Yamaha PSR-282 Home Keyboard Information, Specifications and Resources

Author: Andy Merrett / Data Driven

Overview

The Yamaha PSR-282 is a home keyboard released in 2000. It is marketed primarily to home musicians.

The PSR-282 has 61 synth/organ style full sized keys with touch sensitivity but no aftertouch. It has 32 notes of polyphony. It has 118 on board sounds including pianos and real world sounds, accompaniments and rhythms, and a sustain/damper pedal.

It uses Yamaha's AWM sound generation. Advanced Wave Memory is a classic high-quality sample playback and layering engine.

It has the ability to record and play back user performances. It has built-in MIDI capabilities. It offers an on-board learning system. It has a built-in amplifier and speakers. It can run from both AC and battery power.

The keyboard is a decent choice for children. It's a part of the PSR family of instruments, whose models span from 1984 to the present day. Its release year of 2000 has it launched in the main years of PSR production.

Description

The PSR-282 is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use keyboard with the following features and functions:

Yamaha Education Suite

The PortaTone features the new Yamaha Education Suite — a set of learning tools that utilize the latest technology to make studying and practicing music more fun and fulfilling than ever before!

The Yamaha Education Suite includes:

The convenient and easy-to-use Lesson feature, guides you through the parts of a song — just like a patient teacher! Select from any one of 100 songs on the PSR-282, and learn the left- and right-hand parts independently at first, then together. Lesson features four easy steps that help you master each song: Timing, Waiting, Minus One, and Both Hands.

The PSR-282 also has the Grade and Talking features. Grade is a virtual “teacher,” evaluating your practice sessions and rating your performance. The convenient Talking function “announces” each Lesson step and your “grades,” among other things.

Dictionary is a built-in “chord encyclopedia” that teaches you how to play specific chords by showing you the appropriate notes in the display — perfect for when you know the name of a chord and want to quickly learn how to play it!

Portable Grand

The PortaTone also has a Portable Grand function for realistic piano performance. Pressing the PORTABLE GRAND button instantly calls up the stunningly authentic “Stereo Sampling Piano” voice and configures the entire PortaTone for optimum piano play. Special Pianist styles — with piano-only accompaniment — are also provided.

The DJ feature is an exciting new addition to the PSR-282, that puts a wealth of contemporary sounds and rhythms at your fingertips. Pressing the [DJ] button instantly calls up one of the special DJ songs (“DJ GAME”) and a DJ style, and provides the appropriate voice and sound effects to match.

Other powerful features include:

• 256 exceptionally realistic and dynamic voices, utilizing digital recordings of actual instruments.
• Special Split voices, with two different voices playable from separate sections of the keyboard.
• 10 different Drum Kit voices, with individual drum and percussion sounds on each key.
• High-quality Reverb, DSP, and Harmony effects for enhancing the sound of the voices — and your performance.
• 100 auto accompaniment styles, each with Intro, Main A and B, and Ending sections. An Auto Fill function adds dynamic fills when switching sections.
• Powerful, easy-to-use song recording operations, for recording and playing back up to five of your original songs.
• Registration Memory presets for storing all of the PSR-282’s panel settings to a single button for instant and automatic recall.
• One Touch Setting function for automatically calling up an appropriate voice to match the style or song you select.
• Touch Response and Dynamic Filter that give you extraordinarily expressive control over the voices. They automatically change both the volume and tone according to your playing strength — just like a real musical instrument!
• Full MIDI and General MIDI (GM) compatibility, letting you easily integrate the PSR-282 into a MIDI music system, and use the built-in GM voices with all GM software.
• Built-in high-quality stereo amplifier/speaker system.

FAQ

What year was the Yamaha PSR-282 launched?

This instrument was launched in 2000

What other models did Yamaha release in 2000?

• 9000Pro
• DJX-II
• MIE-2XG
• PSR-160
• PSR-201
• PSR-260
• PSR-262
• PSR-280
• PSR-550
• PSR-GX76
• PSS-15
• S30
• S80
• SKB-130

What models did other manufacturers release in 2000?

• Casio CTK-671
• Casio SA-45
• Korg Pa80
• Novation Supernova II
• Roland XV-88

What other home keyboards were released at a similar time?

• Casio AL-100R
• Casio CTK-451
• Casio CTK-471
• Casio CTK-480
• Casio CTK-481
• Casio CTK-515
• Casio CTK-550
• Casio CTK-560L
• Casio CTK-571
• Casio CTK-573
• Casio CTK-651
• Casio CTK-671
• Casio CTK-811EX
• Casio LK-40
• Casio LK-43
• Casio SA-45
• Yamaha EZ-20
• Yamaha EZ-30
• Yamaha EZ-J22
• Yamaha EZ-J23
• Yamaha EZ-J53
• Yamaha HD-100
• Yamaha KB-220
• Yamaha KB-320
• Yamaha PSR-1000
• Yamaha PSR-1100
• Yamaha PSR-125
• Yamaha PSR-140
• Yamaha PSR-140PC
• Yamaha PSR-170
• Yamaha PSR-172
• Yamaha PSR-195
• Yamaha PSR-2000
• Yamaha PSR-202
• Yamaha PSR-2100
• Yamaha PSR-225
• Yamaha PSR-225GM
• Yamaha PSR-225PC
• Yamaha PSR-240
• Yamaha PSR-248
• Yamaha PSR-270
• Yamaha PSR-290
• Yamaha PSR-292
• Yamaha PSR-340
• Yamaha PSR-350
• Yamaha PSR-540
• Yamaha PSR-540PC
• Yamaha PSR-640
• Yamaha PSR-74
• Yamaha PSR-740
• Yamaha PSR-79
• Yamaha PSR-9000
• Yamaha PSR-D1
• Yamaha YPR-50

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Resources

• Yamaha PSR PortaTone Models 1984-2026
• Old Yamaha keyboard models: an overview of vintage

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