Yamaha DGX-305 Yamaha 76 Key Educational Keyboard with 3 1/2 Floppy Disc Drive and Portable Grand Sound # DGX305, D-G-X-305, D-GX305, DG-X305, DGX 305

76 piano-style touch sensitive keyboard with SmartMedia™, notation/lyric display, USB for plug & play compatibility

SmartMedia storage offers high-capacity storage

For the utmost in simplicity, compatibility and portability, the DGX-305 features SmartMedia storage (card optional), offering up to 128MB of high-speed access to songs and styles. Unlike audio files, MIDI songs and styles are small files, allowing you to store literally hundreds and hundreds of your favorite tunes on a card that is not much bigger than a postage stamp. For convenience, there are a couple of ways to get data to the card. You can connect the keyboard directly to your computer, using the USB jack on the back, and transfer songs and styles directly from your computer to the card (PC only). Or, if you don't plan on having the keyboard in the same room as your computer, simply pick up a memory card reader for your computer from your favorite electronic supply store and transfer data that way

PC Button & USB: This keyboard loves your computer

The DGX-305 has many state of the art features to make connecting to your PC as quick and easy as possible. These features include the PC Button, which takes a snapshot of your MIDI settings so that you can instantly return to them with just the press of a single button, and a USB port for transferring song data from your computer. In addition, the USB port acts as a MIDI interface, freeing you from having to purchase other MIDI peripherals like cables and adapters to play music. Simply connect to your computer, open your favorite music software program and hit PLAY. That's it.

Large bitmapped screen is your window into the world of music

Have you ever played a song and wondered what it would look like as sheet music? The DGX-305 can display the score to a song whether it comes from the Internet, the internal selections or ones that you record yourself, and the pages scroll automatically when a song is played back - no more page turning! And for singers, the screen also displays chords and lyrics to XF compatible songs. For examples, please visit www.yamahamusicsoft.com. And for those that want to learn to play, notation adds a new dimension to the Yamaha Education Suite, allowing you to hear a song while you follow the notes in the display

General MIDI and Yamaha XGlite makes for great sound

The DGX-305 comes equipped with 494 voices that include a high resolution stereo-sampled Piano, a selection of Sweet! Voices including Trumpet, Flute, Pan Flute, Soprano & Tenor Saxes, Cool! Voices including Galaxy Electric Piano, Suitcase Electric Piano, Electric Piano & Organ, Live! Voices including Piano, Warm Grand & Orchestra and 10 Drum Kits and 2 Sound Effects Kits. Sweet! Voices are special voices from Yamaha that reproduce all the natural expression and vibrato of their respective acoustic instruments. Cool! Voices feature long samples of electronically amplified instruments. Live! Voices use stereo samples to ensure the most accurate reproduction of each instrument's natural presence, resonance and vibrato. It all adds up to great sound. And for the utmost in compatibility, the DGX-305 is both General MIDI (GM) and XGlite capable. The Internet has thousands of MIDI song files available and you can rest assured that your DGX-305 will be able to competently reproduce these files.

Sound Quality

• 2-Way Speaker System
  Separate woofers and tweeters deliver sounds with clarity and precision for more lifelike instrument voices.
  
• Bass Boost System
  A special port on each speaker adds a powerful impact to bass sound reproduction.
  
• Stereo (Not just 2 Speakers)
  We all know that stereo sound adds realistic character and spatial depth. But how can you tell if the portable keyboard you're looking to purchase is stereo or not? With Yamaha, the answer is simple. All Yamaha Portable Keyboards are true stereo.
  
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
  Enhances sound quality with sophisticated digital effects like Harmony, Reverb & Chorus.
  
• Advanced Wave Memory (AWM)
  Yamaha Advanced Wave Memory technology delivers amazingly realistic sound.

32-note Polyphony
What's polyphony, you ask? Simply put, polyphony is how many notes a keyboard can reproduce simultaneously. The DGX-305 has 32-note polyphony allowing you to play intricate arrangements and dense musical passages.

Keyboard Styles and the One Touch Setting

The DGX-305 comes with 135 built-in styles, waiting for you to play along with. It's just like having a built-in band. Call up your favorite style of music like Rock, Big Band or Country, press a chord or play Single Finger mode, and the DGX-305 will follow you through a piece of music, providing all of the drums, bass, piano, guitar, horn and string parts for you. And to make it easy and fun, when you select one of the styles, the One Touch Setting function will automatically configure keyboard parameters, such as voice selection and digital effects, to match that selected music style.

Yamaha DGX-305 Yamaha 76 Key Educational Keyboard with 3 1/2 Floppy Disc Drive and Portable Grand Sound # DGX305, D-G-X-305, D-GX305, DG-X305, DGX 305