I had my first encounter with a Sx900 in Guitar Center, played about an hour. I tried the playlist.
I understand Music Finder and Song Book. There is a list of song with a style, and Instruments; and I know I can create my own songs and save them in the list.

When I pushed Playlist on the Sx900 I only found a few demos.

My questions:
1- Does the Sx900 come with an empty playlist?
2- Do I have to download a completed Playlist from Yamaha?

And so the fun begins, John C.

PS, I would love to have a post which deals with Sx900 questions and answers--- AND no other stuff. Opinion?

Yamaha SX900


Hope these links helps John enjoy

John I downloaded three playlists from Yamaha and they are installed.

I viewed the video, and I understand. My question is almost answered by the video.

A Play List must be downloaded from a memory device. Does that mean that a Sx900, out-of-a-box, does not have a list of songs in the Play List until I download or create one????

You’re always there to help, thanks, John C.

God Don, you’re precious. ha ha ha ha ha

Take care good friend, John C.

Yes they don't put anything in at as shipped. Your will have three in it. Some of the songs are in places you wouldn't expect, so go through each one.

John I would suggest starting from scratch and create your own registration of songs the way YOU want them to sound with your own OTS and use the factory playlists just as a reference or to get idea inspiration, or sound combinations, fx, etc, or draw some of their sounds combinations to use with YOUR songs.....
after that load all YOUR registrations into
YOUR playlist for use when playing live.

The factory lists are useful for starting points and ideas mostly.

This has been a very informative post. It’s really the first time I’ve dabbled with registrations to any serious degree. Thanks to all for sharing your setups.

John...The playlists are available at the Yamaha website. They have one specifically created for the SX900. You have to download the zip file and extract the files to a usb drive. You can then load them into the SX900. Sorry if I sound ignorant...but I’m still learning this keyboard myself. If anyone has other ideas to simplify the playlist loading...Please share.

I didn’t download the Genos playlist for fear of compatibility issues. If there is no problem in doing so please share. If the playlists are the same...probably not necessary to download.
Thanks,
Mitch

Agree DonM. 👍
The downloadable PlaylistForGenos has something within every stylecategory,
and when create 1 new list of everything and save to usergroup, it contains 54 pages, total 539 entries.
Also there is an 'example' list to demostrate the potential in the preset from factory.

Myself, I'm too lazy and have no pressure since I'm only playing at home, so after two years,
I've only 'scratched the top of the iceberg'. 😁