DGX-202

The DGX-202 has professional features that include bass ports for enhanced sound, 76 full-sized touch-sensitive keys, 32 notes of polyphony, Yamaha's exclusive Advanced Wave Memory tone generation technology, and an icon-based LCD display. It also features a pitch bend wheel, MIDI IN/OUT connectors and is General MIDI (GM) and XG Lite compatible, critical for computer use. Although the performance and features are professional, the DGX-202 is still easy to carry and can be battery operated. Other cutting-edge advances include a built-in 6-track sequencer (recorder), over 600 voices and Touch Response, so that your playing can be as expressive as on an acoustic instrument. A newly designed panel layout includes a blue backlit LCD and panel lights, making the DGX-202 look as good as it sounds.

Customers have always listed the piano as the most important sound they were looking for in a portable keyboard. The DGX-202 is part of a new piano-focused series of instruments from Yamaha called Portable Grand. In keeping with this piano focus, the Yamaha DGX-202 features a stereo-sampled piano voice and dynamic filtering; technology previously reserved for more expensive keyboards. And playing piano is fast and easy with Yamaha's Portable Grand function. One dedicated button brings up a great sounding piano, stunningly rich and authentic in its sound and exceptionally responsive to your playing touch, as well as setting up the keyboard to play as a piano in full keyboard mode. On top of all this, a wealth of special piano-only "Pianist" styles, like Piano Ballad or Boogie Woogie for example, provide professional-sounding piano accompaniment that changes chords automatically as you do, while you play a piano melody on top!

The DGX-202 is the music student or professional musicians' answer to "I need more keys!" and many music teachers encourage new students to get a keyboard that will grow with their needs. But the DGX-202 isn't all about work and no play. There is a complement of over 600 sounds to explore. Not only do you get full compatibility with General MIDI (GM), you get hundreds of XGlite Voices and full MIDI control of voice and effects parameters like Reverb and Chorus, which add an extra dimension of richness. In an effort to give the player maximum flexibility, the DGX-202 is capable of layer and split modes. Split mode allows you to have two different sounds on the keyboard at the same time, like piano on the right and bass on the left. That's when you really appreciate the 76 keys. Layer mode allows you to combine two sounds across the keyboard range. For example, you could play piano and strings at the same time. With over 600 voices, the combinations are only limited by your imagination.

The DGX-202 offers you state-of-the-art features to help you get started on your musical journey. It comes with 100 built-in songs with Songbook, plus the ability to connect to a computer and download more songs from the Internet into the DGX-202 Flash ROM. Once a song is in the Flash ROM, you can use all of the built-in features to help you learn to play it. But if you've never played before, where do you start? Well, if learning to play music is important to you, the Yamaha Education Suite II™, a wonderful set of music training functions, makes learning music incredibly easy. Seven types of lessons are available as well as a convenient chord dictionary.

Yamaha Portable Keyboards are famous for their ease of use. But, even when the keyboard is easy to operate, how does the novice know which settings to make that are appropriate for the song he wants to play? With Yamaha's remarkable new Music Database, you simply choose from over 200 song titles in the database and the entire keyboard will set itself up for that song. It couldn't be easier.