The USB board is becoming more and more popular with users at our PSR Groups. It is particularly useful now that one of our members has writting us an "automatic styles sorting program". It allowed machine sorting of ~75% of my 30,000+ styles collection and easily found duplicates, even where only the name of the style had been changed!

Using this program with the USB interface should make organizing and loading my HD on my new PSR-9000 a breeze.

Bob Gelman

PS:

We received this unsolicited the other day:

Hi Group,

This is not a paid testimonial, but I am ecstatic with the
Musitronics USB interface card which arrived yesterday from Germany
and is finally working tonight. It turns the 9000 Pro keyboard into
a totally new tool, an actual work station, the one Yamaha should
have marketed but did not.

From the screen of either of my two desktop computers, or a laptop, I
can cut, paste, edit, name or rename, delete, rearrange files,
shuffle folders, defragment the hard disk...you name it.
Effortlessly. All of this is next to impossible, using the 9000's
LCD screen and the prehistoric Yamaha software, confusing buttons and
messages, and incomprehensible owner's manual. But with the
interface, the 9000's disk is just one more (actually four more
drives) on my network. I can even play MIDI's directly from the
keyboard's disk, through the USB cable, and through either computer's
Soundblaster Live! card, via any sound bank I choose, and out through
my sound system. As with any disk under windows, you can check its
properties and see, graphically, how much space has been used.

You can download MIDI's, .WAV samples, styles, anything directly from
the internet to the 9000's hard disk. And of course you can export
your works the same way. My 9000 is now a whole new ball game.
Managing its hard disk is now simple, friendly, and uses standard
Windows displays on your PC.

At the beginning, I said I had "finally" gotten the interface
working. After installation yesterday, all was well until I tried to
connect it to a computer for final configuration. At the end of the
process, it would cause either computer to crash; blue screen,
lockup, chaos. I sent a late (Saturday) night E-mail to Oliver
Schwarz of Musitronics, describing the problem and suggesting that
he not spend any time on it until after the weekend. (After all,
today was even Mother's Day.)

Well, I don't think Oliver ever sleeps. Early this morning, I had a
reply, asking for more information. During the day, we exchanged a
number of E-mails to narrow it, deciding early that the problem most
likely involved software drivers, and not Musitronics' hardware.
Oliver kept at it, always answering before I expected a response. We
narrowed it to a conflict with a probable faulty Adaptec virtual
device driver, related to "Easy CD Creator". Oliver found a newer
one, E-mailed it to me, I set it up, and the problem disappeared. I
could not be more appreciative of this man's help, far beyond what I
have experienced with any American software or hardware supplier in
recent years. With most, once you have paid for the product, you are
on your own; if your Windows operating system doesn't work very well,
Bill Gates would like to sell you a new one...again and again.

I imagine this is not news to those of you who have already dealt
with Musitronics, but it was very refreshing to me.

Anyway, I wanted to share this with those of you who may be tottering
on the brink of deciding whether to order the USB interface. Jump!

But note that there was a delay of some weeks before receiving the
board, because of a surge in orders from folks who had apparently
also read good things in a keyboard magazine.

Now, I think I'll go into the kitchen and find a way to celebrate.

Phil