Description
Yamaha’s PSR-E383 is a 61-key portable arranger keyboard intended for beginners and hobbyists. It’s loaded with everything you need to create great musical pieces, including realistic instrument voices, velocity-sensitive keys, onboard lessons, and USB to Host audio. You also get access to SALite (Super Articulation Lite Voices), which adds extra expression and realism to the sound. Players adore the string scratches and fretting noise available on the guitar patch. The PSR-E383’s USB to Host port lets the arranger send MIDI and audio signals straight into your DAW. If you’re looking for a great arranger keyboard at an even better price, then the Yamaha PSR-E383 is an excellent choice.
Psr-E383 Sounds and accompaniments
The Yamaha PSR-E383 has a 61-key velocity-sensitive keyboard, with a velocity curve that can be adjusted to suit each individual’s playing experience.
The polyphonic sound generation offers 48 simultaneously available voices, and a total of 650 sounds are included in the package (panel voices, drum kits, arpeggio, XGlite), the most notable of which are perhaps Yamaha’s “Super Articulation Lite Voices”, which thanks to their myriad variations are particularly suitable for solos.
The sounds can be customised with DSP effects and a master EQ. The 260 automatic accompaniments and 125 onboard songs cater for many of the most popular music styles, and there are even 152 arpeggios that are particularly typical for modern dance music.
For further practice, Yamaha includes a download of the “Easy Song Book”. The Yamaha PSR-E383 has two integrated speakers and a headphone socket, and it can be connected to a computer via the USB port for a MIDI/audio connection.
Getting started is rarely this easy
Yamaha has taken its decades of experience in creating instruments for learners and teachers and applied it to creating the PSR series of keyboards. Because of their deliberately simple user interface, beginners of all ages can take their first steps in learning the keyboard without any reservations or reluctance.
Students lucky enough to be receiving individual lessons can also use the Duo mode to play with their teacher four-handed. Even once a student has made considerable progress, the Yamaha PSR-E383 will prove a reliable and motivational partner thanks to its great range of styles and accompanying functions – after all, making music with it is nothing short of fun.
For more experienced musicians looking to expand their repertoire of piano pieces in particular, however, we recommend the Yamaha PSR-EW320, as it has a larger octave range.
Learning
The standard learning function of the Yamaha PSR-E383 can be broken down into three steps. First, the piece being practised is played by the keyboard itself, with the notes (and the corresponding keys) shown on the display.
The next step focuses on timing, in order to develop a student’s sense of the rhythm of a melody. The third stage is where playing the right notes in the right order starts to become relevant: The notes will only play if the keys are played in the correct order.
Building on this process, the “Keys to Success” lessons allow players to begin learning entire songs, which are split up into distinct passages to allow step by step practice.
The notes for the left and right hands are, at first, learned separately, and then practised together, which is ideal for beginners in particular. Each performance of a section is given a score, so players can decide whether they want to keep practising or move on to the next section. In further exercises, there is greater focus on playing dynamically.
Psr-E383 Keyboard
- Successor model to the PSR-E373
- 61 Velocity-sensitive keys
- 650 Sounds including 25 drum/SFX kits
- Dual
- Split
- 260 Styles, 10 user styles (SFF format)
- One touch settings
- 50 Chord progressions
- Music Database with 200 entries
- 10 Registration memories
- 125 Songs
- 48-Voice polyphony
- Backlit LCD display
- MIDI recording: 5 songs with 2 tracks each in your own file format
- MIDI player: SMF 0 & 1
- Effects: DSP (41), Reverb (15), Chorus (7), Master EQ (5), Harmony (26), Melody Suppressor
- Metronome
- Learning function
- Speaker system 2 x 2.5 watts
- Battery operation possible (6x AA LR6/R6/HR6 required, not included)
- Dimensions (W x D x H): 941 x 317 x 105 mm
- Weight: 4.4 kg
- Colour: Black
Psr-E383 Connections:
- Power supply
- Headphone output/line out: 6.3 mm stereo jack
- Sustain pedal (not included)
- Aux In: 3.5 mm stereo mini jack
- USB to host (MIDI and audio)
