Do freeplay styles work in the DGX-670?

[richkeys]

Has any DGX-670 owner had success using a freeplay style such as Ethereal Movie On Broadway?

I do not own a 670 right now (considering it instead of a Genos2). I am aware from previous posts here that it does load SFF2 styles from SX and that SX600 styles possibly worked the best.  I was wondering if there was anything unusual about the freeplay style format that would not work well in the DGX?

Rich

[Graham UK]

Rich. Yes, Most Freestyles do work in my DGX670.
In fact all the Tyros 5 Styles and even early PSR3000 work very good.

The DGX670 Menu button pushing took awhile for me to get used to but I now I'm fine.
You can edit Styles but there is no option to alter OTS,s
I save my favorite voices in the RGTs with the Style unticked means I can play any selected style with any of my favorite Voice RGTs.

Past 50 years I have owned top end arrangers but the weighted key-bed on the DGX has been a game changer for me.
Had my DGX for 2 years and would not change it. Voice samples are very good and overall Excellent value.

[richkeys]

Graham,

I have another question at the bottom of my long post here. Good to know that freeplays and other styles work. That's big. I read some of your past comments about the button pushing and see that you got used to it. The interface on the 670 looks well thought out and I find I am doing a lot of button pushing and touch screen navigating on the SX anyway.

I plan to keep my SX900 and add a digital piano because the SX pianos just do not cut it for me. I find myself using piano quite often on the SX and thought the DGX would be a great hybrid of digital piano and arranger features. My initial idea was to replace the SX900 with a Genos2, however G2 is just so expensive and the 670 would offer a better piano experience in my opinion. Eventually I might sell the SX if the DGX better suits me, but we will see. I would have to evaluate if I still need the more powerful style & registration flexibility the SX900 has.

I have an old DGX-640 in the house and notice I do like the weighted keys, even for lead instruments like sax I think it is fine. I find myself using non-piano leads like sax, brass, organ, synth much less than piano. 88 weighted keys just has so much more presence and expressiveness than 61 synth style keys. The 640 action was always extremely noisy, so hoping Yamaha has improved this on the 670.

I read on this forum the 670 has only 20MB of user memory. I calculated that if most styles average 70 KB per style then I would be able to fit as many as 285 styles in the user area. Probably less than that because I am not figuring in registrations. I prefer to use internal user memory instead of USB sticks when playing. If I could fit even just 50 styles in User I would be happy. Do you find the internal memory sufficient for your needs, or are you relying on USB sticks to access external styles and registrations when playing?

Rich

[pjd]

Hi Rich --

I've created/modified Free Play styles and I don't see any reason why they wouldn't play correctly on DGX-670.

Technically, there aren't any special features or format within a Free Play style. Details are available here:

Guets are not allowed to view links. In order to access the links, please Register or Login

Probably the main characteristics: long MAIN sections that hold notes and MIDI CC expression to change timbre dynamically. No rhythm.

Hope this info helps -- pj

[Graham UK]

Rich. We all have different ways of working.
I keep possibly 50+ favorite styles. Remember you can mute or re-voice style parts to give variation.
I use a lot of Piano in MAIN with PAD or choir in LAYER.

My DGX keys are not noisy.

User Memory I use for editing only, everything else is on USB.
Folder Styles (of interest)
Folder RGT & STY (Styles used in Registration I keep together in this folder)
Folder RGT Voices (My favorite voices saved with STY not-ticked)

[richkeys]

Thanks Graham. If I decide to get this keyboard later this year I will have to get used to using USB more to play from due to the small user memory.

I have seen enough feedback from users & reviews that Yamaha has definitely revamped the whole instrument including the keybed since the 640 days.

I have similar voice registrations (style unticked) on my current SX900. I will probably have less of these on the 67O as it will be more of a piano focused keyboard. It would be interesting to compare both keyboards side by side and see how they compare, as they certainly have similarities and differences. There are also some interesting comments in this section of the forum comparing the 670 VRM CFX to the Genos CFX.

Rich

[nevg]

Hi could you please email me as I have recently got a DGX 670. And I am lost can anybody help, live in uk Merseyside, my email is **********  Thanks Nev Graham


Edit: Email address removed by overover. Please note that registered members can see your email address by calling up your forum profile anyway.

[Graham UK]

richkeys. Regarding DGX PIANOs which I consider as good, you also have many VCE voices (Pianos). Although these are made from the supplied piano samples, these edited version VCE's are worth downloading.