Yamaha PSR-GX76 Owner's Manual - Page 4

Congratulations on your purchase of the Yamaha PSR-GX76 PortaTone! You now own a portable keyboard that combines advanced functions, great sound and exceptional ease-of-use in a highly compact package. Its outstanding features also make it a remarkably expressive and versatile instrument. Read this Owner's Manual carefully while playing your new PSR-GX76 in order to take full advantage of its various features. Main Features The PSR-GX76 is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use keyboard with the following features and functions: s Yamaha Education Suite The PSR-GX76 features the new Yamaha Education Suite - a set of learning tools that utilize the latest technology to make studying and practicing music more fun and fulfilling than ever before! The Yamaha Education Suite includes: q Lesson page 60 The convenient and easy-to-use Lesson feature, guides you through the parts of a song - just like a patient teacher! Select from any one of 100 songs on the PSR-GX76, and learn the left- and righthand parts independently at first, then together. Lesson features four easy steps that help you master each song: Timing, Waiting, Minus One, and Both Hands. q Grade & Talking pages 65, 66 The PSR-GX76 also has the Grade and Talking features. Grade is a virtual "teacher," evaluating your practice sessions and rating your performance. The convenient Talking function "announces" each Lesson step and your "grades," among other things. q Dictionary page 45 Dictionary is a built-in "chord encyclopedia" that teaches you how to play specific chords by showing you the appropriate notes in the display - perfect for when you know the name of a chord and want to quickly learn how to play it! s Portable Grand page 20 The PSR-GX76 also has a Portable Grand function for realistic piano performance. Pressing the [Piano] button instantly calls up the stunningly authentic "Stereo Sampled Piano" voice and configures the entire PSR-GX76 for optimum piano play. Special Pianist styles - with piano-only accompaniment - are also provided. s DJ page 22 The DJ feature is an exciting new addition to the PSR-GX76, that puts a wealth of contemporary sounds and rhythms at your fingertips. Pressing the [DJ] button instantly calls up one of the special DJ songs ("DJ GAME") and a DJ style, and provides the appropriate voice and sound effects to match. Other powerful features include: • 256 exceptionally realistic and dynamic voices, utilizing digi- tal recordings of actual instruments. • Special Split voices, with two different voices playable from separate sections of the keyboard. • 10 different Drum Kit voices, with individual drum and per- cussion sounds on each key. • High-quality Reverb, DSP, and Harmony effects for enhanc- ing the sound of the voices - and your performance. • 100 auto accompaniment styles, each with Intro, Main A and B, and Ending sections. An Auto Fill function adds dynamic fills when switching sections. • Powerful, easy-to-use song recording operations, for recording and playing back up to five of your original songs. • Registration Memory presets for storing all of the PSRGX76's panel settings to a single button for instant and automatic recall. • One Touch Setting function for automatically calling up an appropriate voice to match the style or song you select. • Touch Response and Dynamic Filter that give you extraordinarily expressive control over the voices. They automatically change both the volume and tone according to your playing strength - just like a real musical instrument! • Full MIDI and General MIDI (GM) compatibility, letting you easily integrate the PSR-GX76 into a MIDI music system, and use the built-in GM voices with all GM software. • Expressive Pitch Bend wheel for changing the pitch in real time. 4