The PSR S650 is an advanced home and studio keyboard which is great for performers and composers. With hundreds of built in sounds and the possibility to expand your soundset via online downloads, the compositional potential of the Yamaha PSR S650 is hard to beat as an all-in-one package.
Here's what Yamaha say about the PSR S650
With a wide variety of high quality built-in Voices and Styles plus FlashROM expandability to add even more, the PSR-S650 offers all you need for performance and music creation.
Key Features
- 357 voices including Megavoices plus 480XG voices and 28 Drum/SFX Kits
- 181 Accompaniment Styles
- FlashROM Expansion for Voices & Styles
- Custom Scale Tuning
The PSR-S650 boasts a newly enhanced Style performance engine with MegaVoice technology for ultra-realistic instrumental Style backing. It also features Voice Expansion to load additional Audio Samples, Voices, Drum Kits and Styles to expand your creative possibilities.
Features in detail
Wide Selection of Voices & Styles
The PSR-S650 provides an exceptionally wide variety of realistic sounding Voices in all instrument categories. With a total of 359 authentic instrument Voices (including 9 MegaVoices), and 181 accompaniment Styles, you will be amazed at the range and quality of sounds and effects that PSR-S650 has to offer.
Voice & Style Expandability
Thanks to Yamaha’s new Voice & Style Expansion contents for the PSR-S650, players can take advantage of a wide and ever-increasing selection of regional, ethnic and traditional Voices and Styles. Purchase online, download them and install to your PSR and instantly play authentic sounds, rhythm and backing in the musical style of your choice! (Internet access and USB memory stick required - not supplied)
*Expansion Packs will be available soon
MegaVoice Technology
Drawing on technology from the legendary Tyros series, MegaVoice technology brings a new level of realism to the PSR-S650. The MegaVoices feature various playing articulations, techniques and performance sounds.
For example, guitar MegaVoices can have hammer-on, slide and mute sounds to go along with soft, medium and loud sounds with strumming and fret noise, all at the same time. Put it all together in a Yamaha Guitar-Enhanced Style and enjoy some of the most astonishingly realistic, expressive accompaniment you've ever heard!
Scale Tuning
You can configure the tuning of the keyboard to match the music you're playing, with one of the nine preset custom tunings, like Arabic or Pythagorean - or by creating your own!
Specifications
- Color/Finish
- Body: Color: Black
Size/Weight
- Width: 946mm (37-1/4")
- Height: 137mm (5-3/8")
- Depth: 405mm (15-15/16")
- Weight: 7.3kg (16 lbs. 1 oz.)
Control Interface
- Keyboard: Number of Keys: 61
- Touch Response: Yes
- Other Controllers: Pitch Bend: Yes
- Display: Type: Full Dot LCD
- Size: 320 x 240 dots
- Color: Monochrome
- Contrast: Yes
- Score Display Function: Yes
- Lyrics Display Function: Yes
- Language: English, Japanese
- Panel: Language: English
Voices
- Tone Generation: Tone Generating Technology: AWM Stereo Sampling
- Polyphony: Number of Polyphony (Max.): 64
- Preset: Number of Voices: 357 + 28 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG + GM2 (for GM2 Song playback) + GS (for GS Song playback)
- Featured Voices: 9 MegaVoices, 12 Sweet! Voices, 22 Cool! Voices, 18 Live! Voices
- Compatibility: XG: Yes
- GS: Yes
- GM: Yes
- GM2: Yes
- XF: Yes
Expandability
- Capacity: Voice: 16 MB
- Style&Voice Set: 820 KB
- Pack Installation: Yes
Effects
- Types: Reverb: 35 types
- Chorus: 44 types
- DSP: 237 types
- Master EQ: 5 Preset
- Functions: Dual/Layers: Yes
- Split: Yes
- Panel Sustain: Yes
Accompaniment Styles
- Preset: Number of Preset Styles: 181
- Fingering: Multi finger, FullKeyboard AI Fingered
- Style Control: Intro x 3 Ending x3 Main x4 Fill In x 4
- Custom: User Styles: Yes
- Style Creator: Yes
- Other Features: Music Database: 784 + External Files
- One Touch Setting (OTS): 4 for Each Style
Songs
- Preset: Number of Preset Songs: 9
- Recording: Number of Songs: 5
- Number of Tracks: 16
- Data Capacity: Approx. 30,000 notes (when only “melody” tracks are recorded)
- Recording Function: Quick Recording, Multi Recording, Song Editing
- Compatible Data Format: Playback: SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
- Recording: SMF (Format 0)
Functions
- Registration: Number of Buttons: 8 (x 8 Banks)
- Control: Freeze
- Demo/Help: Demonstration: Yes
- Overall Controls: Metronome: Yes
- Tempo Range: 5–280
- Transpose: Yes
- Tuning: Yes
- Octave Button: Yes
- Scale Type: Yes
Storage and Connectivity
- Storage: Internal Memory: 1,130 KB
- External Drives: Optional USB flash Memory (via USB TO DEVICE)
- Connectivity: DC IN: DC IN 16V
- Headphones: Yes
- Sustain Pedal: Yes
- USB TO DEVICE: Yes
- USB TO HOST: Yes
Amplifiers and Speakers
- Amplifiers: 12 W + 12 W
- Speakers: 12 cm x 2 + 3 cm x 2
Power Supply
- Power Consumption: 25 W (When using PA-300 power adaptor)
- Auto Power Off Function: Yes
