It's been tOOOOOOOOO long I've touched my PSR-E473 (I definitely need more, more and more practice).
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Doug Lee
Not sure how old your keyboard is, but in the late 80s or so, I think Yamaha PortaSound keyboard model names started with PSR. They didn't sound as good as yours though lol.
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Snehashish Mahato
Replying to @dlee42: Not sure how old your keyboard is, but in the late 80s or so, I think Yamaha PorThis is most likely one from 2022 that I got back in March 2025. Hmmm, spanning right from budget keyboards all the way to flagship models, the PSR series has its footprints everywhere. So honestly, I would have been more surprised if you hadn't heard at least one of them across such a massive lineup back then.
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Doug Lee
I had one that I got in the late 80s and kept until 2000, at which point I gave it to someone else I think. It was a PortaSound and I'm pretty sure its model number started with PSR but I don't remember the whole thing. I believe it cost about $129.00 in its day. It did not have key velocity or aftertouch, so it really didn't have any dynamic range to speak of. It did have limited FM synthesis support, via a series of knotched switches or sliders that gave you five or six, I forget which, values for various parameters of a sound. I had endless fun with that. I even managed to alter a harpsichord sound so much that each "note" sounded like a burst of static, so I could create very simplistic explosion sounds and such. It did not have proper formant management though, so that same harpsichord sounded wonderful in a high register but completely bizarre in a low one.
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Snehashish Mahato
Wow, that experience was really great to hear about. Today's models have become so heavily digitized that tweaking anything is a real headache. Especially until you can manage to set up some form of speech feedback for yourself, having someone constantly read everything out for you starts feeling uncomfortable after a certain point. Even though Yamaha's flagships have support for pre-recorded audio similar to Zoom recorders, that's definitely a handy cop-out to save face in one way or another, lol!
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Doug Lee
My best feat in this space will take some describing, but in summary, I had to master sound creation on a Yamaha DX11, which was a pro-level keyboard, in 1992. Next audio.
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Doug Lee
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