Acoustic instrument-specific articulations, nuances and dynamics are challenging to reproduce. As the world's largest musical instrument manufacturer, Yamaha has perfected both the science and art of this process to bring you the most sophisticated, musical-sounding and easy-to-play instrument Voices.
Super Articulation (SA)
Super Articulation Voices reproduce the performance characteristics of acoustic instruments so authentically, you'll feel as if you're playing the real thing. Best of all, SA Voices intelligently add just the right expressive nuances to your performance without having to learn a bunch of tricks – just play!
Mega Voice Style Technology
Mega Voices feature various playing techniques and performance sounds like guitar and bass finger slides, brass falls, vocal effects, etc. When used in Styles, Mega Voices provide some of the most realistic-sounding and dynamic accompaniments.
Powerful, pro-quality accompaniment available at the touch of a button
Playing a Style is like being the conductor of a band that always plays the chord and arrangement you tell them to play. The new PSR-S950 has a huge set of 408 built-in dynamic Styles. Yamaha Styles are created by the world's best programmers and mixed by professional studio engineers to ensure unparalleled quality.
Audio Styles
Audio Styles take one step further by adding an audio recording of studio drummers, percussionists and percussion ensembles playing in various recording studios from around the world. This adds the natural feel, ambience and warmth to the drum and percussion parts of the Style, giving your performance greater expressive potential. Yamaha Time Stretch Technology allows the audio to follow your tempo changes without changing pitch, so everything stays in perfect sync.
Guitar-Enhanced Styles with Mega Voices
Guitar-Enhanced Styles not only reproduce the sound of guitar playing, they reproduce the actual chord voicings used by guitar players. This adds to the overall realism of the Style.
Vocal features create a new depth of fun and productivity
Whether you sing for fun, enjoy karaoke or are a singer/songwriter, the PSR-S950 provides everything you need to perform or write. Just plug in your mic and sing!
Vocal Cancel
A powerful Vocal Cancel function effectively cancels or suppresses signals like vocals and solos that exist in the center of an audio file, allowing you to make your own “minus one†track and sing “karaoke†style with just instrumental backing.
Microphone input / Vocal Harmony2
The PSR-S950’s microphone input lets you connect a microphone and sing along with your keyboard performance, Song or audio file playback. With Vocal Harmony you can sing along with three of your own virtual background vocalists. Vocal Harmony2 takes that a step further with new pitch recognition and stability controls. A convenient real-time Mic Level indicator is included in the main display, and a new intuitive graphic user interface makes it easy to experiment with your own mic settings, effects and harmony types. To get you started, PSR-S950 includes 44 exciting Vocal Harmony presets, including male, female Voices, SFX settings.
Score, Lyrics and Text display
The large LCD display can show lyric, music notation or text. You can even display this information on an external monitor.
Yamaha’s renowned audio and DSP technology provides great live and recorded sound
In music production, the key to creating great sound is in the way the song is mixed. The mixing console lets you mix your music like a studio engineer; including balance, panning and professional studio Digital Signal Processing (DSP) borrowed from Yamaha’s renowned professional recording and live sound products.
Real Distortion
Real Distortion effects are based on digital models of classic guitar amplifiers from the 1960's and 1970's. There are also digital models of legendary analog guitar effect pedals. The result meticulously reproduces the frequencies and dynamics of real distortion guitar sounds.
New Speaker and Speaker Box
A larger speaker box gives the PSR-S950 a full, powerful sound with deep lows and clear highs.
Digital amplifier
The PSR-S950 features a Yamaha manufactured digital amplifier with a superb signal to noise ratio. Because of its fully digital, highly efficient design, the amp delivers high performance while significantly reducing energy consumption.
Experience the new, versatile high performance audio engine
The PSR-S950 is capable of playing back and recording audio files. It also has a number of audio manipulation features you can use to create “karaoke†style “minus one†tracks in the key and tempo of your choice. It can also play back audio files from its Multi Pads, great for triggering loops, vocal phrases and sound effects.
MP3 playback
The PSR-S950 conveniently supports MP3 and WAV audio file playback.
Time Stretch and Pitch shift
Left : Time Stretch, Right : Pitch shift
Not all singing voices have the same range. The PSR-S950 can put your favorite song in the key of your choice with a powerful pitch shift feature that lets you change the key without changing the tempo. If you do want to change the tempo, you can use the time stretch feature to slow down or speed up the tempo without changing the pitch.
Audio Link Multi Pad
Audio Link Multi Pad function lets you link your own audio files (sound effects, vocal phrases, and so on), and trigger them from the Pads as you perform.
Audio Recording
Record your songs and performances as high-quality, uncompressed WAV files to share online or burn to a CD. Connect a microphone or guitar to the instrument and enjoy recording a guitar and keyboard performance together, or record your singing along with song playback.
Voice and Style Expandability keeps your instrument up-to-date
Voice and Style Expansion ensures your instrument can always be updated with new high-quality Voices and Styles from around the world. Best of all, you can sample many of these expansions for free at: https://services.music.yamaha.com/vse/
Voice and Style Expansion (VSE)
Thanks to Yamaha’s new Voice & Style Expansion packs, players can take advantage of a wide and ever-increasing selection of authentic sounding Voices and Styles from around the world. Load them to the PSR-S950's built-in FlashROM (64MB) and instantly play authentic sounds, rhythm and backing in the musical style of your choice!
A Portable keyboard that’s mobile device friendly
The PSR-S950 connects interacts with your mobile devices and tablets. Plus, Yamaha’s growing number apps for iPhone, iPod and iPad bring new ways to.
Aux in
Use the auxiliary line in jacks to play along with apps like Yamaha’s “NoteStar†digital sheet music with real audio backing tracks. Or, just play along with your favorite tunes from your music library.
iPhone/iPod/iPad connectivity
With Yamaha’s i-MX1 MIDI interface for iPhone, iPod and iPad, you can experience a new dimension of MIDI control with apps like Yamaha’s Scale Tuner, Piano Diary or Faders & XY Pad.
Specifications
Size/Weight
Dimensions
Width
1,002 mm (39 7/16")
Height
148 mm (5 13/16")
Depth
437 mm (17 3/16")
Weight
Weight
11.5 kg (25 lbs., 6 oz.)
Control Interface
Keyboard
Number of Keys
61
Type
Organ
Touch Response
Hard 2, Hard 1, Medium, Soft 1, Soft 2
Other Controllers
Pitch Bend
Yes
Modulation
Yes
Multi Pads
126 banks x 4 Pads
Display
Type
Color LCD
Size
5.7 inch (320 x 240 dots TFT QVGA )
Color
Color
Contrast
-
Language
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
Panel
Language
English
Voices
Tone Generation
Tone Generating Technology
AWM Stereo Sampling
Polyphony
Number of Polyphony (Max.)
128
Preset
Number of Voices
786 Voices + 33 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices + GM2 + GS (for song playback)
Featured Voices
62 Super Articulation Voices, 23 Mega Voices, 27 Sweet! Voices, 64 Cool! Voices, 39 Live! Voices, 20 Organ Flutes!
Expandability
Expansion Voice
Yes (approx. 64 MB max.)
Editing
Voice Set
Part
Right 1, Right 2, Left
Compatibility
XG, XF, GS, GM, GM2
Effects
Types
Reverb
44 Presets + 3 User
Chorus
106 Presets + 3 User
DSP
DSP 1: 295 Presets + 3 User, DSP 2-4: 295 Presets + 10 User
Master EQ
5 Presets + 2 User
Part EQ
28 Parts (Right 1, Right 2, Left, Multi Pad, Style x 8, Song x 16)
Mic Effects
Noise Gate x 1, Compressor x 1, 3Band EQ x 1
Vocal Harmony
Number of Presets
44
Number of User Settings
10
Vocal Effect
23
Accompaniment Styles
Preset
Number of Preset Styles
408
Featured Styles
25 +Audio, 1 FreePlay, 350 Pro, 32 Session
Fingering
Single Finger, Fingered, Fingered On Bass, Multi Finger, AI Fingered, Full Keyboard, AI Full Keyboard
Style Control
INTRO x 3, MAIN VARIATION x 4, FILL x 4, BREAK, ENDING x 3
Other Features
Music Finder
2,500 Records
One Touch Setting (OTS)
4 for each Style
File Format
Style File Format, Style File Format GE
Expandability
Expansion Style
Yes
Expansion Audio Style
Yes (approx. 64 MB max.)
Songs
Preset
Number of Preset Songs
5
Recording
Number of Songs
Unlimited (depending on USB flash memory capacity)
Number of Tracks
16
Data Capacity
approx. 300 KB/Song
Recording Function
Quick Recording, Multi Recording, Step Recording
Compatible Data Format
Playback
SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
Recording
SMF (Format 0)
Functions
Registration
Number of Buttons
8 presets/bank (unlimited number of banks, depending on USB flash memory capacity)
Control
Registration Sequence, Freeze
Lesson/Guide
Lesson/Guide
Follow Lights, Any Key, Karao-Key, Your Tempo
Performance Assistant Technology (PAT)
Yes
Demo/Help
Demonstration
Yes
USB Audio Recorder
Playback
.wav, .mp3
Recording
.wav
Overall Controls
Metronome
Yes
Tempo Range
5 – 500, Tap Tempo
Transpose
-12 – 0 – +12
Tuning
414.8 – 440 – 466.8 Hz
Octave Button
Yes
Scale Type
9 Presets
Miscellaneous
Direct Access
Yes
Text Display Function
Yes
Wallpaper Customization
Main, Lyrics
Voices
Voice Creator
Yes
Harmony/Echo
Yes
Panel Sustain
Yes
Mono/Poly
Yes
Voice Information
Yes
Styles
Style Creator
Yes
Style Recommender
Yes
OTS Information
Yes
Songs
Song Creator
Yes
Score Display Function
Yes
Lyrics Display Function
Yes
Multi Pads
Multi Pad Creator
Yes
USB Audio
Time Stretch
Yes
Pitch Shift
Yes
Vocal Cancel
Yes
Storage and Connectivity
Storage
Internal Memory
approx. 6.7 MB
External Drives
USB Flash Memory, etc. (via USB to DEVICE)
Internal Memory (for Expansion Pack)
approx. 64 MB
Connectivity
DC IN
16V
Headphones
Yes
FOOT PEDAL
(optional) Switch or Volume x 2
Microphone
Yes
MIDI
In/Out
AUX IN
Yes
OUT PUT
(R, L/L+R)
VIDEO OUT
Yes
USB TO DEVICE
Yes
USB TO HOST
Yes
Amplifiers and Speakers
Amplifiers
15 W x 2
Speakers
13 cm + 2.5 cm dome tweeter (x 2)
Power Supply
Power Supply
PA-300C or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha
Power Consumption
16 W
Auto Power Off Function
Yes
Accessories
Included Accessories
AC Adaptor
PA-300C
Multi Pads
Preset
Number of Multi Pad Banks
126 banks x 4 Pads
Audio
Audio Link
Yes
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