Yamaha PSR S-950 workstation keyboard

Description

Hugely capable arranger/workstation keyboard. This belongs to my elderly father but he finds it too complex to navigate so has rarely been used.

I’m not familiar with this kind of keyboard but the samples are very good quality and the overall effect of the sound when auto-accompaniment and so is switched on is very impressive. Big and expansive, with real drums and percussion in the background - it’s a great instrument. It can auto-harmonise vocals as you record and you can load in your own sounds. Very clever, ‘one man band’ keyboard.

It was top of the line when it came out and was likely very expensive. Plenty of videos on YouTube showing what it can do.

Includes music stand. No box, I’m afraid. £350 ono

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Specs

The Yamaha PSR-S950 workstation keyboard effectively blurs the line between digital and acoustic sound and the result will change your musical perceptions forever. Yamaha have recorded professional musicians to achieve authentic renditions of their instruments and playing nuances and now you can play alongside them. The PSR-S950s other incredible features including Vocal Harmony 2 and Super Articulation for thrilling instrumental and vocal support will add a whole new perspective to your creativity.

Top Class Sounds

Acoustic instrument articulations, nuances and dynamics are challenging to reproduce. As the worlds 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 voices reproduce the performance characteristics of acoustic instruments so authentically, youll feel as if youre 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!

Musical Styles For All

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.

Playing a style is like being the conductor of a band that always plays the chords and arrangements you tell them to play. TheYamaha PSRS950 has a huge collection of 408 built-in dynamic styles. Yamaha styles are created by the worlds best programmers and mixed by professional studio engineers to ensure unparalleled quality.

Vocals sound fabulous.

Whether you sing for fun, enjoy karaoke or are a singer/songwriter, the PSRS950 provides everything you need to perform or write. Just plug in your mic and sing! 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.

The PSR-S950 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, PSRS950 includes 44 exciting Vocal Harmony presets, including male, voices, female voices and sound effect settings.

Not all singing voices have the same range. The Yamaha PSRS950 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.

The large LCD display can show lyrics, music notation or text. You can even display this information on an external monitor.

Real Distortion effects are based on digital models of classic guitar amplifiers from the 1960s and 1970s. There are also digital models of legendary analog guitar effect pedals. The result meticulously reproduces the frequencies and dynamics of real distortion guitar sounds.

The Yamaha PSRS950 is packed with amazing Voices, Styles and comprehensive features to help you create, arrange, perform and record your music in any genre.

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