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Yamaha PSS-6 Portasound Mini Keyboard, 32 keys, great sound, 25 tones with 4 variants each for a total of 100 Tones! A Compact 16.5" Inches Long, and Lots of Fun!

This listing is for a Yamaha PSS-6 mini keyboard. with great sounding samples, and a tone editor / variation function. This unit is in good cosmetic condition, with some minor marks from use, and in excellent performing condition. It takes 5 "AA" batteries, not included but available everywhere. It is missing it's battery cover, which does not affect play however. This is a very small and fun keyboard, at 16 and 1/2" inches long.

Here are some specs from Yamaha:

• 25 AWM Voices

• Each with 4 variations (100 sounds!)

• Echo and effects built in

• 15 Rhythms

• 1 Speaker

• 2 Note polyphonic

• 15 Jam Tracks

• 15 Demo songs With melody on/off function.

• Keys

• 32 Mini size

• Batteries

• 5 "AA"

• Dimensions

• 5.0" (W) X 16.4" (1) X 1.7" (H)

The concept of this instrument has many similarities with Casio SA-5. Like the latter it selects its 100 preset sound by multiple presses of 5 group buttons and a 4 variations button. But unlike the SA-5, the Yamaha PSS-6 has no tekkno sounds but only natural instrument samples, and the variations are mainly duet or trio versions of the same preset sound, or add echo etc. The rhythms have an optional fixed- key accompaniment (called "jam tracks") that plays pre- programmed chord sequences and can automatically switch the main voice sound all few patterns.

main features:

• 32 mini keys 
• built-in speaker (high quality)
• main voice polyphony 2 notes
• 100 preset sounds divided into 5 groups with each 5 sounds and each 4 variants per sound selected by the "variation" button: {piano, e. piano, harpsichord, clavi, e. organ | violin, vibraphone, marimba, flute, clarinet | folk guitar, e. guitar, banjo, harp, strings | saxophone, harmonica, accordion, trumpet, horn | fantasy, wood bass, e. bass, slap bass, piano split}
• 15 preset "jam track" rhythms {dance, rap, funk, rock, minor blues | rock 'n' roll, r&b,  slow rock, jazz blues, fusion | bossa nova, samba, tango, march, waltz} (switch main voice sound all few patterns).
• preset sounds & rhythms selected through multiple presses of group buttons
• "jam tracks" accompaniment (fixed- key chord sequences, can be switched off)
• volume button (7 steps, stepping down & up again)
• tempo button (7 steps, stepping down & up again)
• "AWM" wavetable sound generator with sounds based on medium resolution samples with partly complex volume envelopes (those e.g. simulate echo) and astonishingly high sound quality (16 bit?).
• CPU "Yamaha YMW282-F, 9620 ABGB" (80 pin SMD) + separate ROM "©1994 Yamaha, XP733AD, M531031B-12, 5132352" (32 pin DIL), crystal clocked
• 15 lovely demo melodies (wonderful complex polyphonic orchestrations)
• "minus one" function (mutes melody voice of demos to train playing)

eastereggs:

• echo speed controllable by tempo button 
   

The instrument has a song bank of 15 wonderful orchestrated polyphonic demo melodies:

1. Original Song 1 [fusion]
2. Original Song 2 [latin fusion]
3. Original Song 3 [slow latin fusion]
4. Deck the Halls
5. Sur Le Pont d'Avignon
6. Beautiful Dreamer
7. Londonderry Air
8. Symphony #40
9. La Cucaracha
10. House of the Rising Sun
11. Silent Night
12. Oh! Susanna
13. Song of Joy
14. O. Vrenelli
15. Troika [one of the Atari Tetris arcade tunes, jazz version]