Possible to fill without switching to Main B (or A)

[FutureAtoB]

I just got a Yamaha PSR-E473. I think it is a really nice music keyboard   

I have a little problem though:

When pressing auto fill when playing a style the keyboard switches from Main A to Main B (or vise versa)
Is it possible that it will stay on Main A while pressing the auto fill button. I just like to fill with a short drum sound.

It can maybe be done with a dedicated button using quick sampling - but is there another way around it?

Kind regards

FutureAtoB

(I have a youtube channel with the same name)

[Fred Smith]

On my keyboard, you just press the Main A button while it's playing, and you'll get a fill, regardless of whether auto-fill is on or not.

Cheers,
Fred

[SciNote]

The problem is that the PSR-E400 series keyboards do not have separate "Main A" and "Main B" buttons.  There is only one "Main/ Auto Fill" button, and it just automatically toggles between style variations A and B each time you press it, and it automatically does a drum fill as it switches variations.  So, there is no way (at least that I'm aware of) to just do a drum fill without switching the style variation by just a single press of a button.

I've had the PSR-E433 for over 11 years, and it's a great keyboard, but updating this feature is something I've suggested here for years, hoping that maybe Yamaha will see the suggestion.  Yet here we are, 4 generations past my E433, and the style controls are still the same.

I get around this by just "double clicking" the "Main/ Auto Fill" button whenever I want to do a drum fill without changing the style variation.

[FutureAtoB]

Thanks. I will try to experiment with that solution. My old  PSR 225 did not do it either. Btw it is in a way a good feature with the switching from Main A to Main B (and vise versa) regarding my current project. I think will try to dedicate at quick sampling with drums instead though.

Cheers

FutureAtoB

(I have a YouTube channel with the same name)

[SciNote]

Thanks. I will try to experiment with that solution. My old  PSR 225 did not do it either. Btw it is in a way a good feature with the switching from Main A to Main B (and vise versa) regarding my current project. I think will try to dedicate at quick sampling with drums instead though.

I am curious as to how you plan to use the quick sampling.  While I am aware of that feature on the PSR-E473, I don't know the details about how it works.  But, I think it lets you save samples in each of four dedicated pads, right?  If so, then I guess your plan is to record different drum fills into these samples and just use them when needed by hitting the appropriate pad button?

If so, I can think of four main concerns...

1.  How will you match the tempo of the drum fill to the tempo of the style playing?  Or does the sampling function have a feature to automatically adjust the speed of the sample playback based on the style tempo?

2.  If there is no tempo matching to the style, then the sample would likely not be in sync with the beat of the style.  If this is the case, when you want to do your drum fill, if you don't hit the sample pad at just the right moment, then your drum fill won't be in sync with the style.

3.  With just four sample pads, it might be a bit limited, because I don't think there would be a way to have different fills for the different styles available on the keyboard.  For example, a drum fill for a rock style would be quite different than a drum fill for a swing style.

4.  If everything works the way I think it does, there would be no way to mute the sound of the style drums while the sample is playing, so the sampled drum fill would play over and along with the currently playing style so that the two sets of drum lines (the drums of the style and the drums of your sample) would overlap.  That might not be a bad thing, but it would be something to consider when designing your drum fills.

Or, maybe I have this all wrong.  Of course, if you only need the drum fills for a few specific styles at specific tempos, then much of this should not be a problem.  Let me know what you're doing here, as it sounds like an interesting project.

[FutureAtoB]

Hello

I am a newbie in Quick Sampling. Have not tried. Maybe it is possible to transfer some of the drum patterns from the particular style I use to make a quick Sampling to a dedicated button?

Another method could be to just put in the desired drum sample parallel to the main recording in a wave editor like Audacity.

FutureAtoB

[FutureAtoB]

I will make a link to the result as soon as it is finished - It will take a couple of weeks.

Regards
FutureAtoB