Yamaha PSR-A5000 61-key World Music Arranger Workstation

Designed especially for oriental musicians, the PSR-A5000 becomes an ultimate partner for your greatest live performances and original content production. Explore the new features and get inspired with the new sound.

Perform

Make your performances of traditional and modern oriental music more powerful with newly sampled instruments and 210 fresh Styles. Oud, Qanoon, Nay, and many other Voices sound incredibly realistic thanks to new velocity-sensitive portamento, Super Articulation! Voices, and dedicated oriental instrument waveforms that are 10 times larger than in previous model.

Produce

Program your original Voices and Styles with the PSR-A5000. Expansion memory has been increased to 1 GB (approx.). It allows you to create and store various and higher quality contents. The PSR-A5000 supports Styles with individual time signatures for each variation, which increases your possibilities in Style programming.

Features

* 1,161 Voices, including 299 Oriental Voices, 44 Oriental Drum Kits, 20 Revo!SFX kits

* 454 Styles (including 260 Oriental Styles, Khaleeji, Shami, Masri, Maghrebi, Persian and Turkish)

* Crossfade Portamento with velocity and time related parameters

* 128 key drum kits with key off note, Upper Octave (-3 - +3)

* Style Section Time Signature, Style Section Reset

* Live Control knobs, Live Control joystick, Assignable buttons, 7-inch color touch screen, FSB keyboard, Sub output

* Scale Tune Setting buttons, Scale Tune Memory buttons

* Mic/Guitar input for use when singing or collaborating with other performers

* Chord Looper function

* Playlist and Registration for quick and easy set-up, Preset Registration

* Voice and Style expandability with the Yamaha Expansion Manager

* Audio Recording (WAV/MP3)

* 1 GB (approx.) on-board memory for expansion data, 2 GB (approx.) internal memory

* 2 USB TO DEVICE terminals

Specifications

Colour: Black

Dimensions (W x H x D): 1,017 x 139 x 431 mm

Weight: 11.5 kg

CONTROL INTERFACE

Keyboard

Number of Keys: 61

Type: Organ (FSB), Initial Touch

Touch Response: 5 settings

Other Controllers

Joystick: Yes (assignable)

Control Knobs: 2 (assignable)

Assignable Buttons: 7

Display

Type: TFT Colour Wide VGA LCD

Size: 800 x 480 dots (7 inch)

Touch Screen: Yes

Language: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian

VOICES

Tone GenerationTechnology: AWM Stereo Sampling

Polyphony (Max.): 128

Preset Number of Voices: 1,161 Voices + 86 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices

Supported MIDI Standards: XG, GS (for Song playback), GM, GM2

EFFECTS

Types

Reverb: 59 Preset + 30 User

Chorus: 106 Preset + 30 User

DSP: 322 Preset (with VCM) + 30 User

Insertion Effect: 1-8: 322 Preset (with VCM) + 30 User

Master Compressor: 5 Preset + 30 User

Master EQ: 5 Preset + 30 User

Part EQ: 28 Parts

Mic/Guitar effects: Noise Gate, Compressor, 3 Band EQ

ACCOMPANIMENT STYLES

Number of Preset Styles: 454 (including 260 Oriental Styles)

Featured Styles: 429 Pro Styles, 15 Session Styles, 10 DJ Styles

Other Features

Chord Looper: Yes

SONGS

Number of Preset Songs: 3 Sample Songs

Recording

Number of Songs: Unlimited (depends on the drive capacity)

Number of Tracks: 16

Data Capacity: Approx. 3 MB per Song

Recording Function: Quick Recording, Multi Track Recording, Step Recording

Compatible Data Format

Playback: SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF

Recording: SMF (Format 0)

MULTI PADS

Number of Multi Pad Banks: 257 Banks x 4 Pads

Audio Link: Yes

FUNCTIONS

Registration

Number of Buttons: 8

Control: Registration Sequence, Freeze

Playlist

Number of Records: 2,500 (max.) Records per Playlist file

Guide: Follow Lights, Any Key, Karao-Key, Your Tempo

Search: Yes

Demo: Yes

Overall Controls

Metronome: Yes

Tempo Range: 5 - 500, Tap Tempo

Transpose: -12 0 +12

Tuning: 414.8 440 466.8 Hz

Octave Button: -3 0 +3

Scale Type: 12 types

Sub Scale Setting: Yes

Scale Tune Memory: 5

Voices: Harmony/Echo, Arpeggio, Panel Sustain, Mono/Poly

Styles: Style Creator, OTS Information

Songs: Score Display Function, Lyrics Display FunctioN, Song Creator

Multi Pads: Multi Pad Creator

Audio Recorder/Player

Recording Time (max.): Approx. 0.8 GB (80 minutes) per Song

Recording: WAV (44.1 kHz, 16 bit, stereo), MP3 (44.1 kHz, 128/256/320 kbps, stereo)

Playback: WAV (44.1 kHz, 16 bit, stereo), MP3 (44.1/48.0 kHz, 64320 kbps and VBR, mono/stereo)

Lyrics Display Function: Yes (.mp3 only)

Time Stretch: Yes

Pitch Shift: Yes

Vocal Cancel: Yes

STORAGE AND CONNECTIVITY

StorageInternal Memory: Yes (approx. 2 GB)

External Drives: USB flash drive

Headphones: Standard stereo phone jack

FOOT PEDAL: 2 (Assignable)

Microphone: Microphone/Guitar

MIDI: IN, OUT

AUX IN: Stereo mini jack

LINE OUT: MAIN OUTPUT (L/L+R, R), SUB (AUX) OUTPUT (1,2 (L/L+R, R))

USB TO DEVICE: Yes (x 2)

USB TO HOST: Yes

AMPLIFIERS AND SPEAKERS

Amplifiers: 15 W x 2

Speakers: 13 cm x 2 + 5 cm x 2

POWER SUPPLY

Power Supply: PA-300C or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha

Power Consumption: 24 W

Auto Power Off Function: Yes

ACCESSORIES

Included Accessories: Owner's Manual, Online Member Product Registration, Music Rest, AC Adaptor