Yamaha PSR-350 Home Keyboard Information, Specifications and Resources

Author: Andy Merrett / Data Driven

Overview

The Yamaha PSR-350 is a home keyboard released in 2001. It is marketed primarily to home musicians.

The PSR-350 has 61 synth/organ style full sized keys with touch sensitivity but no aftertouch. It has 32 notes of polyphony. It has 116 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 very much an entry level model, making it cheaper but also with fewer functions or lower quality sounds than more expensive keyboards. It's a part of the PSR family of instruments, whose models span from 1984 to the present day. Its release year of 2001 has it launched in the main years of PSR production.

Description

The PSR-350 is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use keyboard with the following features and functions:

MUSIC DATABASE

The PSR-350 has an advanced, easy-to-use Music Database feature that automatically selects the style, voice, and effect settings for playing in a specific type of music. This can be a big help if you know what genre of music you want to play, but you don’t know what settings to make. Just select the genre, and the PSR-350 takes care of the rest!

Disk Drive

The PSR-350 also features a convenient floppy disk drive letting you load and save your own original User Songs or load the Style Files. The PSR-350 is also compatible with a wide variety of disk formats, allowing you to play back song data on commercially available GM, DOC, and Clavinova Disklavier Piano Soft disks.

It also allows you to save and play back Standard MIDI File (SMF) format 0 data,making it possible to use song data with your favorite sequencer or sequencingsoftware.

Powerful Speaker System

The built-in stereo amplifier/speaker system of the PSR-350 with a special Bass Boost feature — provides exceptionally powerful, high-quality sound, letting you hear the full dynamic range of the PSR-350’s authentic voices.

Other powerful features include:

• • The advanced Yamaha Education Suite — a special set of learning tools that make it easy and fun to master the keyboard. These tools include Lesson, which guides you through the parts of a song just as a teacher would, Grade & Talking, which evaluates your practice sessions and rates your perfor- mance, and Dictionary, which teaches you how to play chords.
• • Instant Portable Grand function, for automatically configur- ing the PSR-350 for optimum piano play. Includes an authen- tic Stereo Sampled Piano voice and special piano accompaniment Pianist styles.
• • Exciting DJ feature, which puts a wealth of dance/DJ sounds and rhythms at your fingertips.
• • 618 exceptionally realistic and dynamic voices, utilizing digi- tal 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 per- cussion sounds on each key.
• • High-quality Reverb, DSP, and Harmony effects for enhanc- ing the sound of the voices — and your performance.
• • 106 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 record- ing and playing back up to five of your original songs.
• • Registration Memory presets for storing all of the PSR-350’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 extraordi- narily 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-350 into a MIDI music system, and use the built-in GM voices with all GM software.

FAQ

What year was the Yamaha PSR-350 launched?

This instrument was launched in 2001

What other models did Yamaha release in 2001?

• BX
• EZ-20
• EZ-30
• EZ-J22
• MOTIF6
• MOTIF7
• MOTIF8
• PSR-1000
• PSR-2000
• PSR-225GM
• S03
• YPP-200

What models did other manufacturers release in 2001?

• Casio AL-100R
• Casio AP-25
• Casio AP-28
• Casio AP-65R
• Casio CTK-451
• Casio CTK-471
• Casio CTK-571
• Casio CTK-573
• Casio CTK-651
• Casio LK-40
• Korg KARMA
• Nord Lead 3
• Roland EM-15
• Roland EM-25
• Roland FANTOM FA-76
• Roland HPi-5
• Roland RD-150
• Roland RD-700

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-550
• Casio CTK-571
• Casio CTK-573
• Casio CTK-591
• Casio CTK-593
• Casio CTK-651
• Casio CTK-671
• Casio CTK-691
• Casio LK-40
• Casio LK-43
• Casio SA-45
• Medeli MD600
• Yamaha 9000Pro
• Yamaha DJX-II
• Yamaha EZ-150
• Yamaha EZ-250i
• Yamaha EZ-J14
• Yamaha EZ-J23
• Yamaha EZ-J24
• Yamaha EZ-J53
• Yamaha KB-155
• Yamaha KB-220
• Yamaha KB-320
• Yamaha MIE-2XG
• Yamaha PSR-1100
• Yamaha PSR-125
• Yamaha PSR-140
• Yamaha PSR-140PC
• Yamaha PSR-160
• Yamaha PSR-170
• Yamaha PSR-172
• Yamaha PSR-175
• Yamaha PSR-201
• Yamaha PSR-202
• Yamaha PSR-2100
• Yamaha PSR-240
• Yamaha PSR-248
• Yamaha PSR-260
• Yamaha PSR-262
• Yamaha PSR-270
• Yamaha PSR-273
• Yamaha PSR-275
• Yamaha PSR-280
• Yamaha PSR-282
• Yamaha PSR-290
• Yamaha PSR-292
• Yamaha PSR-340
• Yamaha PSR-540
• Yamaha PSR-540PC
• Yamaha PSR-550
• Yamaha PSR-640
• Yamaha PSR-74
• Yamaha PSR-740
• Yamaha PSR-9000
• Yamaha PSR-GX76
• Yamaha PSS-15
• Yamaha SHK-1000
• Yamaha SKB-130
• 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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