Yamaha PSR-SX600 Digital Keyboard - a Powerful Digital Workstation Keyboard with 61 Touch-Sensitive Keys, 850 Authentic Instrument Voices and DJ Styles, in a Black Finish

Absolutely brilliant keyboard amazing sounds very professional

The quality of the sounds and styles on the PSR SX600 is just amazing, and I'm particularly blown away by the guitar sounds. The four multi-pads also allow you to add dynamism to your songs, and although there are plenty already loaded into the keyboard, you can easily add your own sounds and loops by loading audio files from a USB stick, basically using the pads as a sampler. There are also four variations in each style, and three types of intros and endings for each song, which are just brilliant - it's truly like having your own band or orchestra playing with you. This keyboard makes it very easy to create some interesting songs, even if you can't play that well, and there are also some great arpeggios allowing you to sound professional by just playing single notes! If you like dance music there are oodles of DJ, techno, trance and house styles and sounds, and I was particularly impressed with the 6-8 Trance style which sounds like Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene 4". The interface seems complex at first, but after about a week I can find my way around the keyboard pretty easily. Yes, a touch screen would have been easier, but once you learn that the buttons under the screen are used to select different items, it's not a problem, and touching the screen would leave greasy finger marks, anyway. I can't emphasise enough how professional this keyboard sounds (particularly compared to my previous Yamaha keyboard which was half the price) and it's opened up a whole new world of music playing to me. Overall, I'm extremely impressed with this keyboard and definitely recommened it.

Fantastic sound and plenty of rhythms and instruments to play around with.

High quality semi professional instrument with more features than I'll ever need. Very good value.

A scan of YouTube will convince you that this is the best mid-price arranger keyboard you can buy. I can’t disagree. It’s not perfect - the key weighting and touch sensitivity could be better, and more of the samples could include dynamic transitions. But at the price you won’t find better. Its features are refreshingly gimmick-free and all genuinely useful. It makes sub-mediocre players sound half-way competent, which is what moved me to buy (need) it.

Really sounds great easy to use,stylish. Keys are unevenly spaced.so returned to amazon,never got replacement, so i had to buy one direct from yamaha.

Love playing on the keyboard

I wanted a new keyboard and one with good sound. Not disappointed at all, the sound is incredible and if you wanted to add a sound bar for extra bass it works with that too. It's a Great quality Yamaha keyboard with lots of instruments that a very realistic. Plus it has the ability to update from the Yamaha website. So you can get hold of New styles, tones and firmware. Just one thing, from personal experience use a USB 2.0 stick for updating and saving tracks, the keyboard doesn't recognise a USB 3.0 stick.