The times they are drasticly changing ... A high Yen and the global economical crisis will surely force Yamaha to review their forecast and their strategy... but far too late. Now time has come the consumers will decide what Yamaha are to do... The consumers do not need a voice to speak, no words to write and no new keyboard to play ... they keep their money bags tightly closed for a long, long time. Yamaha will no longer dictate the market and will drop prices substantially ... but without any success, I guess.
if Yamaha really decreases prices (which I don't think), of course many customers will buy, why they shouldn't use such opportunity? Why do you think Yamaha will have no success in such case? It would be against all principles of free market. There are only two reasons in such case: price change will be too small, or people will change drastically their life preferences what to buy, and they will not buy new keyboard even for a very low price. Which I still can't believe - we musician are crazy customers. If I should decide what to buy, if new dress, shoes, jacket, furniture or more fruits, I would select new synthesizer :-)
When people bought Yamaha products (with all their imperfections and problems?) before for much higher prices, for sure they will buy them for cheaper price.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tyros 2 Registrations vs S-700 Registrations
Is there a way I can use my S-700 registrations on my new Tyros2? I tried putting them through registration fix program; but they locked up my keyboard when I tried them. Maybe I did it wrong as I had never tried that program before. Are the file extensions the same? All my styles, voices and songs on my memory sticks from my s-700 work fine; just a problem with the regs.
There is a lot of work in some of my regs and I would like to be able to continue using them even if I have to do some voice changes etc. I also had some regs from Vince that will not work; country and organ regs that I really liked.
Thought I wouold try this again; thought maybe it didn't get out.
Please find my S-900 registrations converted to Tyros2 using Michaels great program.
I had a little problem with the conversion, I found that after the conversion the split point in the registrations had been moved from G2 back to C# giving only one note for the accompaniment and that was bottom C.
I reset the split point to G2 on each of the 8 bank buttons of the 3 registrations attached.
There is a lot of work in some of my regs and I would like to be able to continue using them even if I have to do some voice changes etc. I also had some regs from Vince that will not work; country and organ regs that I really liked.
Thought I wouold try this again; thought maybe it didn't get out.
Please find my S-900 registrations converted to Tyros2 using Michaels great program.
I had a little problem with the conversion, I found that after the conversion the split point in the registrations had been moved from G2 back to C# giving only one note for the accompaniment and that was bottom C.
I reset the split point to G2 on each of the 8 bank buttons of the 3 registrations attached.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Formatting Flash Drive in the PSR
my PSR-3000, I bought and returned 3 different brands of USB memory sticks before I found one that works, more or less. I thought a USB thumb drive was universal and would be the same from brand to brand. What’s the difference and what should I look for when I buy one? Is there a limit on the memory size? 1 gig? 2 gigs? 4 gigs? When I try one that doesn’t work, I put it in the slot but the machine doesn’t recognize available memory. It shows there’s a USB device plugged in but I can’t access it.
This is not a new problem,you are quite right, they do not all work, some have a hidden partition which means Yamaha keyboards cannot read them. There is a program to remove the partition but I,ve never succeeded in doing this.
I use a Kingston brand which was recommended by my good friend Vince Cochran, I,m using a 1GB but I understand that all the Kingston brand USB drives work OK on Yamaha keyboards.
No doubt other members can recommend a particular brand as there were several makes recommended the last time this question arose,
I also use PEAK flash drives from 1gig, 2gig and 4gig with no trouble at all on my keyboards.
I've used every type of thumb drive and I've not had one that hasn't worked. I've bought every brand of drive that's inexpensive and they've all worked. Some of my customers come in and say that they see the folders and their usb drives but when they open them they are empty and that's because they might be in the Style screen while looking in a song folder. You must be in the Song screen to see inside a song folder or else it looks empty.
The only drives I ever had to do anything with were the ones that had U3 software pre installed from the manufacturer and I found an unistall U3 program on the internet which I do to clean out one of these drives. You can't erase this software from one of these drives. You must uninstall the software.
The printed circuit boards in our PSRs are similar to those in our computers -- they work well with certain brands of USB flash drives (aka thumb drives, pen drives, memory sticks, etc.), but not well with others. The reason for this is hardware compatibility, or the lack thereof. The supporting chipsets on the circuit boards may or may not be able to read and address memory registers within the USB device.
Further, if your PSR's USB port runs at the USB 1.0 standard (because the chipsets in it only support that standard), and you stick a USB flash drive in it that is USB 2.0 compatible, then you could have problems -- or vice versa. USB is still not a very well-defined standard for data transfer.
And, of course, these supporting chipsets change (in complexity and feature set) every few months as manufacturers like Texas Instruments, Intel and Tseng Labs all try to engineer more utility into their chipsets to keep up with (and surpass) the other guys' chipsets -- more flexible chips equals better circuit board/motherboard sales in the months to come.
One could reasonably expect the newer keyboards to read both older USB devices (1.0) and the newer ones (2.0) too. However, older PSRs may not be able to properly read and address memory registers in newer USB flash drives. At the university where I work we have one lab with a bunch of older computers which cannot read the newer flash drives -- students complain all the time, but there's nothing to do except buy new computers.
That being said, I've had good luck with two brands of USB flash drive: Crucial and Lexar. I have 2 and 4 GB flash drives from both these manufacturers and they work fine in my S900. The Cruzer SanDisk brand, on the other hand, is problematic. It comes with a built-in utility program called U3 Smart which plays havoc.
You may want to delete/uninstall any such utilities on your flash drive, then see if you PSR can read it. Or, you may want to reformat your flash drive IN your PSR (not in your computer), if that is an option -- then your PSR may be able to read/write to it.
Somebody mentioned somewhere that formatting Flash drive in the PSR will not remove U3 software. It is necessary to do this in computer with the help of dedicated utility, then reformat Flash drive in PSR.
This is not a new problem,you are quite right, they do not all work, some have a hidden partition which means Yamaha keyboards cannot read them. There is a program to remove the partition but I,ve never succeeded in doing this.
I use a Kingston brand which was recommended by my good friend Vince Cochran, I,m using a 1GB but I understand that all the Kingston brand USB drives work OK on Yamaha keyboards.
No doubt other members can recommend a particular brand as there were several makes recommended the last time this question arose,
I also use PEAK flash drives from 1gig, 2gig and 4gig with no trouble at all on my keyboards.
I've used every type of thumb drive and I've not had one that hasn't worked. I've bought every brand of drive that's inexpensive and they've all worked. Some of my customers come in and say that they see the folders and their usb drives but when they open them they are empty and that's because they might be in the Style screen while looking in a song folder. You must be in the Song screen to see inside a song folder or else it looks empty.
The only drives I ever had to do anything with were the ones that had U3 software pre installed from the manufacturer and I found an unistall U3 program on the internet which I do to clean out one of these drives. You can't erase this software from one of these drives. You must uninstall the software.
The printed circuit boards in our PSRs are similar to those in our computers -- they work well with certain brands of USB flash drives (aka thumb drives, pen drives, memory sticks, etc.), but not well with others. The reason for this is hardware compatibility, or the lack thereof. The supporting chipsets on the circuit boards may or may not be able to read and address memory registers within the USB device.
Further, if your PSR's USB port runs at the USB 1.0 standard (because the chipsets in it only support that standard), and you stick a USB flash drive in it that is USB 2.0 compatible, then you could have problems -- or vice versa. USB is still not a very well-defined standard for data transfer.
And, of course, these supporting chipsets change (in complexity and feature set) every few months as manufacturers like Texas Instruments, Intel and Tseng Labs all try to engineer more utility into their chipsets to keep up with (and surpass) the other guys' chipsets -- more flexible chips equals better circuit board/motherboard sales in the months to come.
One could reasonably expect the newer keyboards to read both older USB devices (1.0) and the newer ones (2.0) too. However, older PSRs may not be able to properly read and address memory registers in newer USB flash drives. At the university where I work we have one lab with a bunch of older computers which cannot read the newer flash drives -- students complain all the time, but there's nothing to do except buy new computers.
That being said, I've had good luck with two brands of USB flash drive: Crucial and Lexar. I have 2 and 4 GB flash drives from both these manufacturers and they work fine in my S900. The Cruzer SanDisk brand, on the other hand, is problematic. It comes with a built-in utility program called U3 Smart which plays havoc.
You may want to delete/uninstall any such utilities on your flash drive, then see if you PSR can read it. Or, you may want to reformat your flash drive IN your PSR (not in your computer), if that is an option -- then your PSR may be able to read/write to it.
Somebody mentioned somewhere that formatting Flash drive in the PSR will not remove U3 software. It is necessary to do this in computer with the help of dedicated utility, then reformat Flash drive in PSR.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
