I would like for the E463/EW410/i500 successor to have these few features (I am a beginner so these are really just small User-Experience changes):
1. The slots for the stand should be magnetic (Sounds stupid I know) so that the stand can just click in , I have had the stand fall of twice in a row , the magnet will slow down the fall and hold it a bit better.
2. The keybed can be improved , I came from a Casio CTK-2400 and the E463 was awesome except the keybed felt a bit bad for the price , better than the 2400 but not as good as my friends Yamaha (Forgot the model , played it once and was surprised by its keybed).
3. Would love to have an assignable "do it all" button that can be customized to our liking similar to a macro , we could perform an action and get it written to that button.
4. The occasional stuttering when a few effects from Live Control and DSP settings are added should be reduced , experienced it once or twice while I was tinkering around and kind of destroyed the experience.
5. Prevent corrupted .USR files from wiping internal memory and then proceeding with the backup only to give an error. This can be done by loading currently used user data to ram while it tries to do the restore if it fails then load back the original from ram. (Again this can be probably added to the E463 as it has an update ability, instead of ram usb storage can also be used)
6. Add a few more registration's (never thought that I would say this) I never use to really need a whole lot of registration's before I started to have my classes and my own random song covers (They require a few slots as I try to find the best tone /Voice) , would be better to add two more buttons and also an indicator on the screen to show what bank we are using. Example: "Registration 2:4" Meaning: 2 -The slot 4-the button or add an led on each button.
7.Make portamento more accessible (For i500 users only the first part) it is deep inside the function menu and hard to find making it an almost never use , it also needs improvement as right now you can easily hear the weird noise from the portamento effect when it is enabled.
8. (For E463/EW410 users) ADD THE PORTAMENTO FUNCTION , and also maybe do the same things as request number 7.
(Again this can be added to the E463 as it has an update ability)
9. Make the screen larger not similar to the S670orS650 but at the least a bit wider so that tones aren't written as "GrandPno" instead as "GrandPiano" or "GrndPiano".
Maybe a colour screen (It is at the bottom as it is not a necessity)
8. Add one more "USB TO HOST" connection port on the keyboard (Doesn't have to be at the front but would be better if at the front of the keybaord , the back is fine) , also fix the random "Err" messages , not a problem with my usb.
9. Add support for phones to be used as "USB" devices , my phone doesn't seem to be detected as an USB device while the phone can detect that it is plugged to a USB supported device?
Probably due to the SDcard also existing but this bugs me a WHOLE LOT.
(Again this can be added to the E463 as it has an update ability)
10. Improve melody suppressor , I have touched it once and never again it does do it's job but not always some songs that have
Autotune in the singers voice seems to confuse the Keybaord a little causing it to supress the BGM the same happens when there is little to no vocals.
11. STOP CHANGING MY DUAL VOICE WHEN I CHANGE MY MAIN VOICE!!!!!!!!
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12. Improve audio quality (I regret buying the E463 , I was going for the CTX9000IN , bought it due to my sir only having ever used Yamaha's).
Even Casio is catching up , while there are still people who think Casio suck compared to Yamaha (My sir is one of them , no offense) their opinion can change any moment especially with the new AiX sound chip.
13.Different buttons for A/B fill , I didn't really understand what people meant by this but now I do and I want one (Kind of but not an emergency)
14. Ability to change the Pitch wheel to a modulation wheel (A setting in the functions menu / a physical button) again possible on the E463 with an update.
15. Ability to read styles from usb instead of importing them. (similar to MiDi songs)
16. The new smart chord feature
17. More DSP effects.
18. More internal storage.
19. A slightly more rigid chassis , I have taken up the keyboard more than once and I can feel it flexing a bit when I keep it down , A grab handle would also be appreciated.
20. Support XG instead of XGLite. (Not really something I am bothered with but would like to see getting added)
21. The new "Smart Chord" feature.
22. Maybe? the chord looper (Pretty please?!)
23. Slightly better Touch-Sensitivity , this might be hardware but on the E463 sometimes hard presses appear to be super "soft" according to the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is a Velocity-Touch but would be better to have more granular Sensitivity detection.
24. The ability to recharge rechargeable batteries from the keyboard itself. Seems and hears pretty hard to do but will be impressed if Yamaha does this.
25. (Maybe i500 only) reduce the blue tint of the screen , the screen has a blue tint (A clear blue I will add) but this gets disturbing at night , would be better to have a pure white screen.
26. when fill->B or fill->A is done please also make the bass , Chord1 , Chord 2 and phrases also change instead of just changing the Drums.
27. Make internal storage faster , currently the internal storage is super slow so please increase its speed.
28. Add a 8-Track sequencer also improve the sequencer , the PSR-51 (Not the F51 just 51) has a 8 track sequncer...... (Dont really remember the PSR E463 but I think it has a 6-Track Sequencer)
29. Polyphony amount (This is just raw number here again) there are Roland Keybaords in this price range (With less features I agree) with 256 note polyphony!! , its ok if the PSR E463successor becomes 50-100 dollars more but I would like to see an upgraded polyphony.