Product Description

The Yamaha DGX-630 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 500 voices and built-in stereo speakers, the Yamaha DGX-230/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 - 116 panel voices + 12 drum/SFX kits + 361 XGlite voices, Polyphony - 32, DUAL and SPLIT modes Styles - 160 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 - 300 + External files Education Feature - Dictionary, Lesson 1-3, Repeat & Learn Registration Memory - 8 banks x 2 types Effects - Reverb - 9 types, Chorus - 4 types, Harmony - 26 types 30 Preset Songs + 5 User Songs + Accessory CD-ROM with 70 more Auxiliary jacks - PHONES/OUTPUT, DC IN 12V, USB, SUSTAIN Amplifier - 6 Watts per channel to two 2-way on-board speakers - 12cm x 2 + 3cm x 2 Power Supply - Adaptor - PA-150 (included) or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha, Batteries - Six D size, R20P (LR20) or equivalent batteries (optional) Unit Dimensions (W x D x H) - 1,178 x 412 x 137 mm (46-3/8 x 16-1/4 x 5-3/8); Weight - 8.3kg (18 lbs. 5 oz.) (not including batteries) Supplied Accessories - Music Rest, Accessory CD-ROM, Owner's Manu

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34902 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Yamaha
• Model: DGX230AD
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• 76 Graded Soft Touch keyboard
• Portable Grand function - One dedicated button brings up a great piano sound
• Backlit LCD Display
• Easy Song Arranger feature and Performance Assistant Technology
• Built-in USB terminal allows quick and easy computer connection

Customer Reviews

Top of the line
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.

Review of Yamaha DGX 230
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.

Not for gigging
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.