No alphabetical listing stinks...on the sx900 can you at least have songs listed by
genre like korg on the songlist? or?

Just what I wanted to hear. SO looking forward to the arrival in the US. You're a lucky gal, Rikki! I think that is one killer setup.
Stage, studio, or home - it's got so much "ooomph!"
Please tell us more, as you get to know the rig. We're all jealous.
(... well, I'M jealous)

Thank you Everyone.
Didn’t get a great deal of time yesterday to spend on it. Granddaughter’s birthday so we went out in the afternoon.
Yep, Xmas came early. Haha

Sorry Ray and Donny, not familiar with song list functions, my psrs950 basically sat unused for years, only started playing it a few weeks back ,and I didn’t bother learning any additional functions because I was planning on upgrading.

I’ll go thru the manual and try and work out how it works .
When I pressed the button about 6 songs popped up, a mix of midifiles with score, and styles with text files.Thinking maybe I was in some sort of Demo mode. Only had a few minutes on it, so I’ll try and spend a bit of time on it later today.

Hi Dave, the piano is great, unfortunately I am going to have to keep them in seperate rooms till I sell at least one more of my keyboards. It’s a nice looking unit with the optional stand and pedals, so currently will be living in the lounge room. The rest of 5he keyboards are wall to wall in a bedroom/ music room. Haha

Personally I am happy with the keybed on the sx900, I think the keys are still the same size as on the s950 ( I can check that if you want) but have a better action/feel about them. With an extra octave I think I could even play those left hand arpeggio songs I wanted the piano for. The psrs950 never felt right for that .

Anyway, in a nutshell, for me it’s been like upgrading from my pa3x to Pa4x. Better overall sound , better keybed, new functions, the styles sound more dynamic, and I did listen thru headphones as well, albeit they’re not a brilliant set.
( btw, not comparing it to the Pa4x, just the jump in quality from s950 to sx900)

The scat voices are pretty good. Don’t know how much use I’ll get out of them, but what sprang to mind was Intro’s.

I’ll be back.

Hi Donny,
gather you got your answer on song lists,Etc. from psr forum.

I read the posts, I’m still kind of confused, as I’ve never used song lists on my Korg or Psr . Felt I never needed to as I used to set up my styles with the song name on my Korg , plus it was only for home play.

I had a look thru manual as well, that is going to take me while to work out, but I think this time round I may actually give it a try.

Rikki and/or anyone else who has questions about the playlist feature.

That hoop you have to jump thru to learn playlist is much easier than it appears to be. Simply put you set up registrations as you normally would on any Yamaha arranger. You create a playlist then add the registrations of your choice to it. On my Genos I usually name the playlist for the gig I’m playing. I also have a master playlist where I add all my registrations to it. There’s a slight learning curve but once you set up one the others will be a piece of cake.

Thank you Stephen, there were a number of replies on the other forum, and it just got more and more complicated . Haha.

I’ve never used registrations either, just the ots. But that seems well worth working out.
Had the s950 for about 5 years but never played it till a few weeks back.
Only ever used it for creating backing midi files for my Korg style conversions.

So have a bit of a learning curve in front of me, especially with some of those new functions.
Really enjoying it so far.

Thank you

Rikki,

Glad to hear you are enjoying the SX900! Yes registrations are the key to using playlist. Have fun!

Congrats on your new instruments!

I can picture that it is in fact overwhelming. While it's a lot of positive emotions, sometimes it can be exhausting for a while.

SX900 is the newest top-of-the-line PSR instrument, and a lot of people find that this sort of instruments is rather complicated. Surely, it's not hard to sit down and play, but it's hard to know that there's a way to use some functions and not to know how. So owning PSR is a sort of commitment.

Owning P121 is a different kind of commitment, it is more of a physical challenge. I have PSR with very light keys and Juno DS with a bit heavier keys, and often I feel that I'm actually lazy to deal with extra resistance. In the end, playing keyboards is not watching a TV-show or eating icecream.

Even when such attractive products like SX900 are captivating, we can not expect to be entertained by it endlessly, especially when the first excitement is over. I don't believe in forcing oneself to play, but I think that staying inspired and motivated has something to do with, well, everything, with what we are dealing with within our minds, with things we are experiencing socially, with music we hear.

I could've said that sometimes you just have to sit down and play, but I just know that there're things that I do, like sitting down and play, and thing which I don't do, like playing with a ball, and this is what I consider to be a big challenge for manufacturers and sellers - no matter how kool is the new PSR, you can't force to play all the people.

But you are surely don't need forcing, I bet, Yamaha is currently disrupting your routine in a major way :-)

I am "green with envy" and wish you hours of playing (and experimenting) contentment with the SX-900. Most of us never really have the time to learn all the features of our arranger keyboards... but it's so good to know they exist.

Have fun! ----West Mayberry Dave

Thank you,
Currently don’t have enough hours in the day either, haha , so much I want to learn.
Lucky for me the luv of hubby’s life, (his PlayStation Destiny game ) had a massive upgrade yesterday, so he is busy too, I don’t have to feel guilty about all the time I’m spending on my keyboards.
Xmas came early for both of us.