Any thoughts or comments? Where do the internal sounds/voices derive from?(Another Yamaha kbd or module?)Does Yamaha make a product with similar sounds but with more storage? i.e. a hard drive.

Thank you!

Meant to say.... Does Yamaha make a product with similar sounds but with more storage? i.e. a hard drive within $3-400 of the dgx-500 retail price of $700.

Thank you!

The DGX500 sounds and styles were born with the Yamaha EZ30 that was released in late 2001 . If you make a comparison , they are sound for sound , style for style equal .


It's a nice keyboard , but nothing available with more memory (hard drive) . Use your computer !
Dan in Baltimore

I have tried this board for quite some time and found some SERIOUS shortcomings for live use. If I remember correctly:

-Awkward and limited registration memories.
-No way to change the manual bass.

My understanding is that it's a PSR290/292 with an 88 keys semi-weighted keypad. Do you require the 88 keys?
The PSR550 has a disc drive (no hard drive) and better quality sounds, but 61 keys.
Starkeeper

The DGX500 does have a disk drive and has 8 meg wave ROM, but does not have any audio outputs.

Actually,
The DGX300/500 are based on the Yamaha PSR350. The PSR350 has the disk drive, the same sequencer, same registration memory, same tap tempo, same music data base, etc. The EZ30 is almost the same except no disk drive and no data base.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

I was just about to say that George Kaye... George is right.. The DGX series is basically a 76 and 88 key PSR-350. The PSR-290/292 might be similiar, but the series comes from the 350.. Actually I played both the 76 and 88 key DGX's on Saturday.. The 88 key is HUGE!, but the key feel is way better than my PSR-550. They're not fully weighted keys but they sure do feel a lot nicer..

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