Display Digital Sheet Music!
If you're looking for a musical instrument that has that little something extra, then look no further than the PSR-1100. It is the first in the line of Arranger Workstations from Yamaha and has a huge array of features including large LCD with Score and Lyric capability, USB connectivity, 4 sections to each style, User memory for storing songs and other data, 32 channels of MIDI via USB and more! Huge LCD Screen There are many advantages to having a larger screen. For one thing, it conveys a lot more information at one time. For example, the screen on the PSR-1100 is able to show you mixer settings at a glance, the chords you are playing, what sounds are on the right and left side of the keyboard, what Style or MIDI file is currently playing, score and lyrics. In fact, if you record a song into the PSR-1100 using the arranger features, it will not only display the notes you played, but the chords as well. The bottom line about having a bigger screen is that it's your window into how the music is being created - you might as well make it a big one. Computer Connectivity - Why it's important The PSR-1100 has a USB port on the back, making it extremely easy to connect the keyboard to a computer. Once you're connected, you open up your music to a wealth of possibilities. From your computer, you are able to copy data to and from the User or Floppy drive in the instrument to your computer's hard drive using the included File Utility software. It's convenient, fast and easy. And MIDI has never been so simple. Just install the included drivers and when you open your favorite music software program the PSR-1100 shows up as USB output ports One and Two - giving you 32 channels of MIDI playback. A Keyboard with more Style The PSR-1100 features Styles (accompaniment patterns) in a variety of different musical genres including Rock, Jazz, Latin, Country and Dance. All you have to do is play the chords with your left hand as you perform and the selected Style will automatically play along, instantly following the chords you play. This is live playing at it's best. For even greater diversity, this keyboard is the first in the line to offer 4 sections to the built-in Styles. For example, you could use the A section for the Verse, B section for the Chorus, C for the Bridge and D for a Solo. In addition, each Style has 3 different Intros and Endings and will automatically fill, if you like, between sections. Sounds Good To Me The PSR-1100 is compatible with commercially available song data including GM (General MIDI), XG, Disk Orchestra Collection (DOC), and XF. The keyboard comes with 287 voices, 480 XG voices, 16 drum kits and is 32-note polyphonic. Additional features include a selection of special samples called Sweet and Cool! Voices. Sweet Voices are special voices from Yamaha that reproduce all the natural expression and vibrato of their respective acoustic instruments; for example, Sweet Flute and Sweet Trumpet. Cool! Voices feature samples of electronically amplified instruments like guitar and electric piano. To get the most out of these great voices, there is a Stereo 2-way speaker system with bass ports. And to capture all of this sound, you'll find a built-in 16-track sequencer for recording and editing your songs. And remember, you can save your songs and transfer them via USB directly to your computer for further editing or attaching to e-mail. Finally, to round it all out, there are two Foot Pedal jacks, transpose and tuning, auto harmony for the right hand, metronome and a CD-ROM containing File Utility software and USB Drivers. It's all here.
