Posted by: George Kaye
9000 Pro Update Report - 03/13/01 08:52 PM
I had one of Yamaha's Product Managers at my store today and I questioned if a chain play mode would be available on the next generation Yamaha Keyboard. The good news is that it will be happening on the next operating system update for the 9000 series soon. This should be very good news for many of you wishing to play a chain of midifiles on the PSR9000 or 9000 Pro.
We also spoke about what the styles will be like on the next generation "PSR10,000". Scotty Yee, you might be interested in this information. Yamaha will give us those more "in your face" styles such as Solton has been doing with the X series. Yamaha recognizes that there is a demand for more complex style patterns and will do everything to preserve the older types of patterns (which use almost always a string part and a pad part per style) with the newer breed of styles with those "in your face brass, guitar strums and other really moving parts.
Our talks today were very general but I did get a good feeling that Yamaha is moving in the right direction for all types of musicians, both hobbyists as well as pros.
The last thing we did today was to install a new hard drive and 64 MB of sample Ram into my 9000 pro. Yamaha uses the talents of Ronnie Foster, a well known Keyboardist around the world. Ronnie played with George Benson, Lionel Richie as well as many others. Yamaha sampled Ronnie's voice and did a complete demo in the 9000 pro with Lyrics explaining each function in the 9000. According to Yamaha, and you all know I agree with this, most Yamaha dealers don't know how to use and demonstrate these high end arranger keyboards and so Yamaha has attempted to make a self running demo for this 9000 pro and it can also be used in the PSR9000. You should be hearing this demo at your local dealers. I think it was very well done and for those dealers who never plug in a mic or have a clue about playing a song from the hard drive, this should be interesting. I laugh when I think that most dealers probably won't even be able to get the demo up and loaded. Let me know if your dealers are using this demo please. I would be really interested to know.
Thanks for your time,
George Kaye
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We also spoke about what the styles will be like on the next generation "PSR10,000". Scotty Yee, you might be interested in this information. Yamaha will give us those more "in your face" styles such as Solton has been doing with the X series. Yamaha recognizes that there is a demand for more complex style patterns and will do everything to preserve the older types of patterns (which use almost always a string part and a pad part per style) with the newer breed of styles with those "in your face brass, guitar strums and other really moving parts.
Our talks today were very general but I did get a good feeling that Yamaha is moving in the right direction for all types of musicians, both hobbyists as well as pros.
The last thing we did today was to install a new hard drive and 64 MB of sample Ram into my 9000 pro. Yamaha uses the talents of Ronnie Foster, a well known Keyboardist around the world. Ronnie played with George Benson, Lionel Richie as well as many others. Yamaha sampled Ronnie's voice and did a complete demo in the 9000 pro with Lyrics explaining each function in the 9000. According to Yamaha, and you all know I agree with this, most Yamaha dealers don't know how to use and demonstrate these high end arranger keyboards and so Yamaha has attempted to make a self running demo for this 9000 pro and it can also be used in the PSR9000. You should be hearing this demo at your local dealers. I think it was very well done and for those dealers who never plug in a mic or have a clue about playing a song from the hard drive, this should be interesting. I laugh when I think that most dealers probably won't even be able to get the demo up and loaded. Let me know if your dealers are using this demo please. I would be really interested to know.
Thanks for your time,
George Kaye
[This message has been edited by George Kaye (edited 03-13-2001).]
[This message has been edited by George Kaye (edited 03-14-2001).]