LEARN TO PLAY AND SING ALONG
WITH THE YAMAHA PSR K1 PORTABLE KEYBOARD

—61-Key Model Combines Professional Features, Teaching Elements, Karaoke Fun—

BUENA PARK, CA (November 21, 2003)—The Yamaha PSR K1 Portable Keyboard brings the joy of music into your home, just in time for the holidays.

PSR K1

"The Yamaha PSR K1 is an affordable keyboard that can be used and enjoyed by everyone that wants to play, as well as everyone who wants to sing," states Jim Presley, marketing manager, Yamaha Portable Keyboards. "It's educational with its ability to display and play sheet music, and expandable with its ability to accept new music from a SmartMedia card or the Internet."

As always, realistic sound and feel are a top priority to Yamaha. The PSR K1 features 61 piano—sized keys that emulate the feel of an acoustic grand, 32 notes of polyphony and a selection of some of the best voices available today—including 480 realistic instrument voices, 100 accompaniment styles and 12 drum kits-and a generous 4MB Wave ROM to add even more realism.

Perhaps the most unique aspect of the Yamaha PSR K1 is its function as a comprehensive Karaoke system. Features include an integrated microphone input, plus vocal reverb and echo. In addition, song lyrics and music notation will scroll across the large bit-mapped LCD screen in time to the music.

The PSR K1 also functions as a self-teaching keyboard. Equipped with the built-in Yamaha Education Suite, the PSR K1 contains exercises, a chord directory, over 100 songs to learn and other interactive features.

Using the USB connection and a home computer, users can have an instant music production studio. Bundled Scorch/XF software allows digital interactive sheet music scores to be downloaded from a PC to the keyboard and saved to SmartMedia® storage. Up to five original songs (with six tracks each) may be recorded with the onboard sequencer.

A new innovation, Magic Performer™, allows anyone to play chords to either the built-in songs or any song with chord information. With the onboard Music Database, simply select from over 200 song titles, and the entire keyboard will set itself up for that song. The Multi-Fingering Auto Accompaniment function will automatically recognize either a single finger or full chords.

The Yamaha PSR K1 can be played through headphones or through the 20W/side speaker system with bass ports, adding the ambience of a concert hall to any performance.

"The Yamaha PSR K1 has a long list of 'firsts' for a portable keyboard in this price point," states Mark Anderson, product manager, Yamaha Portable Keyboards, "including SmartMedia data storage, vocal audio capability and a bitmap graphics display that will also show lyrics. If there was ever a breakthrough product, this is the one."

For more information on the PSR K1, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Pro Audio & Combo Division, Portable Keyboards, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011; e-mail infostation@yamaha.com; or www.yamaha.com.