Yamaha DJX 1999 - dark blue

Let's face it, we all hate home keyboards with their nasty 'Come Dancing' rhythms and their cheesy 'even the family pet can play it' accompaniment sections. These days, the mere mention of a keyboard with built‑in speakers, auto rhythms and battery power is enough to evoke dormant feelings of quiet unease. Not the best time, you might have thought, for Yamaha to launch a massive advertising campaign promoting a new home keyboard that does all of these things and is proud of it.

What makes Yamaha so sure they have a winner on their hands is, of course, the fact that this particular home keyboard comes dancefloor ready with 284 presets (many of them classic retro analogue instruments), 15 drum kits, a DSP effects processor, an arpeggiator, a sequencer, MIDI programmable resonant filter sweep controls, sampled drum loops, vocal samples, a ribbon controller, pre‑programmed grooves and loops, a touch sensitive keyboard, a 16‑part multitimbral General MIDI synth, oh....and a built‑in sampler with waveform editing. And the family pet can still play it!