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Music Database on E Series keyboards

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flailman:
THANKS!  I had found that forum previously and downloaded a file for another instrument that had some commonality but went again following your post and found another list, this time for the PSR-E453, so looking forward to exploring that person's work.  Pretty impressive the folks who have spent hours compiling these lists and also impressed by the number of items that remain blank.  Still a chance to contribute if you are still locked down.  Yamaha keeps redoing the MDB, so each new keyboard has a unique list and new songs. 
They must see some value to it.

SeaGtGruff:
Yes, it's annoying that the song names must be "encrypted" due to licensing issues or whatever, and it's unfortunate that the PSR-E models don't have the ability to use "external" MDB files, because the MDB can be useful.

It's worth noting that the PSR-E463/PSR-EW410 doesn't have the MDB feature, which might indicate that Yamaha has no plans to include it on future PSR-E4xx models-- although no one can predict what Yamaha will or won't do! :)

casiokid:
Presumably Yamaha keep changing the Musical Data Base (MDB) in an attempt to attract new and younger players with the models they bring out?

flailman:
It would be interesting to be "a fly on the wall" when Yamaha developers and marketers are having these kind of discussions.  Hopefully they monitor these forums and in particular with the E series, consult with teachers with questions like; 1, Do these databases help with your teaching by steering students to learn to play melody and chords while the box takes care of arranging or do they distract from learning keyboard technique and music theory? 2. What are the differing needs between children learning to play and adults learning to play?3.  If Yamaha's goal is to see customers progress from an entry level keyboard to a more and more advanced levels of devices, which features support that goal, particularly as it applies to the MDB feature? Correspondingly, which features like MDB can be traded off for more advanced features like more style variations, S.ArtLite voices, etc?
If one of the goals of the E Series is to learn to read music because that is a common trait amongst those who buy a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. product from them, would not making a simple sheet music easily available promote that goal?  As a guitar player, I can find almost every song imaginable in multiple formats for a reasonable cost, even though they too make subtle changes to avoid copyright issues, but this gets me going to come up with my own strumming patterns, chord inversions, tempo changes, etc., that in some ways mimic what is fun with playing an arranger keyboard.  Maybe the Yamaha guitar gurus and the Yamaha keyboard gurus need to share their meetings.

Piano Tone:
Can't seem to find any demos of the Music Database online.  One of my concerns with the PSR-E373 is only having 9 registrations (with so many tones, tone options, rhythms & rhythm options etc).  Then I noticed the Music Database in the manual and started to wonder; would this possibly be an alternative source for some non-editable but still useful registrations? 

For example, I want to play a ballad with piano layered with strings or pad etc, and possibly add some effects.  It doesn't have to be the exact song match, but I have to think alot of them would be perfectly usable wouldn't they?  Call up the "Imagine" one and use it for "Your Song" etc that kind of thing?

Also on that topic does the music database include some pre-made choices for DSP effects as well as the tones/rhythms/tempo?

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