I just purchased a PSR 500 keyboard from a pawn shop and I need amanual for it. Is there one avaiable ,and if so I would like to purchase it.Please advise.
type in the model name in the box
and than press search
That will take you to a list of manuals.
The bottom one is the PSR 500 (I have just checked it before I send this message)
The file is in PDF format so you need a pdf-reader for it (gratis download from Adobe) and it is 2.700 KB.
After downloading you can print the whole thing.
Hope this does the job for you.
Tons of other useful information about PSR keyboards you will find on: psrtutorial.com
Let me know on this site please and have fun with your keyboard.
Regards
Dick Rector
Bali
Jun 10, 2009 Rating
PSR-500 is a nice keyboard. by: Larry Brown
I hope you got your manual. I just want to notify you that the PSR-500 you picked up is a great keyboard. This is confirmed by Yamaha since they did not want to retire it. When they introduced the PSR-510, rather than retire the excellent PSR-500 they demoted it in the PSR lineup and rechristened it the PSR-85. The sounds are great, the rhythms are phenomenol, the control panel is the best on the entire PSR-5xx line, etc. It's really an excellent machine.
It does have several unfortunate weaknesses. The biggest is that its MIDI is not "General MIDI (GM)." That means that when you download MIDI files from anywhere on the internet they won't play properly. The reason for this is that most MIDI Files you find are "general MIDI compatible" and expect voices to be at a specific patch number on the synth, like flute is patch #55, e.g. But the PSR-500 will have something else at #55, meaning that when you should be hearing flute you'll be hearing koto or some other whack sound and the music will be garbled. You will need to use a MIDI editing software (like Power Tracks Pro, etc) to tweak the patches of the MIDI file, but that's too much trouble when you are downloading scores of songs. Another option is to use a "MIDI Mapper" to translate between the MIDI file and the 500. There is a MIDI mapper built into Microsoft Windows, you can probably find an appropriate GM to PSR-500 translation file on the net.
Another weakness is that the PSR-500 does not transmit the built in rhythms over the MIDI, a big disappointment. Another problem is that the PSR-500 saves its sequences in a proprietary format that you won't be able to decipher.
All of that is what caused the 500's demise, but even with those problems, the 500 is an outstanding instrument.
