Sorry to report that plugging my generic USB Wi-Fi adapter into an SX900 produces ... Nothing. The adapter is not recognised and the Wi-Fi setup menu option does not appear.

So it looks like Yamaha have tied the Wi-Fi to work just with their own adapters. From a commercial viewpoint understandable but still disappointing.

Roland made an even bigger blunder... They made a wireless dongle for the BK series, but the only place it could plug into the keyboard was the slot you HAD to use to load your Performances, SMF's and User Styles, etc.!

And with Roland's reading everything directly from the USB stick (no internal memory to load
data into) that basically meant it was utterly useless. Well played, Roland!

Wow what a stupid mistake. You would think someone on the design team would have realized what a bad decision that was. I guess their QA test team is very weak.

Diki did Fran (or anyone else) identify a powered USB "hub" that allowed both devices to be used at once?

I remember you discussing this flub; I didn't have a BK9 at the time, so I didn't pay close attention to the workarounds. Agree that it's hard to live without the USB drive for performances!

Lots of theories, but I never came across anyone that claimed to have made it work. Your main problem sharing devices on a bus on a keyboard is that they aren’t designed to actively shunt data around at the same time, so you risk corrupted data if any one device interrupts the other. Computers’ OS’s are designed to do this but keyboards rarely have full bus sharing routines built in.

I think the Roland dongle was really designed for other gear and Roland just tried marketing it at the BK user without thinking about the ramifications...