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DerekA:
The Genos has a bunch of assignable faders and knobs.

You can buy products like the Korg nanoKONTROL which are designd to work with DAWs. Do you think that these would work with PSR / Tyros? For example assigning a slider/knob to control reverb or DSP depth on th panel voices  without having to navigate to the right page on the mixer?

The data manual lists the MIDI format, and it does have messages related to reverb depth, but I'm not clued up enough on the details

http://www.korg.com/uk/products/computergear/nanokontrol2/

Joe H:
DerekA,

I don't consider those controllers a very serious tool.  But that's because I have a legacy Peavey PC1600x MIDI hardware controller and have been doing just that for many years.

The answer to your question is... YES! I do this all the time with my sound modules and S970 keyboard. You have to create a special MIDI Receive configuration though to use an external controller. Depends on what you wish to control... style parts, Multi Pads, song files, R1 / R2, Left, etc.

These Behringer controllers might be a better choice: 

https://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-BEH-XTOUCHCOMPACT?src=Y0802G00SRCHCAPN&adpos=1o5&scid=scplpBEH+XTOUCHCOMPACT&sc_intid=BEH+XTOUCHCOMPACT&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhPTzxNeL2wIVB4RpCh104w7kEAQYBSABEgKxpPD_BwE

https://reverb.com/p/behringer-bcf2000-usb-midi-controller-desk?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhPTzxNeL2wIVB4RpCh104w7kEAQYBCABEgKDkPD_BwE&hfid=12177668

https://reverb.com/item/10678796-behringer-b-control-bcf2000-usb-midi-daw-fader-controller-2008-black

I believe they make a controller with standard 5 pin DIN MIDI ports as well as USB.

Joe H

DerekA:
That's very useful Joe, thanks

Joe H:
Derek,

 I suggest you do some homework and sort out your needs/wants then shop around for the controller that will do the job for you.  I'm a bit spoiled by both the Peavey PC1600x and my Motif Rack XS.

The PC1600x needs to be programmed by hexadecimal strings so that means it's totally "open ended" to program ANY MIDI message. And I have a 3rd party PC based editor which makes it easier to program and store my different setups.

The Motif Rack has encoder knobs which not only allow smooth changes, but also displays the original value and the changed value.  The 5 knobs allow me to select 20 different predefined parameters.  Which is much easier than having to write hexadecimal strings.

Joe H

DerekA:
I have a fairly simple use case - I want to send various CC messages to L, R1, R2, R3 to mimic live control on reverb depth / DSP depth / cutoff / resonance, and I don't have a lot of space for a large controller. From the Tyros manual I see I can set e.g. L to receive CC messages on channel 1, R1 to receive on channel 2 etc. Then I can set up the midi controller to send out those CC on the right channels.

So far so good.

I have a question though about connecting things together. This Korg controller has a single USB mini B connection. The Tyros has two USB A 'to device' which will carry power/data but I'm not sure if they will carry MIDI. It also has one USB B 'to host' which will carry MIDI but I'm not sure if it will carry power to the controller.

Any advice on whether it will work or not would be appreciated.

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