| The Yamaha Portasound PSS-480 Multi Station was it's name, but most just called it the 480. Released in 1988, it was one of the best home keyboards one could find in a retail store with features that almost no other keyboard of it's class had. |
| I accidentally picked mine up at a department store while keyboard-shopping with my mother the same year it was released. I knew nothing of MIDI at the time, and I never took advantage of the MIDI I/O it came with-- but I did learn to understand how fm voice banks worked, and Yamaha had some great voices to manipulate. |
| So... check out these features for 300 bucks.
custom drum program custom percussion break 99 voices 99 rythym styles (and they were cool-- so much better than Casio at the time) 3 intros/fill ins per style sync. start/ending auto accompaniment with individually selectable rythym, bass, chord and orchestra buttons normal, single finger and fingered modes parameter options transpose, tuning, melody volume and tempo effects options vibrato, sustain, reverb, portamento and duet MIDI mode/receive/transmit functions digital synthesizer section with attack rate, decay rate, frequency, feedback level, modulation level and total level internal storage bank for 5 custom voices internal storage bank for 5 melodies internal storage bank for 5 chords MIDI IN/OUT Ports 1/4" headphone out basic "clock radio" display Anyway... that's about it. |