Yamaha PSR SX600 Arranger W Keyboard

The Yamaha PSR-SX600 is a popular and powerful arranger workstation keyboard that sits in the middle of Yamaha’s professional PSR-SX series. It strikes a great balance between advanced features, high-quality sounds, and an accessible price point, making it a favorite among musicians, home studio users, and performers.

Highlights:

• Keyboard: It features a 61-key “Organ” style keyboard with Initial Touch (touch-sensitive keys). This allows for dynamic and expressive playing, as the volume and tone change based on how hard you press the keys.
• Massive Sound Library: The PSR-SX600 comes loaded with a vast number of high-quality sounds.
  • Voices: It includes 850 Voices, including Yamaha’s acclaimed Super Articulation Voices (73 of them), which add realistic performance characteristics like fret noise on a guitar or breath sounds on a saxophone. It also has MegaVoices, Sweet!, Cool!, and Live! Voices, which use advanced sampling to provide a more authentic and expressive playing experience.
  • Drum Kits: There are also 43 Drum/SFX Kits for rhythm and sound effects.
• Auto-Accompaniment Styles: This is a core feature of an arranger keyboard. The PSR-SX600 includes 415 preset Styles, which are sophisticated backing tracks that follow your chords and fingering. The styles cover a huge range of musical genres from around the world, including Pro Styles, Session Styles, and DJ Styles.
• 4.3-inch Color Display: The keyboard features a 4.3-inch TFT Color WQVGA LCD screen. While it’s not a touchscreen like the higher-end PSR-SX models, the color display makes it easy to navigate through the menus, select voices, and manage settings.
• Unison & Accent Function: This is a key feature that makes the PSR-SX600 stand out. It allows the accompaniment Styles to follow and react to your performance with a more natural and expressive feel, adding a level of professionalism to your playing.
• Live Control Knobs and Pitch Bend/Modulation Wheels: The keyboard is equipped with two assignable real-time control knobs, as well as separate pitch bend and modulation wheels. These controls give you instant, hands-on command over a variety of functions, such as filter cutoff, effects, or arpeggio on/off, for dynamic live performance.
• Microphone Input: A crucial feature for performers and vocalists, the PSR-SX600 has a dedicated microphone input. You can connect a microphone and sing along, and the keyboard’s powerful DSP effects (including Noise Gate, Compressor, and 3-band EQ) will add studio-quality polish to your vocals.
• Connectivity:
  • USB to Host: Allows you to connect the keyboard to a computer for MIDI and audio data.
  • USB to Device: Lets you connect a USB flash drive to record your performances in WAV format, or to load new voices and styles.
  • Line Output: Main L/L+R, R outputs are provided for connecting to a PA system or studio speakers.
  • AUX In: A stereo mini jack allows you to connect an external audio device (like a smartphone or tablet) and play along to your favorite music.
• Voice and Style Expandability: You can expand the keyboard’s content using Yamaha’s Expansion Manager software. It has approximately 100 MB of onboard memory for expansion data, which is a good amount for adding new Voices, Drum Kits, and Styles.
• Onboard Recording: The keyboard has a 16-track MIDI sequencer for multi-track recording and a USB Audio Recorder for capturing your performance in high-quality WAV format.