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Congratulations on your purchase of the Yamaha DGX-500/300 Portable Grand
™
!
You now own a portable keyboard that combines advanced functions, great sound and
exceptional ease-of-use in a highly compact package. Its outstanding features also
make it a remarkably expressive and versatile instrument.
Read this Owner’s Manual carefully while playing your new DGX-500/300 in order to
take full advantage of its various features.
Main Features
The DGX-500/300 is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use keyboard with the following features and functions:
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MUSIC DATABASE ............................. page 53
The DGX-500/300 has an advanced, easy-to-use Music Database feature that automatically selects the style, voice, and
effect settings for playing in a specific type of music. This can be a big help if you know what genre of music you want
to play, but you don’t know what settings to make. Just select the genre, and the DGX-500/300 takes care of the rest!
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Disk Drive ............................. page 73
The DGX-500/300 also features a convenient floppy disk drive letting you load and save your own original User Songs
or load the Style Files. The DGX-500/300 is also compatible with a wide variety of disk formats, allowing you to play
back song data on commercially available GM, DOC, and Clavinova Disklavier Piano Soft disks.
It also allows you to save and play back Standard MIDI File (SMF) format 0 data,making it possible to use song data
with your favorite sequencer or sequencingsoftware.
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Powerful Speaker System
The built-in stereo amplifier/speaker system of the DGX-500/300 with a special Bass Boost feature — provides excep-
tionally powerful, high-quality sound, letting you hear the full dynamic range of the DGX-500/300’s authentic voices.
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GM System Level 1
“GM System Level 1” is an addition to the MIDI standard which ensures that any GM-compatible music data can be
accurately played by any GM-compatible tone generator, regardless of manufacturer. The GM mark is affixed to all
software and hardware products that support GM System Level.
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XGlite
As its name implies, “XGlite” is a simplified version of Yamaha’s high-quality XG tone generation format. Naturally,
you can play back any XG song data using an XGlite tone generator. However, keep in mind that some songs may
play back differently compared to the original data, due to the reduced set of control parameters and effects.
Other powerful features include:
• The advanced
Yamaha Education Suite
— a special set of
learning tools that make it easy and fun to master the keyboard.
These tools include
Lesson
, which guides you through the
parts of a song just as a teacher would,
Grade
, which evaluates
your practice sessions and rates your performance, and
Dictio-
nary
, which teaches you how to play chords.
• Instant
Portable Grand
function, for automatically configur-
ing the DGX-500/300 for optimum piano play. Includes an
authentic Stereo Sampled Piano voice.
•
619
exceptionally
realistic and dynamic voices
, utilizing digi-
tal recordings of actual instruments.
• Special
Split voices
, with two different voices playable from
separate sections of the keyboard.
• 12 different
Drum Kit voices
, with individual drum and per-
cussion sounds on each key.
• High-quality
Reverb, DSP, and Harmony effects
for enhanc-
ing the sound of the voices — and your performance.
•
135 auto accompaniment styles
, each with Intro, Main A and
B, and Ending sections. An Auto Fill function adds dynamic
fills when switching sections.
• Powerful, easy-to-use
song recording
operations, for record-
ing and playing back up to five of your original songs.
•
Registration Memory
presets for storing all of the DGX-500/
300’s panel settings to a single button for instant and automatic
recall.
•
One Touch Setting
function for automatically calling up an
appropriate voice to match the style or song you select.
•
Touch Response
and
Dynamic Filter
that give you extraordi-
narily expressive control over the voices. They automatically
change both the volume and tone according to your playing
strength — just like a real musical instrument!
