For several years now I have been using my PSR 730 for song writing, and home studio recording. I am not a keyboard player but I have learned how to make good use of the styles and voices in this older keyboard. It seems to be working fine, but some of the voices and styles are dated, and I am thinking about branching out and working on music for others.
One of the important features I have been using is the ability to mute some of the voices when playing the styles, and unmute them on the fly to build the song. I have some cool software called One Man Band that allows customization of a style, but it is slower. I should mention that I also have a Motif 6 keyboard that I can interface the software for better voices. With this I have been trying styles I have downloaded, but it is not as convenient as the PSR.
My recording software is old too, but works for me. It is Cubase VST. I can send MIDI files to the 730 to trigger the styles and record the performance as a MIDI or wave file.
From pictures I can see that some of the current keyboards like the s670 have the 16 buttons under the screen to mute the voices being played in the styles but others like the sx700 and sx900 do not that I can tell, unless they are a touch screen system. I do not even know what that feature is called if I was to download the manuals, so I was hoping for some advice here.
Will the s670 be worthwhile upgrade from my PSR 730, or should I go for the sx700 which is my price limit? I could not find any s910 models on the used market, but that one sounds like it would be worth the added expense in the long run.
Or is there a software option like One Man Band that might fill the bill?
Thanks in advance,
Dan