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Tyros 4 (SFF2) / pitch bend

« Last post by werikas3210 on Yesterday at 12:32:06 PM »

  I am asking for your help. I have a yamaha Tyros4, the Pitch bend broke half a year ago. When I play the accompaniment on the left side of the keyboard, the right side of the keyboard a semitone above does not match the accompaniment. I can only play normally when I set Pitch bend to 0 in the settings. Maybe someone has encountered this fault, before Pitch bend worked fine. I am looking forward to hearing from you, thank you if you can help.

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Genos - General / Re: Genos Output to a high end Samsung Soundbar

« Last post by Bill on Yesterday at 12:14:17 PM »

Hi Anand

To be honest I’m totally out of my depth here. I cannot see how you are going to get the best from a Dolby Atmos speaker from a simple audio output from a keyboard or mixer. No doubt there are more complex processors around.

Hope someone has got some experience.

Bill

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Genos - General / Re: Genos Output to a high end Samsung Soundbar

« Last post by anandmaloo on Yesterday at 11:50:47 AM »

Thanks BogdanH for your reply. It is surely helpful.

Bill,

I have sold my entire old setup including the AV receiver. I don't have any setup now. In my previous setup, i had a Behringer mixer, which received input from

1) G1
2) a wireless microphone (and the mixer would add vocal effects - echo reverb etc)
3) a Bluetooth receiver, to take input of karaoke tracks from my ipad.

The Behringer mixer would mix all three and give output to my Yamaha RX679 AV receiver which in turn would fire the speakers and sub.  It worked great. But then I sold it all

I still intend to buy a new mixer (preferably Bluetooth built-in) which will take input from

1) G1
2) Wireless microphone
3) Bluetooth builtin

The mixer needs to now fire the sound bar (Samsung Q990C) instead of the Yamaha AV. But the Soundbar only has optical and HDMI input, whereas I am still to find a decent mixer with Optical or HDMI output

There comes in the role of sub quality converters, which I am wary of.

Hope I am able to explain my configuration to you

Regards

Anand

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DGX Portable Grand Pianos (DGX 620,630,640,650,660,670) / Re: 10 Reasons to own DGX-670

« Last post by mikf on Yesterday at 11:43:01 AM »

It might not be just a little bit more. Might be quite a lot more.
And although obviously worth it to you, Yamaha needs to weigh up if increasing price  is worth it to their typical target customer for this model. I don’t see them producing a 76 key version for example, because having to support two models instead of one is a costly thing, and the gig player may not be their main target market for this model.
But I having said that, I do think a few of the refinements on your list could appear in future models.
Mike

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Genos - General / Re: Genos Output to a high end Samsung Soundbar

« Last post by Bill on Yesterday at 11:34:33 AM »

Hi Anand

Are you planning to keep the AV  Receiver or do you wish to just plug the sound bar into the Genos (presumably G1)

Bill

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Genos2 / Re: Yamaha Genos 2 vs Genos1

« Last post by mikf on Yesterday at 11:28:41 AM »

In all the hundreds of gigs I played I have had comments about the choice of music, comments about being too loud/too quiet - but never have I had anyone say I have the wrong keyboard model. That’s pretty invisible to listeners. The keyboard model might matter to the player, but seldom to anyone else.
Unless he is an arranger player/enthusiast, I don’t know how he would even notice.
Unless maybe you are constantly complaining and fiddling with sound adjustments instead of just entertaining his customers?
I have had equipment issues many times at gigs, but short of a complete loss of power or sound, I never let that be known to the listeners. That’s stuff the duck is doing under the water.
Mike

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Genos - General / Re: Genos Output to a high end Samsung Soundbar

« Last post by BogdanH on Yesterday at 10:14:46 AM »

hello Anand,

1. If audio devices are connected directly (wired), then there's no latency that one could notice. Noticeable latency usually happens if audio signal is compressed before transmission and decompressed at receiving device (i.e. bluetooth), or if signal is altered before reproduction (i.e. complex audio effects are added). In your case I don't expect any latency to happen, because DAC's are extremely fast nowadays.

2. You need something like this (you won't use video connection, of course). Reliable... well, depends on build/components quality (maybe you shouldn't buy the cheapest). The same is true for sound quality: a decent converter shouldn't degrade the sound.

Anyway, don't expect the same sound quality on soundbar as you have on current speaker system. Keep in mind that soundbars are meant to be used as center speaker (speech).

Bogdan

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Genos2 / Re: Yamaha Genos 2 vs Genos1

« Last post by BogdanH on Yesterday at 09:35:00 AM »

hi hoangbr2014,
I think, that in this case the discussion about difference between Genos1 and Genos2 is quite exaggerated -unless you have wrong settings on Genos2 or your boss owns Carnegie Hall.

As many of us here, I have watched some comparison videos where demonstrator actually tried hard to show the differences in sound quality between those two keyboard (advertising, of course).. and even then, it was many times hard to notice the difference (unless some effects have been used).
And you say that your boss notices the difference from the kitchen, saying that Genos2 is worse? Sorry, I simply don't buy that. I have a feeling that there's something else behind... "your older is better" is many times a sign that someone is trying to be smart (insinuating that you made wrong decision) or simply envy you -especially in case like this, where two keyboards are that similar.

Just my opinion,
Bogdan

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PSR-SX900/SX700/SX600 / Re: AKX10

« Last post by MiguelDL on Yesterday at 07:22:08 AM »

The keyboards are not comparable in performance or sound quality.
I've had the AKX10 and you spend the day trying to adapt Yamaha styles or some voices to reproduce them on the Medelli.
When you try the original, in my case an SX900, which I currently own along with a genos2, it has no comparison.
It's another level.
To get you started and as an exclusively domestic keyboard, it's fine, but nothing more.
That was my experience with him.
Greetings.

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Yamaha Keyboards - General / Style part seemed to sound a little better recorded as a midi.

« Last post by Keyboard Master on Yesterday at 06:34:43 AM »

Hi everyone I’m curious about something. I played this style Discohands here is the style. https://www.dropbox.com/s/izfks7jqhkuzgv1/DiscoHands.T160.prs?dl=0 I recorded it in B min chord. Intro and ending C when I listened very carefully: the Brass sounded a bit more mellow (full blown) while playing back the recorded midi. Vs when I play it normally it sounded less mellow(parts being cut off). The thing I’m curious about is does note polyphony come into play or is it how the keyboard is setup (firmware) . I used a psr sx700 for the test. If someone can use the style I shared and load it test it record the intro/endingC do it both style player and midi playback . Listen very carefully to see what I mean. Also the velocities for phrase 2 I’m focusing on is 120-75-75-120. I edited both 120-75- changed the second 75 to 74 in the midi file I heard the mellows very well. I did the same thing with the style itself in mixmaster then tested it on the same keyboard at my local music store. But only the midi format I heard the brass play more better to my ears. I’m curious if it’s the oparating system or. The style itself: any advice I’d appreciate.😎