User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- PRECAUTIONS
- Main Features
- Included Accessories
- About the Manuals
- Using the PSR-A5000—a Broad Overview
- Contents
- Major Functions and Terms
- Panel Controls and Terminals
- Starting Up
- Display Structure
- Basic Operations
- Workflow Guide—for Performing on the PSR-A5000
- 1 Playing with Styles—Setting Up
- Setting up Styles
- Optimum Panel Settings for the Current Style (One Touch Setting)
- Setting up Keyboard Parts
- Selecting a Voice for Each Keyboard Part
- Creating Original Organ Flutes Voices
- Setting up Keyboard Harmony/Arpeggio
- Setting up Multi Pads
- Memorizing Original Panel Settings to One Touch Setting
- Changing the Pitch of the Keyboard
- Setting up Assignable Controllers
- 2 Playing with Styles—Operations While Performing
- 3 Singing with Song Playback—Setting Up
- 4 Singing with Song Playback—Operations While Performing
- 5 Selecting and/or Creating a Temperament (Scale Tune)
- 6 Adjusting the Parameters of Each Part— Mixer
- 7 Song Recording
- 8 Storing and Calling up Custom Panel Setups—Registration Memory and Playlist
- 9 Customizing for Optimum Performance
- 10 System Settings
- Connections—Using Your Instrument with Other Devices
- Connecting a Microphone or Guitar ([MIC/GUITAR INPUT] jack)
- Using an External Speaker System for Playback (MAIN OUTPUT jacks, SUB (AUX) OUTPUT jacks)
- Listening to Audio Playback by the External Device through the Instrument’s Speaker
- Connecting Footswitches/Foot Controllers (FOOT PEDAL jacks)
- Connecting USB Devices ([USB TO DEVICE] terminal)
- Connecting to a smartphone/tablet ([USB TO DEVICE], [USB TO HOST], or MIDI terminals)
- Connecting to a Computer ([USB TO HOST] terminal)
- Connecting External MIDI Devices (MIDI terminals)
- Function List
- Appendix
- Index
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Main Features
Main Features
Created to meet the demands of Oriental music entertainers, the PSR-A5000 is an inspirational delight—featuring
extraordinary sound, advanced functions, and wonderfully expressive control.
Amazingly expressive and realistic Voices
The PSR-A5000 boasts a comprehensive set of authentic sounding Oriental Voices, including Oud, Nay and Qanoon. The Voices
can be played naturally and with great expressiveness—thanks to the new, cutting-edge portamento advancements, featuring
velocity and time control.
Accompaniment Styles
The convenient Styles give you full instrument accompaniment, making it possible to perform in a wide variety of music genres
simply by playing chords. Naturally, the PSR-A5000’s Style content has been created to meet the demands of Oriental music
entertainers, and the instrument’s Style engine has been localized with new features—including up to 128-note Drum Kits, Drum
Key-off samples and support for multiple time signatures within a Style.
LIVE CONTROL Joystick, knobs and Assignable buttons—Customized control
The LIVE CONTROL Joystick and knobs let you intuitively control your performance in real time. A wide variety of functions
can be assigned to the Joystick and knobs, so you can easily add variations to the sound during your performance. The Assignable
buttons let you set your favorite functions and shortcuts, letting you easily customize the instrument to match your own needs and
playing style.
Scale Tune—Creating original scales
The PSR-A5000 features Scale Tune buttons for easy access during live performances. Individual note pitches can be easily modi-
fied and stored as your own new scales to Scale Tune Memories. The Scale Tune Quick Setting allows for immediate setting of a
desired scale.
Chord Looper—Your virtual left hand
Chord Looper enables you to record a chord sequence and play it back, freeing your left hand from playing chords and providing
new opportunities to further enhance your performance.
Voice and Style expandability with the Yamaha Expansion Manager
With Yamaha Expansion Manager software on your computer, you can continually expand the onboard content of the instrument
by creating and installing your own custom and downloaded Packs. Supporting WAV, AIFF, SoundFont and even REX format, for
handling audio slices, the scope of possibilities for new sounds and styles is virtually unlimited.
Audio features, including recording and editing
Audio files can be played back on the instrument, plus you can directly record your performance as audio files to the internal User
drive or a USB flash drive. The instrument also provides a variety of advanced, convenient audio playback and processing func-
tions, including Time Stretch and Pitch Shift. The Vocal Cancel function significantly reduces the volume of existing vocals in an
audio file, allowing you to sing “karaoke” style with just the instrumental backing. Since Audio files can also be assigned to Multi
Pads and played back during your performance, the creative potential is enormous.