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Congratulations on your purchase of the Yamaha PSR-350 PortaTone!
You now own a portable keyboard that combines advanced functions, great sound
and exceptional ease-of-use in a highly compact package. Its outstanding features
also make it a remarkably expressive and versatile instrument.
Read this Owner’s Manual carefully while playing your new PSR-350 in order to
take full advantage of its various features.
Main Features
The PSR-350 is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use keyboard with the following features and functions:
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MUSIC DATABASE ............................. page 49
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!
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Disk Drive ............................. page 69
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.
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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.