Good to hear that the MFC10 can be easily setup & configured to trigger the PSR2000's 'basic arranger functions (listed on page 15 of MFC10 user's manual):

* Start/Stop
* Main A,B,C,D (which can include auto fill-in)
* Intro/ending

I didn't see any 'Multi Pads' included on the list on page 15 of the MFC10 owner's manual, so I assume that the ONLY way to get the MFC10 to recognize the four multi pads, would be only if you could somehow send the multi-pad SYSex message commands from the 2000 to the MFC10. George, from what I read from your posting, this is not easily possible because the MFC10 ONLY accepts midi SYSex information coming from midi channels 25 thru 28 via midi out-put port B. Hmmm. Here's a thought . . . I wonder if it would be possible to use a 'midi channel router' device to re-channel(?) the SysEX output out of the 2000's midi out from, say, midi channel 1 to: midi Channel 28, Port B. That way the MFC10 would recognize and receive it. This is beginning to sound complicated but I wonder if it would work? Thoughts from others?

To further my above discusssion about possible ways of getting the appropriate SysEx commands to the MFC10 for triggering the PSR2000's four 'multi-pads'. The PSR 9000 & 9000pro also have 'four' multi pads like the PSR2000, right? I was wondering if one could hook up the MFC10 to a borrowed PSR9000 or 9000pro and use the 9000 keyboard to send (via the 9000's unique midi feature: 'midi out to MFC10') all the appropriate SysEX information (including SysEx info to trigger the four multipads) to the MFC10. Then hook the MFC10 up to the PSR2000 and thus be able to trigger the PSR2000's multi-pads. hmmmm. Would that work?

Sounds very interesting. I don't think that would work, Scott. Sysex stands for system exclusive. So if you initially sent the message from a PSR 9000, then the first part of the message that the MFC10 would be triggering back to the PSR 2000 would be "message going to a Yamaha PSR 9000 keyboard." The PSR 2000 would have a different keyboard id, and would, I believe ignore the sysex message.

On the other hand, you could use a computer to trigger a sysex message. With Cakewalk, for example, you can send a sysex command over any channel you want, and perhaps you could program the pedal that way. I bet this would work, though I'm not sure.

I bet you could also use this to trigger the count-in intro feature.

Larry

Actually, I'm noticing that Cakewalk only transmits midi over 16 channels. Hmm ....

I'm not sure if Scott misunderstood my comments about midi channels 29-32. These are channels available on the "B" port of the PSR9000 and 9000Pro keyboards. Yamaha has told be that the configuration is such that the "A" port supports sequencing on channels 1-16, while the "B" port supports channels 17-28 for sequencing with the remaining 29-32 for "other" functions. This is where the MFC10 templates are stored and retreived. It was explained to me this way because I asked if it was possible to put templates into another operating system and the answer was probably not because of there only being the one set of midi plugs and the support of just 16 channels compared to the 32 on the Pro models.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California