Hi, for someone who's familiar with this specific keyboard, I hope you can help me figure out why in ACMP mode, all of the chords to the LEFT hand, the bass is set to C like these: F/C, D/C, A/C, C#m/C. Meaning all the bass sound is stuck in C. Of course the music I'm playing sound's way OFF. Is this an error that just develop, or there's something to reset this?
Thanks so much, your comment helps. I have kind of figured that the A3,000 had the same internal is, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks. Also, I kind of knew that it could not do it, however, I wanted to make sure.
What do you think about DGX 650/680. Of Yamaha...it cost hete near about 1200 US$. How do you compare it...? Please reply from your busy schedule. Love
I have a Tyros 3 and was thinking about upgrading and can,t afford the genos . would you suggest the yamaha sx 900 rather than the s975. Thank you so much for comprehensive vidios👍
As far as the quality of keys,action and play ability. Is it better than the lower models. I have a casio 6250 as a starter keyboard ..It's fine for beginning but key click rattle a snap..I'd like an arranger.What would you recommend I look at??? Thanks Tim
Also Jeramiah Bro do you know how to connect and play along with Yamaha styles on MIDi external Electribe or any MIDI player with Yamaha Aux in input pls let me know thanx
Do you think that the boomy sound is the case resonating? Do you think that sticking some weights or Dynamat to the bottom of the case might help? 30W of power is actually a lot for the size of the case, and large areas of unsupported case could resonate a lot.
Hi Jeremy. Which one will you choose and why ? Psr s975 or psr a3000. I wanted to buy the a3000 cuz of the oriental voices but i realized the s975 has around 1600 voices versus the a3000 which has 997 voices. That’s alot of voice i’ll be missing. Is there anything else besides the voices ? Let me know, Thank you
Dear sir,, I already have psr s 910, and I checked 975 for upgrade, But there is the same problem ,,in style creator mode there is only 4 no of time signeture 2/4,,3/4,,4/4,,5/4..you can't make rhythm 7/4 , 6/8, etc,, My Casio ctk 7600 have all the options in more little price then Yamaha..
What an excellent and thoughtful comparison between the PSR 970 and 975. The 975 is obviously an "interim" product with little more to offer until they release the PSR S980 or whatever they will call the next model range. Thanks for your obvious insight and valuable "unvarnished" opinions. Please keep up the good work.
Hi Jeremy, do you have any idea when the next generation PSR-S975 will be available. I'm assuming it will be more like a very low-end Genos. Thank You in Advance Johnny
Using a USB stick, all you have to do to use a new style is just press a button or two.This is near instantaneous. Also, some of us are no longer driving vans to get around. A 76 or 88 key keyboard is not only impractical, but impossible to load around.I have all I can do to load my S770 in it's hard case, with my stand, cables,a couple of external speakers for a larger gig, and bench into the back of my Ford Escape and take a couple of friends to a gig with me. I won't be going back to using an oversized vehicle. I would have loved a larger set of speakers and a touch screen. The SA voices can be expanded easily by simply buying expansion packs, not necessarily using near-eastern, middle-eastern music. I would have also loved an SA set button or two. I really believe that the S975/S775 were just released as so happy measures till the Fall NAMM show 2019. I'd have loved to have had a hidden slot for a USB stick so that you don't have to remove the stick every time you break down your setup after a gig.
Hello from Turkey again. Jeremy I believe that your comments are realistic, well-intentioned and impartial.I have a suggestion; Please add" Roland" brand to your comparisons and products reviews .I think Roland is worth it. My first serious keyboard was a Roland E-80 and i can't forget it. Thank you.
Thanks for the info you saved me for a lot of Money i have the psr s970 i'm not upgrading to s975 yes it is a better keyboard but like you said is it Worth it ,for some yes but not for me
Very nice information I love Yamaha PSR S series but as you said in coming new update models Yamaha must bring as like previous Tyros 76 Keys in PSR s models and Yamaha has to bring atleast 1.5 GB internal memory higher resolution screen with big and bold letter like PSR S950 fonts and much better up grade minimum 60 wats surround sound like speakers
Yamaha Psr is good because you can use lots of styles and expansion pack on it.. Korg is expensive and do not have enough styles and exp pack available on the internet specially Indian Styles but sound quality of Korg keyboard is realistic.. I am using PSR S970 and its awesome..
Jeremy many thanks for honest review... Could you please advise a good model with all features and worth for money.... which is equivalent to PSR cost_ Waiting for your kind reply
@@JeremySee thanks Jeremy for your prompt reply.... I would like to buy a professional one ... In any of PSR models or in any other brands which is equal to the money (of PSR 975) and must be worth. Purpose to compose music and songs for event's/DG etc..
@@JeremySee nice! It sounds better than s910 I guess? Because i have one s910 and s775 is worth for price as u told in previous video but is that sounding better than a 910?
There is one big difference that makes the S975 (or S775) stand out for me: SongBook+ will allow users to send "program change" messages from an iPad to those keyboards OR from the keyboards to iPad. With the S970 and S770 SongBook+ will only allow orders to be sent from the keyboard TO the iPad (such as calling up a chord & lyrics pdf that is linked to a given registration). This makes me prefer the S775 or S975.
Thanks for your expert explanation I understood a lot more of the new 975 I purchased. I see very few 970's in the market now and they are only $100 less. Yamaha made a good harvest.
It comes down to one question Does the additions = price It's kinda like a $350 acoustic guitar and a $7,000 guitar You may get a better looking and sounding guitar but does the increase in quality = the price The answers to these questions are NO
There should also be a feature to freeze the tempo of styles like they have in the simpler keyboards......If i change from chill step to dubstep, it changes the tempo and variation of the accompaniment is not upto my satisfaction
So, I have a question, it is for my friend. Can the Yamaha PSR a 3000 do USB audio recording? Because I have noticed, you have said that the PSRS970, and the PSRS975 cannot.
Jeremy, Lamarcus the PSR A3000 and all the PSR S 670,770,775,970 / 975 CAN record Audio to a USB drive, and by the way, I recommend USB 3.0 drive, those can write and play flowlessly the Audio.....simply press USB (Right side of screen) you will see the similar tape cassete controls to record.....!!!
I an referring to transmitting digital audio our via the USB to HOST port. The USB stick recording has ben around for a long time and isn't a good solution for us working with DAWs. The E363 & E463 can transmit audio via USB. It's ridiculous that even the GENOS cannot do this basic thing.
@@JeremySee E453 can transmit audio via usb too. I was also surprised that my s770 had not this future, but it seems the main hardware of S770-S970 and nowadays S775-S975 is the same and created before 2015, when the usb audio future came one year later, so that's why they lack this future. The upgrade of S775 and S975 is only at software (except of the memory chipset), so finally when you buy these models, it is like you buy a 2015 keyboard with minor changes.
Thank you for a good, clear explanation. Yamaha make good products but they are constantly trying to create new "quality" differences that are rather artificial. They do a similar thing with their Clavinova range, with either minor or barely perceivable differences in models adding a big price rise but with no tangible gain.
@@genesisandcarlo7133 Easy answer. Check both at keyboard Magazine. Read the Conclusions. You will find your answer. If you do not 'need' an arranger...then get what you need? As a performer either will work but you will have to spend time knowing how to work each. These are at least $3000 boards so be sure. As a performer and exploratory studio musician that has to do 'deep editing' the workstation the ONLY great choice. The arranger is for a musician who specifically needs a full [instant] ] band backing back board but does not need to do any serious voice/rhythm editing. the arranger will not deep edit. if you do not know what deep editing is then you should get what you can afford. You play general gigs in a band then either will work. If you play solo then get the arranger.
One can not compare based on the specs only. The sound quality is different. Each version, like the S950, S970, S975 has different sound if you can hear carefully. For example, if you edit a style in S950 and add different OTS voice for each session A, B, C and D. When you play in different keyboard, the outcome is different. I'm sorry to say, according to my opinion S770 and S970 produce the worst outcome. When you play S975, it just so elegant, real, plus if you play some of Genos styles. I don't know why in US the price is higher than in Asia. The S775 and S975 produce the best sound so far (for PSR)
Br I really like your reviews pls do Yamaha 975 vs SX900 and Tyros 5 vs Genos I am very anxiously waiting for your real feedback for the money we pay for Yamaha from Canada
@@JeremySeesorry br I thought you may have them or may able to have them for video purpose but as you said Tyros 5 and Geno's will cost lot to buy but thanks any way I enjoyed your shows br because you tell the facts of these equipments but in the meantime if you can please do PSRs975 vs PSR SX900 whats the real difference they made on them Thank you
This is a impossible to answer this for another person. Yamaha has very smooth and expressive voices and excellent rhythm arrangements. PA1000 has that great strength here too... but its sound-stage voice is different and wonderful too. Yours ears and experiences are different than any other persons. PA allows hugely more tweaking of it DSP parameters. This may/maynot be important to you. Decide what is the important attribute for you first [if you can]. If you are not familiar with either board then it will take several hours and a mentor to show you around. It may take days. If you are familiar with one and not the other you will save hours by avoiding the new [to you]. You could get lucky by auditioning both with the same [excellent ony] speakers system and magically know for sure in a few hours...if you got lucky. My suspicion is many folks will just be confused. There is so much on each board it is mind boggling. Personally I gravitate to the Yamaha's. This would be a mistake for others. Yet I am willing to spend hours on a PA.
I always buy these keyboards second-hand. Just got an as-new PSR975 for £795 with warranty. To be honest for senior entertaining (which is what I do), the 15 year old PSR3000 is still a great keyboard...and they still fetch £400/£500 for a nice one.
I really don't like when I see Yamaha decides to include unusable expansion packs and charge more money for them. I am a middle eastern but I don't use my keyboard much for middle eastern music. I play lots of blues, jazz, and little bit of classic rock. In my opinion, Yamaha should differentiate between the west and the east in their instruments like what Korg do. Simply release an oriental instrument for the ME and western instrument for the west and europe. Yamaha clearly did that with A3000 so why are they bothering to include oriental voices in S975?
Hi Jeremy, interesting review. I suppose that with the Genos being not even one year old, Yamaha don’t want to spoil the Genos sales by putting on the market a new flagship for the PSR S series which would compete too directly with the Genos. This is probably why the upgrade from the PSR S960 to the PSR S975 was only incremental. The next upgrade in a few years (S980 or whatever) will probably have many more interesting new features. Hopefully the Revo drums will make their way to the PSR S980.
That is why Yamaha should have trickled down more of the Tyros 5 technology since it is technically old tech and the GENOS has the real ground-breaking stuff.
Jeremy See Well from our standpoint as end users you are totally right, but if the PSR S975 had been a small Tyros 5 for a fraction of the price of the Genos, some people might have been tempted by the PSR S975/instead of the Genos. I think that Yamaha’s marketing strategy is to have the lower-end, middle of the range and higher-end line of keyboards well separated. So unfortunately I doubt that much of the Tyros 5 technology will trickle down to the next PSR S780/980 or whatever they will be called. What would be interesting, though, is if you could do a comparison between the PSR E463 and the S970 to show what the PSR S series has which the PSR E series hasn’t, like OTS, multipads etc., for instance by playing extracts of the same tunes on both keyboards.
A little more will be added and it will HYPED as if something huge has been added. Each brand does this. The huge leaps are likely every 7-10 years. Plus some of the old high level stuff is still wonderful. Watch Casio. They make their own chip sets.
I might be able to invest in a great keyboard/workstation and I've had some real cheap ones that I liked in the past. You pointed out some good points and I will add a few based on research. Mic/guitar input: why not add an additional plugin so you could actually use the vocoder on a real guitar for example. This feature is really what made me look at the psr series again I used to have a prs270. It had some great quality sounds and when I seen the ability to hook a mic or guitar to it, I really started looking at reviews. I love some of the common sounds used in pop music and was impressed with the guitar and base sounds. They sucked on the 270. The 270 had a couple sounds that were close to professional that once I added a little chorus and reverb was pretty good! Memory and polyphony is real disappointing for that price! Huge turn off! You would think we would be way above those numbers
I'm gonna buy me the S975 because of the highest upgrade from my PSR 280. I need something like Tyros and Genos but Cheaper and this is the way I wanna go for :)
New keyboards are not made to be sold only to a previous model owner. They are made to be sold to new byers or to keyboardists they are still having an s900 or s910 or want to upgrade from an older s7xx series,or having an even older model etc. Upgrading every 3 years your keyboard whatever model or brand name that is,is not that usual after all. Was Tyros 5 so much better than the Tyros 4? Was the s970 so much better than the s950? Sorry my friend but Keyboards are not smartphones.
Nice video but I've a different opinion on some aspects. You are right, the upgrade is a smaller one. They reused the same machines to manufactor the keyboard. That's why there were no changes on the surface. Yamaha realized, that Audio styles are a dead end because they are expensive in production and unflexible in usage. That's why they invented the revo drums in Genos. Don't forget that even the S975 is only a mid range keyboard. I can't share your opinion on session & pro styles as well. Session styles will play notes that are not part of your chord. If you play chords like Cm7b5 it could sound completely wrong on it. Pro styles are much more precise & honest. Thank you for your video!
I've used this keyboard (970) for over three years for all types of gigs. My biggest gripe are the keys. They are so cheaply made it's very frustrating to play precisely. They have almost no weight and sounds often pop out. There are cheaper Yamaha with much better keys. Even budget CTK Casio's have better ones. I understand it would add weight to an already heavy keyboard, but really this is something to be looked at. People do play them after all! In terms of sounds the e piano's are sorely lacking. The P125 which is a full sized digital piano has a better Rhodes sound than the ones you get on the board. The are very outdated and I needed to add my own samples to get the keyboard usable in this area. To be fair the 970 has alot of strengths too. I do enjoy this keyboard as a performer and composer. I'll be keeping an eye out for a better and more comprehensive upgrade.
