 contains one hundred musical accompaniments complete with chord and bass arrangements that follow the keys you play. Each style has its own Intro, Main A/B, and Ending variations, plus four Fill-in patterns* for added musical expression. Custom Pianist Styles are especially tailored for playing piano arrangements. *Pianist Style selections #91-100 do not have Fill-in patterns.

The PSR225 packs one hundred dynamic panel voices plus 128 General MIDI voices and 10 drum kits for a total of 238 voices at your fingertips. All voices are digitally sampled using Yamaha's AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation system.

The PSR225 packs one hundred dynamic panel voices plus 128 General MIDI voices and 10 drum kits for a total of 238 voices at your fingertips. All voices are digitally sampled using Yamaha's AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation system.