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
8 PSR-A5000 Owner’s Manual
Information
About copyrights
• Copying of the commercially available musical data including but not limited to MIDI data and/or audio data is strictly prohibited except for your personal use.
• This product incorporates and bundles contents in which Yamaha owns copyrights or with respect to which Yamaha has license to use others’ copyrights. Due to copyright laws
and other relevant laws, you are NOT allowed to distribute media in which these contents are saved or recorded and remain virtually the same or very similar to those in the
product.
* The contents described above include computer applications, Accompaniment Style data, MIDI data, WAVE data, voice recording data, a score, score data, etc.
* You are allowed to distribute media in which your performance or music production using these contents is recorded, and the permission of Yamaha Corporation is not
required in such cases.
About functions/data bundled with the instrument
• Some of the preset songs have been edited for length or arrangement, and may not be exactly the same as the original.
• This device is capable of using various types/formats of music data by optimizing them to the proper format music data for use with the device in advance. As a result, this
device may not play them back precisely as their producers or composers originally intended.
Included Accessories
• Owner’s Manual (this book) x 1
• Online Member Product Registration x 1
• Music rest x 1
• AC adaptor, power cord x 1
May not be included depending on your area. Check with your Yamaha dealer.
Compatible formats for the instrument
GM (General MIDI) is one of the most common Voice allocation formats. GM System Level 2 is a standard specifica-
tion that enhances the original GM format and improves Song data compatibility. It provides for increased polyphony,
greater Voice selection, expanded Voice parameters, and integrated effect processing.
XG is a major enhancement of the GM System Level 1 format, and was developed by Yamaha specifically to provide
more Voices and variations, as well as greater expressive control over Voices and effects, and to ensure compatibility
of data well into the future.
GS was developed by the Roland Corporation. In the same way as Yamaha XG, GS is a major enhancement of the GM
specifically to provide more Voices and Drum kits and their variations, as well as greater expressive control over
Voices and effects.
The Yamaha XF format enhances the SMF (Standard MIDI File) standard with greater functionality and open-ended
expandability for the future. This instrument is capable of displaying lyrics when an XF file containing lyric data is
played.
SFF (Style File Format) is an original Style file format by Yamaha which uses a unique conversion system to provide
high-quality automatic accompaniment based on a wide range of chord types. SFF GE (Guitar Edition) is an enhanced
format of SFF, which features improved note transposition for guitar tracks.
Yamaha may from time to time update firmware of the product without notice for improvement in functions and usability. To take full advantage of this instru-
ment, we recommend that you upgrade your instrument to the latest version. The latest firmware can be downloaded from the website below:
https://download.yamaha.com/