
Review Summary
2013-08-18T20:00:00
At home
moha1970
2013-08-11T20:00:00
I highly recommend this keyboard for nightclub style bellydance music or any other electronic style. It's not suited for acoustic emulation though, so don't get your hopes up there. I can't wait until the next PRS-A series comes out! Pros: 1. Amazing Greek and Turkish sounds and rhythms. 2. The highest quality sounds and styles are found in all the expansion packs including the Greek/Turkish and Arabic sets. 3. 16 MIDI parts for external sequencing! 4. Lots of DFX! The sounds get better the more reverb you add. 5. Lots of belly dance beats from all regions of the Middle East, Turkey, and Greece! Cons: 1. Some of the slower, more emotional styles like Zembekiko sound cheesy and unauthentic - even for electronic music. 2. The non-oriental sound sets are cheap and cheesy - very outdated. This includes pads, leads, pianos, and violins. Adding some sounds from the Motif series would make this keyboard much better. 3. You can not load more than one expansion pack at a time. Very limiting! Suggestions for improvement: 1. Allow more than once expansion pack to be loaded into memory. It is not realistic to expect musicians to upload different expansion packs in the middle of a concert just to use different sounds and rhythms. 2. Allow expansion packs to be edited, combined, and saved. 3. IPad compatibility would be great for editing sounds. 4. Where's the Indian music section and expansion pack? This keyboard would be great for Bollywood music too.
Donovan J.
The Yamaha PSR-A2000 61-Key Arranger Workstation Keyboard is based on their top-of-the-line PSR-S series and features an optimized user interface and wealth of functions, voices and styles. It's packed with an extensive selection of over 1000 voices and 351 styles from around the world including Arabic, Maghreb, Khaligi, Iranian, Turkish and Greek. What's more, is it can be easily expanded to offer additional voices and styles with Yamaha's Voice & Style expansion packs.
The PSR-A2000 also offers USB audio recording and playback directly to USB flash drives. This allows you to create original compositions using any combination of voices and styles. Other features include a built-in joystick controller, Real-time Scale Memory and USB to device functionality.
What really makes this arranger keyboard stand-out from the rest is its MegaVoice technology. Besides all the great sounds, functionality and sequencing capability of this keyboard, it's Yamaha's proprietary MegaVoice technology that makes this series of arrangers incomparable to others. It uses a combination of multi-sampled instruments and performance techniques to produce exceptionally realistic instrument sounds. Words can't accurately express the realism of the sounds contained; it's just something that has to be experienced. It will make you play a selected instrument as if it were actually in your hand and produces some of the most life-like musical instrument sounds available.