I had some questions over hooking up my PSR9000 in stereo the other day so my dealer hooked me up(via 3 way phone connection) to a Yamaha Tech. He told me that the only yamaha sound that was stereo was the piano. Is this true? What's the point in having right and left outputs if that's true.

Any comments would be appreciated.

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Ed

Hardly any sample-playback synths are true stereo. I doubt that the piano sound contains actual stero samples. Probably, the different sample-zones are panned differently.

There are reasons for using stero, however. Sounds use panning to place sounds and elements of sound in the stero field. Effects are also stereo, most notably chorus, stero pan, and phaser fx sound a lot thinner in mono.

regards
Knut Inge

knut Inge,

Thanks for the info.




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Ed

Yamaha's promo on the PSR9000 says "Yamaha's brand new Live! Voices-acoustic instrument and human voices such as Nylon Guitar, Strings, Gospel Choir and Scat Vocals-feature stereo samples to ensure the most accurate reproduction of the instruments' natural presence, resonance and vibrato...". They are playing up the stereo sampling of these voices so unless I'm missing something, more than just the piano is in stereo.