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#175844 - 12/14/01 07:31 PM
Advantages of the PSR740 over the PSR2000
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Registered: 01/27/01
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Here are some things that I miss from the PSR 740 now that I am playing the PSR2000:
Since I am utterly attached to using the 1-bar intro as a break during songs, I have had to find a quick way to change the intros after the song begins. This can done pretty quickly, but it is still annoying because this could be done effortlessly with my old PSR740. Even the the PSR2000 gives you more intros and endings, the PSR2000 gives you immediate access to only one intro and one ending. The PSR740 gives you immediate access to two intros and two endings.
The GROOVE feature can be applied on the fly on the PSR740. With the PSR2000, you are given a lot of great editing capabilities for putting a swing or taking a swing away from a style, but I miss being able to press one button and changing the style.
It was easier to change voice volume on the fly. If you want to immediately increase the volume of the main voice on the PSR2000, and you aren't in the main screen, you are in trouble. You have to exit out until you get into the main screen, press the tiny volume up button and scroll the wheel. On the PSR740, you could just press one button and scroll the wheel.
The voice harmony button was within easy reach on the PSR740. It is so far away on the PSR2000, that I have had to dedicate a pedal for activating and deactivating the voice harmony. Now I wish I had a third pedal to activate and deactivate the vocal harmony. At least this is close enough to the keyboard.
I miss having the mic input in the front of the keybaord. I, the singer, am in front of the keyboard, why should the mic input be on the other side?
I liked how quickly one could apply to DSPs to the main voice on the PSR740. I still can't figure out how to do this on the PSR2000.
I liked how I could immediately mute a part of a style on the PSR740 by just pressing one button. With the PSR2000 I have to first press the PART ON/OFF button.
I miss the dedicated mic volume knob on the PSR 740. With the PSR2000 I have to make sure I'm in the main screen, and then I have to press a tiny button and scroll up or down. Or else I have to reach in back of the keyboard.
The PSR2000 has dozens of pluses over the PSR740, but I wish Yamaha would make their new keyboard better in every way than its predecessor.
Larry
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#175847 - 12/14/01 10:21 PM
Re: Advantages of the PSR740 over the PSR2000
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Senior Member
Registered: 01/27/01
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That function is in the mixer somewhere. I'm sure I have seen it. Press DIRECT ACCESS then the part you want to change (Main, Layered, Left) and you will be in the digital mixing, tune section. It took me a about 10 days before I could take the keyboard out to gigs. When our baby, born premature, was in the hospital and she would sleep 90% of the time when we would go to visit her, I would bring the PSR2000 manual and study its sparse and sometimes cryptic explanations of the keyboard's functions. This helped a lot. I really recommend reading the manual carefully. I also highly recommend pressing the DIRECT ACCESS button and then all of the other buttons to see what shortcuts are available. To set up the PSR2000 for gigs, I recommend that with your favorite floppy styles you save them to the desired tempo and also the desired OTS including multipads, left voice, DSPs, voice volumes, multipad volume, left hold, etc. To save an OTS, you press MEMORY>OTS 1,2,3, or 4. You are asked if you want to save the changes. If you set OTS 1 and want to work on OTS 2, you can press NO, and wait until you have set all four OTSs. Then on the last one you press MEMORY>OTS 1,2,3, or 4, and select YES. Then you save the style either on the floppy drive by pressing NEXT and SAVE or on the USER drive by pressing save. You will be informed that this style already exists and if you wish to overwrite it. Press YES.
You should also dedicate 1 registration button to adjusting your global settings. This keyboard doesn't automatically remember your global preferences, like mic reverb, vocal harmony type, mic volume, pedal functions, etc. So get the keyboard set up the way you would want it when you start your show. Then press MEMORY>REGISTRATION buttons 1-8. After you press memory, you should select the settings you wish to be remembered. To save the configuration of Registration buttons 1-8, you have to save them to memory by pressing J (in the main screen) and then SAVE if you are saving it to user memory or NEXT and SAVE if you are saving it to floppy. Then you can create a name for your registration. Before you start your show, you press 1. J 2. The registration that has your global preferences. 3. The button that calls up your global preferences.
Now you can select your style of choice, adjust tempo and transpose, press the OTS of choice, quickly press the right buttons to trigger the style, and you are ready to go.
If you use a lot of floppies, having a plastic case of floppies velcroed to the side of the keyboard is very helpful.
Other setup tips might have to do with your particular approach to music. Even though the PSR2000 has some disadvantages compared to the PSR740, the keyboard is overall much much better. There are too many ways that it's better to go into. I only wish it were better in every way. I don't know why Yamaha would go backwards in certain features.
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