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List Price: $599.99
Our Price: $461.49
You Save: $ 138.50 (23%)
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Yamaha
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Yamaha
EAN: 0086792838953
Feature: 88 Key lightly-weighted piano action
Label: Yamaha
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Yamaha
Model: dgx520
Publisher: Yamaha
Studio: Yamaha
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88 Key lightly-weighted piano action
500 Instrument Voices included
Amazing Live! Stereo Grand Piano
Yamaha Education Suite (Y.E.S.) included featuring lessons, grading and songs to learn
Performance Assistant allows you to play along with any built-in song regardless of your level of ability
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Editorial Reviews:
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Learning to play piano is easier. Say yes to this DGX520. Yamaha DGX520 is the portable grand that the family can explore music on and grow with. This 88-key lightly weighted action product includes state of the art enhancements like USB MIDI for computer connectivity, USB TO DEVICE for connecting USB storage devices, and an amazing educational suite that will get you up and playing immediately. Performance assistant technology is a feature from Yamaha that guarantees that you can't play a wrong melody note or chord. Select a song, press the Performance Assistant button Chord Mode and play the keyboard - any notes you like. Every note you play will fit the music! If you move up the keyboard, the pitch goes up. If you move down, the pitch goes down. Play a perfect arpeggio, or play chords in time with the music, or really "go for it" and play a solo. As long as performance assistant is "on", you're "on".
The DGX520 has 30 built-in songs, plus 70 more on an included CD-ROM, for you to learn to play using the Yamaha Education Suite. The songs are separated into left and right hand parts, providing 7 levels of lessons plus a convenient chord dictionary.
You can change the "feel", or arrangement, of songs by simply pressing the Easy Song Arranger button, allowing you to re-mix any MIDI file. For example, you can try your favorite song with a Rock feel, Hip Hop, then Jazz. It's fast, powerful and one-button simple.
This DGX520 has more features than an acoustic piano. It takes less space and offers accurate sounds. It's easy and fun to learn. Easy Song Arranger allows you to play back songs in 150 unique accompaniment styles On-Board Sequencer records 5 songs, 6 tracks Large Full-Dot Matrix LCD display allows easy viewing of music score and lyrics Flash Rom for downloading songs from the internet Matching Stand included Includes AC Adapter and Foot Pedal Matching piano bench optional P
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Summary: Good Interim Keyboard
Comment: I was looking at "workstations" but couldn't figure out why they were called workstations, I was wondering if they were something that I could compose on; then I notice the entry-level was three times the cost of this keyboard, and my wife saw this at BJ's Wholesale Club and offered it to me as a Christmas present... so... I listened to some samples online and liked the keyboard sound- better than my old PSR-292- so I said with a sigh, OK...
This DGX doesn't have all the voices the cheaper PSR had, and the ones it does are same as the old, but its piano is better, and it did have something I've been going crazy with ever since- and which was worth the purchase all in itself- the pitch bender! Now I can do wild guitar and synth vibratos and bendings, which gives me much more expressive creations...
It has 5 5-track user songs to record original works with, just like the old 292, and just like the old 292, the memory gets full long before that; I've saved my creations on an average USB drive, no problems... I record directly into my laptop's microphone jack from the keyboard's headphone jack (with some level adjusting) and add an additional 'track' by playing while recording, usually adding percussion or an extra layer of brass... and I get decent mp3 files, ready to conquer the world...
It has a thousand options I may never explore, I use the pitch-bend range and reverb most, and the touch-sensitivity setting...
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Summary: Yamaha
Comment: I ordered this product and received it immediately. The condition I received the product in was not what was advertised. I payed for a new piano and got a used one. However, I asked for a partial refund because I was satisfied with the product if I could get it for a certain price. The seller respected the mistake and reimbursed me my money.
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Summary: Great Starter Keyboard
Comment: This keyboard is great for amateur musiocians, beginners, or those who like to play for fun. I'm more in the latter, but I hope that my son will take a liking to playing. This full size keyboard has so many great features and provides a fairly easy to use interface for the basic functions. The advanced features are just amazing. Such as the ability to show the score and lyrics. Also the PAT function allows anyone to play along with a song, even if you have no idea what the notes are. It will always stay in pitch.
Although the interface is easy for basic functions, the advanced functions will definitely require the user to read the manual. I'm not known for doing that, so I struggled a little. The good news is that I learned so much more by reading the manual that it was a good thing.
Pros
- Great price for a great keyboard
- Superior advanced functions for those wanting to learn how to play
- Nice feel keyboard, doesn't provide exact weighted keys, but provides nice feedback
- Terrific interface with nice screen
- Easy to load songs from USB and/or computer
Cons
- Advanced features difficult to pickup without reading manual
- Had trouble with some USB memory sticks. Had to find one that worked. Took a few different types before I got it to work. There's a write up on this in teh manual. They suggested to call an authorized Yamaha dealer. Which I did. But they wanted to sell me a 256MB USB stick for $100. I ended up finding a 512MB stick on Amazon for <$20 that worked.
Overall, I would highly recommend. The upgraded DGX-620 provides better weighted keys and nicer looks, but that's about it. Unless you need the weighted keys, I would save your money.
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Summary: review of the review
Comment: thanks for the review of the 520 yamaha. i'm looking at making a purchase and this was helpful.
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Summary: Excellent keyboard, put USB in front!
Comment: Great value, and a marked improvement over the old 500 and 505 models. The speakers produce a richer sound tone, and the display window is much clearer and easier to read. Additional features over the 505 include one-touch "auto-accompaniment", where you can try different background rhythms to your recorded notes (jazz, rock, salsa, etc) at a single touch of a button. There are a few more voices to choose from, and the "sweet" sounds are more realistic than on the old models. The unit looks better as a whole, being a sleek silver instead of a dull plastic beige. Also, the controls are a lot more "touch friendly", especially the selection "spin wheel" that lets you choose features much faster than the older models did.
Connectivity is much simpler than on the 500, requiring only a simple USB cord instead of a special MIDI cord.
The one downside of this keyboard is that a USB drive is the only portable media compatible with this unit, and unfortunately they place the plug-in port in the back, which make it somewhat difficult to reach over and plug the drive in while you're trying to play and select. Because of this, I take away a star, and hope that in their next model, Yamaha will put the USB port somewhere in FRONT where it's easy to reach and plug the drive.
I actually recommend this unit over the DGX 620 (Yamaha's highest available model at the time of this review). All features are exactly the same on the two models, except the keys in the 620 are weighted to as close to a real piano as you'll get. Yamaha calls them 'Graded Hammer Standard' keys.
The 520 does not have the GHS keys, but the trade-off (besides a considerably lower cost than the 620) is a lot of weight...the 620 unit as a whole weighs 19 lbs more than the 520 unit. So if you're a traveling musician like me and have to load and unload your keyboard all the time carrying your instrument to your gigs, you're actually much better off with the 520. Get the 620 only if you want a more realistic feel and don't want to move the keyboard a lot.
Overall, an excellent instrument...and if you have any of the older models, I highly recommend an upgrade!
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