Yamaha DGX-505AD Portable Electronic Keyboard with Stand

The Yamaha 88-Key Touch-Sensitive Piano-Style Light-Weight Keyboard is the absolute top of the line in the Portable Grand series. Also includes a matching wood grain keyboard stand and ac power adapter.

It has an attractive easy-to-use panel and a wealth of features such as high resolution stereo piano sample; SmartMedia storage; USB computer connectivity; a large bitmapped LCD screen capable of displaying notation and lyrics for songs; 6-track sequencer that is designed for the utmost simplicity.

88 Light Weighted Piano Style Touch Sensitive Keys Smart Media Slot 494 Voices 135 Styles Sequencer Yamaha Education Suite 2 Stereo 2-way speakers with bass ports Music Data Base Portable Grand.

The DGX-505 has many state of the art features to make connecting to your PC 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 to your computer open your favorite music software program and hit PLAY. That's it.

Large bitmapped screen is your window into the world of music.

Have you ever played a song and wondered what it would look like as sheet music? The DGX-505 can display the score to a song whether it comes from the Internet the internal selections or ones that you record yourself and the pages scroll automatically when a song is played back - no more page turning! And for singers the screen also displays chords and lyrics to XF compatible songs.

Learn to play with the Yamaha Education Suite IV

• LCD screen displays notation to the song you want to learn
• Keyboard lessons/songs are designed for learning one hand at a time
• Your Tempo learning mode - progress at your own pace
• Repeat and Learn - repeat difficult to learn sections
• Lesson Grading - monitors your progress as you practice each lesson
• Lessons work with internal as well as downloaded song files

Chord Dictionary - shows you how to play chords and tells you which chords you are playing by displaying the notes and chord name on the LCD screen. Learning to play songs moves to a new level of simplicity with the new "Your Tempo" learning mode. Call up a song press the notation button so that you can see the music press left hand or right hand or both at once for two-handed learning and the keyboard and notation will speed up and slow down as you do literally following you through the song. If you find one section of the song a little difficult simply engage the "Repeat and Learn" button and the DGX-505 will stay on that section repeating it until you feel comfortable. Then move on to the next section. The Yamaha Education Suite also works with Standard MIDI Files (SMF) allowing you to learn songs of your choosing - and the keyboard will show the music notation to those selections as well!

Portable Grand

Playing piano is fast and easy with Yamaha's Portable Grand function. One dedicated button brings up a great sounding piano stunningly rich and authentic in its sound and exceptionally responsive to your playing touch as well as setting up the keyboard to play as a piano in full keyboard mode. On top of all this a wealth of special piano-only "Pianist" styles like Slow Rock and Stride provide professional sounding piano accompaniment that change chords automatically as you do while you play a piano melody on top!

General MIDI and Yamaha XGlite makes for great sound

The DGX-505 comes equipped with 494 voices that include a high resolution stereo-sampled Piano a selection of Sweet! Voices including Trumpet Flute Pan Flute Soprano & Tenor Saxes Cool! Voices including Galaxy Electric Piano Suitcase Electric Piano Electric Piano & Organ Live! Voices including Piano Warm Grand & Orchestra and 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. Live! Voices use stereo samples to ensure the most accurate reproduction of each instrument's natural presence resonance and vibrato. It all adds up to great sound. And for the utmost in compatibility the DGX-505 is both General MIDI (GM) and XGlite capable. The Internet has thousands of MIDI song files available and you can rest assured that your DGX-505 will be able to competently reproduce these files.

Mix and match

You are also able to create sound mixes of your own using Layer and Split modes. Split mode allows you to have two different sounds on the keyboard at the same time like piano on the right and bass on the left. Layer mode allows you to combine two sounds across the keyboard range. For example you could play Piano and Strings at the same time. You're only limited by your imagination.

Performance Assistant Technology – Now anyone (yes anyone!) can play

Performance assistant technology is a new feature from Yamaha that guarantees that you can't play a wrong melody note or chord. Here's how it works. Select a song press the Performance Assistant button and select from either chord or melody mode.
In chord mode 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.

In melody mode simply play any note in time with the melody and the keyboard will play the correct pitch. For example you can play the melody simply by tapping one key. Even if you can't play piano and can't read a note of music you can still have some musical fun.

Sound Quality

2-Way Speaker System
Separate woofers and tweeters deliver sounds with clarity and precision for more lifelike instrument voices.

Bass Boost System
A special port on each speaker adds a powerful impact to bass sound reproduction.

Stereo (Not just 2 Speakers)
We all know that stereo sound adds realistic character and spatial depth. But how can you tell if the portable keyboard you're looking to purchase is stereo or not? With Yamaha the answer is simple. All Yamaha Portable Keyboards are true stereo.

Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Enhances sound quality with sophisticated digital effects like Harmony Reverb & Chorus.

Advanced Wave Memory (AWM)
Yamaha Advanced Wave Memory technology delivers amazingly realistic sound.

32-note Polyphony

What's polyphony you ask? Simply put polyphony is how many notes a keyboard can reproduce simultaneously. The DGX-505 has 32-note polyphony allowing you to play intricate arrangements and dense musical passages.

Keyboard Styles and the One Touch Setting

The DGX-505 comes with 135 built-in styles waiting for you to play along with. It's just like having a built-in band. Call up your favorite style of music like Rock Big Band or Country press a chord or play Single Finger mode and the DGX-505 will follow you through a piece of music providing all of the drums bass piano guitar horn and string parts for you. And to make it easy and fun when you select one of the styles the One Touch Setting function will automatically configure keyboard parameters such as voice selection and digital effects to match that selected music style.

88 light-weighted piano-style touch-sensitive keys with 100 songs built-in.

• Enhances sound quality with sophisticated digital effects like Harmony Reverb and Chorus
• Separate woofers and tweeters deliver sounds with clarity and precision for more lifelike instrument voices
• General MIDI and Yamaha XGlite makes for great sound

Keyboard 88 Lightly weighted Piano-type Keys (A-1 - C7) with Touch Response

• Display Large Backlit bitmapped LCD displays lyrics and score
• SmartMedia 128MB max. for storing songs and styles (card optional)
• Flash Rom 875 KB for storing songs
• Pitch Bend Wheel For more realistic playing of brass and string instruments
• Yamaha Education Suite IV Timing Waiting Minus One Chord Dictionary Grading Repeat & Learn Supported formats:
• General MIDI (SMF) XGlite XF
• Performance Assistant: On/Off
• Voices Total Number 494
• Compatibility General MIDI (GM) & XGlite Compatible
• Piano Voice Quality Stereo
• Sweet! Voices Flute Pan Flute Trumpet Soprano Sax Tenor Sax
• Cool! Voices Galaxy EP Suitcase EP Electric Piano Organ
• Live! Voices Piano Warm Grand Orchestra
• Dual/Split Yes/Yes
• Drum Kits 10 + 2 SFX Kits
• Polyphony 32 note max.
• Auto Accompaniment Styles 135
• Variations Intro Main A/B Ending Fill-in x 2
• Control Accompaniment on/off sync-start start/stop intro/ending main A/B (auto fill)
• One Touch Settings 1 per style
• Registration Memory 2 x 8 Banks
• Digital Effects Reverb: 9 types
• Chorus: 4 types
• Harmony: 26 types
• Sequencer 6-Tracks to record your own songs
• 5 songs
• Interface USB MIDI IN/OUT USB Song Transfer
• Auxiliary Jack Phones DC in foot switch
• Amplifier 6W + 6W
• Speakers 12 cm x 2 + 3 cm x 2
• Rated Voltage DC 10 - 12 V
• Dimensions (W x D x H) 54 1/8"" x 17"" x 6 3/4"" (1376 x 431 x 173 mm)
• Dimensions with Stand 54 1/8"" x 19 1/8"" x 31 2/3"" (1376 x 485 x 804 mm) . This item is sold and shipped as a refurbished product. The customer accepts all terms and conditions upon purchase.