About this item

• Real Time Scale Tuning settings right on the panel of your instrument allow you to change scale tuning on the fly, and even create presets for quick and easy recall.
• Key-Off sounds for percussion instruments give the subtle nuance of fingers leaving the drum head as you release the keys.
• Super Articulation Voices intuitively reproduce the natural expressive nuances of non-keyboard instruments, allowing keyboard players to achieve realistic expression.
• Velocity Sensitive Portamento Time allows you to control the speed of the portamento with the touch of your fingers.
• Assignable Knobs allow you to manipulate various effects and parameters on Voices, Styles and more, in real time.

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  From the manufacturer

  

  Make Your Sound Iconic

  Perform

  Your performances and compositions of music in genres from around the world will be more powerful and more expressive than ever before with newly sampled instruments and 210 fresh Styles. Oud, Qanoon, Nay, and many other Voices sound incredibly realistic thanks to new velocity-sensitive portamento, Super Articulation! Voices, and dedicated world instrument waveforms that are 10 times the resolution found in the previous generation of PSR-A.

  Produce

  Create your own original Voices and Styles with the PSR-A5000. Expansion memory has been increased to 1 GB (approx.). It gives you lots of room to design and store various and higher quality contents. The PSR-A5000 supports Styles with multiple time signatures, which increases your possibilities in Style programming.

  

  Iconic World Instruments

  The most prevalent World music instruments have been newly sampled with more detail than ever before. They feature multiple dynamic layers, various new playing Styles and were mixed down in stereo. We provide Revo! SFX kits with Wave Cycling technology. Super Articulation! technology is applied to control different articulations. Voice content is conveniently categorized for easy access.

  

  New Styles

  210 new World music Styles with richer dynamics and more power than ever before. Choose Styles from a variety of genres, such as Khaleeji (36 Styles), Shami (35 Styles), Masri (15 Styles), Maghrebi (50 Styles), Persian (43 Styles), and Turkish (31 Styles). Style Section Time Signatures let you use a range of time signatures within a single Style, allowing you to compose or replicate more complex songs. With the Style Section Reset function, you can rewind the rhythm of the Style to beat 1 immediately. This is also helpful when you need to quickly synchronize your performance on stage. Style content is categorized to be convenient for players of World music.

  

  Istanbul Strings

  Istanbul Strings are one of the most popular strings section in Turkey. Their sound has been recorded innumerable times and can be found on many current music productions, not only in Turkey but also on international records. The PSR-A5000 offers Istanbul Strings samples for the first time in an arranger workstation.

  

  Chord Looper

  Chord Looper lets you record a chord sequence and play it back, freeing your left hand from playing chords and providing new ways to enhance your performance. You can let the chords repeat automatically and focus on other aspects of the music.

  

  Drums and Percussions

  Expanded drum kit functionality allows you to play 128 mapped instruments from a single kit. Great care has been taken with drum mapping to provide an optimized, intuitive layout for World music finger drumming on a keyboard. Thanks to newly added key-off samples, drums and percussion Voices sound very natural and make performance and programming easier. Revo! SFX kits provide more natural drum rolls and enhanced expressiveness.

  

  User Interface

  Scale Tune buttons offer easy access during live performances. Individual note pitches can be easily modified and stored as your own new scales to Scale Tune Memories. Assign your favorite function/parameter to Live Control knobs, Joystick, Assignable buttons, Foot Pedals and Home shortcuts. FSB Keyboard offers remarkable playability thanks to its heavier initial key resistance, greater key travel and refined keyboard structure. The 7-inch touch display and new graphic user interface provide for instinctive control over the instrument’s powerful features.

  

  New Portamento

  Newly added Crossfade Portamento with velocity and time related parameters. Transition speed and velocity of following notes are editable, allowing smooth, expressive transitions between successive notes. Check out the “Audio & Video” tab to experience the natural behavior of the instruments achieved with new portamento.

  

  Sub Output

  The PSR-A5000 features two sub line-out connections that you can use to adapt your sound to various situations. Try routing bass through a separate subwoofer for a fuller, more powerful bottom end, or send parts and drum instruments to an external console to shape your sound further.