Yamaha DGX-205 76-Key Portable Keyboard with MIDI and Built-In Song Sequencer
Features
- 76-key portable keyboard with preloaded Yamaha Education Suite IV software
- General MIDI (GM) and XGlite capable for downloading MINI songs and styles
- 487 built-in voices, 10 drum kits, and 2 sound effect kits
- Built-in Flash ROM memory stores up to 99 songs
- 2-way stereo speaker system with digital signal processing
Description
Start aspiring musicians on the right track with the Yamaha DGX-205 76-key portable keyboard. Designed to accommodate both beginners and serious players, the keyboard is big enough to grow with a student's needs, and its beefed-up Yamaha Education Suite IV gives users a great learning foundation. The software suite includes a host of keyboard lessons and songs for one-hand learning, and then grades your development as you progress. It's easy to learn any of the 30 preloaded songs thank to the Your Tempo mode, which speeds or slows the pace of a song based on your learning speed, literally following you through the song. Once you get accustomed to the notes, you can set the keyboard to a fixed tempo. The DGX-205 also offers a Repeat and Learn button, which goes over a song section repeatedly until you feel comfortable. And to top it off, the Yamaha Education Suite works with standard MIDI files so you can learn the songs that you like. To add songs, simply connect the keyboard to your PC via the convenient USB jack, find the songs on the Internet, and transfer them back to the keyboard. The Portable Grand function is vital to musicians who appreciate the rich, authentic sound of a well-tuned piano. A single dedicated button produces a great-sounding piano that's exceptionally responsive to your playing touch. The keyboard also includes a wealth of special piano-only styles, such as slow rock and stride, which deliver professional-sounding accompaniment that changes chords as you play the melody on top. Professional musicians will also delight in the professional pitch bend wheel, which allows users to play more expressive brass and string notes. Thankfully, the system doesn't disappoint on the overall audio front either, with a two-way speaker system, bass boost function, digital signal processing, and advanced wave memory all combining to deliver realistic stereo sound with impressive spatial depth. The DGX-205 comes equipped with 487 voices, including such instruments as trumpet, flute, pan flute, soprano and tenor saxophones, organ, and electric piano, along with 10 drum kits and two sound effect kits. The voices are specially designed to reproduce the natural expression and vibrato of their respective acoustic instruments. The keyboard also includes 135 styles to play along with, providing all the drums, bass, guitar, and horn paths to accompany your rock, big band, and country forays.
