PSR-SX900 Tutorial, Using Registration Memory, Download 

Thank you so much for your supportive comment. My passion is to promote the making of formal, multi part arrangements with appropriate mix and sound editing adjustments for each orchestral part of a performance, as opposed to using interactive features, like "One Touch". When using an interactive playing strategy, in order to produce decent orchestral variety one must be a skilled octopus at pressing buttons. Even without a pedal formal arrangements are easier to play. But most importantly, when using interactive strategies it is not possible to properly make mix and sound editing adjustments. Any successful musician, like Taylor Swift for example, will tell you that in today's world, "It's all in the mix". Many people ask me about how to use obscure interactive features. But one look at my example videos should tell them that I never use such things. Why should I spend time developing skill on a feature that appears on only one model keyboard? A skill that will not apply to another model? The basic workflow for creating formal arrangements as presented in this video is transferable to most other models of arranger keyboards, such as your SX700. Of course you cannot download and use my Registration Bank files. My instrument has voices and accompaniment styles that yours does not have. But the basic workflow for creating arrangements on your SX700 is exactly the same as on my SX900. I once had a Roland BK-9 and arrangements on that model were created in exactly the same way as you see in this video. Anyway, performances published by John Beesley are enough to convince me that making formal arrangements produces performances whose orchestral quality is infinitely better, and simply not possible by using interactive playing strategies. Here are examples: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fuMWnv6v7sk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--_SrBYGgPS4.html You have to listen with headphones to fully appreciate. I'm sure you can find many more such examples. Such orchestral quality cannot be achieved using the "One Touch", or any other interactive strategy. Best of luck.

You are about to receive one of the best arranger keyboards available. It will be an exciting adventure for you. Thank you for the positive feedback on my presentation. My goal was to focus on the general workflow for producing formal arrangements, a workflow that is common to most electronic instruments. For example, your Yamaha's "Registration Banks" on a Roland keyboard is called "User Program Banks", but the concept is the same. Once you learn the strategy on one particular model, you can easily adapt it to any of the others with little difficulty. Indeed, the same strategy can even be applied to completely different electronic musical instruments. Here is me doing so on an electronic accordion (I created this video demonstration when I worked at Roxy's Music Store, which is now out of business). Watch the display change in response to a foot pedal as I sequentially progress through the various orchestral parts of the performance, just like I do in my similar videos for the SX900: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1EF1mDEWvbo.html It's like driving a car. Learning the general strategy to drive one particular model allows you to drive them all. Best of luck.

You're welcome. Best of luck.

Congratulations on your purchase of the SX700. I'm happy to hear that my video helped you realize the true purpose of this type of keyboard. Of course many people use them in a more interactive manner. Some people actually give very impressive performances playing in that manner. However, when they do they are always confronted with certain compromises. The only way to be able to select from the instrument's full orchestral capability in real time for each orchestral part of any of your performances is to create a formal arrangement in registration memory. Plus, and this is most important for a person like me with limited playing skills, creating arrangements greatly reduces the skill required to play the piece. A good example is my arrangement of "Camptown Races". Without the ability to create a pedal controlled formal arrangement, there is no way that I could accomplish such rapid orchestral changes to tempo. Best of luck with your new keyboard.

Tom Bitsas, Best of luck with your new keyboard. Since you have experience on the S970, you are probably a much better player than I am. Please consider publishing your arrangements, thus encouraging others. The more we encourage others, the more successful will be our instrument.

I'm happy you realized how the use of registration banks was the same as on your CVP609. The feature is supported on many electronic instruments. Here's me demonstrating it on an electronic accordion: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1EF1mDEWvbo.html Unfortunately, manufacturers do not bother explaining the intent of the feature, leaving us to figure it out on our own. Your CVP609 is a wonderful high end instrument. Glad to point you in the right direction to get the most out of it. Best of luck.

Thanks. I hope my instruction encourages you to take advantage of Registration Banks to formally arrange (orchestrate) your performances. Enjoy your SX700. Quite a step up from your PSR-270. I predict you'll love it.

I'm glad you enjoyed my presentation. I'm especially pleased that you saw that the operation of your Tyros 5 is really the same as my PSR-SX900. It is a common misconception, even amongst professional musicians, that because different model keyboards have some unique features their operation must be different. Perhaps this misconception is a result of instrument manufacturers, in an attempt to compete against other models, always overemphasize features that other models don't have and fail to point out that their basic operation is the same. If I gave you a Roland E-A7 arranger keyboard ( from completely different manufacturer) you'd discover that it has the very the same capability of saving song orchestrations as collections of parts. The only difference is the name of the feature. Roland calls a "Registration Bank" a "User Program Bank". Even other instruments, such as an electronic accordion, use the very same operational concept: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1EF1mDEWvbo.html Although that instrument does not possess any auto accompaniment, it provides the feature of "User Program Banks" to save multi part song orchestrations.

Best of luck.

I'm happy that as a newbie PSR owner you got to see a presentation of how to properly create formal arrangements as "Registration Banks" on an arranger keyboard. The thing to realize is that the very same playing technique can be employed on most electronic instruments (on a Roland it's called "User Program Banks"). Once you master this technique, all those buttons suddenly seem less mysterious. And of course, as I explain in the video, it's the only way that each of your performances can have access to the entire orchestral capability of your instrument. And yet the technique is really very simple. It even simplifies the playing of performances. As you may have read me write in other comments, I don't actually consider myself to be a musician. My playing skills are limited to beginner level. However, by properly arranging my simple performances I am able to fool family and friends into thinking that I am more a musician than I really am. Just imagine what you can do with it. Best of luck.

Can you convert RU-vid song to MIDI. For psr900?

I'm glad you found my presentation helpful. But remember, it's not just about the SX900. It's about any arranger keyboard. They all have the same ability to play pedal controlled, multiple part, formal arrangements. The problem with the owner's manual is that although it describes how to save registrations, it doesn't tell you how to organize them such that your performances have access to the full orchestral capabilities of the instrument plus complex arrangements are easy to play. Indeed, they treat the instrument like an old organ where you press various buttons interactively during your performance without any ability to edit each part. Forget about the "One Touch" feature. It will limit you to how Bach played 300 years ago. Very primitive. Play properly orchestrated music and your audiences will be astonished. My goal in this channel was to demonstrate how that is done. Having completed my goal, there is nothing more for me to add. The rest is up to you. Best of luck.

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I'm happy you found it helpful.

Try downloading one of my simple arrangements, like "Lightly Row". It's easy to play, plus you'll see how the arrangement is constructed in Registration Memory. Modify it to different voices and editing features. Change the accompaniment styles. You'll see that it's no more difficult than saving phone numbers in your smartphone. I'm confident that you can make the arrangement sound a lot better. After all, I'm just an amateur at this. Post your improved version in your own RU-vid channel so that others can profit from your effort. Feel free to link to my sheet music. We'll all learn if we work together. Let me know how it works out.

I'm happy that you are mastering the use of "Registration Memory" for creating arrangements of performances with multiple orchestral parts. It is the only playing technique that allows us to conveniently make orchestral choices in real time from the instrument's entire range of possibilities without compromises, as well as allow us to properly adjust the mix of all voices within each part of the performance, which we can never do when using the "One Touch" or other interactive playing techniques. Indeed, any audio professional will tell you that it's not the virtuosity that makes the best performance on a modern instrument like the SX900, it's the mix. Of course the owner's manual will describe how to access different features, like Registration Memory for example, but it will never tell you how to use it in your music. In other words, it will tell you how to access the feature that supports proper formal orchestration on the instrument, but it will never actually tell you how to properly orchestrate. That's really the job of music educators. Unfortunately, most educators are completely unaware of the technique. That's why I am publishing my own simple beginner level arrangements complete with both sheet music and orchestration files, and in the process encouraging others who play better than me to start doing the same. Eventually, the educators may catch on to the value of this playing technique for musicians and hobbyists at all playing levels, and hopefully they will start teaching their students how to do this. Best of luck and I hope the "Multi-Part Orchestration Playing Technique" makes a significant improvement to the quality of your performances.

@@leoncastonguay3997 -I had a visitor yesterday to see and hear my new SX900, (the last one in Oz when I bought it-and it came from a firm in Qld) she has a PSRs-950 and a pretty good Yamaha electric piano. I told her about your video tutorials and said how good they are and she told me that she had met you on various occaisions during visits to the mainland, and was very impressed meeting you. We are in Tasmania, however, she is off to Qld at the end of the week for an extended period of time, I will miss her inspiration and other technical/computer related skills.

​@@ShevillMathers I'm happy to hear you like my videos so much. However, I think your friend is mixing me up with Leon Blaher of "Yamaha Music Australia", who appears in the following link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tqa7x62Zt4I.html I'm actually located in the USA, in the White Mountains of Northern New Hampshire, and although I seem to have a knack for learning certain features of modern arranger keyboards, I'm only a beginner level music hobbyist. I do not use the "Playlist" feature that Leon Blaher describes in the above video. My approach to playing the instrument is a bit different in that I do not rely on the instrument's database of previously created registrations. Instead, I use Registration Memory Banks to create from scratch my own formal multi part arrangements of particular songs, and then I share those arrangements with other music hobbyists by exchanging Registration Bank Files and sheet music.

I'm glad you realized the similarities. It turns out that most electronic instruments use the very same concepts, although sometimes using different names. Here I am doing it on an electronic accordion: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1EF1mDEWvbo.html Note that Roxy's Music Store is now out of business. Electronic instruments are like automobiles. Once you learn how to use one, you can use them all. Best of luck.

My pleasure!

Yes, although this video uses the SX900, you are correct in noticing that the very same basic technique of using Registration Banks to orchestrate or arrange songs will be the same on your SX600. Indeed, it's the same on most electronic instruments. On many Roland instruments, like the EA-7 keyboard, the feature is called "User Program Banks", but the concept is exactly the same. Indeed, here is the very same technique being used on a Roland V-Accordion: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1EF1mDEWvbo.html If you understand my presentation on the SX900, then you should understand exactly what is happening in the above electronic accordion video, even if you do not know how to play accordion. You should also notice that the above electronic accordion video offers download of the "Bank" file representing the arrangement, just as I did in this SX900 video. Realizing how all electronic instruments are designed to support song orchestrations, a technique that I like to call "Saved Multi Part Song Orchestrations/Arrangements", allows you to graduate from using an electronic instrument as if it were an acoustic, picking generic sounds at specific locations as you play, to applying the full range of the instrument's orchestral possibilities (both tone selection and mix adjustment) to every part of every song performance in your repertoire. This is a manner of playing that no acoustic instrument can accomplish. Best of luck with your SX600. Your time on the SX600 will be valuable training for whatever next model you purchase.

I'm happy to help out.

Congratulations on your purchase of the SX900. I'm only 8 years behind you in age. I'm flattered that an accomplished musician like yourself would find value in my presentation of the basics of using "Registration Memory", especially since you have already seen first hand the work of John Beesley and Strawberry Music. I knew in setting up this channel that I needed to provide a certain amount of instruction, otherwise people unfamiliar with the creation and use of formal arrangements would not know how to use my work. But I don't intend to provide instruction beyond that on other aspects of the instrument. My primary goal is to build up a library of arrangements of beginner level practice pieces that hopefully will make such necessary practice work more entertaining for other music hobbyists like myself.

@@leoncastonguay3997 So much easier to understand and work through your how & why to video, compared to the owners manual, where one is constantley being referred to another page backwards and forwards. You have included some important bits that so many tutorials leave out, assuming that folks already know how to do certain things correctly. Even the factory reset step you explain and show-it took me a while to find that in the user manual. I used to teach a some medical scientific topics years ago, and I always assessed the average level of any new class students so that what I taught was understandable by the majority.

@@ShevillMathers Yes, I know what you mean. It took considerable time and effort for me to finally understand. I'm happy to help others profit from my effort. Best of luck with your new SX900.

@@leoncastonguay3997 Hi Leon, playing a wind instrument-clarinet-flutes etc. is very different to playing one of these keyboards because one has to learn how to switch it on and how to ‘program’ / drive it, my wind instruments playing is no help. However, you have bridged that gap for me and no doubt many other newcomers to these keyboards. You are the ‘missing link’. Thank you for sharing your wonderful presentations. Stay safe and best wishes for 2021.👍😁🎹🎼🇬🇧🇦🇺🦘

@@ShevillMathers For sure you will have to spend some time learning to "drive" your SX900. However, once you overcome that, with your musical talent you will be able to take the keyboard a whole lot further than a technician like me can. I'll most probably be still working on basic practice pieces. Thanks again for your support and best of luck to you.

73's and give lots of 88's to your xyl.

73's and give lots of 88's to your xyl.