Flash drives

Hi guys and gals im new to the forum.I was a guitar player for a lot of yrs. but my brother turned me on to the keyboard so I bought a Yamaha dgx 640 when they first came out.He taught me a lot on the keyboard so I have not touched my guitars for about 6 mos. now.Im going to get a Yamaha psr s970 when they come to Canada and im going to also get a Korg pa900.Could you tell me what kind of flash drive would work with both of these keyboards.Korg says you need a flash drive with 2 standard midi files a karoke file and an mp3 file, could you explain to me what that means.Thank you for all your help this forum has already taught me a lot. Cal

http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/extreme/


These 3.0 Sandisk drives all work well on Yamaha & Korg Units.
What KORG is referring to in the deMo videos just means you will need a USB drive to store your Mp3, Smf, KAR, files so in the video you can follow along and be shown how each feature works on the keyboard

I've been using a tiny, 1/4-inch high flash drive that stays in the keyboard at all times. It is manufactured by Verbatim and I found them on Ebay for a fantastic price with free shipping. Keep in mind that most files used in your keyboard are very, very small, thus you don't need a monster drive unless you load it up with .wav or mp3 files to be used like a DJ. 8 gigs is more than enough to store every style file and midi file on the planet.

All the best,

Gary

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Low-Profile-Drive-SDCZ33-016G-B35/dp/B005FYNSZA

Thanks for your help guys I will check them out. Cal

Yamaha have a USB drive compatibility ability list on their s970 download list here http://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical...970/?mode=model

I haven't spotted a similar list for the pa900 but I'm a Yamaha user so don't really know where to look!

However my experience is that any reputable brand will work, so long as you format the thing using the keyboard and not a pc / mac. The only other gotcha might be that the keyboard wont read a large capacity drive, but I've not had issues up to 16gb, and as mentioned above unless you go mad with audio you'll never need this amount of storage.

I should have said I've got a 16gb sandisk cruzer permanently plugged into my Tyros 3, no problem.

PA900 had read everything I stuck in it, regardless of where it was formatted.