Yamaha DGX-500 Owner's Manual - Page 6

Congratulations on your purchase of the Yamaha DGX-500/300 Portable Grand™ ! 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 DGX-500/300 in order to take full advantage of its various features. Main Features The DGX-500/300 is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use keyboard with the following features and functions: I MUSIC DATABASE page 53 The DGX-500/300 has an advanced, easy-to-use Music Database feature that automatically selects the style, voice, and effect settings for playing in a specific type of music. This can be a big help if you know what genre of music you want to play, but you don't know what settings to make. Just select the genre, and the DGX-500/300 takes care of the rest! I Disk Drive page 73 The DGX-500/300 also features a convenient floppy disk drive letting you load and save your own original User Songs or load the Style Files. The DGX-500/300 is also compatible with a wide variety of disk formats, allowing you to play back song data on commercially available GM, DOC, and Clavinova Disklavier Piano Soft disks. It also allows you to save and play back Standard MIDI File (SMF) format 0 data,making it possible to use song data with your favorite sequencer or sequencingsoftware. I Powerful Speaker System The built-in stereo amplifier/speaker system of the DGX-500/300 with a special Bass Boost feature - provides exceptionally powerful, high-quality sound, letting you hear the full dynamic range of the DGX-500/300's authentic voices. I GM System Level 1 "GM System Level 1" is an addition to the MIDI standard which ensures that any GM-compatible music data can be accurately played by any GM-compatible tone generator, regardless of manufacturer. The GM mark is affixed to all software and hardware products that support GM System Level. I XGlite As its name implies, "XGlite" is a simplified version of Yamaha's high-quality XG tone generation format. Naturally, you can play back any XG song data using an XGlite tone generator. However, keep in mind that some songs may play back differently compared to the original data, due to the reduced set of control parameters and effects. Other powerful features include: • The advanced Yamaha Education Suite - a special set of learning tools that make it easy and fun to master the keyboard. These tools include Lesson, which guides you through the parts of a song just as a teacher would, Grade, which evaluates your practice sessions and rates your performance, and Dictionary, which teaches you how to play chords. • Instant Portable Grand function, for automatically configuring the DGX-500/300 for optimum piano play. Includes an authentic Stereo Sampled Piano voice. • 619 exceptionally realistic and dynamic voices, utilizing digital recordings of actual instruments. • Special Split voices, with two different voices playable from separate sections of the keyboard. • 12 different Drum Kit voices, with individual drum and percussion sounds on each key. 6 • High-quality Reverb, DSP, and Harmony effects for enhancing the sound of the voices - and your performance. • 135 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 DGX-500/ 300'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!