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Yamaha PSRK1 - 61 Touch-sensitive Key Portable Keyboard with Microphone, USB and SmartMedia
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The PSR-K1 is a breakthrough product from Yamaha, the world leader in musical instruments. Never before has so much technology been offered in a product at this price point. The K1 comes standard with microphone, SmartMedia card and a display that is capable of reproducing piano sheet music with notation, chords and lyrics. In true home entertainment fashion, you can connect to your PC via USB; download songs from the Internet to play and sing along with and the lyrics and notation scroll as the song plays. And with the new Performance Assistant, you can play along with the song and not make a mistake even if you're a complete beginner!
Pick up the Microphone and start singing
The PSR-K1 comes with its own microphone so that you can sing along with the songs in the keyboard. Simply select a song, press the Karaoke button if you just want lyrics or Score button for full sheet music with melody and chords, and sing your favorite songs. The huge backlit LCD screen with contrast control makes it easy for the whole family to get in on the sing-a-long. To add songs to the keyboard, simply connect it to your PC via the convenient USB jack on the back, and head out on the Internet (example: www.yamahamusicsoft.com) in search of your favorite songs.
Large Bitmap Display for Score and Lyrics:
Score and lyric capability were previously found on only our most expensive models, the PSR2000/2100 and up. The PSR-K1 is a breakthrough product that features a large bitmapped display that is capable of displaying notation, including treble and bass clefs, chords and lyrics all in real time. The music actually advances as the song plays. In addition, the display tells you the chords you are playing, the Voice, Style or Song you have selected, the Tempo and the Transposition. A convenient contrast button allows you to adjust the brightness to your liking.
SmartMedia Card
The PSR-K1 is the first Portable Keyboard from Yamaha to offer SmartMedia for storing MIDI song files, including those that you record, effectively giving you an on-board solid-state disk drive with instant access to your data. In fact, the K1 comes with an industry standardized 8 MB card. And if that's not enough, when you want to archive, change or add songs to sing and play along with, simply connect the keyboard to your computer using the USB and copy songs from your computers' hard drive to the SmartMedia card using included SongFiler software. It's convenient, fast and easy.
Easy Song Arranger: Play it your way
In the past, when you wanted to learn a new song, you would probably head off to your local music store where hopefully they had the piano sheet music for the song you eagerly were looking to play and sing. This music generally contained the left and right hand piano parts, chords and lyrics. Recently, Yamaha, Hal Leonard and Sibelius got together to create digital interactive sheet music. Here's how it works. Using your computer, go to yamahamusicsoft.com, find your favorite Scorch song(s), purchase them and download them into your computer. At this point, if you like, you can change the key and print the music using your printer. But it doesn't stop there!
By connecting the PSR-K1 to your computer you can transfer the digital sheet music into your keyboard and it will play the song for you as the music and lyrics scroll by in the screen, so pick up the microphone and sing along. If you press the Easy Song Arranger button, the keyboard will actually "read" the chords in the song (that's called XF) and play a Style (backing tracks like bass, drums and guitar) along with the piano music! You can try the song as a ballad, jazz or rock or no backing tracks at all. And finally, go ahead and play the piano parts yourself with or without the backing tracks. With the K1, you can play it your way!
For a demonstration of "What is a Style", click here (1.3MB download requires Macromedia Flash and computer sound.)
Performance Assistant even a complete beginner can't make a mistake
The Performance Assistant is a new feature from Yamaha that guarantees that you can't play a wrong note or chord. Here's how it works. Select a song and press the Performance Assistant button. Play the keyboard any notes you like. Every note you play will fit the music! If you move up the keyboard, the pitch goes up. If you move down, the pitch goes down. Play a perfect arpeggio, or play chords in time with the music, or really "go for it" and play a solo. How about stride piano? No matter what you play, as long as Performance Assistant is "on", you're "on". Imagine being able to give a concert to your friends or relatives the first day that you get this remarkable keyboard. Well, with the PSR-K1 and Performance Assistant, you can! This feature works with all 100 built-in songs and XF MIDI files.
PC Button & USB: This keyboard loves your computer
Our customers have told us that one of the more important features to them, is the ability to connect their keyboard to their computer. The PSR-K1 has many state of the art features to make connecting as quick and easy as possible. These features include the PC Button, which takes a snapshot of your MIDI settings so that you can instantly return to them with just the press of a single button, and a USB port for transferring song data from your computer. In addition, the USB port acts as a MIDI interface, freeing you from having to purchase other MIDI peripherals like cables and adapters to play music. Simply connect the included cable to your computer, open your favorite music software program and hit PLAY. That's it.
Sounds Good to Me
The PSR-K1 comes equipped with 486 Voices that include Stereo-sampled Piano, Sweet! Trumpet, Flute, Pan Flute, Soprano and Tenor Saxes, Cool! Jazz Organ, 10 Drum Kits and 2 Sound Effects Kits. Sweet! Voices are special voices from Yamaha that reproduce all the natural expression and vibrato of their respective acoustic instruments. Cool! Voices feature long samples of electronically amplified instruments.
And to get the most out of these great voices, there is a Stereo 2-way speaker system with bass ports. And to capture all of this sound, you'll find a built-in 6-track sequencer for recording your own songs and you can save your songs to the SmartMedia card. And to round it all out, there's a Sustain Pedal Jack (sustain pedal optional), transpose and tuning, auto harmony for the right hand, left and right hand lessons with the 100 songs and a CD-ROM containing SongFiler software and USB Drivers. It's all here.
Pick up the Microphone and start singing
The PSR-K1 comes with its own microphone so that you can sing along with the songs in the keyboard. Simply select a song, press the Karaoke button if you just want lyrics or Score button for full sheet music with melody and chords, and sing your favorite songs. The huge backlit LCD screen with contrast control makes it easy for the whole family to get in on the sing-a-long. To add songs to the keyboard, simply connect it to your PC via the convenient USB jack on the back, and head out on the Internet (example: www.yamahamusicsoft.com) in search of your favorite songs.
Large Bitmap Display for Score and Lyrics:
Score and lyric capability were previously found on only our most expensive models, the PSR2000/2100 and up. The PSR-K1 is a breakthrough product that features a large bitmapped display that is capable of displaying notation, including treble and bass clefs, chords and lyrics all in real time. The music actually advances as the song plays. In addition, the display tells you the chords you are playing, the Voice, Style or Song you have selected, the Tempo and the Transposition. A convenient contrast button allows you to adjust the brightness to your liking.
SmartMedia Card
The PSR-K1 is the first Portable Keyboard from Yamaha to offer SmartMedia for storing MIDI song files, including those that you record, effectively giving you an on-board solid-state disk drive with instant access to your data. In fact, the K1 comes with an industry standardized 8 MB card. And if that's not enough, when you want to archive, change or add songs to sing and play along with, simply connect the keyboard to your computer using the USB and copy songs from your computers' hard drive to the SmartMedia card using included SongFiler software. It's convenient, fast and easy.
Easy Song Arranger: Play it your way
In the past, when you wanted to learn a new song, you would probably head off to your local music store where hopefully they had the piano sheet music for the song you eagerly were looking to play and sing. This music generally contained the left and right hand piano parts, chords and lyrics. Recently, Yamaha, Hal Leonard and Sibelius got together to create digital interactive sheet music. Here's how it works. Using your computer, go to yamahamusicsoft.com, find your favorite Scorch song(s), purchase them and download them into your computer. At this point, if you like, you can change the key and print the music using your printer. But it doesn't stop there!
By connecting the PSR-K1 to your computer you can transfer the digital sheet music into your keyboard and it will play the song for you as the music and lyrics scroll by in the screen, so pick up the microphone and sing along. If you press the Easy Song Arranger button, the keyboard will actually "read" the chords in the song (that's called XF) and play a Style (backing tracks like bass, drums and guitar) along with the piano music! You can try the song as a ballad, jazz or rock or no backing tracks at all. And finally, go ahead and play the piano parts yourself with or without the backing tracks. With the K1, you can play it your way!
For a demonstration of "What is a Style", click here (1.3MB download requires Macromedia Flash and computer sound.)
Performance Assistant even a complete beginner can't make a mistake
The Performance Assistant is a new feature from Yamaha that guarantees that you can't play a wrong note or chord. Here's how it works. Select a song and press the Performance Assistant button. Play the keyboard any notes you like. Every note you play will fit the music! If you move up the keyboard, the pitch goes up. If you move down, the pitch goes down. Play a perfect arpeggio, or play chords in time with the music, or really "go for it" and play a solo. How about stride piano? No matter what you play, as long as Performance Assistant is "on", you're "on". Imagine being able to give a concert to your friends or relatives the first day that you get this remarkable keyboard. Well, with the PSR-K1 and Performance Assistant, you can! This feature works with all 100 built-in songs and XF MIDI files.
PC Button & USB: This keyboard loves your computer
Our customers have told us that one of the more important features to them, is the ability to connect their keyboard to their computer. The PSR-K1 has many state of the art features to make connecting as quick and easy as possible. These features include the PC Button, which takes a snapshot of your MIDI settings so that you can instantly return to them with just the press of a single button, and a USB port for transferring song data from your computer. In addition, the USB port acts as a MIDI interface, freeing you from having to purchase other MIDI peripherals like cables and adapters to play music. Simply connect the included cable to your computer, open your favorite music software program and hit PLAY. That's it.
Sounds Good to Me
The PSR-K1 comes equipped with 486 Voices that include Stereo-sampled Piano, Sweet! Trumpet, Flute, Pan Flute, Soprano and Tenor Saxes, Cool! Jazz Organ, 10 Drum Kits and 2 Sound Effects Kits. Sweet! Voices are special voices from Yamaha that reproduce all the natural expression and vibrato of their respective acoustic instruments. Cool! Voices feature long samples of electronically amplified instruments.
And to get the most out of these great voices, there is a Stereo 2-way speaker system with bass ports. And to capture all of this sound, you'll find a built-in 6-track sequencer for recording your own songs and you can save your songs to the SmartMedia card. And to round it all out, there's a Sustain Pedal Jack (sustain pedal optional), transpose and tuning, auto harmony for the right hand, left and right hand lessons with the 100 songs and a CD-ROM containing SongFiler software and USB Drivers. It's all here.
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Protect your investment with the Long & McQuade Performance Warranty
A warranty can be a very important factor when making a buying decision. Because repairs can be very expensive in terms of parts and labour costs, manufacturers usually only provide one year limited warranties that generally only cover items that malfunction due to a manufacturer’s defect. With an important purchase such as a musical
instrument or piece of studio gear, however, many people want to have the peace of mind in knowing that their investment will be protected should the product no longer be performing at 100%.
Because of this, Long & McQuade provides our customers with a FREE one-year Performance Warranty on most of our products. The Long & McQuade Performance Warranty supplements the manufacturer’s warranty to ensure that our customers receive complete “no hassle” warranty coverage within their first year.
How does the Long & McQuade Performance Warranty differ from most manufacturers' warranties?
- Performance Guarantee: Normal wear and tear is covered, so your product will be performing as well as the day you purchased it for the entire duration of the coverage. Band and Orchestral Performance Warranty does not include replacing pads or cleaning for woodwind instruments, unless deemed necessary by our repair staff. Ultrasonic cleaning for brass instruments will be provided if deemed necessary by our repair staff, but is not routinely offered under the Performance Warranty.
- Product Replacement: If your product cannot be fixed or costs too much to fix, we will replace it with the equivalent model for no additional charge. If this is not possible, a full refund will be provided.
- No Lemon Policy: Your product will be replaced should the same problem occur multiple times.
- Convenient: Easy drop off and pick up of the product at any Long & McQuade location.
- Guitar Setup: Guitars purchased at Long & McQuade come with 1 free setup, to be redeemed within 1 year for new guitars and 90 days for used guitars.
- Loaners Available: A loaner product may be given while the product is being repaired.
- Power Surge Protection: Your product is covered even if damaged from a power surge.
- Accessory Coverage: Any peripheral devices or accessories that come with your product (i.e. foot pedal, case) are also covered.
- Commercial Use Coverage: Music and recording professionals who purchase gear for “heavy-use” commercial purposes will still be covered.
Long & McQuade reserves the right to restrict the purchase of additional years of Performance Warranty. Used products come with a 3-month Long & McQuade Performance Warranty. Some products (i.e. computers, software, cymbals and other items) are covered only by the manufacturer‘s warranty. Consumables (i.e. strings, reeds, drum sticks, batteries, tubes, cross faders) are excluded as they are designed to be replaced. Cosmetic Damage, Accidental Damage, or problems caused by Humidity or Temperature Issues are not covered. Speakers damaged by overpowering are generally not covered. Our coverage does not provide compensation for loss of use. As of June 2018 the Performance Warranty is no longer transferable. The warranty is only valid in Canada.
Purchasing additional years of coverage
Some manufacturers provide warranties for longer than 1 year; however, these are usually limited warranties that do not provide the same coverage as the Long & McQuade Performance Warranty. Customers interested in more complete and convenient (but not necessarily longer) coverage are still able to purchase additional years of the Performance Warranty.
If you are interested in receiving this coverage for longer than one year, you have the option of purchasing additional years of the Performance Warranty. The pricing is as follows:
- NEW products: Starting at 4% of the current new selling price to double the warranty from 1 year to 2 years. Starting at 4% for each additional year.
- USED products: Starting at 4% of the current new selling price to increase the warranty from 3 months to 1 year. Starting at 4% for each additional year.
- GUITARS: 4% of the current new selling price to double the warranty from 1 year to 2 years. 4% for each additional year. $45 maximum. An additional free setup is not included with additional purchased years of Performance Warranty.
- BAND and ORCHESTRAL instruments: 4% of the current new selling price to double the warranty from 1 year to 2 years. 4% for each additional year.
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| Product | SKU | Qty |
|---|---|---|
| PSRK1 - 61 Touch-sensitive Key Portable Keyboard with Microphone, USB and SmartMedia | 182205 |
