PSR-S950
DIGITAL KEYBOARDS
The PSR-S950 arranger keyboard effectively blurs the line between digital and acoustic sound,
and the result will alter your musical perceptions forever. We recorded pro musicians to
achieve authentic renditions of their instruments and playing nuances; now you can play
alongside them. The PSR-S950's other incredible features including Vocal Harmony 2 and
Super Articulation for thrilling instrumental and vocal support will juice up your creativity and
performances.
World-class keyboard that grows with you
The Yamaha PSR-S950 is packed with amazing Voices, Styles and comprehensive features to help you create, arrange, perform and record your music in any genre.
Yamaha's cutting edge sound innovation takes a step further with "Audio Styles." Audio Styles give your performance greater expressive potential by adding real audio drum and percussion parts to Yamaha s Guitar Enhanced Style engine.
Additionally, the built-in FlashROM lets you load new Voices and Style Expansions (VSE) from around the world.
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Just play to experience incredibly realistic and expressive sound
Acoustic instrument articulations, nuances and dynamics are challenging to reproduce. As the world's largest musical instrument manufacturer, Yamaha has perfected both the science and art of this process to bring you the most sophisticated, musical-sounding and easy-to-play
instrument Voices.
Super Articulation (SA) voices
Super Articulation voices reproduce the performance characteristics of acoustic instruments so authentically, you'll feel as if you're playing the real thing. Best of all, SA voices intelligently add the right expressive nuances to your performance without having to learn complicated control techniques - just play!
Mega Voice style technology
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Powerful, pro-quality accompaniment available at the touch of a button
Playing a style is like being the conductor of a band that always plays the chords and arrangements you tell them to play. The PSR-S950 has a huge collection of 408 built-in dynamic styles.
Yamaha styles are created by the world's best programmers and mixed by professional studio engineers to ensure unparalleled quality.
Audio Styles
Audio Styles take one step further by adding an audio recording of studio drummers, percussionists and percussion ensembles playing in various studios around the world. This adds the natural feel, ambience and warmth to the drum and percussion parts of the style, giving your performance greater expressive potential. Yamaha Time Stretch Technology allows the audio to follow your tempo changes without changing pitch, so everything stays in perfect sync.
Guitar-Enhanced Styles with Mega Voices
Guitar-Enhanced Styles not only reproduce the sound of guitar playing, they reproduce the actual chord voicings used by guitar players. This adds to the overall realism of the style.
Vocal features create new levels of entertainment and productivity
Whether you sing for fun, enjoy karaoke or are a singer/songwriter, the PSR-S950 provides everything you need to perform or write. Just plug in your mic and sing!
Vocal Cancel
A powerful Vocal Cancel function effectively cancels or suppresses signals like vocals and solos that exist in the centre mix of an audio file, allowing you to make your own minus one track and sing karaoke style with just instrumental backing.
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Microphone input and Vocal Harmony2
The PSR-S950 s microphone input lets you connect a microphone and sing along with your keyboard performance, song or audio file playback.
With Vocal Harmony, you can sing along with three of your own virtual background vocalists. Vocal Harmony2 takes that a step further with new pitch recognition and stability controls. A convenient real-time Mic Level indicator is included in the main display, and a new intuitive graphic user interface makes it easy to experiment with your own mic settings, effects and harmony types. To get you started, PSR-S950 includes 44 exciting Vocal Harmony presets, including male, voices, female voices and sound effect settings.
Score, Lyrics and Text display
The large LCD display can show lyrics, music notation or text. You can even display this information on an external monitor.
Yamaha s renowned audio and DSP technology provides great live and recorded sound
In music production, the key to creating great sound is in the way the song is mixed. The mixing console lets you mix your music like a studio engineer, including balance, panning and professional studio Digital Signal Processing (DSP) borrowed from Yamaha s renowned professional recording and live sound products.
Real Distortion
Real Distortion effects are based on digital models of classic guitar amplifiers from the 1960's and 1970's. There are also digital models of legendary analog guitar effect pedals. The result meticulously reproduces the frequencies and dynamics of real distortion guitar sounds.
New speakers and speaker enclosures
A larger speaker enclosure gives the PSR-S950 a full, powerful sound with deep lows and clear highs.
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Digital amplifierThe PSR-S950 features a Yamaha manufactured digital amplifier with a superb signal to noise ratio. Because of its fully digital, highly efficient design, the amp delivers high performance while significantly reducing energy consumption.
Experience the new, versatile high performance audio engine
The PSR-S950 is capable of playing back and recording audio files. It also has a number of audio manipulation features you can use to create
karaoke style minus one tracks in the key and tempo of your choice. It can also play back audio files from its Multi Pads, great for triggering loops, vocal phrases and sound effects.
MP3 playback
The PSR-S950 conveniently supports MP3 and WAV audio file playback.
Time Stretch and Pitch shift
Not all singing voices have the same range. The PSR-S950 can put your favourite song in the key of your choice with a powerful pitch shift feature that lets you change the key without changing the tempo. If you do want to change the tempo, you can use the time stretch feature to slow down or speed up the tempo without changing the pitch.
Audio Link Multi Pad
Audio Link Multi Pad function lets you link your own audio files (sound effects, vocal phrases, and so on), and trigger them from the Pads as you perform.
Audio Recording
Record your songs and performances as high-quality, uncompressed WAV files to share online or burn to a CD. Connect a microphone or guitar to the instrument and enjoy recording a guitar and keyboard performance together, or record your singing along with song playback.
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Voice and Style Expandability keeps your instrument up-to-date
Voice and Style Expansion ensures your instrument can always be updated with new high-quality voices and styles from around the world. Best of all, you can sample many of these expansions for free at: http://services.music.yamaha.com/vse/
Voice and Style Expansion (VSE)
Thanks to Yamaha s new Voice & Style Expansion packs, players can take advantage of a wide and ever-increasing selection of voices and styles from around the world. Load them to the PSR-S950's built-in FlashROM (64MB) and instantly play authentic sounds, rhythm and backing in the musical style of your choice.
A Portable keyboard that s mobile device friendly
The PSR-S950 connects and interacts with your mobile devices and tablets. Plus, Yamaha s growing number apps for iPhone, iPod and iPad bring new ways to interact with your keyboard.
Aux in
Use the auxiliary line in jacks to play along with apps like Yamaha s NoteStar digital sheet music with real audio backing tracks. Or, just play along with your favorite tunes from your music library.
iPhone/iPod/iPad connectivity
With Yamaha s i-MX1 MIDI interface for iPhone, iPod and iPad, you can experience a new dimension of MIDI control with apps like Yamaha s Scale Tuner, Piano Diary or Faders & XY Pad.
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Specificaties
Size/Weight Dimensions Width 1,002 mm (39 7/16") Height 148 mm (5 13/16") Depth 437 mm (17 3/16") Weight Weight 11.5 kg (25 lbs., 6 oz.)Control Interface
Keyboard Number of Keys 61
Type Organ
Touch Response Hard 2, Hard 1, Medium, Soft 1, Soft 2 Other Controllers Pitch Bend Yes
Modulation Yes
Display Type Color LCD
Size 5.7 inch (320 x 240 dots TFT QVGA )
Color Color
Contrast
-Panel Language English
Other Controllers Multi Pads 126 banks x 4 Pads
Voices
Tone Generation Tone Generating Technology AWM Stereo Sampling Polyphony Number of Polyphony (Max.) 128
Preset Number of Voices 786 Voices + 33 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices + GM2 + GS (for song playback)
Featured Voices 62 Super Articulation Voices, 23 Mega Voices, 27 Sweet! Voices, 64 Cool! Voices, 39 Live! Voices, 20 Organ Flutes! Expandability Expansion Voice Yes (approx. 64 MB max.)
Editing Voice Set
Part Right 1, Right 2, Left
Compatibility XG, XF, GS, GM, GM2
Effects
Types Reverb 44 Presets + 3 User
Chorus 106 Presets + 3 User
DSP DSP 1: 295 Presets + 3 User, DSP 2-4: 295 Presets + 10 User
Master EQ 5 Presets + 2 User
Part EQ 28 Parts (Right 1, Right 2, Left, Multi Pad, Style x 8, Song x 16)
Mic Effects Noise Gate x 1, Compressor x 1, 3Band EQ x 1 Vocal Harmony Number of Presets 44
Number of User Settings 10 Vocal Effect 23
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Accompaniment Styles
Preset Number of Preset Styles 408
Featured Styles 25 +Audio, 1 FreePlay, 350 Pro, 32 Session
Fingering Single Finger, Fingered, Fingered On Bass, Multi Finger, AI Fingered, Full Keyboard, AI Full Keyboard
Style Control INTRO x 3, MAIN VARIATION x 4, FILL x 4, BREAK, ENDING x 3
Other Features Music Finder 2,500 Records One Touch Setting (OTS) 4 for each Style
File Format Style File Format, Style File Format GE Expandability Expansion Style Yes
Expansion Audio Style Yes (approx. 64 MB max.)
Songs
Recording Number of Songs Unlimited (depending on USB flash memory capacity) Number of Tracks 16
Data Capacity approx. 300 KB/Song
Recording Function Quick Recording, Multi Recording, Step Recording Compatible Data Format Playback SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
Recording SMF (Format 0) Preset Number of Preset Songs 5
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Functions
Registration Number of Buttons 8 presets/bank (unlimited number of banks, depending on USB flash memory capacity)
Control Registration Sequence, Freeze
Lesson/Guide Lesson/Guide Follow Lights, Any Key, Karao-Key, Your Tempo Performance Assistant
Technology (PAT)
Yes
Demo/Help Demonstration Yes
Overall Controls Metronome Yes
Tempo Range 5 500, Tap Tempo Transpose -12 0 +12
Tuning 414.8 440 466.8 Hz Octave Button Yes
Scale Type 9 Presets Miscellaneous Direct Access Yes USB Audio Recorder Playback .wav, .mp3
Recording .wav
Voices Voice Creator Yes
Harmony/Echo Yes Panel Sustain Yes
Mono/Poly Yes
Voice Information Yes
Styles Style Creator Yes
Style Recommender Yes OTS Information Yes
Songs Song Creator Yes
Score Display Function Yes Lyrics Display Function Yes Multi Pads Multi Pad Creator Yes
USB Audio Time Stretch Yes
Pitch Shift Yes Vocal Cancel Yes Miscellaneous Text Display Function Yes
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Storage and Connectivity
Storage Internal Memory approx. 6.7 MB
External Drives USB Flash Memory, etc. (via USB to DEVICE)
Connectivity DC IN 16V
Headphones Yes
Microphone Yes
MIDI In/Out
AUX IN Yes
VIDEO OUT Yes
USB TO DEVICE Yes USB TO HOST Yes Connectivity OUT PUT (R, L/L+R)
Connectivity FOOT PEDAL (optional) Switch or Volume x 2 Storage Internal Memory (for
Expansion Pack)
approx. 64 MB
Amplifiers and Speakers
Amplifiers 15 W x 2
Speakers 13 cm + 2.5 cm dome tweeter (x 2)
Power Supply
Power Supply PA-300C or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha
Power Consumption 16 W
Auto Power Off Function Yes
Accessories
Included Accessories AC Adaptor PA-300C
Multi Pads
Preset Number of Multi Pad Banks 126 banks x 4 Pads