Am confused about two things, firstly is there any sampling feature in yamaha psr sx900 and secondly I didn't understand the concept of their expansion and user memory. The user memory is 4gb and the expansion memory is 1gb, what's the use of internal memory apart from storing registrations and storing edited factory sounds and styles? Does the user memory allows to store external sounds through sampling?
Does Yamaha PSR SX900 has the sampling feature?
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Checkout Yamaha’s Expansion Manager app, I think you will find that you need to use the App to load Samples.
The App has its own manual.
The App has its own manual.
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^^ What @Biggles said. There's no onboard sampler, but you can sample your own sounds with a computer and use those samples to create your own voices with the Yamaha Expansion Manager.
As for the memory, I'm not sure, but I don't think the user memory can be used to store sampled voices, just the user voices where you select some built-in or expansion voice, modify its settings, and save the modified settings as a user voice.
As for the memory, I'm not sure, but I don't think the user memory can be used to store sampled voices, just the user voices where you select some built-in or expansion voice, modify its settings, and save the modified settings as a user voice.
if the user memory can't store the sampled voice then how can I play it. And is there any tutorial of how to perform sampling in YEM.
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The sampled voice would be stored in the expansion memory, not the user memory. At least, this is how I think it works; I have no experience at all with this, because I've never owned a model that can load expansion voices.
I think perhaps the earlier models in the Tyros line allowed you to store individual sampled voices in the user memory, and you could create single voice files that included the sound sample along with the voice settings. In fact, I think you could even use the keyboard to create the sampled voice, but I'm not certain.
But as I understand it, later Tyros models, and the other arranger models that have the ability to load expansion voices, require you to create a new voice using the Yamaha Expansion Manager, and you must incorporate your new voice in an expansion pack so it can be loaded into the expansion memory.
As I said, I have no experience with this, so I'm going by what I've heard other people say. I do know that a lot of Tyros owners were unhappy when they upgraded from an earlier Tyros model to a newer Tyros model and were no longer able to create their own sampled voices on the Tyros itself.
But as with anything else, once you know how a system works and what its ins and outs are, you get used to it and can become proficient in using it and in discovering ways to work around its shortcomings.
I think perhaps the earlier models in the Tyros line allowed you to store individual sampled voices in the user memory, and you could create single voice files that included the sound sample along with the voice settings. In fact, I think you could even use the keyboard to create the sampled voice, but I'm not certain.
But as I understand it, later Tyros models, and the other arranger models that have the ability to load expansion voices, require you to create a new voice using the Yamaha Expansion Manager, and you must incorporate your new voice in an expansion pack so it can be loaded into the expansion memory.
As I said, I have no experience with this, so I'm going by what I've heard other people say. I do know that a lot of Tyros owners were unhappy when they upgraded from an earlier Tyros model to a newer Tyros model and were no longer able to create their own sampled voices on the Tyros itself.
But as with anything else, once you know how a system works and what its ins and outs are, you get used to it and can become proficient in using it and in discovering ways to work around its shortcomings.
If sampling is a big deal for you then you should check out a Korg Pa,
Watch this to see how it is done in the keyboard.
www.crowdcast.io
Watch this to see how it is done in the keyboard.
Sampling with Korg Pa arrangers - Crowdcast
Join Adam and Luke as they show you everything you need to know about sampling with the Korg Pa series of keyboards.
They actually removed on board sampling (had it on T2, T3, T4, possibly even T1& T5); they use YEM.
It's actually not terrible to get started (but a right pain beyond that); you stick your wav file into an 'element' in YEM. WHat does suck is you can't loop it in there (you need yet another program to do that), and then you tell it what pitch that sample was, and it extracts the rest (and re-pitches to the other notes), and you can include more sample data points.
In short, it's not hard to do at all if you don't need to loop your sound e.g. a decaying sample like piano, guitar, or anything percussive like timpany, pizzicato, spiccato, etc. But it's absolutely terrible if you have a looping sound like an organ, or frankly even a long decay... Yamaha Mexico themselves put out 2 piano sample expansions? That actually sounded pretty good except the sample just stopped about 11 seconds in on every note!
There are a couple of guys from psr tutorial who've created looping samples (pjd) but I've only created a non looping one, which is both simple and highly inefficient.
There's no tutorial per se, but pjd does have a website up detaining... well, almost everything he finds about these keyboards
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Specifically, this post on how he sampled scat voices (one of which *does* loop) will probably be helpful:
Sampling “scat” - Sand, software and sound
In this post, I describe the process and tools that I used to capture samples for my jazz scat voice. I will eventually release the voice (for the Yamaha PSR-S950 workstation) and its samples under the Creative Commons attribution license. I'm not the best singer, so I've had to rely on...
sandsoftwaresound.net
Hope that helps! But it's not for the faint of heart,
Mark
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Hi Mark, I think Yamaha only had a sampler on Tyros 2 which I never used, but dropped it on T3 onwards
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Cheers terryb
I no longer have access to T1-T5 (except ironically T2, atm) and I definitely made custom samples for T2 (not very good ones, no... as I've mentioned elsewhere, I never delved into sample looping) but yeah, they definitely had onboard sampling, but dropped it for YEM (which is actually very convenient to *use*, but frustrating because of bugs, and often lack of options... such as looping, which is fundamental!). I believe it was because their research shows nobody was using it (indeed, even after showing a class how to use samples, not a single one of those customers ever actually ended up trying it themselves; I think Yamaha found similar results overall, hence why they dropped it.
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Mark
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DX7, CLP300, PSR60, Roland E20, CVP309, PSRS970, Fender Strat, Ibanez SA262, Yamaha CG131, Fujiyama FC390, TUC-Kitty
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