Yamaha DGX530 Piano-focused Portable Digital Keyboard

88 piano-style keys with Graded Soft Touch, matching stand, sustain pedal, USB storage, backlit LCD displays notation and lyrics

DGX530 Main Features:

* Piano Centric Features
* USB Connectivity
* Lyric, chord and notation display
* Ease of Operation
* Yamaha Education Suite
* 6-track recorder
* Sound Quality
* Full Keyboard Mode
* Digital Music Notebook software included
* Other Great Features

Step-up features on YPG-635 (next model up)

* GHS Weighted action keyboard
* Decorative Wooden accents
* 64-note polyphony
* Optional LP-7 3-pedal unit
* Better DSP effects for more realistic sounding Distortion Guitar and Rotary Organ

Piano Centric Features
The Yamaha Portable Grand, DGX530 has an easy to use panel, a wealth of piano-centric features including 88 piano-style keys, Graded Soft Touch (GST) action with different levels of resistance, high resolution stereo piano sample and comes with an attractive matching stand, PA-150 energy saving power adapter and sustain pedal.

USB connectivity brings music directly to your keyboard
The DGX530 has 2 USB ports on the back, USB TO HOST and USB TO DEVICE.
* USB TO HOST is plug and play simple for recording and playing back MIDI files, as well as transferring data to and from your computer.
* USB TO DEVICE is for connecting optional peripheral USB storage devices like floppy disk drives and thumb drives. When a USB flash memory is inserted in this instrument's USB TO DEVICE terminal, user songs created on the instrument and the registered settings can be saved to or loaded from the memory medium. USB flash memory can also be used to transfer song data downloaded from the Internet to the instrument, where it can be used with the performance assistant technology and the Yamaha Education Suite features mentioned below. Furthermore, user songs saved to USB flash memory in MIDI file format can also be used with these features.

Lyric, chord and notation display
Have you ever played a song and wondered what it would look like as sheet music? The DGX530 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. 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.

Ease of Operation
There are many tools in the keyboard that make it easy to be a power user from the first day you own the keyboard.

* Expandable Music Database: Complete keyboard setups by song title. The keyboard selects an appropriate voice for the right hand melody, the correct musical style and the correct tempo. Simply call up a song title and start playing.
* One Touch Setting (OTS): Provides you with a recommended voice with effects for each Style. For example, on a jazz style OTS might be piano, for a Latin style it might be acoustic guitar and for a rock style it might be a guitar with overdrive etc.
* Registration Memory: Set the keyboard up just the way you like and take a digital snapshot by memorizing it to one of the Registration buttons. Load and save up to 16 Registrations to User memory. The Registration buttons are conveniently located just above the keyboard.
* Performance Assistant Technology: Performance assistant technology is a feature from Yamaha that guarantees that you can't play a wrong melody note or chord. Here's how it works. Select a song, press the Performance Assistant button Chord Mode and play the keyboard – any notes you like. Every note you play will fit the music!

If you move up the keyboard, the pitch goes up. If you move down, the pitch goes down. Play a perfect arpeggio, or play chords in time with the music, or really "go for it" and play a solo. As long as performance assistant is "on", you're "on". Imagine being able to give a concert to your friends or relatives the very first day that you bring this remarkable keyboard home. Well, with the DGX530 and performance assistant technology, you can! The DGX530 offers four selectable types that work with any of the internal songs with chords plus any XF MIDI files.

o Chord: No matter where or what you play, the result will be musical, well-balanced sound. This type offers the greatest freedom, allowing you to play anything with both your left and right hands.
o Chord/Free: If you can play simple right-hand melodies but have trouble with left hand chords, this is the type for you. The Chord type applies to only the left-hand section of the keyboard, allowing you to easily play chords to support the melody you are playing with your right hand.
o Melody: This type lets you play the melody of the selected song by playing any keys with just one finger. Start playing melodies right away, even if you've never played a keyboard instrument before!
o Chord/Melody: Play the melody of the selected song with one finger on the right-hand section of the keyboard, and play chords on the left-hand section of the keyboard using the Chord type.