The “keyboard arranger” has grown up, taking on many aspects of powerful music workstations and performance synths — and Yamaha is at the forefront of this synergistic convergence. Their PSR-S600 is a prime example. The Yamaha PSR-S600 offers you an astonishing array of voices, performance modes, songwriting tools, and more. You’ll find this 61-key arranger workstation more than inviting to play — it’s downright inspiring! A library of 850 onboard sounds gets you rolling, plus you have 100MB of memory for voice and style expansion packs. What’s more, there are 415 styles to choose from on the PSR-S600, and you can always just plug in your own music player and jam along with your favorite tunes. Of course, there’s an onboard sequencer that lets you turn your ideas into polished masterpieces.
Yamaha PRS-SX600 Arranger Keyboard at a Glance:
- 4.3 inch color display
- 850 Voices, including 73 Super Articulation voices, 27 MegaVoice, and 43 Drum/SFX kits
- 415 Styles, including 372 Pro, 32 Session, 10 DJ, and 1 Free Play.
- 100 MB on-board memory for expansion data
- Unison & Accent to let Styles playback follow your performance
- Compatibility with Rec’n’Share Apps and Mic input
- Playlist and Registration for quick and easy set up
- Voice and Style expandability with the Yamaha Expansion Manager
Tap into an extensive library of superb sounds
Between the PSR-S600’s advanced voices, stockpile of 480 XG sounds, and extensive collection of drum and SFX kits, it’s easy to find inspiration quickly. Among the advanced voices, you’ll find 27 brilliantly detailed Sweet! Voices, 64 impressively dynamic Cool! Voices, and 71 stereo sampled Live! Voices, plus 27 of Yamaha’s Mega Voices, which allow you to comfortably play instruments that aren’t always easy to articulate on piano keys. What’s more, you can expand both the PSR-S600’s voices and styles with Yamaha’s Expansion Packs and 100MB of storage space, so fresh sounds are never far away.
Styles and sequencing let you write music quickly
Speaking of fresh styles, one of the things that impressed us when we got our first glimpse of the PSR-S600 is the way the Unison function lets Style accompaniment parts follow your performance. All told, you get 415 accompaniment Styles that naturally adapt to your performance and fill in around the notes you play. These Styles include all of the standard genres you know and love, plus many exotic options from around the world, so it’s easy to get adventurous. And when you find something you love, there’s an easy-to-use sequencer onboard that lets you turn your ideas into finished pieces.
A powerful performance keyboard
With its sleek, stage-ready design, amazing new Voices and Styles, and Unison and Accent functions, the PSR-SX600 is a performance keyboard like no other. Its Accent function lets you add rhythmic accents anytime on-the-fly, simply by hitting the keys with greater velocity. The Smart Chord feature makes it easy to play everything from simple triads to jazzy 7th voicings with just a few fingers. Studio-grade DSP effects such as Real Distortion applied to a guitar or Real Reverb on a piano add the perfect of color and vibe to your sound. Real-time control knobs, assignable pedals, and expansion ROM make the Yamaha PSR-SX600 instantly customizable to your needs, whatever the musical setting.
What Yamaha Says…
PSR-SX600 is the standard model in the PSR-SX series, offering a range of content and functionality that makes it perfect for performing at home or on stage. With intuitive control and superb sound quality, the PSR-SX600 delivers the expressive control that professionals demand.
A World of Sounds and Grooves
The PSR-SX600 provides for high-quality music experiences with rich, realistic voices including a beautiful grand piano. With Styles, you can play music in a wide variety of music genres from around the world and using SmartChord lets you use these professional backings with just one finger. You can even use a microphone (sold separately) to sing along with your performance through the built-in speaker system.
Performances Worth Sharing
The PSR-SX600 gives you professional expressive functions to enhance your performance; use Multi-Pads to add loops and phrases to compliment the accompaniment, use cutoff to filter the sound in real time, or use the new Unison & Accent to morph Styles to your own performance. Then, why not use the free Rec’n’Share app to capture and share high quality sound and video of your performance with a single tap…
Authentic Voices
The PSR-SX600 has a comprehensive and sonically stunning set of authentic Voices, and gives you the tools to play these Voices more naturally and with greater expressiveness. PSR-SX600 features a diverse range of contents, starting from 850 instrument sound and more. Super Articulation Voices enable you to create subtle, very realistic musical expressions, simply by how you play the keyboard or use the foot controller in real-time.
Styles
Accompaniment and rhythmic backing patterns (called ”Styles”) covering a wide range of musical genres, including pop, jazz, and many more, lets you single-handedly recreate the sound of a full band or orchestra.
DSP Effect
DSP (Digital Signal Processor) features built into the PSR-SX600 provide high-quality effect types, such as real distortion and reverb. You can also apply the DSP effects independently to specified parts, such as guitar, allowing you to play the keyboard dynamically with a distorted guitar sound, or sound like you are playing in a concert hall.
World Content
The PSR-SX600 features a palette of regional contents for Brazil, China, and Africa. Enjoy supreme sound and musical experience with authentic Brazilian Strings, “Cavaquinho(S.Art)”, African local styles using Talking Drum “AfricanBigKit”, and Chinese style “KungFu”.Let your music take you to new places.
Smart Chord
Allows you to easily control the Style with just a single finger as long as you know the key of the music you are playing, even if you don’t know any chord fingering. Appropriate chords suited for the specified music genre will sound whenever you press a single note, as if you were playing the “right” chords. For details, refer to the Reference Manual on the website.
Add some flavor to your performance
The Multi Pads can be used to play a number of short pre-recorded rhythmic and melodic sequences and loops that allow you to add impact and variety to your keyboard performance.
Audio Link Multi Pad
Multi Pads not only work with MIDI data, but also allow you to create unique, new pad content with your own audio (WAV) data for playing back during your performance.
Versatile real-time controllers
The two LIVE CONTROL knobs can be assigned to various different functions, letting you intuitively control your performance in real-time. For example, you can use the knobs to control the brightness (cutoff frequency) of the sound being played or to correct the tone or timbre of the sound with EQ — letting you easily add variations to the sound without interrupting your performance. You have total control over the performance for maximum creativity!
Playlist
Playlist is the new convenient way to quickly setup the instrument. Organize Registration Memories into convenient Playlists for instant recall during performance. Playlist makes it easy to manage and call up your songs and the related settings, no matter how large your repertoire.
- Unison function allows Style accompaniment parts to follow your performance
- Accent function lets you add rhythmic accents on-the-fly by hitting the keys with greater velocity
- Style Section Reset lets you to go back to bar one, beat one with a button press to restart the song on-the-fly
- 1/4-inch mic input lets you sing along while you play, hearing your voice through the speakers and recording your performance to USB audio
- Super Articulation voices reproduce the natural expressive nuances of non-keyboard instruments
- DSP FX for customizing voices by adding distortion to guitars, concert-hall reverb to pianos, etc.
- Part EQ lets you shape your sound by adding EQ to individual parts of a song
- Smart Chord feature makes it easy to play everything from simple triads to jazzy 7th voicings with just a few fingers
- MegaVoices feature articulations, playing techniques, and performance sounds that are employed in accompaniment Styles for hyper-realistic expression
- Assignable real-time control knobs for analog synth-style on-the-fly filter sweeps and sonic tweaks
- USB-to-Host connectivity with MIDI and audio transfer for 1-cable connection to your music-creation software
- The USB-to-Device port lets you use inexpensive, convenient USB flash drives for storing and recalling data
- Included music rest
Create, perform, and record your music with a Yamaha PRS-SX600 arranger keyboard!
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