New PSR-S775-S975

[hans1966]

Hello, as DerekA says, just give yourself time to know your new instrument, you will see a world of possibilities that you never imagined. what if, for example, you start modifying the master equalizer. try the next setting Eq. which is Enildo's, to see how you are doing and then you tell us. Greetings Hans

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[Enildo]

You can also test this setting that adds a touch of more "Low".
Good Luck!
Enildo

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[Toril S]

Hello Rich! I went through the excact same thing! I was not at all satisfied with my S970 at first, and still think that many of the OTS settings are wrong for me. But, it has so many great features! And you can always load your old styles into it and continue to use them. They will sound even better in the S970. It has more memory, so you can fill the user esction, and USB sticks as well, with thousands of styles. So, all in all we made a good choice, you and I, we just have to get used to our new keyboard

[Joe H]

If you guys want to capture a screen shot of your keyboard display there is a way to do it.  See the attached document.

Joe H

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[panos]

Rich,
you are just used to listen to the sounds from your old keyboard so the new sounds of the organs you liked maybe sound bad because are strange to you.
I believe this is happening to a lot of us when we buy a new keyboard.
You can adjust and edit any voice/style/OTS the way you like it anyway.
All music indunstry (and is not the only one) relies on that "function" of the human brain to like what sounds/looks familiar.
Same patterns,same chord progressions,same type of arrengments,similar human voices untill they find something new.

[Enildo]

If you guys want to capture a screen shot of your keyboard display there is a way to do it.  See the attached document.

Joe H

Hello Joe! I tried on my s970 but I could not!
Did you get it on yours?

hug
Enildo

[Enildo]

Hello Joe! I tried on my s970 but I could not!
Did you get it on yours?

hug
Enildo

Yes, got it! Thank you Joe for this important tip!
I'm very happy about it!

Hug,
Enildo

[Joe H]

I tried it and it didn't work on my S970 like it did on the S910 so I posted over on another thread with another way of doing it.

http://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,42699.msg340720.html#msg340720

Joe H

[hpk]

Hi Joe,
thanks for the document, on my S970 it worked when starting up as described and then pressing the Registration Key 8.
A sound gives feedback, that the file is written.

[Joe H]

Oh,

I figured out that I have my MIDI patch-bay configured wrong.  I just tried it again and it indeed does work.  It is saved as .bmp to your USB1 drive and you must convert the file to a .jpg to post here.



Joe H

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[Roger Brenizer]

I've just added "bmp" to the list of allowable attachment extensions, Joe.

[Joe H]

Thank you Roger! That will save a lot of people having to convert the screenshots in the future.



Joe H

[Willy330ci]

So, I have been talking with SweetWater, Guitar Center and a third store in California, asking them for the availability date,  and I get nothing solid, some say May 2018,  some say March, even Amazon.com does not have a date.

I wonder why its taking forever to arrive to the US, given that it did in Europe already,  a month or more ago.

Does any one have any updates on this?

[Almagnum]

They add crumbs in the internal memory capacity, in each new edition of keyboards, while any flash drive today may have a lot more gigabytes of memory. Shameful!

[RF]

I remember to something, Technics did years before. Between KN 6000 and 7000 they released an improved KN 6000 with the name KN 6500.
People spoke about SA2 voices in the midrange.
Well, these voices were introduced with the Tyros 3. I expected Yamaha, to do something like this in the midrange too, because the articulation voices, introduced with Tyros 2, came to PSR S 900.
Now came Tyros 4, Tyros 5, Genos - and the midrange keeps ignoring SArt2 voices, violin and clarinet without any articulation, trumpet and sax the same, as in Tyros 2.
I can imagine, that Yamaha offers a PSR S 990 with Revo Drums and NO SArt2 voices.

[DerekA]

It's hard to know any company's long term strategy, but they do need to keep some features reserved to the Genos line, even when the PSR is technically able to handle them. Otherwise, who would want to spend all that extra money?

[Joe H]

It's hard to know any company's long term strategy, but they do need to keep some features reserved to the Genos line, even when the PSR is technically able to handle them. Otherwise, who would want to spend all that extra money?

Yes, but we can hope they will release a new keyboard that is something in between the PSR S975 and the Genos.  The two Live Control knobs was a good start, but give me more.  I would like to see a PSR without any speakers and more sliders and knobs and maybe a ribbon Controller too. How about 3 pedal inputs.  One for a sweep pedal and 2 foot switches... all sliders, knobs and foot pedals / foot switches fully assignable with ANY MIDI message.



Joe H

[Toril S]

That will make it a synth. I agree, but will keep the speakers.

[Joe H]

That will make it a synth. I agree, but will keep the speakers.

The reason I say no speakers is because there is simply no more room on the PSR panel for more sliders and knobs.  Half of the panel space is consumed by the speakers.  And my personal preference for no speakers is because I don't ever use them in my home studio. I use headphones or external speakers in that environment.



Joe H

[motekmusic]

Hi,

Decided to upgrade the s970 for the s975 even though minute changes i still wanted a NEW machine.
It is supposed to arrive  late Tuesday afternoon.   The s970 is up for sale in several israeli used sites and hope to get a bit
more than what the dealer has offered.

I noticed on the yamaha site, that 4 free packs are being offered.   Will have to get those downloaded as well as get the
s970 user files transferred.    Also consulted the data list to make sure that all styles are remaining. Kind of a bummer not
getting new ones...  Am expecting a Genos in mid july so will have some new goodies as well.

https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/keyboards/arranger_workstations/psr-s975/vse.html
this is link for the 4 free packs

Perhaps by end of week shall have some thoughts and opinions.

Thanks to all who have shared their new s975 experiences and some help.


cheers
elaine

[Paul B]

Elaine,

Congratulations on your new s975. I made the move from a 970 to the 975 and have been very happy with the new instrument. Like any change, it takes a little getting used to. I still have not really dug into the new features available but I will in time.

Thanks for the link and have fun with the new board.

Paul B