I finally got around to registering, and wanted to post something thanking all of you folks out there that are such a wealth of information. I have had my PSR3000 for 2 or 3 weeks now, and have been lurking for the last week or so. I just can't believe how much I have learned just by reading this forum, and listening to all of the music you guys share with everyone.

A few notes about myself.

I am 55 and do not consider myself to be a professional musician. I have been playing all of my life just about, and did the rock band thing many many years ago. I have pretty much played organs all my life and have owned everything from a few Hammonds to a Yamaha Electone El90 that I still have now. My first organ was a Hammond E100 which was probably the worst organ I ever owned. I also owned an L100, and a C3. The only arranger type keyboards I have ever owned are the Techniqs KN800 and now the Yamaha PSR3000 which I feel is the best money I ever spent. i couldn't afford a Tyros, so this was the next best thing. I have it hooked up to some Logitech z2200 speakers, and it sounds amazing.

I dont' consider myself to be very good at all, but I truly enjoy playing. I am totally blind, so I play by ear, and no, unfortunately, I don't have perfect pitch, but I wish I did. My ear has to work really hard to pick out the more subtle chord progressions and even then, I still don't always get them right, but I have a good time with it.

Meanwhile, thanks to all for being such a great community of people, and for all of this great info. I am like a sponge, soaking everything up, but, hopefully, I'll be able to someday contribute as well.

Rick Alfaro

Rick, a great BIG welcome to Synthzone. Congratulations on your new Yamaha PSR3000 keyboard. You are in for an exciting fun musical adventure here. I recommend soaking things up (like fine wine) a sip at a time. - Scott

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hi rick, welcome aboard,i noticed in your post that you are blind,and iv,e just thought about the difficulties you must have in navigating a keyboard,having to remember everything,i take my hat off to you,we don,t realise how lucky we are,hope to get more posts from you ,mike

Scott,

Thanks so much for the welcome. I have listened to your music from your site. If I had even just a quarter of your talent, I'd consider myself a very lucky man.

I can't help but marvel at some of the stuff you guys do with your Tyros units.

You are correct, this is like a fine wine to be tasted a bit at a time. I have to take things a small chunk at a time or it gets overwhelming. Trying to memorize the necessary keystrokes to navigate the 3000's menu system is difficult. Thankfully, the 3000 has lots of dedicated buttons which helps a lot. Hopefully, some day I'll be able to trade it in for a Tyros which I understand has even more dedicated buttons and are easier to work with since there are no speakers taking up space. Looking forward to reading more of your informative posts.

Rick Alfaro

Welcome Rick, this is the best place to learn, and contribute to the arranger keyboard community.
DonM www.donmasonmusic.com

Mike,

Thanks for the welcome. I'll admit it can be a challenge to get around on some of the keyboards, but I am thankful for the Yamaha PSR3000. At least it has dedicated buttons for the main stuff. When shopping for a new keyboard, I was amazed how many models would have been almost totally inaccessible due to touch screens and the lack of dedicated buttons. In addition, many of the units have menus that wrap around, so counting keystrokes can't work because you have no known starting point within a particular menu. Thankfully, the PSR3000 does not suffer from this way of doing things with the exception of a few of the multi-tab screens. The PSR3000 is also very logical, so lots of the stuff is easy to remember. Another big help are the registration buttons, and the ability to assign different things to the pedals. i just wish there was an easy way to have 3 or 4 foot pedals. There is probably a way of doing this via midi, but it will probably be a while before I am ready to take on the use of midi since it probably involves complicated setups that I know little to nothing about. Nevertheless, I really enjoy the PSR3000 and think it is an amazing instrument for the price.

Rick Alfaro

Congratulations for your new keyboard
I think by now you can load Tyros styles and double your pleasure

They are all available here www.musiciansroom.net

Welcome to SZone family, and congrats on your 3000 . I am sure that you will have a lot of fun !

Regards from Brasil
Chico

A warm welcome Rick! You'll enjoy the mix of people here! Out of curiosity, just how do you 'read' the messages here? Do you have someone with you, or is there a software programme to help you?
Enjoy the 3000!

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Roy-Andrè

Ramy,

Thank you. Since the 3000 also has MegaVoices, are there really noticeable differences between the 3000 styles and the Tyros styles?

Chico,

Thank you. I absolutely love Brazzilian music. I wish the PSR3000 had a better selection of Bosanova styles. This morning I was listening to some of the songs posted by Dreamer, and his styles sounded great, very authentic. Do you know of a good link where I could find some really smooth Bosanova styles?

Rick

Roy,

Yes, I use a standard Pc with special software called a screen reader that runs on top of the OS and reads whatever is displayed on the screen. It's a lot more complicated than that, but in a nut shell, that's what it is. It uses a software based text to speech engine that can be adjusted to speak in different voices, with adjustable rates of speech. Accessing anything on a Pc for the most part is no problem at all. Now, if only keyboards had the same kind of access, it would be a beautiful thing. Wishful thinking.

Rick

In these areas the technological progression has had a tremendous positive effect!
Great to have you onboard!

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Roy-Andrè

Hi Rick

Welcome aboard. Yes, this to me is THE best forum out there. Great people here. Both friendly and knowledgable and ready to help.

I'll bet your 3000 sounds terrific through those z2200's. I'm glad you are enjoying the Logitech's.

Best
Scott Langholff

Rick, Welcome to our music home on the web. Many of us have travelled the same road as yourself with organs, and bands, and such. I myself had a Yamaha Electone D80 many years ago. That was a fine instrument. The Yamaha arranger organs are a great value and the support community is so large, it's almost impossible not to get help with something.

Once again and welcome

Al

Rick,
Welcome to the Synthzone and congratulations on your purchase of the 3000 and z-2200 system. I sincerely belive you will discover more things about this keyboard than you can imagine. When you need help, just pop in and ask. Someone will get back to you in short order with some solid information.

Gary

I have set up several keyboards for blind friends and this psr 3000 is among the easiest to get around on. Not many hidden features, no touch screen. It's pretty simple to access all the neccesary buttons, expect the few tricky ones hidden in menus.
Anyway ........ welcome to the family, and have a great stay!

Please tell me you use Jaws and not Windoweyes.

I'm not sure if there is a noticable difference or not but the Tyros has 300 styles while the PSR-3000 has only 240, so at least you can take advantage of the difference.

And as you already said since the PSR-3000 has got the megavoice technology so it should be the closest and most compatible to Tyros

FAEbGBD

Actually, I own both, but for most stuff I prefer Window Eyes. They're both good screen readers, with each having their strengths and weaknesses.

Uncle Dave,

Thanks very much for the warm welcome.

Since you are very familiar with these keyboards, and have experience setting them up for someone that can't use the display, what is your recommendation for making the best use of registrations? Is it better to use one full registration bank per song, storing everything including styles, or is it better to think of the registrations in terms of instrumentation and only have a few reg banks depending on what combination of voices you want to use?

I have kind of been leaning towards using one reg bank per song, where everything is captured, even pedal assignments and styles, but I admit I have trouble remembering where and how to make some of the settings I want. Do the folks you have done setups for have some sort of system they use to make things easier?

Rick

Good to have you here Rick! Wishing you many many hours, months, years of fun with the PSR3000.

All the best,
Rich

Rick, thank you for the nice words. You are too kind.


And you'll equally marvel how much you'll be able to do with your PSR3000 as well.


Yep, music's a life-long journey of exciting new discoveries & challenges. I've been playing keyboards & singing since I was 4, and appreciate how arranger keyboards can enhance & expand the music performance possibilities for the solo musician. Rick, enjoy the ride.



I believe the PSR3000 will offer everything you'll need for a very LONG time. Afterall, the essence of music creation comes from within us (HEART & SOUL), not from ANY keyboard.

Rick, looking forward to your participation here of which I hope includes, hearing some of your music created on your PSR3000 as well.

Scott

rick,first of all i would surely recommend that you go to joe,s site at www.psrtutorial.com this site has a wealth of information on how to operate psr 2000/2100/3000/tyros and others,there are a lot of sub sections giving all the info you will need,and if you have any questions there is also a forum dedicated to yamaha contributed by yamaha owners,here you will also feel at home,try it you will be glad that you did ,mike

Rick ... a really BIG welcome to this group of sometimes (? ) opinionated. egotistical, hard-headed, hard hitting, dysfunctional individuals ... just like any other family, ... where you will get more help, advice, and support than anywhere else on the 'net ... UNLIKE some other families ...
t.

Yep, and "just like any other family", ours includes a 'funny' uncle too.

Scott

Ramy,

Thanks for the suggestion. I did indeed download the Tyros styles, and I am glad i did. I gained some additional styles over the 3000 that are awesome, especially in the Latin group.

I also ran across another set of Tyros styles called Tyros Premium, but after checking the zip file, they have different extensions. They are not .sty. There were some .psr extensions, and some others I was not familiar with. Any idea what they are?

Rick

Did you try to load them into your keyboard?
If you couldn't do so just rename the extension from .prs to .sty and load them.

Hi Rick.

You can find a lot of Yamaha Styles and some bossas of course. :
Go to : http://devoted.to/PSR2K , or http://home7.inet.tele.dk/js/musik/740pages/link7406.htm

Cheers
Chico

Hi Rick.

Wellcome to the SZ Forum and congratulations on your new 3000.

Best regards from Brazil
Armando