The heart of the PSR-S500 is in total of 283 realistic instrument voices, 361 XGlite voices and 15 Drum /SFX kits. Yamaha's highly acclaimed Sweet! Cool! and Live! Voices let you play with all the expressive nuances of the original instruments, and make your performances come alive!

• Exceptionally clear and powerful sounds strengthened by high quality DSP
• 283 realistic instrument voices, 361 XGlite voices and 15 Drum/SFX kits
• Super-realistic Sweet!, Cool! and Live! Voices
• 150 built-in accompaniment styles
• Simple and logical panel layout

Built-in Sound System
Drawing on our long-standing expertise in acoustics and sound reproduction as well as your advanced technology, we've given the PSR-S500 a built-in sound system that perfectly complements the authentic Voices inside. Exceptionally clear and powerful sound in a small, portable package.

Live!, Cool! and Sweet! Voices
A huge palette of acoustic and electronically amplified instrument sounds. A blend of long, stereo and multi-layered samples is used to fully capture the natural presence, resonance, expression and vibrato of the real instrument.

Dynamic Styles
Everything you need to make high-quality music is right here - at your fingertips. The PSR-S500 provides fully automatic, fully realized accompaniment with drum, bass, guitar, piano, organ, strings, and more - with 150 built-in Styles, expertly programmed for playing a wide variety of music genres.

Easy to play, Easy to use
The PSR-S500 is an absolute joy to play. With the simple, logical layout of the panel controls and the full dot LDC display, you get complete at-a-glance control over the workings of the entire instrument. The Style, Song and Voice controls as well as the One Touch Setting buttons are conveniently located for optimum operation. In music creation, in performance - the PSR-S500 is remarkably easy to use.

USB TO DEVICE Terminal
Insert a USB flash memory in the USB TO DEVICE terminal on the instrument. It would let you save or load the registered settings and user songs created on the instrument.

Easy Performance with Music Notation Display
When you play back a song, the corresponding score will be shown on the display as the song plays. This is a great way to learn how to read music. If the song contains lyric and chord data*, the lyrics and chords will also appear on the score display. * No lyrics or chords will appear on the display if the song you are using with the score display function does not contain the appropriate lyric and chord data.

Music Database
You want to play music in your favorite style, but you're not sure how to select the best voice and style for the type of music you want to play ... simply select the appropriate style from the Music Database. The panel settings will automatically be adjusted for the ideal combination of sounds and style!

Control Interface

Keyboard Type Organ Style Number of Keys 61 Touch Response Yes

Display Type Full Dot LCD Color Monochrome Size 320 x 240 dots 4.2 inch Back Light Yes Score Display Yes Lyrics Display Yes

Other Controllers Pitch Bend Yes

Voices

Tone Generation Tone Generating Technology AWM

Polyphony Number of Polyphony 32

Preset Number of Voices 659 (283 Panel Voices + 361 XGlite Voices + 15 Drum/SFX Kits) Featured Voices 10 Sweet! Voices, 16 Cool! Voices, 6 Live! Voices

Compatibility GM Yes (System Level 1) XG lite Yes XF Yes

Accompaniment Styles

Preset Number of Preset Styles 150 Variations Main x 4 Sections Intro x 3/ Ending x 3 / Main x 4 / Fill x 4 Fingering Multi / Full Keyboard

Custom User Styles Style File Format

Other Features One Touch Setting (OTS) 4 for Each Style, with OTS Link Music Finder/Music Database Yes

Songs

Recording Number of Songs 5 Number of Channels 9 (8 Melody + 1 Chord) Song Data Capacity Maximum number of notes : approximately 10,000 (when only "melody" tracks are recorded) Maximum number of chords : approximately 5,400 (when only "chord" tracks are recorded)

Compatible Data Format Playback SMF Recording Original File Format (Convertible into SMF)

Effects

Acoustics Reverb 25 Types Chorus 30 Types Equalizer Preset Master EQ x 5

Functions Dual Yes

Accompany Style Related Auto Harmony 26 Types

Functions

Demo/Help Demonstration Yes

Registration Memory Number of Buttons 8 (x 8 Banks)

Overall Controls Tempo Range 11 - 280 Transpose -12 to 0, 0 to +12 Tuning 415.3 - 440 - 466.2 Hz

Miscellaneous Language for Display English

Storage and Connectivity

Storage Flash Memory (Internal) 800KB External Drives Optional USB Flash Memory (via USB TO DEVICE)

Connectivity USB Yes (TO HOST / TO DEVICE) Headphones Yes AUX Pedal 1Foot Switch DC In Yes

Accessories

Music Rest Yes

Bundled Software

CD-ROM Musicsoft Downloader, USB-MIDI Driver

Amplifiers and Speakers

Amplifiers 12W + 12W Speakers 12cm x 2 + 3cm x 2

Power Supply

Power Supply Adaptor (PA-301/PA-300) Power Consumption 25W

Size/Weight

Dimensions Width 946mm (37-1/4") Depth 402mm (15-7/8") Height 130mm (5-1/8")

Weight Weight 7.5kg (16lbs., 9oz)