Yamaha PSR-SX920
New PSR-SX920 pushes the boundaries of Arranger Workstation sound, featuring the latest Super Articulation technologies and new Crossfade Portamento, PSR-SX series infuses your performances with expressive dynamics and emotional depth. Elevate your music with a new PSR-SX Arranger Workstation—where innovation meets inspiration!
Overview
Where innovation meets inspiration!
As part of the Genos family, the new PSR-SX series pushes the boundaries of Arranger Workstation sound, featuring the latest Super Articulation technologies and new Crossfade Portamento, PSR-SX infuses your performances with expressive dynamics and emotional depth.
Style Insertion DSP power has been doubled from the previous models, further elevating their sound quality and with the new Style Dynamics Control, you’re in charge of the energy and dynamics of every Style, providing for more dynamic and refined performances.
Elevate your music with a new PSR-SX Arranger Workstation—where innovation meets inspiration!
Main Features
More than 1,500 Voices and 500 Styles
Unleash your musical creativity with the PSR-SX920! This powerhouse Arranger Workstation boasts over 1,500 high-quality Voices and 575 diverse Styles, all equipped with One Touch Settings to instantly ignite your performance. Use a Live Controller to adjust the energy and dynamics of any Style with Style Dynamics Control. And with double the Style Insertion DSP power from the previous model, new and familiar Styles, all enhanced with the latest Voices and effects, sound more refined, providing an elevated musical experience.
For the first time in an SX-Series instrument, the PSR-SX920 includes Super Articulation2 (S.Art2) technology. Without even thinking about it, S.Art2 delivers unprecedented realism to Voices with lifelike instrument articulations added seamlessly to your performance. Plus, with the new Super Articulation Plus Voices (S.Art+), you can switch between different instrument articulations with the touch of a button. With the newly added Crossfade Portamento, experience smooth, fluid pitch transitions, adding expressive depth to your music.
For ultimate performance flexibility, the PSR-SX920 includes 8 assignable panel buttons, 6 home screen shortcuts and 2 Live Control knobs, giving you rapid access to your favorite functions for instant adjustments.
Elevate your music with the PSR-SX920—where innovation meets inspiration!
Super Articulation 2/Super Articulation+
The PSR-SX920 is the first SX-series instrument to include Super Articulation2 (S.Art2) technology.
Super Articulation2 delivers advanced realism to Voices, previously found only in flagship Arranger Workstations. S.Art2 Voices offer detailed instrument articulations, like glissandos and other nuanced effects unlocking expressive, lifelike instrument characteristics for your performances.
Instruments often produce varying sounds depending on how notes are played. For instance, string instruments can be bowed or plucked. Previously, accessing these different sounds required switching between Voices on your keyboard. With the new Super Articulation Plus Voices (S.Art+), you can now switch articulations instantly with the touch of a button.
Crossfade Portamento
Portamento is a musical technique that smooths out changes in pitch, creating a fluid transition between notes. The Crossfade Portamento feature in PSR-SX smoothly transitions between the notes you play, infusing your performance with expressive dynamics and emotional depth.
Style Dynamics Control
With Style Dynamics Control, the energy and dynamics of all Styles, including User Styles, can be easily adjusted using a single Live controller. Whether you want your backing band to play at a soft pianissimo level, a hard fortissimo level or anything in between, the choice is yours.
Performance Features
Whether composing or performing, the PSR-SX will elevate your performance to new heights.
L. Controls & A. Buttons
During a performance, quick access to key features is crucial. With 8 assignable panel buttons and 6 home screen shortcuts, you can recall your favorite functions instantly with a single touch. Assign features like sound filtering or Style Dynamics Control to the Live Control knobs for real-time manipulation on the fly.
Chord Looper
The new panel buttons provide quick access to recording and playing back chord sequences in realtime.
Whether you wish to free up your left hand to play full piano, build up sections of a song or practice a difficult piece of music, the Chord Looper enables you to store up to 8 chord sequences in each bank for easy access during your performance.
You can create an unlimited number of banks with your own chord progressions, or choose from a range of built-in presets.
Bluetooth® Audio
Wirelessly connect your Bluetooth device to your PSR-SX and play along with your favorite songs or record everything you hear using the built-in audio recorder.
Master EQ
Tailor the output of your PSR-SX to perfection with Master EQ. Choose from five presets or create and save your own custom settings by adjusting the eight-band EQ and choosing Peak/Dip or Shelving options for the highest and lowest bands.
Smart Chord
Smart Chord allows you to perform with accompaniment from the Styles feature simply by playing the root note (the very bottom note) of a chord.
Ease Of Use
Powerful features make the PSR-SX easier and more enjoyable to use.
Playlist
Playlist is the best way to organize Registration Memory banks into convenient Playlists for instant recall during performance.
With the updated user interface, Playlist entries can be sorted A to Z, or Z to A, you can jump alphabetically through Playlist records as well as filter for a specific term in the records.
If you are importing MusicFinder records from an older instrument, the Style name will be automatically included in the new Playlist record name.
Touch Screen
The PSR-SX features a central 7-inch touch screen, ideally positioned for easy visibility whether performing standing or seated. The intuitive graphic interface gives you instinctive control over the instrument’s powerful features, putting everything you need at your fingertips.
Panel Buttons & Controls
The newly color-enhanced panel buttons make for better visibility during performance, and the Live Controllers and Master Volume feature clear indicators for instant position checks.
Voice Edit
Preset Voices are ready to play right out of the box, but for those who love to tweak, Voice Edit lets you fine-tune and customize your own sound. The redesigned user interface makes it quick and easy to experiment and craft your perfect Voice.
Dimension & Connectivity
Specifications
| PSR-SX920 | |||
| Body | Color | Black | |
| Dimensions | Width | 1,017 mm (40″) | |
| Height | 139 mm (5-1/2″) | ||
| Depth | 431 mm (17″) | ||
| Weight | Weight | 11.6 kg (25.57 lbs.) | |
| Packing Box | Width | 1,174 mm (46-3/16″) | |
| Height | 246 mm (9-11/16″) | ||
| Depth | 511 mm (20-1/8″) | ||
| Keyboard | Number of Keys | 61 | |
| Type | Organ (FSB), Initial Touch | ||
| Touch Response | Normal, Soft1, Soft2, Hard1, Hard2 | ||
| Other Controllers | Joystick | Yes (Assignable) | |
| Control Knobs | 2 (Assignable) | ||
| Assignable Buttons | 6 + 2 (With LED Indicator) | ||
| Pitch Bend | – | ||
| Modulation | – | ||
| Display | Type | TFT Color Wide VGA LCD | |
| Size | 800 x 480 dots (7 inch) | ||
| Touch Screen | Yes | ||
| Color | Yes | ||
| Language | English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese | ||
| Panel | Language | English, Chinese | |
| Tone Generation | Tone Generating Technology | AWM Stereo Sampling, AEM technology | |
| Polyphony | Number of Polyphony (Max.) | 128 | |
| Preset | Number of Voices | 1,587 Voices + 63 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices | |
| Featured Voices | 12 S.Articulation2, 15 S.Articulation+, 340 S.Articulation, 55 OrganFlutes, 82 MegaVoice | ||
| Expandability | Expansion Voice | Yes (approx. 2 GB) | |
| Editing | – | ||
| Compatibility | XG, GM, GM2 (for Song Playback) | ||
| XG | – | ||
| GS | – | ||
| GM | – | ||
| GM2 | – | ||
| Part | Right1, Right2, Right3, Left | ||
| Types | Reverb | 59 Preset + 30 User | |
| Chorus | 107 Preset + 30 User | ||
| DSP | 358 Preset (with VCM) + 30 User | ||
| Insertion Effect | 1-13: 358 Preset (with VCM) + 30 User | ||
| Master Compressor | 5 Preset + 30 User | ||
| Master EQ | 5 Preset + 30 User | ||
| Part EQ | 28 Parts | ||
| Others | – | ||
| Arpeggio | – | ||
| Vocal Harmony | Number of Presets | Vocal Harmony: 54, Synth Vocoder: 20 | |
| Number of User Settings | 60 *The number is the total of Vocal Harmony and Synth Vocoder | ||
| Preset | Number of Preset Styles | 575 | |
| Featured Styles | 520 Pro Styles, 49 Session Styles, 6 Free Play Styles | ||
| Fingering | Single, Fingered, OnBass, Multi, AI Fingered, Full / AI Full, Smart Chord | ||
| Style Control | INTRO x 3, MAIN VARIATION x 4, FILL x 4, BREAK, ENDING x 3 | ||
| Compatibility | Style File Format, Style File Format GE | ||
| Expandability | Expansion Style | Yes (Internal Memory) | |
| Expansion Audio Style | Yes (Internal Memory) | ||
| Other Features | Chord Looper | Yes | |
| Style Section Reset | Yes | ||
| Style Section Change Timing | Yes | ||
| Style Section Time Signature | Yes (per Section) | ||
| Style Dynamics Control | Yes (with knobs / pedal) | ||
| One Touch Setting (OTS) | 4 for each Style | ||
| Unison & Accent | – | ||
| Preset | Number of Preset Songs | 1 Demo Song, 2 Preset Songs | |
| Recording | Number of Songs | Unlimited (depending on USB flash memory capacity) | |
| Number of Tracks | 16 | ||
| Data Capacity | Approx. 3 MB/Song | ||
| Recording Function | Quick Recording, Multi Recording, Step Recording | ||
| Compatible Data Format | Playback | SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF | |
| Recording | SMF (Format 0) | ||
| Preset | Number of Multi Pad Banks | 500 banks x 4 Pads | |
| Audio | Audio Link | Yes | |
| Voices | Harmony/Echo | Yes (with Arpeggio) | |
| Panel Sustain | Yes | ||
| Mono/Poly | Yes (w/ Legato, Xfd (improved), VeloToPrtTime, FastPlayingPortamento, Velocity Limit) | ||
| Voice Information | Yes | ||
| Styles | Style Creator | Yes | |
| OTS Information | Yes | ||
| Songs | Song Creator | Yes | |
| Score Display Function | Yes | ||
| Lyrics Display Function | Yes | ||
| Multi Pads | Multi Pad Creator | Yes | |
| Registration | Number of Buttons | 8 | |
| Control | Registration Sequence, Freeze | ||
| Playlist | Number of Records | 2,500 (max.) Records per Playlist file (add search/sort function improved) | |
| Search | Registration Bank | ||
| Audio Recorder/Player | Recording Time (max.) | 80 minutes/Song | |
| Recording | .wav (WAV format: 44.1 kHz sample rate, 16 bit resolution, stereo), .mp3 (44.1 kHz sample rate,128/256/320 kbps, mono/stereo) | ||
| Playback | .wav (WAV format: 44.1 kHz sample rate, 16 bit resolution, stereo), .mp3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3: 44.1/48.0 kHz sample rate, 64-320 kbps and variable bit rate, mono/stereo) | ||
| Time Stretch | Yes | ||
| Pitch Shift | Yes | ||
| Vocal Cancel | Yes | ||
| Lyrics Display Function | – | ||
| Demo/Help | Demonstration | Yes | |
| Overall Controls | Metronome | Yes | |
| Tempo Range | 5 – 500, Tap Tempo | ||
| Transpose | -12 – 0 – +12 | ||
| Tuning | 414.8 – 440 – 466.8 Hz | ||
| Octave Button | -3 -0- 3 | ||
| Scale Type | 9 Preset | ||
| Sub Scale Setting | Yes | ||
| Miscellaneous | Direct Access | Yes | |
| Text Display Function | Yes | ||
| Wallpaper Customization | Yes | ||
| Display Out | Yes (via USB to DEVICE) | ||
| Bluetooth | Yes (depends on destination) | ||
| Lesson/Guide | Lesson/Guide | – | |
| Storage | Internal Memory | Approx. 4 GB max. | |
| External Drives | USB Flash Memory (via USB to DEVICE) | ||
| Connectivity | Headphones | Yes | |
| Microphone | Mic/Guitar | ||
| MIDI | IN/OUT | ||
| AUX IN | Stereo mini | ||
| LINE OUT | L/ L+R, R, Sub 1/2 | ||
| DIGITAL OUT | – | ||
| FOOT PEDAL | Assignable, Sw or Vol x2 | ||
| USB TO DEVICE | USB 2.0 ×2 | ||
| USB TO HOST | USB 2.0 ×1 | ||
| Wireless LAN | – | ||
| Amplifiers | (15 W+10 W) x2 | ||
| Speakers | [13 cm FSP+2.5 cm, (Dome type)] x2 | ||
| Power Supply | PA-300C or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha | ||
| Power Consumption | 24 W | ||
| Auto Power Off Function | Yes | ||
| Included Accessories | Owner’s Manual, Music Rest, AC Adaptor (may not be included depending on your area. Check with your Yamaha dealer.) | ||
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