YAMAHA PSR450 IS ALL ABOUT GREAT SOUND

—61-Key Portable Keyboard Includes Disk Drive for Archived Content—

ANAHEIM, CA—Rapid advances in technology have left musicians with large amounts of material on "older," but still usable, removable storage options—such as floppy disks—and an increasingly limited selection of instruments that will accept these storage formats. Yamaha Corporation of America, Portable Keyboards, addresses this problem in part, with the debut of the PSR450.

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The PSR450 is a great sounding keyboard in a portable package with floppy drive compatibility, opening up the ease and wealth of disk-based resources like vintage educational materials, personally recorded disks and proprietary Yamaha Disk Orchestra and Styles collections.

"We've found that many of our customers have a lot of archived song and style data stored on floppy disks," says Mark Anderson, product manager, Yamaha Portable Keyboards. "The PSR450 will offer them an upgrade path to great sound, plus modern features that are actually 'backward compatible' with their disk-based content."

The PSR450 features 32 notes of polyphony, 135 built-in styles and 491 XGlite/GM voices—including authentic sax, trumpet and flute sounds from the "Sweet!" set, organ from the "Cool!" collection and orchestra voice from the "Live!" group. The 61-key keyboard contains Split and Layer configurations, plus a pitch bend wheel and two-way stereo speakers.

An integrated 3.5-in. 2 HD floppy disk drive is Style File format and Standard MIDI File format compatible. The PSR450 also contains a music database with 500 song titles with automatic setup for each song, a 6-track sequencer for recording songs and performances, plus MIDI In/Out.

"The combination of both General MIDI and Yamaha's XGlite extended voice compatibility gives the PSR450 the ultimate in sound quality," says Jim Presley, marketing manager, Yamaha Portable Keyboards. "That great sound, combined with the floppy disk drive, opens up the customer to a world of disk-based music and content."

The PSR450 is slated for June delivery.

For more information on the PSR450 portable keyboard, visit Yamaha at Winter NAMM 2004 in the Marquis Ballroom at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel; 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 visit www.yamaha.com.