Myname is Jan and I'm from Sweden. I'm converting and creating Dance/Trance styles to Yamaha PSR-S910, PSR-S750/PSR-S950, Tyros3, and Tyros4. I've been playing keyboard since I was 14. My first keyboard was a little brown thing called Yamaha porta sound.
First of all, you have to understand all those different parameters in the STYLE CREATOR, how they work together as NTR (Note Transposition Rule), NTT (Note Transposition Table), High Key, Note Limit, and RTR (Retrigger Rule).
(Oct 2013) The conversion of Euro Dance Pack was very time consuming. First of all, I extracted and converted the YEP-files, and revoiced all the channels. Next, the most difficult part, I created all the drums from scratch, and finally I mixed everything properly.
(Oct 2013) The Custom Dance and Trance Collection includes 27 new styles. All styles have Drum-fill-ins, Break, Intros and Endings, and also 4 OTS settings. Keep in mind that some styles with 2 Intros and 2 Endings are Custom made. This means that the Intro II, and Ending II, are playable in many (not all) different chords, but Intro III, and Ending III are locked to the original song chords. For example: The style EthnoHouse is made from the song "Stereo Love" with Edward Maya. So the Intro III, and Ending III is only playing the original chords of the song (C#m).
Another thing to keep in mind is that the two styles named Rekenium2 and RekeniumDance, have the ArabicMixturekit in drumchannel 2 (Rhytm2). The Tyros 3 and Tyros 4 do not have that kit. So, I remade the drums and renamed them with T3 in the end. I also custom changed the parameters for the effects in the Bass for the RazorDance style. (Note: You can check out Jan playing his Dance styles on his YouTube channel.)
The Yamaha PSR-S750 61-Key Digital Workstation has an organ-style keyboard with 5 levels of touch response. The AWM stereo sampling tone generator features 678 Voices with 128-note polyphony. Additionally, the PSR-S750 has 28 Drum/SFX kits, 480 XG Voices, General MIDI 2, and GS. With built-in digital effects, 4 Multi Pads, auto-accompaniment, songs and USB audio recording, this feature-packed keyboard will enhance your music creation experience.
Within the PSR-S750's 678 built-in Voices, there are 165 Featured Voices. The Super Articulation, Mega, Sweet!, Cool!, Live!, and Organ Flute Featured Voices sample every nuance of the instruments they model. The built-in Voices can be further enhanced by PSR-S750's onboard digital effects. Reverb, Chorus, and EQ are all available with a multitude of included factory presets. Real Distortion, a group of new guitar amplifier and stompbox modeling effects, are also included. These distortion presets meticulously reproduce the sound of classic amps from the 1960's and 70's and their effect on frequency bands and dynamics.
The PSR-S750's auto-accompaniment and song features are designed to assist you in the writing and recording process. With 325 accompaniment Style presets, you'll be able to find backing tracks for most anything that you're working on. The PSR-S750 also allows unlimited song recording via its USB flash memory input. Up to 16 tracks per song can be recorded in WAV file formats. Recorded audio can also be assigned to the PSR-S750's 4 Multi Pad triggers for instant playback and looping.
The PSR-S750 offers a variety of useful connections on its back panel. 1/4" TRS main outputs and 2 foot pedal inputs are included, as well as a 1/8" stereo Aux input for portable audio devices. The PSR-S750 also features MIDI In/Out connectors and USB connectivity. The USB-A port enables flash drive recording, custom patch storage and Multi Pad audio. The USB-B allows for multi-function computer connection.
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Voice & Style Expansion Packs enable you to customize the PSR with a wide range of additional content from all over the world. When loaded into the keyboard, you can instantly access authentic new sounds, rhythms and backing in the musical style of your choice.
Another big upgrade is the method of navigating through voices and rhythms: on the E463 and EW410, your choices were to use the wheel to navigate one by one, or the category buttons to navigate one category by one, or you could type in a voice or rhythm number if you had it memorized. On the E473 and EW425, Yamaha has turned the numeric keypad into category quick access buttons so you can jump directly to the category that you want, and then fine tune your selection either with the wheel or by continually tapping the category button. I never had voice or rhythm numbers memorized, so I find this method of navigation to be MUCH quicker and easier; BUT if you do prefer the numeric keypad, you can switch to that mode instead by turning on the Num Lock.
Once I switched the touch sensitivity and spent some time getting used to this action, I was actually quite impressed with the level of dynamic control that I had. While the keys are very light, they have a very consistent and predictable dynamic to them. Since they are full sized, someone used to a piano will be able to adapt to the spacing pretty quickly, but the synth action will be an adjustment that will take some getting used to.
The voices on these new models are noticeably improved over the E463 & EW410; other than the obvious reason of some new higher quality samples being used, there has been a significant polyphony increase from 48 to 64, and there is some improved processing in play, both of which have improved all of the existing samples.
As with the prior models, you have 2 handy live control knobs to which you can use to make on the fly adjustments to cutoff/resonance, reverb/chorus or your DSP1/DSP2 effects, and you can choose to have these knobs affect the main voices or the style.
So with all of these effects at your disposal, you have a crazy amount of options and combinations to fine tune your voices to your liking. This type of stuff is very much NOT my specialty, but I will try to demo some of these features in the video below:
The first huge feature on the Yamaha PSR-E473 and PSR-EW425 is that it they both have an audio interface built into the USB to host port; so on most keyboards, this port is used to transmit only MIDI data (which is the data of what you play, not the actual sound of the keyboard) to a pc or iPad so you can then work with that MIDI data in recording software (using the sounds built into the software, not the actual sounds from your keyboard). But with the built in audio interface, you can not only transmit MIDI data, but you can also transmit AUDIO data (which IS the sound of your keyboard) in both directions using this port. The benefits of this are huge:
There is a gain knob on the back, and you have additional volume control in the function menu, and to make this feature even better, Yamaha added a very well thought out toggle button on the panel that allows you to mute or enable the mic (which is awesome because if you use your mic on/off switch to do that, it will often send a loud noise through the PA) and to turn effects on for singing or off for talking.
Portability: One of the benefits of buying a keyboard without fully or semi weighted keys is portability. The PSR-E473 only weighs 15.5 pounds, and my 76 key PSR-EW425 weighs 18 pounds (most digital pianos weigh 25-30 pounds). So both of these keyboards are shorter in width than an 88 key piano, (although they are deeper than most digital pianos) and are lighter and pretty easy to move around. They are still heavier and bulkier than entry level keyboards like the PSR-E373 and Casiotone keyboards which weigh around 10 lbs, so I would still recommend a double brace X stand. But in comparison to a weighted key digital piano, these boards are great for a pianist looking for a portable option.
Well, these 2 keyboards from Yamaha are the ONLY KEYBOARDS or digital pianos that I am aware of that have ALL of these features. And they do that for $370 USD for 61 keys or $490 USD for 76 keys! And on top of that, they even ADD that additional SUPER useful feature of a mic input with gain and effects..
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