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The Yamaha DGX- offers an affordable feature-packed portable keyboard that boasts an authentic grand piano-like touch heavy in the low end feathery light in the highs and amazingly responsive throughout It also includes USB MIDI and USB to Device for removable storage along with a high resolution Live Grand stereo sample song recorder score and lyric display The USB facilitates easy transfer with a PC or Macintosh computer for use with many optional software packages that can score arrange and sequence your music Can’t play a keyboard instrument Yamaha Education Suite helps you get started With nearly voices and built-in stereo speakers the Yamaha DGX- AD is truly a grand keyboard music instrument that you and your family will enjoy Pitch bend wheel to add smooth pitch variations to notes played Voices – panel voices drum SFX kits XGlite voices Polyphony – DUAL and SPLIT modes Styles – Preset Styles External files Style Control – ACMP ON OFF SYNC STOP SYNC START START STOP INTRO ENDING rit MAIN AUTO FILL Fingering – Multi Finger Full Keyboard Style Volume Music Database – External files Education Feature – Dictionary Lesson – Repeat Learn Registration Memory – banks x types Effects – Reverb – types Chorus – types Harmony – types Preset Songs User Songs Accessory CD-ROM with more Auxiliary jacks – PHONES OUTPUT DC IN V USB SUSTAIN Amplifier – Watts per channel to two -way on-board speakers – cm x cm x Power Supply – Adaptor – PA- included or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha Batteries – Six D size R P LR or equivalent batteries optional Unit Dimensions W x D x H – x x mm – x – x – Weight – kg lbs oz not including batteries Supplied Accessories – Music Rest Accessory CD-ROM Owner’s Manu more info
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November 7th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Top of the line
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Aside from it now being affordable (I bought it when it first came out at around $900), this is a high quality digital piano. The sound is utterly incredible, clear cut and crisp. Basic operation is simple, the weighted keys match those of actual piano keys…the feel is all there. This is perfect for those fluid in their craft, going from in studio to performing in shows. It is fairly heavy, requires 2 people to transport. It is well made, can take serious rough wear and tear from moving and constant use.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:17 am
A relatively inexpensive indulgence
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’m very pleased that I purchased this keyboard for my home. I can’t believe the price of the unit was so low for the quality and features. This may be the entertainment bargain of the decade at Amazon. This is a lot of fun to play with even if you have limited talent in music. I play it about 5 times a week in the evenings and it is good for destressing at the end of the day. I was debating getting a system with fewer keys, but I’m glad I went with this system for basically the same price. There are so many features on this system that I have yet to try out everything. I’ve tried out most of the voices and have no complaints. This has everything I could possibly want and more for a home system. This system also comes with a power supply included, so no need to buy one separately. It does not come with a sustain pedal though. I plan to buy one soon. Since I do woodworking, I made my own stand, so I can’t comment on the quality of the stands offered by Yamaha. There is a wire-style stand and a wooden stand, so I think the wooden stand would be the way to go if you were using this in a permanent location.
November 9th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Received a brand new but (mechanically) defective unit
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I borrowed DGX230 from a friend and was pretty happy with it for a couple of months (till the end of the loan). Happy enough to order one, which turned out to be defective. The lowest “B”-key was much harder to press than its neighbors and took about twice as much pressure to go all the way down (yes, I did measure it with weights). It did “make a sound”, that is why I put “(mechanically) defective” in the title.
I did like the first keyboard, though.
Its touch, though not weighted and softer than typical piano touch, might still sometimes remotely resemble piano touch for the following reason. When the key is being pressed, the point of “maximum resistance” occurs near the top position, then the key goes down more easily (sorry for this clumsy description). Of course, nonweighted keys do not have any noticeable inertia, but that hardly mattered to me when playing slowly. The touch was much better than in Casio’s WK200 or WK500.
(By the way, the defective key on DGX-230 did not have this feature: I would have to press harder and harder as it went lower.)
Other than that, DGX-230 is light and good-looking, and there are some nice voices among roughly 500 XGlite patches.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Not for gigging
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I can’t say that this keyboard, though a toy, isn’t worth the going price. I picked it up at the urging of a bandleader who is convinced the sound of its bass matches his electric bass on his double-neck guitar. If I want to make the rest of the band hate me, I simply turn on the automatic songs on break. The keyboard doubles as a “juke box” with keys / karaoke machine and a surrogate piano. I’ve used it outside with batteries and find the speakers occasionally convenient. Both the action and sound of the piano are horrible–if you’re a pianist. But if I get paid for playing this toy on top of being spared the hassle of hauling something like a Roland RD-700, I’m not overly malcontent. Admittedly, there’s a certain amount of suspense before and during the gig due to the instability of this thing (some of the settings are counterintuitive and most of them are erased upon shut-down).
Above all, try not to be overly impressed by the demo songs. It’s one thing for the piano to produce these sounds automatically but a totally different experience for the “keyboardist” to make the same sounds. Even few musicians are aware of the critical relation between touch and tone. When the key feels (literally) like an overly sensitive typewriter key, the player becomes detached from his “voice,” inserting extra, meaningless notes to fill the empty space, rushing the tempo, developing aversions to voicings, registers, and fingerings that the keyboard is simply incapable of executing.
I thought about passing the instrument down to a grandkid before thinking better of it. This keyboard, besides being unequal to the challenge of public performance, is potentially dangerous. It could actually produce in a young musician an aversion to practicing, playing, even just jamming. Had my parents started me, at the age of 3, on this toy instead of a George Steck upright, I seriously doubt I would have stayed with the instrument to the age of 4 let alone– Well, we needn’t go any farther.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Review of Yamaha DGX 230
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The unit is very functional with excellent sound. Keys are weighted…the harder you press the louder the sound. Teaching tools installed on the unit can assist you in being part of an orchestra in no time at all. Sound quality of the unit is excellent. One of the best buys I’ve seen for an electronic keyboard!!
Dissadvantages: 1) Keys are not lighted. 2) There is no “sound effect” button. No animal sounds available. 3) Headphones require a 1/4″ plug.
If you research and purchase correctly, you should get the stand included.