The Yamaha PSR-SX900 Chord Looper enables you to record a chord sequence and play it back, freeing your left hand from playing chords and providing new opportunities to further enhance your performance.
20 years ago I used this function constantly on my Roland E-86 (made in 1994), to play or create the underlying chord progressions (often spontaneously), and then use two hands to play solos (LH on the modulation wheel or pitch bend, RH play saxophone or whatever); or, in a live setting, while leading worship I could establish a chord progression, and then physically depart from behind the keyboard, walk out to the front of the stage, and sing and lead the people in worship WHILE the E-86 kept playing the progression - and then after a while, go back behind the keyboard and seamlessly pick up in midstream (to play reharms or go into the chorus or B-section, etc). It was wonderful! Fast-forward 25 years, and now I use a Tyros 5, and it's a great keyboard, BUT sadly it doesn't allow for either of these powerful and useful functions. My Left Hand is forever trapped having to play the chord progressions, with only spits and spurts darting over the left to adjust the mod or pitchbend wheels, and always having to zip back to play the new chord on the down-beat (which is often the very moment when mod or pitchbending is most needed in an effective solo). And another thing: with the Tyros, my body is physically trapped behind the keyboard. I can't depart from behind the Tyros to get more physically present to lead or exhort the people. Alas, how I miss the arranger loop function! (I'm much less effective as a live performer without it.) So I'm very excited to see that the Genos 2 has the arranger loop!! Way to go Yamaha! So now.... I wonder: since this appears to be primarily a software update (and not a hardware feature that requires a separate set of buttons, like on the E86) ... could this feature possibly be programmed into an updated firmware or software version for the Tyros 5? Does anyone have any idea? I don't really want to leave my Tyros 5 yet, it's still an awesome keyboard; plus, the learning curve to learn the Genos is as much a deterrent as is the price to upgrade from the Tyros. So hopefully Yamaha will see fit to program this arranger loop function into the Tyros software or firmware, and not force us who REALLY need this feature, to buy a Genos2 or Korg. Would love to hear from anyone about this.
My ROLAND G600 has this function but it has almost 30 years now and needs to go and I can't find a keyboard that allows me to do that. As I don't use the keyboard for gigs i would like to keep my budget down. Does the SX600 or 700 have the same function? Thank you
Yamaha, when you can tell me, that a PSR S series keyboard contains all Tyros 3 voices including SArt2! voices, we can talk about buying a keyboard like this.
While I appreciate any experienced keyboard player may fully understand this feature, for someone looking to buy a new keyboard and looking to understand this feature, this demo was gone in a flash and I didn't even understand what was happening. Sorry.
Is this simple function available on ANY keyboard under $1,000???????? PLEASE, HELP. I would have thought this should be really basic, but it seems not... (I'm new to electronic keyboards)
A Yamaha-tól már megszokott ez az aljas üzletpolitika. Kiad egy felső kategóriás hangszert (pl. Genos) 1.400 000 Ft-ért, majd rá egy évre egy közép kategóriás hangszert, mint pl.(PSR S 975, SX900) amelyben olyan hangszínek, stílusok , funkciók vannak, amelyekkel a méregdrága zászlóshajó nem rendelkezik. Ezek után inkább Korgra, vagy Ketronra váltok. A Yamaha a legaljasabb üzletpolitikájú cég !
Honestly, I still can't feel the benefits of chord looper. Alternatively, I can record an entire MIDI backing track then play it as a MIDI song and jam with both hands too. The only noticeable difference is that I can do that on the fly while playing an ACMP style.
