QueenZone discussion #1044491

innuendo1990 wrote: i ve got a new keyboard. a yamaha psr-77.

I want to mention the biggest problem I have with the PSR-530 up front: The memory management of user presets (patch changes, sequences/songs, etc.) is absolute crap and I would not have purchased this board if I had known how incredibly stupid this thing works. The bottom line is that even with six (6) brand new, fully charged "D" batteries installed, this thing easily loses its user memory if you plug in the two jacks (AC main power and 12 v DC transformer output) in the "wrong order." And you can't dump its sequences out to midi, so you can't save your songs to an external pc. They simply get lost sooner or later, depending on how carefully you power up, plug in cords, pray to the moon spirits, etc... This board is easy to use at a basic playing level, i.e. power it on, type in the patch you want and play. But if you want to use it to sequenced a song, this board is a major pain. The user interface is terrible, and very counterintuitive. It seems to me that Yamaha really went out of their way to make this board hard to use in this regard. Setting up a full song is probably something you won't do a second time on this thing because it's such a pain. And given the PSR's propensity to lose its user memory without warning, it is even more unlikely that any sensible person would try to set up songs in this thing. Even if you want to record a few measures and loop them for background when practicing some other keyboard or instrument, this thing puts in a moment (about 1.5 sec is my guess) of dead silence, so loops cannot run continuously without a moment of silence every go-round. Clever. The keyboard action is horrible. I made the mistake of taking this thing to a gig once as my only board (it was a very minor gig). I hadn't realized how hard the keys are to control, and I made a ton of playing mistakes because I didn't have the proper control. I have played other synth-weighted boards that I could control very well, but not this piece of poop's keyboard. The transformer on mine crapped one night as I was setting up to play with some friends. I had to use the batteries, which meant I did not play along all night long. The volume knob produces major explosion sounds when you turn it. And as mentioned above, you cannot, repeat cannot, rely on this thing to hold you user patches and programs.