I posted this on the PSR Tutorial page a few weeks ago after purchasing my PSR sx900. It is geared towards “what could be improved” so it is mostly negative stuff...

I do like the keyboard. I bought it for a particular reason (to play EDM music). but since purchasing it - I have still spent more time on my G70 and BK9 ..in comparison - overall the Yamaha samples lack a certain richness and depth...

Basses are shallow, Pads lack that low end warmth which is also reflected on the EPs, drums still sounding plastic and not as “tight” as they should be. (I hate how they add a few nice new kits but leave the legacy ones un touched Instead of re doing them. The T8 and T9 kits which are basically imitations of the Roland TR808 and TR909 are a joke. Thankfully we can load sample drum kits to come to the rescue.

After spending the money on the PSR and learning I could have purchased a Kurzwiel PC4 for almost the same price it leaves me wondering...


Here's What I posted on PSR Tutorial:

1) FAVOURITES: When you allocate a new "favourite" voice or style - as soon as it works you automatically get reset to page 1 of that category... very annoying why cant it just keep you on the current page you were on?

2) PIANO VOICE: I didn't by my PSR SX 900 for the piano voice as I have other keyboards for that BUT they really need to upgrade the expressiveness of the piano voice - the SA Concert Grand is rubbish for current day and age... seriously... it needs more samples in the dynamic velocity range of 0-127 to make it cut through a mix.

3) STEP EDITOR (Style and Midi Song): We should be able to do a "select all" instead of having to do "Multi Select" and keep pressing (or hold) the arrow buttons to scroll down and select more than one event.

4) STEP EDITOR (style and Midi Song): We should be able to do a granular "select all" where we can select all of a certain note only for example: I want to select every note that is above the C0 range or only all C0 notes to make edits to them such as volume or velocity... currently you need to manually press each one individually as you scroll down the list of events

5) Drum Edit: any of the drum track channels in a Midi song should be fully editable down to each individual sample being played in the drum track (individual note volume, velocity, reverb, re voicing etc) (without manually scrolling and doing it through the step editor) ... Roland has had this in their style and song "make up tools" for about 20+ years?

6) Another missing feature: Octave shift of the bass note being played when Accomp is on but the style is off (and editability of the bass note - re voicing?) - also being able to leave it on auto hold as well as the pad voice being played that is following your chord progression while the style is off...

7) CUSTOM DRUM KIT CREATOR PLEASE.........................

The PSR SX 900 has "work station" functionality but when compared to level of workstation functionality with other branded boards it doesnt go as deep... the above tweaks would definitely take it right up there IMO so hopefully one day we will get there....

I would like to point out though that the new OS and touch screen is awesome. It really “mordernizes” the machine and brings more ease of use and “logic” to it which has been much needed for years and Finally we have it!

The board could be sooo much better if it just had a little extra add ons that could be sorted with a software update....