Yeah! SX900 #2 is on its way

[beakybird]

For 20 years, I've had two identical PSR's. One in my trunk for gigging and one in my office. This way, I can tweak settings at home, save to USB (or floppy or Smart Media drive in the old days), and play the new registration or setting at a gig. As I get older, I get more averse to dragging the instrument back and forth from my car to the house and back when I gig almost every day. I'm still gigging with the S970. I'm excited to start gigging with the SX900. I think my clients will be impressed with the new sounds and styles, and I'm inspired to learn some new songs and to spice up the old repertoire. I hope I don't press fade out or half-fill at the wrong time, but I'm excited about the new conveniences that come with this keyboard. It will also make my life easier if the louder speakers allow me to ditch having to bring a powered speaker to my smaller gigs.

These are the Yamaha's I've owned:

PSR-740 - Must have been 1998
PSR-2000
PSR-2100 Almost the same as before
PSR-3000
PSR-S900
PSR-S950
PSR-S970
PSR-SX900

Yamaha should send me a t-shirt - or at least a sticker!

[Toril S]

A t-shirt, a sticker and a medal for long and faithful service!😀 I have the 2100 still. Did you buy two Sx900? Practical!

[beakybird]

A t-shirt, a sticker and a medal for long and faithful service!😀 I have the 2100 still. Did you buy two Sx900? Practical!

Yes, I bought two. I make a living performing for seniors throughout Chicagoland - it's a modest income, but there's a lot of competition with some very talented musicians, and I consider having the top PSR a priority in giving me a little edge and, of course, doing the best job I can do. When I upgrade, it's not like buying two new keyboards - I sell the old ones, and I know that three or four years later that the newer keyboards will fetch more $$ than the older ones would have had I kept them. Factoring in everything, the upgrade comes around $1 per gig over the several years that I will own the SX900 - well worth the costs - and tax deductible.

I'd rather have two SX900's for my job than one Genos. I can't even afford one Genos, and after every job, if I wanted to practice, I'd have to drag it into the house and then back into the car again. And then, I'd have to have extra monitors facing me at my gigs adding substantially to set up and take down time. The Genos looks like a beast of a keyboard - probably for a pro at a higher pay grade than me or a wealthy hobbyist.

[rcpilot]

Do you think a good keyboard player that did NOT sing, could find Gigs?
Lee

[beakybird]

Do you think a good keyboard player that did NOT sing, could find Gigs?
Lee

A good keyboardist? No. A monstrously good keyboard player? Absolutely!

[beakybird]

A good keyboardist? No. A monstrously good keyboard player? Absolutely!

I'd like to modify my answer. A good but not great keyboardist who can't sing can definitely get gigs where I live, but would probably not be able to make a living.
If I were a good keyboardist who wanted to make a living, I would hook up with a great singer or develop phenomenal chops or both.
But then again, anyone can sing.
Off topic for sure, but there's amazing free voice instruction on YouTube. Voice Lessons to The World from New York Vocal Coaching has over a hundred videos, and this has helped me so much. I spend a lot of time in traffic, and I used to listen to NPR, mostly news. Now I spend a lot of the time doing voice exercises.

[Jørgen]

...
These are the Yamaha's I've owned:

PSR-740 - Must have been 1998
PSR-2000
PSR-2100 Almost the same as before
PSR-3000
PSR-S900
PSR-S950
PSR-S970
PSR-SX900

Yamaha should send me a t-shirt - or at least a sticker!

Hi
PSR 740 was released in autumn 1999 - more at http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/about.htm
I know, as I was 50 in July 1999 and wished a new keyboard - or money to buy it - for a birthday present.
I waited to buy until September when PSR 740 was just released. 

My Yamaha list:
B 35
B 55N
PSR 6300
PSR 620
PSR 740
Tyros 1
PSR 3000
Tyros 3
PSR S750

Best wishes
Jørgen

PS: Me Too: Yamaha should send me a t-shirt - or at least a sticker! 

[Toril S]

I have the oldest keyboard, a PSR-47! Released in 89 I think. It still works, but can not be called an arranger😀

[beakybird]

Hi
PSR 740 was released in autumn 1999 - more at http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/about.htm
I know, as I was 50 in July 1999 and wished a new keyboard - or money to buy it - for a birthday present.
I waited to buy until September when PSR 740 was just released. 

My Yamaha list:
B 35
B 55N
PSR 6300
PSR 620
PSR 740
Tyros 1
PSR 3000
Tyros 3
PSR S750

Best wishes
Jørgen

PS: Me Too: Yamaha should send me a t-shirt - or at least a sticker! 

Hi Jorgen! I am really grateful for your website, and I was just using your Music Finder utility to get song ideas based on style name which is hard to do with the sx900.

Now I remember that I started performing in 1998, but I spent the first year playing guitar (another passion of mine), and then I bought this autoharp arranger by Suzuki called the Q Chord - which they still make.

I remember seeing the PSR-740 in the Musiciansfriend catalog, and I couldn't believe all the styles it had. I grew up with a piano, and liked to pound the keys once in a while, so I bought my first Yamaha arranger. I remember being exhausted dragging it back and forth to practice at home, so I bought a second PSR-740 for a backup. There were so many great styles, but only twenty or so would fit on a floppy, and it would take a long time to change floppies. The PSR2000 was a Godsend.

[Jørgen]

Hi

A 20year flashback from http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/about.htm
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At September 22 1999 I finally got my PSR 740.

It was definitely the first available in Aarhus (the second biggest city in Denmark) and as far as know one of the first sold worldwide too. And now the interest exploded. How were the voices? Better or similar to PSR 8000? (top model that year). What about the new 4 variation styles? (PSR 740 was the first Yamaha model having this). Can the new styles be played at older models? Can 740 play the "old" 2 variation styles? etc.
------------------------------------------------------------
Good memories... 
Jørgen

[DonM]

My name is Don and I'm a keyboard addict. 
First Yamaha arranger was PS 50.
Then:
PS 70
PS 6100
PSR 6300
PSR S500, 550
PSR 8000 - first Yamaha with vocal processor/harmonizer
PSR S650
PSR 740, first Yamaha with 4 style variations
PSR 9000
PSR S900
PSR S950
PSR S970
Tyros 1
Tyros 2
PSR SX900 - FINALLY touch screen and joystick..
Genos
Along the way there were also four Technics, five Rolands, six Ketrons and six Korgs!  Also four arranger modules, Yamaha QY something, Ketron Midjay, Roland BK7m and Ketron SD40.
I currently only have three arrangers, Roland EA7, Korg PA4X and Yamaha Genos.
Korg PA4X is my favorite of all time!
Genos is for sale.  As wonderful as it is, I don't care for the 76 keys.  Too wide for my setups.

[andyg]

It was definitely the first available in Aarhus (the second biggest city in Denmark)........

Off topic and purely for personal interest, what was the name of the dealer? I visited the city a couple of times in the early 80s when working for Kawai, nearly buying a rare-ish Hammond TX500 organ on one visit.

[rcpilot]

Don, you have to be the arranger King, that's quite a lineup!
Lee

[Jørgen]

Off topic and purely for personal interest, what was the name of the dealer? I visited the city a couple of times in the early 80s when working for Kawai, nearly buying a rare-ish Hammond TX500 organ on one visit.

Hey.
I bought the PSR 740 from Ole Vendelbo, who in 1999 had his own shop The Keyboard Center at Frederiksalle. Ole was previously a salesman at Juhl Sørensen at Store Torv, where I bought both B-models. Ole closed his shop 10+ years ago and now lives at a closed dairy on Mols. He still makes music for local performers and for the local television station. In addition, he rents out camp cabins and mobile homes.

Jørgen

[DonM]

Don, you have to be the arranger King, that's quite a lineup!
Lee

Arranger Junkie is more like it. 

[beakybird]

Arranger Junkie is more like it. 

As a junkie, I wonder what keyboard is going to give you your next fix.

SX900 #2 is supposed to arrive today, and I'm going to start gigging with it tomorrow. I just have to take a picture of my compression settings on the S970. I think that you, Don, gave me some compression suggestions years ago on Synthzone. A little bit is not only good for singing. I used to get complaints from people who couldn't hear my jokes in between songs. Once I added compression to the Talk setting, those people now complain about my dumb jokes. 

[DonM]

As a junkie, I wonder what keyboard is going to give you your next fix.

SX900 #2 is supposed to arrive today, and I'm going to start gigging with it tomorrow. I just have to take a picture of my compression settings on the S970. I think that you, Don, gave me some compression suggestions years ago on Synthzone. A little bit is not only good for singing. I used to get complaints from people who couldn't hear my jokes in between songs. Once I added compression to the Talk setting, those people now complain about my dumb jokes. 

I'm pretty happy right now.  PA4X has settings that automatically optimize the e.q. and compression settings, both on overall sound and mic processing, if you choose to use them.  One of my favorite features!
I wish it had the lighter touch of the Genos though.  Genos came very close for me!

[Enildo]

My name is Don and I'm a keyboard addict. 
First Yamaha arranger was PS 50.
Then:
PS 70
PS 6100
PSR 6300
PSR S500, 550
PSR 8000 - first Yamaha with vocal processor/harmonizer
PSR S650
PSR 740, first Yamaha with 4 style variations
PSR 9000
PSR S900
PSR S950
PSR S970
Tyros 1
Tyros 2
PSR SX900 - FINALLY touch screen and joystick..
Genos
Along the way there were also four Technics, five Rolands, six Ketrons and six Korgs!  Also four arranger modules, Yamaha QY something, Ketron Midjay, Roland BK7m and Ketron SD40.
I currently only have three arrangers, Roland EA7, Korg PA4X and Yamaha Genos.
Korg PA4X is my favorite of all time!
Genos is for sale.  As wonderful as it is, I don't care for the 76 keys.  Too wide for my setups.

The problem is not addiction, the problem is having money to feed the addiction!

[Enildo]

I owned the following keyboards:
PSR 510
PSR 520
PSR 540 (for 5 years)
PSR 3000
PSR 910
PSR 950
PSR 970
PSR 975 (today)

The next object is the SX900!
Also has before all these a Casio, which for the time helped me a lot in my initiation.

Enildo

[beakybird]

I'm developing an arranger harmonica, but my friend was electrocuted. Any beta testers out there?

[Toril S]

No thanks😀⚠️⚠️⚠️😄

[DonM]

I'm developing an arranger harmonica, but my friend was electrocuted. Any beta testers out there?

That is truly shocking news.

[rcpilot]

Had a Conn Prelude organ, Thomas Paramont, Thomas Lawrence Welk, Thomas Celebtity Royale , Thomas Trionon, Yamaha HS7, Yamaha HS8T, Kurzweil K2600X, Yamaha T2, Korg Pa1Xpro, Pa2Xpro, then Varranger..NOW Yamaha SX-900. Genos in the future...
Lee

[Bruce Breen]

Most of my keyboards have been Yamaha...I currently own 2, and an accordion.

My list of keyboards -
A Hohner accordion from the 1970's -
the left hand has both stradella (traditional), and free bass (for 'modern studies') button systems.
I still play it, and it still sounds fine!

1975 - Yamaha YC-10 portable organ (it was 52 lbs!). It had a split keyboard, so I could play the bass lines for our group. Also, an unknown electric piano and a Mini Moog (mini keys & mono - one note at a time only). They're all gone.

1985 - Yamaha PSS-280 - a mini key poly keyboard - I actually recorded some things with it, and they still sound great!
My nephew still uses it in his recording studio because of some of the vintage sounds...!
1990 - Yamaha YS100 synthesizer - to replace the YC-10 - at the time the selling feature to me was that I could imitate the YC-10 organ sounds, and it weighed 2/3's less!! Of course, it had a lot of other wonderful sounds in it. Sold it since.

1994 - Roland E-10 (or E-20?) 3 octave arranger, which I could connect via Midi to my YS-100. Sold it.
1998 - Yamaha PSR 730 - which eventually replaced both the Midi keyboards I had been linking. Sold it.

2005 - Yamaha PSR 2100 - still have it and use it.
2015 - PSR S-950 - current keyboard.

I'm always having fun with my Yammies!

[Toril S]

My keyboards:
1990: Yamaha PSR -47.
2003: PSR 2100.
2017: PSR S970.
2018. Tyros 5/61.
2018: PSR S975.
2019. Genos.
The 970 broke down, and Yamaha ended up giving me the 975 in its place. The Tyros was purchased used. Still have them all, minus the 970. Love my Yammies!!❤️❤️

[metcam]

Hi
My keyboards arrangers :

Genos
SX-900
PSR-A3000,
PSR9000,
Tyros2,
Tyros3,
TYROS5,
S-750
psr2000,
psr2100,
psr1500,
psr530,
psr OR700

[Toril S]

When will we get our T-shirts from Yamaha??😅

[DonM]

When will we get our T-shirts from Yamaha??😅

Have to wait for the ALL NEW edition, where they change the size of the print and increase the price 20 percent! 

[jo mustafa]

My keyboards arrangers :

Genos
Psr 970
Korg3x
Roland GW8
Korg2x
Ketron SD1
Roland Va7
Solton Ms 100
Solton Ms 60
Solton Ms 50
Solton Ms 5
Gem WS 2
Elka OMB 5
Technics KN 800
Yamaha psr 6100
JVC KB 700
Yamaha Ps 55

[Toril S]

I counted 17!! And I take my hat off!😀😀