Yamaha PSR550 61-Key Portable Keyboard with Disk Drive

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Item Weight: 27.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 28 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006OALP
• Item model number: PSR550
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,006 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Although the Yamaha PSR550 61-Key Portable Keyboard with Disk Drive is designed for the beginning keyboardist, its impressive arsenal of features offers even the most fickle musician of any genre plenty to sing about. With over 700 remarkable, high-quality sounds, you'll be able to play just about any music that fits your mood. And because the PSR-550 is fully Yamaha XG compatible, you can download special styles and songs created with XG technology from the Yamaha site, or directly from musicians around the world. With more than 45 million XG users in the world, the opportunities for your XG-compatible keyboard are astounding.

The PSR550 features a touch-sensitive 61-note full-size keyboard, 713 total voices, over 200 songs, and a wide selection of drum kits. With 112 styles, including user programmable style memories, a 16-track sequencer, 128 registration memories, floppy disk drive, midi in/out and "to host" connector, pitch bend wheel and 32-note polyphony, the PSR550 is one of the most powerful entry-level machines on the market today.

As one of the first portable keyboards in this price range to include a back-lit, multi-color LCD display, the PSR550 makes playing easier than ever. The screen on the PSR-550 changes color according to the selected mode, allowing you to know, at a glance, what mode you're in. With the dual mode feature, you can combine voices, such as piano and strings, while the split mode allows you to have different voices on the left and right side of the keyboard, making the musical possibilities of the PSR550 virtually limitless.

The keyboard's disk drive allows you to save your own styles onto a floppy to share with other musicians, and you can also load styles created by other musicians for your own use. The PSR550 also give you practically all the tools you need to be your own writer, performer and producer. The keyboard's "to host" jack and MIDI in/out allows you to connect directly to your PC or Macintosh computer so you can edit and print your own sheet music. (Additional editing software, not included with the PSR550, is required to do this.) And with the keyboard's 16-track sequencer, you've got your own recording studio at the tip of your fingers. Clearly, the Yamaha PSR550 61-Key Portable Keyboard with Disk Drive is a powerful product, from the first key to the last.

What's in the Box
Yamaha PSR550 61-Key Portable Keyboard with Disk Drive, music stand, user's manual.

Product Description

61 Piano-size Touch-sensitive Key XG Portable Keyboard with Disk Drive / 713 Voices / 16 Track Record and Edit / General MIDI

Customer Reviews

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0 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointed customer, August 3, 2008

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This review is from: Yamaha PSR550 61-Key Portable Keyboard with Disk Drive (Electronics)

KEYBOARD WAS NEVER RECEIVED FROM SELLER. E-MAIL WAS NEVER ANSWERED BY SELLER. AMAZON RECEIVED NO EMAIL FROM SELLER. NO OTHER WAY TO CONTACT SELLER. "HOUSE OF FUNK MUSIC" IS UNRELIABLE.I WOULD NEVER RECCOMEND THIS COMPANY. I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY AMAZON COULD NOT CONTACT SELLER ON MY BEHALF. I MADE THE PURCHASE BECAUSE OF THE AMAZON.COM WEBSITE. I'M NOT TO SURE ABOUT FUTURE PURCHASES.