This is my review of the Yamaha PSRS550 that is a sixty one Key Arranger Workstation which provides you all the characteristics and quality of a professional arranger you need, but for a price you can afford!
If compared to the other affordable keyboards, the PSR s550 offers pretty good sound. The sound by itself, though, is not going to live up to the higher standadrds of the s910 and tyros, but it really provides the basics. One of the major problems with the s550 is the fact that there’s no guitar mode. This is a big disadvantage when you are trying to achieve that real guitar sound within your style accompinent. The best thing to try would be to attatch a simple mixer so your right hand sounds might get that clear rich sound. This will not help you though for the accompinent sounds. Overall, it’s actually a great way to start your career with solo right hand sounds, however it can’t be relied upon for your style accompinents.
Product Features
* Sound Quality – large selection of realistic Voices – vast selection of 294 realistic instrument voices
* LCD displays lyrics, chords, notation – Have you ever played a song and wondered what it would look like as sheet music?
* Ease of Operation – Mixer Function, Music Database, One Touch Settings, Registration buttons
* Sixteen tracks are provided to accommodate sophisticated melodies, chord accompaniment and rhythm parts.
* Three effects blocks – tailor your sound – 35 Reverb, 44 Chorus and 237 DSP effects plus 26 Harmony and 5 preset types of Master EQ.
* The PSR-S550B can display the score to a song whether it comes from the Internet
The s550 gives you great features for a entry level professional. This consists of the 4 primary variations, 8×8 registration banks, style creator, as well as the 16 track sequencer. I have found the one touch setting to be pretty pointless because you can’t set your own voices. As I mentioned before, a guitar mode would enhance the keyboard, and without one its difficult to create real live guitar sounds. One of the biggest problems is the absence of a freeze button. It’s so annoying. I’ve found it really hard to swith sounds when using the registration keys since it gets in the way of the style playing. I’d personally venture to say this is just about the greatest drawbacks with the s550.
Overall I would personally state this is a great keyboard for the price. As I said before there are some things that I would have liked to have seen done better on this keyboard but for the most part it will do just about everything I have needed it to do.
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