So, I just got this keyboard today and it was driving me nuts to play some simple VST's . The key is to turn off local and not the speakers.. midi under menu settings ...then first tab under system...I turn all local song, style, left, main, and layer off. .Also once local is set to off, you can save a preset under user (tab over)..in midi off shift tab to user and then hit save...an option will allow you to name it..I just deleted the "off" and renamed it " MIDI On...now all I need to do is go to my user preset and it loads it up whenever it is needed. I agree the manual is complete garbage. I hope this helps.
The midi settings can actually be saved but Yamaha didn't make it intuitive. You selected the midi profile under Preset and edited it. Instead, tab to the right to go under User. Hit Edit to make the changes you desire and then Exit out. That will bring you back to the User midi profiles (which should be blank at this time). Select Save to save the edits you made under a profile name. That's it. You can create more profiles as needed depending on your use cases. Since they're saved in the User space, they'll survive reboots.
Thank you for the good video I have an additional question, When playing through style playback Can I send multi-channel to DAW? For example, a base note played in a style I want to send it to DAW to play the tone on Spectrasonic instruments, and I want to immediately do multi-track recording as DAW, and I want to send the media generated by each channel (style channel on the keyboard) to the virtual instrument for playback
I also use this function with Cakewalk. Did you notice that the audio output of the piano presents noise with the usb cable connected? It bothers me a little
thank you very much for this tutorial ! I do have the DGX670 and I just bought the Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen but because it didnt have enough inputs for Instruments I changed to the Scarlett 4i4 , in the front I put in the microphone and at the back I use the line inputs to record my DGX670 but it doesn't work yet with a jack male 2x stereo jack male cable, I'll have to figure it out. Also I have midi ports on the 4i4, may I ask how you connect your DGX 670 with your Scarlett interface and which cable you use ?
solve all your problems and just buy a mixer with the channels you need then take the speaker outs from the mixer and put one in each side of the usb interface for stereo input and yours done thats what i have done and it works perfect..
@@KevinMillard68 thanks for your answer. Sorry but I not very well at those technical issues. What kind of mixer should it be and which in or output on my dgx670 must I use to connect ?
Hey. Native Instruments has couple of different KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboards and also they make there own softwere. KOMPLETE 14 is there flagship collection of instruments, samples,the cost of the software runs close to 2 grand. one can make movie sound tracks with it. pretty impressive. I would like to just get the software.
well google the software some one might have a copy online and you can make movie soundtracks with many different daws out there as well for keyboards way to many choices
How can I use the DGX670 as a midi? I have an iPad with IGRAND PIANO and ILectric piano apps, and I only wanna use the sounds coming out of those apps.. do how can I set it up ? Thanks.
So, how do I hook all this up? How do I hook up the DGX to a Korg PA4X or hook up to a Roland JV-1010 and use those sounds. There are no midi ports on the DGX 670 (which I love but cannot figure out).
I'm zero in music. I'm interested to start music with this yamaha. I was asking myself a similar question: should i have to buy a master beyboard anyway, like STUDIOLOGIC SL88 STUDIO. Something you seem to call midi controller. Google founded your video. I must ask you one thing : why you did not try the 'master KBD' option in midi settings ? It sounds exactly like : it should behaves as a master midi keyboard. No ? Midi settings + master kbd = midi master keyboard. If it works. The second question is : can DGX670 be a DAW controller, not only the keyboard. It is a standalone studio. All these buttons and controls could be mapped for DAW software?
Thanks for your informative tutorial. I managed to save my MIDI OFF by selecting it and turning on channel 1 and then saving that selection to USB FLASH DRIVE which I load on my next power on. I use Cakewalk by Bandlab as my DAW and I am able to record my Grand Piano as an Audio Track and play it back but if I select instrument Labs Soft Piano and try to record it I am unable to do so and only hear my Grand Piano voice while playing and not my Soft Piano vst plug in and no recording takes place. I cannot figure out what settings I'm missing or how to turn ON or OFF Keyboard Out or Loopback on the DGX670 thus your help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't understand the problem, in my case I just plugged it in and Reaper recognized it immediately as a midi device, didn't have to adjust anything on the keyboard midi menu for it to work
no i dont see any why to do that with any keyboard but then again i would have to study the manul on that more so i have never heard of that ever being done either connecting mixers togeter is one thing and its easy to do but to connect muility of keyboards never heard of it
I'm trying to do this with a YAMAHA DGX-520,which I got for a song because the screen was dead. I figured it would just output midi like every other keyboard but NOPE! Anyone with my keyboard know how to guide me like a blind man to midi out on my screenless keyboard? PLEEEEAZE?
your pretty. much screwed without access to the screen , how ever you could try usb out and put the voume control to off this way what ever sound is there wont go into your computer so youll just be midi hopefully other wise yup your screwed.
So when I do this it just turns my piano into a speaker. So anything I play on my computer doesent come out of my computer but out of the speaker if the piano. I'm using a chromebook and I'm using a c-port on the end.
get a real computer like a Macinbtosh or a windows computer Chrome books are not computers and they are also not supported for midi /music stuff like regular computers are.
no idea man never heard of that software have to just try and see i used garageband and logic as well as albenton live and they are all fine with it ..
Hi. Does anyone know if you can connect the DGX670 directly to a psr sx900. I want to use the 88 keys put play through the 900. Not worried about other stuff, just to replace the 61 keyboard really.
why the heck would you want to hook up the glory board to a low end one that makes not sense at all the dgx670 is a full size 88 keyboard with weighted keys and blows the doors off of the sx900
@@KevinMillard68 I mean to say to play the DGX670 by eliminating the 900 keyboard. Perhaps my message was not clear. I agree, the 670 keyboard is the same as my old Clavinova; amazing.
Midi looks a real pain in the arse on this keyboard. I hate faffing around having to reset things because the keyboard won't store changes. They should either have it save changes and include a reset setting. Or put proper midi connections on the keyboard. I have a 20 year old keyboard with proper midi in out. You just select the instrument in logic and the keyboard controls it. You don't have to set up anything. If I want the natural sounds from the keyboard I just use line out. Don't know why Yamaha had to go usb route which means you have to go through menu's and setups that won't even save on the keyboard. The keyboard itself is great and you wont find a better deal for sounds at this price, but for midi as with all Yamaha keyboards, its is a deal breaker for me personally. Korg and Kawai have proper midi connections with no faffing around.
well you know oto each their own if there is a way to do it better il let people know but there is alot to this thing that is going to take a long time to learn thats for sure
@@KevinMillard68 Just to be clear, I was in no way knocking you personally or your very good demo of the unit. This is just my personal gripe at the manufacturer. 👍
using as a midi you have to set that up in your daw what version of max os are you on iam running ventura 13.2 and its a plug and go with logig and garage band i justhave to make sure i choose external midi or audio for using all the yamaha built in stuff option 2 is use a usb interface and a mixer and run right to the mixer and then just choose usb interface 1 and 2 as your input and your also good to go for what ever you want to do for that stuff this can vary on some older versions of mac os but anything from 11 to 13.2 should be straight forward as i have mentioned
