03-21-2018, 05:30 PM
New member here (referred here by BigCat)
I was wondering if anyone could advise me please?
I've spent my life making pop-style music with cheap Yamaha keyboards (just for fun), but now I'm moving into the world of DAWs and virtual orchestration, hoping to produce more mature, orchestral music.
But there's one keyboard that will always have a special place in my heart: my Yamaha PSR-GX76, which I've owned for 16 years now. I'm so familiar with its 118 panel voices, and have made hundreds of songs with it.
Now that I'm using DAWs, I'd love to have access to those instruments on the computer. Not only would they provide a familiar, lightweight collection of sounds, for quickly throwing together a composition, but it would allow me to exactly recreate some of my "classic" songs on the computer! (Familiar songs never quite sound the same when you change the instruments, do they?)
So, does anyone know of any way of getting the samples from my keyboard to computer?
The ideal option would be if someone had already extracted the samples from the instrument's ROM and made a soundfont. (I'd settle for any similar Yamaha keyboard, such as the nearly-identical PSR-280/282.)
The more realistic option, I guess, would be for me to record all the sounds myself. Trouble is I wouldn't have a clue how to go about doing that - I don't even know how many velocity levels it has, or which notes are the original samples, and which have been modulated.
(By the way, are there any technical terms that describe where the sampled notes fall, or the number of notes between each sample?)
Any advice would be appreciated!
I was wondering if anyone could advise me please?
I've spent my life making pop-style music with cheap Yamaha keyboards (just for fun), but now I'm moving into the world of DAWs and virtual orchestration, hoping to produce more mature, orchestral music.
But there's one keyboard that will always have a special place in my heart: my Yamaha PSR-GX76, which I've owned for 16 years now. I'm so familiar with its 118 panel voices, and have made hundreds of songs with it.
Now that I'm using DAWs, I'd love to have access to those instruments on the computer. Not only would they provide a familiar, lightweight collection of sounds, for quickly throwing together a composition, but it would allow me to exactly recreate some of my "classic" songs on the computer! (Familiar songs never quite sound the same when you change the instruments, do they?)
So, does anyone know of any way of getting the samples from my keyboard to computer?
The ideal option would be if someone had already extracted the samples from the instrument's ROM and made a soundfont. (I'd settle for any similar Yamaha keyboard, such as the nearly-identical PSR-280/282.)
The more realistic option, I guess, would be for me to record all the sounds myself. Trouble is I wouldn't have a clue how to go about doing that - I don't even know how many velocity levels it has, or which notes are the original samples, and which have been modulated.
(By the way, are there any technical terms that describe where the sampled notes fall, or the number of notes between each sample?)
Any advice would be appreciated!