Yamaha PSR S970 Arranger Workstation Keyboard Reviews

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Why not call us today today to hear about our special offers? Yamaha PSR S970 Arranger Workstation Keyboard A huge specification is why the PSR-S970 is the model next to the famous and hugely popular flagship Yamaha Tyros 5. It's truly a workstation through and through and with around 1,480 sounds available you will be spoilt for choice, and simply going through them all will be days of fun! Equipped with Super Articulation Voices, Organ Flutes! Voices and more including the versatile effects inherited from the legendary Tyros 5 you'll be mesmerised by the quality of what this keyboard offered. With 2 Live Controllers for dynamic, real-time control of a number of parameters like filters, arpeggios, tempo etc to the External Display capability you won't be missing anything. Plug in a microphone and with the Vocal Harmony 2 feature you can sing along to the backings with a whole group of people singing along with you, and you can change your voice or even use the new Synth Vocoder, made famous by Phil Collins 'In the Air Tonight'. The updated Arpeggio function gives you access to a wealth of arpeggiated synth phrases and much more, and you can record all of this using the built-in USB Audio recorder. Real Distortion is an incredible feature - imagine an electric guitar sound. That sound is usually recorded like that at the source and then sampled into the keyboard. Real Distortion works different, by using genuine 'famous' name vintage guitars which are captured in incredible detail in their 'clean' state. Then the Real Distortion is used to duplicate (not emulate) the 'amplifier' of the guitar.. and what's better is that you can change this! Prefer less distortion? Simply select the very familiar looking amp 'panel' on the screen and change it to what you wish. You also have a choice of british or american amp types and the effect is truly stunning. Accompaniment styles are aplenty with the PSR-S970 giving you 450 to choose from. Not only this but 40 of these are now 'Audio Styles. What this means is that all of the Drummers, percussionists and percussions ensembles are being played by real people and are recorded as an audio file. You can still adjust the tempo as well! This makes for accompaniment styles that sounds the most realistic that they've ever been. 'VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling' is another addition to the PSR-S970 which accurately simulates the effects of phaser, wah, compressors and phasers at circuit level. Additional sounds and accompaniment styles are also available to download from YamahaMusicSoft and with the PSR-S970's 512MB of on-board expansion memory you'll struggle to run out of storage space. We can also give you 6 free packs free of charge. What We Think... It's like a mini Tyros 5! Superb quality sounds and accompaniment styles with a huge amount of choice and expandability options. The Real Distortion is truly fantastic and gives a new dimension to the guitar sounds, they've never sounded so real! If you want a Tyros 5 but can't quite stretch to it just yet the PSR-S970 is a brilliant alternative. Barry Blackpool Store The flagship of the PSR-S Series, the stunning PSR-S970 combines all the functionality of its sibling models together with powerful performance features including versatile effects inherited from the legendary Tyros5, external display capability and a programmable vocal harmony function. Key features: 989 Voices, including Super Articulation Voices, Organ Flutes! Voices. 41 Drum/SFX kits, and 480 XG voices 2 Live Controllers for dynamic real-time control assignable to any combination of parameters including filter, arpeggio and more 450 Styles, including all-new DJ styles, and 40 Audio Styles Vocal Harmony 2 and Synth Vocoder functions Mic/Guitar input for use when singing or collaborating with other performers New Arpeggio function for instant access to a library of arpeggiated synth phrases and more Authentic Voices and Styles from around the world USB audio playback with time stretch, pitch shift, and vocal cancel functions External display capability Real Distortion and Real Reverb, with an intuitive effects interface Powerful features for live performance The PSR-S970 features two assignable live controllers, a modulation wheel and two assignable foot pedal inputs, ensuring that you have total control over voices, styles, effects and oth

About Rimmers Music:

Rimmers Music (Est.1978) has an excellent reputation and is regarded as one of the best Musical Instrument Retail Company’s in the UK.

We deal with large amounts of goods on a daily basis via our physical stores, established mail order website www.rimmersmusic.co.uk and dedicated education sales division with education catalogue (distributed to over 26,000 schools and Music Services all over the country). 
We also have stores on EBAY and Amazon retailing musical instruments. 

Retailing both new and used equipment Rimmers Music has a reputation for offering competitive prices (always with long guarantees for peace of mind) and excellent part exchange prices. 
We also buy old instruments to recycle and sell, enabling our customers get a refurbished bargain and also help the environment. 

We price check daily to ensure we are giving you the best deal possible. If you find a better deal than we offer we would be very surprised and like to hear about it.

We offer delivery and collection services for all products to make the process of getting your new instrument and part exchanging your old instrument easy. We use next day delivery and collection services for most items, via various courier companies we have accounts with.

Via these couriers we give tracking information for timed delivery slots (in most cases). We also sell specialist items that require an additional level of delivery service, items such as acoustic upright or grand pianos. These specialist delivery items are delivered by our trained team of experts who know how to handle items of this nature, are fully insured, professional and give our customers the installation with the care and attention they deserve.

We sell a huge range of musical instrumentssuch as acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars, guitar amplifiers, acoustic pianos (upright and grand), electric pianos, acoustic drum kits, electric drum kits, digital keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, DJ equipment, PA systems, World percussion such as Djembes and Cajons, classroom equipment such as glockenspiels and maracas, accessories and much more.  We sell in the region of 350 different musical instrument brands from many distributors and suppliers such as Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Casio, Alesis, Kawai, Mapex, Meinl, Taylor, Takamine, Mahalo, Nord, Blackstar, Fender, Squier, Stentor, Paiste, Steinway, ESP, Vox, Pearl, Tama, Faith, Valencia, Carlsbro, Vintage, Jupiter, Odyssey, Encore, HK Audio, Boss, Peavey, Focusrite, Epiphone by Gibson and many more. We are the one stop music store withmusical instruments for all the family.

Our customer service team are excellent, they are trained daily on the musical instruments we sell and can guide you all the way to the instrument you need, with simple expert advice. We pride ourselves on our knowledge and service we offer our customers. We want you to recommend us to all your friends and family and we can only achieve this by giving you customer care beyond your expectations, we aim to do this each and every time you contact our company.

Offering affordable easy payments with Low Rate Finance companies for many years, we have made it easy for our customers to get the instrument of their dreams. We offer 0% interest free credit and low finance rate options on all orders of £250.00 or over, available both online and in store with usually instant decisions. We aim to make the musical instrument you want as affordable to you as possible, as fast as possible.

We have established Rimmers Music Schools at each of our branches with hundreds of satisfied students of all age groups from 5 years old to 95 years old. Our music studios are purpose built by us and fully stocked with the latest equipment for you to use. We are also London College of Music and Rock School examination centres (and are highly respected by both), although taking exams is optional. We want you to have your lessons and enjoy them, some people like exams some don’t, we will teach you at your pace in the styles you want to learn, or take you through the exams of your choice. All our tuition is via private one to one lessons so you do not have to worry how you look or sound, just have fun. We will help and guide you all the way. Some of our staff also work as College Lecturers, which again re-enforces our background and knowledge in this area. All our teachers are DBS checked for security on a regular basis and many have students that have returned each week for lessons for many years, constantly improving to higher and higher playing standards and improving the knowledge they have. We offer all our customers a Free Lesson in our Rimmers Music School on the instrument of their choice. We currently teach piano, keyboard, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, singing/vocal coaching, clarinet, saxophone, flute, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, violin and music theory. Basically we can teach you to play to a high standard and all the music theory to go with it. For customers who cannot get to our music school (and customers who can) we allow access to our exclusive online lessons we have created free of charge 24 hours a day.

To conclude, Rimmers Music is a reliable musical instrument retail company with excellent value for money products from all the top brands and manufacturers and we can also teach you how to play.

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Rimmers Music LtdUnit 18 Centurion Ind. EstateFarington,
Rimmers Music LtdUnit 18 Centurion Ind. EstateFarington
Lancashire
PR25 4GU

AdeOluwa Bankole
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I am not actually the musician that plays the instrument but my keyboard player has this machine in very high esteem and praise. Our young congregation loved the texture of our music since we bought it.
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Nigel Grimmitt
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Absolutely brilliant work station so good to use and impressed with ease of access to commands and superb sound system enclosed. Truely a remarkable keyboard and would thoroughly recommend to future buyers.
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Posted 7 years ago
Brilliant!
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