Yamaha DGX-305. Impressive features, but does it know how to have fun?
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Moving on from the DGX-300, which gets a brief comparison in this video, the DGX-305 gives us a more detailed screen with far more graphical feedback, notably music scoring. Its basic sounds are slightly better than the 305, but it has fewer effects and ultimately it's just not as much fun.
I am still owning it, using it in my home studio with great pleasure. If using it cleverly and with taste, it can provide a lot, even without much help of additional studio devices. I enjoy particularly piano sounds, but some synth tones are amazingly responsive too. Rhythm patches are persuasive when chosen well and without auto-acompanyment function. Its 5-track sequencer, or recording unit if you prefer, is also usable for fixing your creative ideas when better recording units are not at hand. Tyros sweet sounds are splendid, flutes and sopran sax in particular, rhodes piano is boosting when taking advantages of key velocity while playing... Very well made old case, easy to transport, but unusual to connect on amps.
Great to hear! I've been out of music for decades.
I need an instrument to play a yet to be created sample with unique frequencies behind each key, for an wholly alternative tone ladders (or several of them) I am developing which of course need testing.
Could such samples by uploaded to this instrument, or would be I forced to have the sample be running on a PC or other instrument? Thanks!
@@Cloxxki I think not at all. It is not such type of instrument.
My father's brother just gave me this keyboard as a beginning to start to learn
Nice keyboard overall. Would be nice if the demo song plus the slideshow is available as a separate video for people in the keyboard community.
Manufacturers tend to cancel videos that use their demo tracks, but it's a good idea and I'll try to do that in future 👍
I think many of these sounds are the same as the PSR-295's sounds ( except for the Live Grand piano but I have that sound in Halion
Sonic ). At the time some of these sounds were a cut above the Yamaha MU50 ( although the difference in sound quality is not huge
apart from having 114 or so panel voices ). I agree the electric guitars on this are midiocre ( the Roland SK-500 has better electric
guitars and to be fair the majority of the SK-500's sounds are far more superior to this ). This line of entry level arrangers were the first to
have "Sweet and Cool" sounds that were previously only in the flagship arranger keyboards, the soprano saxophone is still one of the most
superior soprano saxophones I have ever played in a keyboard ( at least my Yamaha PSR-295 is still good for something since in the end I
couldn't afford to upgrade to any of the Tyros keyboards but Halion 6 still also has loads of top quality sounds based on Yamaha Motif ).
The strange thing is the predesessors had more advanced effects and also ditched the traditional midi connectors in favor of built in USB
but the problem with built in USB is the drivers can go out of support. I was offered a 76 key keyboard but I still chose to buy the PSR-295
and I suppose the one advantage of a 61 key keyboard is that it was more portable because I used to take it to shows because at that time
I needed something that was at least decent and the pianos are still really good for this sort of price point. The auto accompaniments are
still usable for playing public domain music like Traditional Christmas carols. These keyboards do have advanced lessons that are still
ideal for an amateur.
Nice full sound.
Just got the next model up. Exact same sounds and effects. Now I've gotta do all that filming and editing again just to hear the same things! Ahh but it's the Gearfacts way. I've made my bed, gotta lie in it :/ haha
@@gearfacts Aw. Lot's of work, but you have to learn to love what you do, then it's not work, it's just fulfilling your passion for musical instruments.
@@dawnr8511 I included some bits from your argumentative robot video for the next one :)
Great showcase 👍
Thank you 👍
HARD agree with that intro. Gave my 300 to my sister's boyfriend several years ago.
Hi, I was going to get the 305 but opted for the Casio WK 3000, 76 keys, better and user effects and the synth function to create your own sounds.
You absolutely made the right choice, in my humble opinion 👍
How do I split to any sound I want?
Press FUNCTION repeatedly until you see SPLIT or SPLIT VOICE (not sure which) then use the Jog Dial to choose a specific sound. Hope that helps
How do i set different dual and split voices on DGX 305 . Thank you
I'm not sure (I don't have it anymore) but you can get the manual by googling "Yamaha DGX-305 PDF"
@@gearfacts Okay thank you
Por favor dónde està la función del pedal??
what is the difference between DGX-305 and DGX-505 they look the same
A few more sounds on the 505, but essentially yes they are the same
@@gearfacts k thx
Does it have the sustain option??
Yep
I thing the majority of this keyboards songs are from the psr 295, however I'd pick the psr 295 over this one as it would have been cheaper to buy back in january 2004, and more portable, nowadays though modern dgx keyboards are far more better than the psr e series they follow, the psr e463 and dgx660 for instance, the dgx660 has better voices than the psr e463
Correct as always sir
How can I connect USB in Yamaha 305?
Also can I use sd cards that is used in cameras?
Apologies if this is silly question..
You use a standard printer cable to connect it to your computer. Usually (but not always) your computer will automatically make it compatible with any software you are using. The memory cards are the older "Smartmedia" type. You can still buy them, I'd just buy a second hand one from ebay personally :)
Got the 505. Same smart media card and internals. Recently bought a 16mb card from ebay and am using style files that can be downloaded from a variety of sites. Styles and midi files can be transferred to the card via the yamaha software - it's just a bit slow.
@@jdxijames I've never tried the style files, good to know the system works :)
@@gearfacts interestingly, some people convert styles from other yamaha keyboards. The psr2000 files appear to be the most compatible.
Yeah I’ve got another DJX coming, I’m going to midi some of the weird beats from that one into various other keyboards :)
Sounds like a toy keyboard
Yeah it’s cool eh!
No MIDI seems an odd choice? A simple keyboard I had as a boy in the late 80s did have MIDI...
Most keyboards are being released with USB only these days. I think it saves manufacturing costs. Personally I really like the old-style midi sockets.