An Exciting, New Aventure in Music for Me

A couple days ago I made a deal with a friend of wife Eva, selling my Yamaha P-115 to her for 300 Euros. Her husband came yesterday evening, paid me for it and took it and its wooden stand with him. I don’t think his wife was with him.

The evening I made the deal, Eva ordered my new keyboard, a Yamaha DGX-670, and after a hard battle with various websites, ordered the cover for it yesterday. The cover is already here, it arrived this morning, and the keyboard is expected to be delivered tomorrow or Thursday.

This keyboard is quite similar in operation to the PSR-3000 I used to own, so I’m very excited that I can make some music, albeit without built-in vocal harmonies, and will no doubt reawaken my desire to be creative again. For a long time I felt burned out, and the P-115 just wasn’t doing it for me. AT the time I bought that piano, it was the only one I’d heard of that was accessible. The DGX, being very similar to the PSR, isn’t totally accessible, but much more so than a keyboard with the dreaded touch screen would be.

I’m like a kid at Christmas! I haven’t felt this pumped about something in a long time!

26 comments

  1. Super articulation voices are different than Mega voices, super articulation voices you can play them live with different expressions and you can use one of the pedals to make it sound realistic.

  2. I just wish that Yamaha shouldn’t hide the xg folders on there newer keyboards, your only way like I said is to copy the XG folder from an older keyboard in order to make it work with the newer ones.

  3. The only way to get access to the gm&xg& GM2 voices is to copy them from another keyboard, like tyros one all the way to five, the PSR 3000, and one of the older psrs keyboards.
    That’s your only way to be able to play these voices on the psr sx700, the PSRSX 900, the genos one and two, and of course the DGX 670.

  4. Very offtopic but I still have this roland juno ds and this is so much visually controled that I probably have never realised in the 6 years I had it that this thing is pretty awesome. But well, for sighted that is… Still frustrated about my yamaha p125 being a 125 a and not normal 125, which comes with a build in audio interface.

  5. Update, I’m finally learning how to navigate files and folders. Once I get really familiar with how things are done, backing out of folders and such, then I’ll be ready to do my own songs, I think, I hope.

  6. I understand that the left pedal on the 3-pedal unit does some super articulation functions so maybe at least some of that will be accessible for real-time playing.

  7. If it’s like the PSR-3000 they’re hard to play. Kinda fun listening to demos of them being played by someone who knows all the secrets.

    Sadly, I won’t be getting the keyboard for quite awhile. The stand and pedal are coming today but the keyboard is being delayed as the package is too long or something. I must admit to quite some frustration at this point.

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