The Yamaha PSR-S770 has 512 Megabyte of wave ROM (NAND flash) thereof 160 Megabyte reserved for expansion voices. The PSR-SX600 only has 100 Megabyte reserved for expansion voices, however, it has more S.Art and Mega voices. That would suggest it also has a 512 Megabyte wave ROM. It is a pity that Yamaha opted against upgrading the concert grand piano voice to S.Art on the SX600. However, it is quite understandable, because they needed a clear differentiation from the higher models of the SX-line. It would also be interesting, if the SX600 has a SWP70 tone generator chip. I will look for a service manual to check that. Because this chip is the tone generator for PSR-S770. It is conceivable that SX600 uses a higher compression, thus having a smaller physical wave ROM.
This seems like a pretty useful toolset if you know what you are doing. Can this be done with the newer SX720 or SX920? Would you even bother with an upgrade to these?
@@cinepost Well, the big advantage of the SX600 is its in-built USB audio interface. So you can sequence MIDI on your iPad (Cubasis) and record audio conveniently, when you are done editing. While the multi-timbral setup shown in the video is possible, SX720/SX920 still don't feature an audio interface, so you would need an external USB audio interface or use my little trick to record audio: ruclips.net/video/eLgJH61mLAo/видео.html The sound quality of the internal sounds (especially piano, strings..) of the new SX720 and even more noticeable on SX920, is better than SX600. However, the audio interface of the SX600 lets you connect easily to an iPad (or PC) and use the good PSR internal sounds along with high quality sounds from the iPad (like Pianoteq, Ravenscroft, Korg Module) and monitor everything over your SX600 speakers/headphones with no noticeable latency. Here you can hear purely the sound of the SX600, unedited. These are my "compositions". I lowered the volume, though, for the benefit of the video. ruclips.net/video/LC_HO8Y7Er4/видео.html The best deal on the market right now is buying a pre-owned Genos 1.
What puzzles me is, why people are still musing over Yamahas home arranger product lifecycles. Since 30 years every 4 years or so comes a new generation of home arrangers. The trickle down of sounds from the top arrangers has also always been as it is now. I remember buying the PSR-540 (1999, a pre-pre-predecessor of the PSR-SX600) which had one sweet voice :-) of the five sweet voices the top arranger PSR-8000 (1997, The Champ) had. The trick is to buy top arrangers and enjoy a longer lifecycle without worrying over minor trickle downs. For some reason, a Tyros always sounded better than a PSR. Maybe because of better circuitry, better EQing and effects, definitely because of better (or more of the high quality) voices. The same goes for the Genos. It takes several generations of PSR to blur the lines, meaning if I had a Tyros 4, I might consider buying a PSR-SX900 instead. Even the Tyros 5 is too advanced to be substituted by the PSR-SX900, which, for instance, doesn't feature ensemble or S.Art2 voices. If you already own a Genos 1, you could easily wait out the lifespan of Genos 2 and maybe upgrade to Genos 3 in 2028 or so. I own a Montage 8 and the Montage M is just not compelling enough. The top level Yamaha products can be enjoyed a lot longer than mid tier in my experience. A friend of mine bought an AvantGrand N3 in 2011, it still is a very inspiring instrument, while a lesser CLP of that time might have become outdated. I had bought a CLP-470 around that time, which was done for after maybe 2 years, because of outdated sound engine and keybed. PS: the keys on a Genos are definitely better than PSR keys and playability is an integral part of fun.
To recall it at a later time, you can save the (mixer) setup on PSR-SX600 as a song.
The Yamaha PSR-S770 has 512 Megabyte of wave ROM (NAND flash) thereof 160 Megabyte reserved for expansion voices. The PSR-SX600 only has 100 Megabyte reserved for expansion voices, however, it has more S.Art and Mega voices. That would suggest it also has a 512 Megabyte wave ROM.
It is a pity that Yamaha opted against upgrading the concert grand piano voice to S.Art on the SX600. However, it is quite understandable, because they needed a clear differentiation from the higher models of the SX-line.
It would also be interesting, if the SX600 has a SWP70 tone generator chip. I will look for a service manual to check that. Because this chip is the tone generator for PSR-S770.
It is conceivable that SX600 uses a higher compression, thus having a smaller physical wave ROM.
This seems like a pretty useful toolset if you know what you are doing. Can this be done with the newer SX720 or SX920? Would you even bother with an upgrade to these?
@@cinepost Well, the big advantage of the SX600 is its in-built USB audio interface. So you can sequence MIDI on your iPad (Cubasis) and record audio conveniently, when you are done editing. While the multi-timbral setup shown in the video is possible, SX720/SX920 still don't feature an audio interface, so you would need an external USB audio interface or use my little trick to record audio:
ruclips.net/video/eLgJH61mLAo/видео.html
The sound quality of the internal sounds (especially piano, strings..) of the new SX720 and even more noticeable on SX920, is better than SX600. However, the audio interface of the SX600 lets you connect easily to an iPad (or PC) and use the good PSR internal sounds along with high quality sounds from the iPad (like Pianoteq, Ravenscroft, Korg Module) and monitor everything over your SX600 speakers/headphones with no noticeable latency.
Here you can hear purely the sound of the SX600, unedited. These are my "compositions". I lowered the volume, though, for the benefit of the video.
ruclips.net/video/LC_HO8Y7Er4/видео.html
The best deal on the market right now is buying a pre-owned Genos 1.
Tyros 3: 11 SA2 53 SA
Tyros 4: 15 SA2 164 SA
Genos 1: 75 SA2 390 SA
Genos 2: 106 SA2 437 SA
SX920: 12 SA2 340 SA
SX720: 252 SA
2028
Genos 3: 166 SA2 580 SA
2029
SX940: 36 SA2 420 SA
SX740: (12 SA2) 340 SA
What puzzles me is, why people are still musing over Yamahas home arranger product lifecycles. Since 30 years every 4 years or so comes a new generation of home arrangers. The trickle down of sounds from the top arrangers has also always been as it is now. I remember buying the PSR-540 (1999, a pre-pre-predecessor of the PSR-SX600) which had one sweet voice :-) of the five sweet voices the top arranger PSR-8000 (1997, The Champ) had.
The trick is to buy top arrangers and enjoy a longer lifecycle without worrying over minor trickle downs.
For some reason, a Tyros always sounded better than a PSR. Maybe because of better circuitry, better EQing and effects, definitely because of better (or more of the high quality) voices. The same goes for the Genos. It takes several generations of PSR to blur the lines, meaning if I had a Tyros 4, I might consider buying a PSR-SX900 instead. Even the Tyros 5 is too advanced to be substituted by the PSR-SX900, which, for instance, doesn't feature ensemble or S.Art2 voices. If you already own a Genos 1, you could easily wait out the lifespan of Genos 2 and maybe upgrade to Genos 3 in 2028 or so. I own a Montage 8 and the Montage M is just not compelling enough. The top level Yamaha products can be enjoyed a lot longer than mid tier in my experience. A friend of mine bought an AvantGrand N3 in 2011, it still is a very inspiring instrument, while a lesser CLP of that time might have become outdated. I had bought a CLP-470 around that time, which was done for after maybe 2 years, because of outdated sound engine and keybed.
PS: the keys on a Genos are definitely better than PSR keys and playability is an integral part of fun.