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keyboards have long sported hardware components more commonly associated with a desktop PC, but rather than cramming a 3.5-inch floppy drive in its newest device, Yamaha opted for a USB port and Ethernet jack. The PSR-S900 packs 392 "realistic instrument voices" and 305 accompaniment styles powered by MegaVoices, and aside from also playing nice with
MIDI-related information, this 61-key piano sports a 5.7-inch 320 x 240 display and 1.4MB of internal flash storage. Of course, you can load up your excess data via a USB HDD or thumb drive, and tech-savvy keyboardist should enjoy the video out port, USB audio recording ability, and Internet Direct Connection access that "enables users to browse and download thousands of songs" as well as learn of product updates. Expect the flagship S900 to hit the market on June 1st for ¥220,500 ($1,815), while the two lesser-spec'd siblings (S700 and S500) hit at ¥131,250 ($1,080) and ¥78,750 ($648), respectively.
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posted May 26th 2007 6:47AM
1.4 MB of internal flash storage?
why an enthernet port? i saw one on my X360 guitar last night as well and couldn't figure out why it was there.
about ethernet ports on guitars and the like, i kinda recall reading about gibson and some other company creating a way to wire studios using ethernet.
as in, the instruments would send the music using ethernet, complete with being switchable so that rather then having large banks of ports one could have one ethernet port and then plug in 1 or more switches in that as needed.
wow... i don't know how i missed the reason for ethernet in the post. "sorry bout dat"
Maybe we could hang a 1TB Ext HD on it for all the additional sounds etc...
Meh. Yamaha's REAL flagship keyboard, the Tyros2, has been out for a while now. Not only does it have USB host, Ethernet, and Video Out, as seen on the S900, it can also accept an internal IDE hard drive for audio mixdown, 1GB PC133 SDRAM, and it has VGA Out in addition to composite video.
Jeez - what a heap! 1.4 MB over 392 instruments? M-Audio's ProKeys 88 gives you 64 MB for just 14 instruments (all you'll ever really need) with 88 fully-weighted keys for only 500 bucks.
This just seems like a gimmicky rip-off
Ok, now someone's going to need to explain to me why a *keyboard* would need composite video output.
composite video out? so that you can hook it up to any TV, just in case you don't have a computer monitor around. Maybe now a days it's not as much of an issue, with lcd panels being so light or computers being so common.
But back when carrying a crt display around wasn't an option, and when computers were not as common, you could find a TV set almost anywhere.
And that's still somewhat true, so keep the composite video there for a back up option.
wow
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A thousand dollars? You could get an actual workstation like a Triton LE for that much. Much better than this fake ass piano with a boom box speakers.
392 Sounds-wow! That's more than the 120 offered by my Radio Shack Concertmate 580 keyboard.
Hi fellows!
Im here for a good reason. On this moment in Portugal pass from 5AM only by this new keyboard PSR-S900. All night here reading all things in the Manual. I made the direct download from Yamaha site.
Now Iam comparing specifications between PSR-3000 and this one. I considere this new keyboard the best by their class of price. But with karaoke, ampli and stereo speakers, voice harmonizer with vocoder, color LCD, USB and LAN connectors, producer of styles and new user patches, and video-out to read lyrics, is much more cheaper than Tyros. I hope their sounds will be good as I expect too, specially to read midifiles too, but about this I don´t know nothing yet. I like their external view with a look of cosmetic like Tyros. May be PSR-S900 will be my own personal keyboard...