You make the best, most detailed and concice instruction videos I've seen. ( As a multi- instrumentalist, I've watched DOZENS of such videos on numerous instruments and pedals and DAW's.)
Thank You Tony - You do an Excellent job explaining differences of Audio and MIDI - then very clear and simple how to record to USB drive. So Clear - So Easy - So Helpful Thank You 🙂
Thank you Tony for another excellent episode of the recording capability of Yamaha keyboards. You covered a wealth of information as to the "how to" as well as the background knowledge of the various aspects of the "recorded sound type " - midi, wave, analog, digital, etc.
Thank you so much for your video. That’s great help! I wonder when we record internally,if we can, after recording, load the sound directly to the sample pad? That could be great for creating backing loops to practice over, since there is no real looping function on the keyboard
It needs to be an audio file (not MIDI), so if you record audio to a wav file I'm pretty sure you could sample that. I'm not sure if there is a length limit or not, and also anytime I tried to use the sampling I got random delays at the start before it plays the audio (which for trying to time actually using it in a song was impossible). To be honest I didn't spend much time with it, but it might work ok for what you're thinking (as long as it doesn't insert "breaks" in between the loops. Good luck! Thanks for checking out the channel, feel free to subscribe
Thanks for your video explaining how you can record an audio wave file to USB. What I really liked was that you were able to play with just percussion. Every time I try to record a song with percussion, I have to play a chord to start even of if I didn’t select accompaniment. At least, the method you demonstrated gives me the option of playing audio with just percussion. If I am missing something I’d appreciate your feedback. I don’t know if you use Logic Pro on a Mac, but for some reason, I can set up the connection using the USB cable to record midi, but if I try to use the audio track the Yamaha plays a loud note which begins to feedback. I suspect I made an error in setting the connection with the Logic Pro app. I suspect it has something to do with audio/midi capability of my Yamaha. Thanks 😂
I don’t actually use any DAWs much at all to be honest - I know with pcs you need a Yamaha driver off their site (usually Mac’s don’t) - maybe there is something you have to do in logic pro to “tell” the app this is an audio (vs midi) track? Sorry I’m not more help!
Thank you ! May I ask you to help me ? When I press contemporary Shift and voice button to get "OTS" voices, what can I do to cancel this opportunity ? Thank you in advance 🙏
Thanks very much for this tutorial. Is it possible to play styles from the USB through the keyboard and play along to those styles. This can be done on the Tyros 2 I had, and I have 100's of styles on my computer. Thanks again. Cheers.👍👍
I've never done that, but you can load up to 10 style files at a time to style numbers 291-300 from a flash drive. Check out the reference manual on Yamaha's website it goes through the steps on how to do that. Thanks for checking out the channel, feel free to subscribe
@@PianoTone Thanks very much for the information, Your videos on the PSR-E473 have been very helpful. Have a great week, stay well & safe. Have subscribed.👍
Is there a way where I can Play the recorded MIDI(with style and voices) and sing along in the inbuilt mic but record only the mic track(excluding the midi which is being played)? So that I can edit the mic vocals by applying some equilizers and vocal effects
No - the audio recording will record all audio the keyboard is producing, and you can’t edit audio tracks on the keyboard, so you wouldn’t be able to add effects etc anyways. You’d need to either export your midi to a DAW (and then use the DAW voices to replay it) and add a vocal track in the DAW, or replay the recorded MIDI and record it to flash drive, then import that audio recording (as a single track) into a daw and then add a vocal track.
I just bought the kaeyboard and am awaiting shipment. Trying to research as much as possible before arrival. Here is what I am hoping to be able to do: playback midi from usb rather than computer and at the same time record a vocal track to usb. Will this be possible? If not is there a workaround, perhaps recording mic to instrument memory during playback of midi? Or copying midi file to instrument for playback while recording mic to USB? Thank you in advance!
Hi there! I've never done anything like that before to be honest. It would depend if you want your vocal track isolated or not. You definitely wouldn't be able to play along with MIDI and record vocals to and from USB at the same time. And you can't record audio to the instrument just to USB. And if you were able to load the MIDI to the keyboard and play it back while singing over it, that would work to USB but it wouldn't be an isolated vocal track (it would include the MIDI being played back). So to get an isolated vocal track recorded direct to USB you would need to be singing to your track but not have the track being played on the keyboard (or it will get included). Hope that helps! Thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe
I’ve never done that and have no experience with that software but since it has a USB audio interface and also sends MIDI it would just be a matter of setting your software up (configuring midi vs audio in your apps etc) and you might need a driver from Yamahas site if this is a pc vs mac
does the rec n share work if you are using android phone as well? i connected it with usb type c but does not seem to work, actually the charging usb cable was used, anyways rec n share does not seem to detect the device
Apparently, you can't record user song audio onto a USB stick on the ew425. Midi, and just about anything else, no problem. Unfortunately, I don't work in midi. Without moving my keyboard and desktop computer so that they're next to each other, I guess I'll just put Audacity or something onto my tablet, record into that, then transfer the .wav file from my tablet to my desktop in the other room. Maybe I should just get a nice laptop, then I can put the keyboard anywhere ... no problem. If I'm wrong about not being able to record user song audio to USB stick on the ew425, then please correct me. Thanks. (For further clarification, when I'm in record audio mode, then go to a user song to record it, then it just won't play when I press the start/stop button. I'm going to work on this again in a few minutes. Will get back to you if I can get it to work.) Just finished about 90 minutes of playing stuff. That's the longest I've spent in any single session since I got it -- been having a problem with motivation. Ok then, signing off for now. Thanks for your vids.
Hey Thomas! You can record audio (I’ve done it many times) and you can play it back. Make sure when recording that you hold shift and press Rec to get into audio record mode; and to play it back, the “song” button toggles between MIDI songs on the keyboard and the audio songs on the flash drive. Hope that helps!
@@PianoTone Wow, thanks for fast reply. Yes, I can record audio onto USB stick, no problem. But not the audio from a user song. That's what I wanted to do. But it's no big deal, as I wrote above. Maybe I have the sequence of operations wrong or something.
Oh I get it sorry I misunderstood. You could play back the audio from the user song and use the USB cable to send it to your phone, pc or tablet - if you don’t want to move your pc close, try sending it to your phone and just use a simple audio app (voice memos on iPhone works well) then you could share that file via cloud or email to your pc
@@PianoTone Thanks again! So, I take it that, as far as you know, there's no way to record user song audio directly to the keyboard's USB stick. But yeah, there's other ways to record user song audio to a WAV file. Will probably use Audacity on the tablet, then transfer to desktop computer. Not a big deal, I was just hoping that it could be done directly to the USB stick, but apparently not. I'm checking out Rec n Share app now. My phone's built in camera/video app records the direct audio at a bitrate of 156 kbps as an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) file.
Correct there is no way to do that - I tried bunch myself but you can’t access both the MIDI section for playback and the audio section to record at the same time. For my let it be backing track I made I recorded it to a wav file on my iPad using the voice memo app and a usb cable
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psr473 quick sampling - slow writing :) max each sample time 9,6s - time writing is 30 seconds!!! Wow !!! You can`t sampling internal voices and styles. Yamaha what you doing?
You make the best, most detailed and concice instruction videos I've seen.
( As a multi- instrumentalist, I've watched DOZENS of such videos on numerous instruments and pedals and DAW's.)
Thanks so much for the kind words super appreciated! And thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe
@@PianoTone I already did. Thanks again!
Thank You Tony - You do an Excellent job explaining differences of Audio and MIDI - then very clear and simple how to record to USB drive.
So Clear - So Easy - So Helpful
Thank You 🙂
Thanks so much, glad you found the video helpful! And thanks for checking out the channel, feel free to subscribe
Thank you Tony for another excellent episode of the recording capability of Yamaha keyboards. You covered a wealth of information as to the "how to" as well as the background knowledge of the various aspects of the "recorded sound type " - midi, wave, analog, digital, etc.
Thanks so much Visay glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you so much for your video. That’s great help! I wonder when we record internally,if we can, after recording, load the sound directly to the sample pad? That could be great for creating backing loops to practice over, since there is no real looping function on the keyboard
It needs to be an audio file (not MIDI), so if you record audio to a wav file I'm pretty sure you could sample that. I'm not sure if there is a length limit or not, and also anytime I tried to use the sampling I got random delays at the start before it plays the audio (which for trying to time actually using it in a song was impossible). To be honest I didn't spend much time with it, but it might work ok for what you're thinking (as long as it doesn't insert "breaks" in between the loops. Good luck!
Thanks for checking out the channel, feel free to subscribe
Thanks for your video explaining how you can record an audio wave file to USB. What I really liked was that you were able to play with just percussion. Every time I try to record a song with percussion, I have to play a chord to start even of if I didn’t select accompaniment. At least, the method you demonstrated gives me the option of playing audio with just percussion. If I am missing something I’d appreciate your feedback.
I don’t know if you use Logic Pro on a Mac, but for some reason, I can set up the connection using the USB cable to record midi, but if I try to use the audio track the Yamaha plays a loud note which begins to feedback. I suspect I made an error in setting the connection with the Logic Pro app. I suspect it has something to do with audio/midi capability of my Yamaha.
Thanks 😂
I don’t actually use any DAWs much at all to be honest - I know with pcs you need a Yamaha driver off their site (usually Mac’s don’t) - maybe there is something you have to do in logic pro to “tell” the app this is an audio (vs midi) track? Sorry I’m not more help!
Thank you Tony, you show me to save a waw fil to my device. Your video is very good❤
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Useful! Thank you so much Tony! ♥️🤘
Thanks again!
Thank you so much! You helped me decide, this is my next piano 👍
Thanks so much glad you enjoyed the video! The 425 is a pretty amazing keyboard. And thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe
Very helpful video! As usual. Thanks
Thanks Thomas!!!!
Thank you! very much 🙂
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Useful! ♥️🤘
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EXCELLENT! - Thank you. 😃
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the video.
Thank You!
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Thank you !
May I ask you to help me ?
When I press contemporary Shift and voice button to get "OTS" voices, what can I do to cancel this opportunity ?
Thank you in advance 🙏
I actually don't own that keyboard anymore so I can't test that sorry
Thanks very much for this tutorial. Is it possible to play styles from the USB through the keyboard and play along to those styles. This can be done on the Tyros 2 I had, and I have 100's of styles on my computer. Thanks again. Cheers.👍👍
I've never done that, but you can load up to 10 style files at a time to style numbers 291-300 from a flash drive. Check out the reference manual on Yamaha's website it goes through the steps on how to do that.
Thanks for checking out the channel, feel free to subscribe
@@PianoTone Thanks very much for the information, Your videos on the PSR-E473 have been very helpful. Have a great week, stay well & safe. Have subscribed.👍
Is there a way where I can Play the recorded MIDI(with style and voices) and sing along in the inbuilt mic but record only the mic track(excluding the midi which is being played)? So that I can edit the mic vocals by applying some equilizers and vocal effects
No - the audio recording will record all audio the keyboard is producing, and you can’t edit audio tracks on the keyboard, so you wouldn’t be able to add effects etc anyways. You’d need to either export your midi to a DAW (and then use the DAW voices to replay it) and add a vocal track in the DAW, or replay the recorded MIDI and record it to flash drive, then import that audio recording (as a single track) into a daw and then add a vocal track.
I just bought the kaeyboard and am awaiting shipment. Trying to research as much as possible before arrival. Here is what I am hoping to be able to do: playback midi from usb rather than computer and at the same time record a vocal track to usb. Will this be possible? If not is there a workaround, perhaps recording mic to instrument memory during playback of midi? Or copying midi file to instrument for playback while recording mic to USB? Thank you in advance!
Hi there! I've never done anything like that before to be honest. It would depend if you want your vocal track isolated or not. You definitely wouldn't be able to play along with MIDI and record vocals to and from USB at the same time. And you can't record audio to the instrument just to USB. And if you were able to load the MIDI to the keyboard and play it back while singing over it, that would work to USB but it wouldn't be an isolated vocal track (it would include the MIDI being played back).
So to get an isolated vocal track recorded direct to USB you would need to be singing to your track but not have the track being played on the keyboard (or it will get included).
Hope that helps!
Thanks for checking out the channel feel free to subscribe
thanks a lot i did a recording yesterday and it was saved a midi on the usb, now i know how to record, this does not have bluetooth right?
Correct no Bluetooth
Can I directly LIVE cast the MIDI + Audio to my laptop for OBS or a Zoom live?
I’ve never done that and have no experience with that software but since it has a USB audio interface and also sends MIDI it would just be a matter of setting your software up (configuring midi vs audio in your apps etc) and you might need a driver from Yamahas site if this is a pc vs mac
does the rec n share work if you are using android phone as well? i connected it with usb type c but does not seem to work, actually the charging usb cable was used, anyways rec n share does not seem to detect the device
The Yamaha site says it’s compatible with android, but I have no android and have never tried
@@PianoTone i see, i found the solution, apparently you need usb to host cable for it and also to connect this to pc
Apparently, you can't record user song audio onto a USB stick on the ew425. Midi, and just about anything else, no problem. Unfortunately, I don't work in midi. Without moving my keyboard and desktop computer so that they're next to each other, I guess I'll just put Audacity or something onto my tablet, record into that, then transfer the .wav file from my tablet to my desktop in the other room. Maybe I should just get a nice laptop, then I can put the keyboard anywhere ... no problem. If I'm wrong about not being able to record user song audio to USB stick on the ew425, then please correct me. Thanks. (For further clarification, when I'm in record audio mode, then go to a user song to record it, then it just won't play when I press the start/stop button. I'm going to work on this again in a few minutes. Will get back to you if I can get it to work.) Just finished about 90 minutes of playing stuff. That's the longest I've spent in any single session since I got it -- been having a problem with motivation. Ok then, signing off for now. Thanks for your vids.
Hey Thomas! You can record audio (I’ve done it many times) and you can play it back. Make sure when recording that you hold shift and press Rec to get into audio record mode; and to play it back, the “song” button toggles between MIDI songs on the keyboard and the audio songs on the flash drive.
Hope that helps!
@@PianoTone Wow, thanks for fast reply. Yes, I can record audio onto USB stick, no problem. But not the audio from a user song. That's what I wanted to do. But it's no big deal, as I wrote above. Maybe I have the sequence of operations wrong or something.
Oh I get it sorry I misunderstood. You could play back the audio from the user song and use the USB cable to send it to your phone, pc or tablet - if you don’t want to move your pc close, try sending it to your phone and just use a simple audio app (voice memos on iPhone works well) then you could share that file via cloud or email to your pc
@@PianoTone Thanks again! So, I take it that, as far as you know, there's no way to record user song audio directly to the keyboard's USB stick. But yeah, there's other ways to record user song audio to a WAV file. Will probably use Audacity on the tablet, then transfer to desktop computer. Not a big deal, I was just hoping that it could be done directly to the USB stick, but apparently not. I'm checking out Rec n Share app now. My phone's built in camera/video app records the direct audio at a bitrate of 156 kbps as an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) file.
Correct there is no way to do that - I tried bunch myself but you can’t access both the MIDI section for playback and the audio section to record at the same time. For my let it be backing track I made I recorded it to a wav file on my iPad using the voice memo app and a usb cable
TONOR Dynamic Karaoke Microphone for Singing with 4.5m XLR Cable, Metal Handheld Mic Compatible with Karaoke
Is the above Mic Compatible with PSR-E473???
It’s dynamic (not condenser) and has the correct connection (1/4” TS) so yes it should work!
@@PianoTone It worked thanks
Can we record Mic sound on Keyboard?
You can record the mic in an audio file along with your playing (not in a midi recording).
psr473 quick sampling - slow writing :) max each sample time 9,6s - time writing is 30 seconds!!! Wow !!! You can`t sampling internal voices and styles. Yamaha what you doing?
We'll busy this month
:)