My First Attempt on the Yamaha DGX-670

Yesterday I decided to dive into doing a song. The recording process went very well but when I tried to save it I found I couldn’t do it without sighted help, so wife Eva’s assistant Pekka helped me. The song wound up in the internal user drive on the keyboard, rather than on my USB stick where I would’ve preferred it to be. I attempted, with his help, to move it to the stick but failed. I reread the instructions and they sound convoluted. Here’s hoping I can move it some day.

The song I did was one I was working on when I still had the P-115. It is instrumental, no words planned. I didn’t have a name for it so my wife named it Quiet Joy. I know I wasn’t exact with the instruments I chose, but if you’re brave enough, just press tab and you can hear it for yourself.

19 comments

  1. I promise you, if I play the MIDI files on a non-Yamaha keyboard, or using a different sound font, the result wouldn’t be what I’m hearing on the DGX-670.

  2. Well, the growling saxophone voice isn’t present on the DGX, but it plays for whatever reason. I doubt that super articulation has anything to do with it.

  3. Or play a file with voices the keyboard doesn’t have as I described in my last comment, as long as the keyboard supports such voices that is. Any voices the PSR-3000 has can be played, though not present, on the DGX-670, as I said in my previous comment.

  4. Because originally xg voices can be only used for the styles and for playing back midi files, the only way you can let them to play live is to copy it from an older keyboard and put them into your ISB.

  5. The voices are perfectly accessible on the thumb drive, so no reason to use up user memory.

    Incidentally, the keyboard plays voices it doesn’t have. For example, I have a version of a song with a growling saxophone that I recorded on the PSR-3000. When I play it on the DGX-670, the growloing sax still plays, even though the DGX doesn’t have this voice.

  6. Yes it is so that means you don’t have to copy it especially you’re gonna do it on a music shop’s keyboard in a public display keyboard.

  7. Well, that was very good, especially for the first time you used this instrument! Have you ever tried out the guitar sounds? I love how they add all the fret noise and anything in there.

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