DJX (Portatone PSR-D1)
Portable sampling/arranger keyboard
FACTORY DEMOS:
001 P_TRANCE (I assume the "P" stands for "Psy")
Stream all style examples below:
| Style name with .mp3 demo | My comments |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| 1 Pop Techno | A regular Techno style - with TB-303 and orchestra stabs |
| 2 Trip Hop | Dreamy and psychedelic Trip Hop style. |
| 3 Electro Beat | Old School electro, with TR-808 galore. A bit modernized. |
| 4 Goa | Early Trance type pattern. |
| 5 Hard Step 8th | A type of Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass. |
| 6 Handbag 1 | Cool dance pattern. |
| 7 Romantic House | Classy, refined house. |
| 8 Ambient | Darker side of ambient - with great timbale rolls and psychedelic echoes |
| 9 Acid Jazz | Classic British acid jazz style. |
| 10 Treach | Gangsta rap. |
| 11 Steppa | Driven hip-hop. |
| 12 Struttin’ | Modern hip-hop. |
| 13 All That | Mellow, romantic R 'n' B style. |
| 14 Soulful | Ballad R 'n' B. |
| TECHNO | |
| 15 Tribal Techno | Awesome pumping Techno, early '90s!!! |
| 16 Gabba | Classic Gabber style, with super-detuned synths and impossible speeds |
| 18 Euro Techno | More minimalistic Techno. |
| 24 Acid Techno | Fantastic Techno program - ready for the Rave. |
| TRIP HOP | |
| 26 Funky Trip Hop | Mellow pop. |
| ELECTRO | |
| 31 Body Rock | Awesome retro style - with TR-808 and DX7 sounds. |
| TRANCE | |
| 36 Hypnotic | Classic mid-'90s production technique. |
| DRUM’N’BASS | |
| 38 Drum’n’Bass | Beautiful Drum 'n' Bass pattern - very mid'90s. |
| DANCE FLOOR | |
| 43 Pop Reggae | 'A la Ace of Base |
| HOUSE | |
| 47 Deep House | Classic deep house beat |
| 52 Hip House | Nice Euro dance |
| 53 Club House | Awesome Italo-House pattern - very early '90s |
| ABSTRACT BEATS | |
| 56 Underground | A bit like the '80s |
| RAP | |
| 58 Bomb | Classic hip hop style |
| 63 Shakin’ | Nice hip hop beat, with glockenspiel |
| HARDCORE | |
| 65 Buggin’ | Cool scratch and uber-cool percussion |
| 67 Hi Rolla | Gangsta rap - with "worm" moog synth |
| OLD SKOOL | |
| 73 Delight | Obviously inspired by Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" |
| 76 Jack | New Jack Swing style - very nice. |
| 77 Old Skool | Party's on |
| FRESH | |
| 84 Hezee | Dark, jazzy and a great sound. |
| R & B | |
| 86 Bouncy | Nice tremolo Rhodes! |
| 92 Solid | Great 808 beat. |
| SLO JAMS | |
| 94 Cool | Nice! And very contemporary. |
| 100 Sultry | Smooth-jazz influenced. |
Stream all voice examples below:
| 0 DJX | This is the first preset when one powers up the DJX. It's a classic "Techno-Rave" setup, much like we used to do with Roland S-50s and W-30s back in the early '90s - individual samples assigned to several keys on the keyboard. SWEET!!! |
| SYNTH LEAD | |
| 1 Fuzzline | Feel... the fuzz :-D (fuzz bassline) |
| 4 Universe | Very nice resonant polysynth |
| BASS LEAD | |
| 9 Reso-X | More reso 4 U |
| SQUARE LEAD | |
| 16 MC-Line | Cool hip hop Moog line. The portamento effect is achieved using the ribbon |
| SAW LEAD | |
| 22 Break It | Awesome trance polysynth |
| 23 Scary | Typical techno detuned synth |
| 32 Bedtime | Bedtime probably refers to the song "Insomnia" by Faithless, that introduced the notorious "techno pizzicato" sound. |
| SYNTH PAD | |
| 34 Insomnia | A great-sounding, majestic analog pad |
| 35 Wave2001 | Great soundtrack synth |
| 36 Amber | Sweet synth choir - Fairlight like. |
| 38 Trance Pad | One of the best presets on board!!! Mysterious, analog and majestic! I'm modifying the cutoff and resonance knobs in real-time. |
| RESONANCE BASS | |
| 42 Nu Floor | Nice Moog-style synth |
| 43 Fish303 | Refers to the famous "Devilfish" modification for the Roland TB-303 |
| 44 No.No.No | Actually a great sound! Reminds of Keith Emerson's (ELP) modular Moog sounds in the early albums. |
| ANALOG BASS | |
| 47 Analog Bass | '80s-sounding synth bass. |
| BASS | |
| SCRATCH | |
| SFX | |
| 64 FMTB 1 | DJ goodness |
| 66 Omen-FX | More DJ goodness |
| 67 Rave Pipe 1 | Classic blip rave sound |
| 73 Signal | Classic rave siren |
| HIT | |
| 77 Sharp Hit | Classic techno-house hit |
| HUMAN VOICE | |
| 79 Come On 1 | Nice |
| 85 Yo-Kurt | Attitude 4 U |
| 89 One More Time | Nice break! |
| 92 Yeah... | Sexy mama |
| DRUM LOOP | |
| 93 091bpmC4 | FONK! |
| 96 102bpmC4 | Raise the roof |
| 98 106bpmC4 | Awesome whistle scratching! Knobs twiddling, ribbon action here. |
| 102 135bpmC4 | The '80s - Old Skool!! |
| 103 137bpmC4 | Pumpin' '90s |
| 107 Samba137 | Rio De Janeiro |
| PIANO | |
| 108 Funky Electric Piano | Very nice and classy Rhodes |
| 112 Clavi | Realistic Clavinet sound |
| ORGAN | |
| 113 Jazz Organ 1 | Jimmy Smith - style |
| 117 16'+2' Organ | Lounge organ |
| GUITAR | |
| STRINGS | |
| 125 Strings | Sweet string ensemble |
| BRASS | |
| FLUTE | |
| 137 Coco Flute | Beautiful flute solo |
| PERCUSSIVE | |
| DRUM KITS | |
| 141 Standard Kit 1 | Solid drums here. |
| 144 Rock Kit | Rock it up |
| 145 Electronic Kit 1 | Simmons time |
| 146 Analog Kit 1 | TR-808/909 mix |
| 148 Jazz Kit | Groovy and happening set. |
| SPECIAL KITS | |
The GM sounds are pretty much the same as all the other GM sets in the world, so I'm not recording examples of this bank.
Data Initialization
All data can be initialized and restored to the factory preset condition by
turning on the
power while holding the highest (rightmost) white key on the keyboard. “CLr
Backup” will
appear briefly on the display.
PDF Manual from the Yamaha site: DJX manual.pdf
| Features at a glance | |
| Year of release: | |
| Polyphony: | 32-voice |
| Sound generation method: | sampled |
| Preset memories | 284 |
| MIDI: | In, Out |
| Sound expansion capabilities: | No |
| Sequencer | Yes |
| Arpeggiator | Yes |
| Effects | Yes |
| Touch sensitivity | Yes |
| Aftertouch | No |
| SITE | Type of resource | DESCRIPTION |
| Home page | website. | |