YAMAHA PSR e403 – TEST

April 4, 2009 by
Filed under: Yamaha Keyboards 

After comparing demos of low cost keyboards I decided to buy the e403 because it’s a powerful keyboard extended to synth with very good filters and samples, a useful delay and other common effects, including an arpeggiator. To help you to decide which keyboard or synthesizer to buy, I’ve compiled some of my sound experiments in this movie. It’s not perfectly done but it will help you, listen…

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25 Comments on YAMAHA PSR e403 – TEST

  1. 4Dsign on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    2. To get a “grand piano” put (A) knob at 0 = middle position and do the same for (B) knob. Then, push “portable grand” button.
    A and B knobs assigned to cut-off(pressing “assign” button) can be used for realtime filter effects so, use it with synth sounds (not clasical instrument sounds)

  2. curima0 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    3. Hey! I was wondering … what’s the right setting for the left knobs-thingy (pathetic, I know. I don’t even know my own keyboard!) near the left speaker? To make it sound like a grand piano, I mean.

  3. SavioB747A380 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    4. Press the ‘Function’ button and then the arrows(catergory) till you get transpose.

  4. DigitalGrotto on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    5. How did you get this to upload in stereo?

  5. shamin312 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    6. wait which iz better psr e413 or psr e403 ?

  6. ajaybangi on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    7. does it has a portamento effect?
    how about E413?

  7. mardal101 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    8. hi. i bought it last year and it was about 300 euros.

  8. kampilan999 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    9. hell ,good day..if its ok can kindly tell me how much this one cost ?thanks a lot

  9. itchy2005 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    10. in the song memory buttons, hold the record button and pres for exaple “1″ to record the first line. in the song selection you can choose the user songs.

  10. union7penguin09 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    11. Hi what number song is this on the yamaha psr e413s songbank?

  11. lilseggy on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    12. how do i save a song to the internal memory on a yamaha psr e403. i am trying 2 build tracks.

  12. LazyGuy1993 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    13. can someone tell me how to use the record function??

    thanks

  13. UnderOathLives4Ever on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    14. yeah. record at slow speed. then switch to the tempo knob and make it faster b4 playing ur recording.

  14. kemprock on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    15. my sister got one for her birthday and loves it! is there a way to record something and speed it up using the synth? I’d like to learn so that i can experiment with it in my band (guitar is my instrument, so my knowledge of keyboards is limited)

  15. hurerz on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    16. Erm I need help.I don’t know how to use the transpose function of this model can anyone help?

  16. eirinbe on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    17. Im going to buy this one on friday! *Cant wait* :D

  17. mardal101 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    18. i have one. i sing with it in my band and use the drums from it. check out the videos i have. they are all recorded live.

  18. atb1248 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    19. same except the color :D

  19. DoddzyKingofSynth on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    20. Wow…
    Saw this on amazon and was wondering why it was so cheap (looking for a cheap but good board, not easy thing) and saw this. Then, by a huge coincidence my school mass ordered it and I was the first to use one, being the only specialising board player in the school. It is amazing and the synth functions are fantastic. The keys are silent when pressed unlike my bulky casio WK-3200 which is a big thing for me as I hate the clicking sound keys make when played in private. AMAZING board.

  20. DoddzyKingofSynth on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    21. Wow…
    I saw this keyboard on amazon and was wondering why it was so cheap (looking for a cheap but amazing board, not easy lol)

  21. kondor1001 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    22. Saw this test and got e413 (e403 is hard to get) I know very little about keyboards, I can not play them yet. First 12 hrs I got a few midi files and put them onto it (USB). Then got the keyboard to teach me how to play them. Did have to convert a few from midi type “1″ to “0″ this was easy using “gn1to0″. Also you have to tell the keyboard which track you want to learn so it can take some trial n error from the 16 possible tracks. Dual and knobs make creating synth type voices easy. Amazed.

  22. 4Dsign on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    23. User guide is about both keyboards, so I think it’s exactly the same but I’ve never tried ypt-400.

  23. nath21650 on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    24. I might buy one of those! It sounds great :D And affordable

  24. robertosunga on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    25. what is the difference between the psr e403 and the ypt 400, I got the ypt 400 thinking it was the psr e403 =S

  25. 4Dsign on Sat, 4th Apr 2009 9:56 pm

    26. You’ve got memory space for 5 user songs where you can record whatever you want but you can’t add extra sounds (only built-in). You can record drums by hitting different keys, each key stars a sample (using drums). Then you can modify add delete any sequence and record another track, for ex. strings, and so on. Going to the point, e403 doesn’t include tools for recording loops because you can do that with midi applications. There’s also intelligent editors that record depending on insistence.

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