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Yes - I use one of those between my Yamaha P.105 and my YC61. Allows me to use the YC61 AP and EPs from the P105 keyboard, whilst still using the organ from the YC61 at the same time. (There is a cheaper version of this type of device from Miditech -- https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Miditech-USB-MIDI-HOST/art-SYN0006178-000?campaign=PSM_UK/billiger&ProgramUUID=glvAqJar8tEAAAFoxv.P7Dz2 but I haven't actually tried that unit.) All works well enough, but you do need 2 x wall warts -- one for the P105 and one for the MIDI host converter - so the connection set up is a bit messy. I still don't understand why Yamaha decided to not include standard MIDI connectors on most P series pianos -- can't be cost, surely?

Surely not by THE Scuzzy Floopwah? ---WOW!

Would have been killer to have the synth engine editable on this board. Think that would be a possibility in a software update? This thing would slay as an all in one/top tier board if it had a fully configurable 9 operator FM engine in it. Yamaha is not always as agile a listener as some smaller developers, but hey it's worth a shot to push for this feature.... https://www.yamahasynth.com/forum The Yamaha staff who post on the forum are suggesting you might like to register with this site: https://yamahasynth.ideascale.com to get new ideas better noticed...

I've tried several of the Nord keyboards at our local dealer over the years, but could never get on with their 'Italian Job' keybeds..... When I tried out the YC61 it was 'love at first feel' for me... So the YC61 is more fun to play, IMHO. That's why I bought one!

Yes, me too!...I posted a short You Tube video a while back in response to someone who had recorded a video using the camcorder microphones, and had been disappointed (understandably) with the results. I used free video software (Virtualdub) to replace the audio with a .wav file recording made on a separate recorder, and uploaded the video file with it's new .wav audio track to You Tube (The clip is here: - only about a minute long - sorry about the keyboard playing! ) ) The audio has thus only been converted once from its .wav original -- by You tube itself It's not that difficult to replace the audio track on a video - It is made a lot simpler if the original video and the separate audio track have a 'clapper' reference at the start .( 'clapper boards' are pretty standard in the film industry , where the audio is nearly always recorded separately). As I say I use the free video app. Vitrtualdub to do it.

Hi Rogs. Your suggestion is puzzling me a little. How can you upload the audio separately from the video - surely you need to render them together first in order to make sure they line up correctly, don"t you? In your first post you said... 'I have just made a video for YouTube. I am happy with it. The audio is a wav file and sounds fine' ..... so I assumed the original audio that is already part of the video is a .wav file? I can't see why you need to 'render' it before you upload to You Tube?... just upload it as it is, in its raw form. That will minimise the loss of quality that you will inevitably get with every format change .. In short, there is then only one audio conversion involved - the one that You Tube does itself - That is the one you can't avoid.

Just use the original .wav file as part of the video upload to You Tube... You Tube will automatically re-encode and mangle the audio anyway, so you might as well start with the best quality audio ......and it is one less quality dropping audio conversion to worry about

I know this is addressed to Adan, but I was just trying out the same thing.... So -- yes you can do what you are asking.. Settings - External Keyboard: ' Organ - Off'.... then select: 'Key A - Ext. Only' The YC61 keyboard will then play the selected organ settings , and the external keyboard the Key A selection

So I pulled the trigger and picked up my YC61 a couple of days ago. Still finding my way around, but it seems like a lovely board so far. The keyboard action is really good IMHO. Much lighter and 'smoother' than the Nords I have tried. ..And to finally clear up the key size discussion - Yes, the keys are Yamaha 'synth size' .. so the octave is 160mm (or 159mm if you measure key edge to key edge). The keys are also shorter than my P105 piano keys .... the white keys are 138mm long (as opposed to 147mm on the P105) and the black keys are 90mm as against 95mm The semi weighting 'feel' is very much like the better quality Yamaha synth keys --- so, more like the Motif/Montage 61 note FSX keyboards, rather than the cheaper MOX/MOXF6 keys It seems a bit strange playing piano on a waterfall keyboard, but a combination of decent weighting and selectable velocity curves make it very playable for pianos and EPs. Do the keys feel like an original Hammond waterfall? ... Well, it's been a while, but I don't recall even thinking of being able to play piano parts on a C3, so no, not really very much like a Hammond. But it dos feel like a 'proper' waterfall - which is nice! As others have said, the default Leslie speeds are not right, and need quite a bit of tweaking. I'm still trying to work out what the scales for the rotor acceleration and deceleration mean? ... It goes from 0.21 to 2.00 - with 0.21 being the longest time? It's certainly not in seconds --- not sure quite what it represents? (I've probably missed something obvious) For anyone who is interested in what the 'raw' vibrato and chorus sound like, I've posted 3 short .wav files to illustrate what a single note - a major third and a triad sound like, pressing V1,V2,V3, C1,C2,and C3 in turn... www.jp137.com/las/Single.note.off.V1.V2.V3.C1.C2.C3.off..WAV www.jp137.com/las/Triad.off.V1.V2.V3.C1.C2.C3.off..WAV www.jp137.com/las/Major.third.off.V1.V2.V3.C1.C2.C3.off..WAV Each file is about 5MB. So - still lots to learn, but so far I'm impressed. And it looks to be nicely built throughout ... (and so it should be at the current price )

One or two UK retailers seem to have stock for sale at £1599.. so the price has started to drop - a little! I think the price difference may be the other way round in the US -- the Nord is more than the YC61 ?

I'm waiting for our local dealer to get the OK to open again .... Looking forward to trying out the YC61 action. That will be a big deciding point for me... As an 'older amateur' player I can't really justify the cost of a keyboard like this, but it would give me the chance to realise a 50 year old dream ... Back in the day (early 70s) I worked as a Hammond organ tech here in the UK...With a C3 (there were very few B3s in the UK) costing the price of a new car, there was no way I would ever be able to buy one on a tech's salary.... Now perhaps I can get close to having that 'Hammond' sound in my own home after all these years.. One of the ironies of how the world has changed...... In those days, the majority of my customers played 'straight' organ, rather than jazz or rock, and it was 'key click' and 'rotor noise' that were two of the most common complaints ! Whoever would have guessed they would turn out to be major sales features 50 years on ?

Back in the day - read early 1980s - a Prophet 5 would have set you back around half a years wages here in the UK...Completely out of reach of most (all?) amateurs. The only answer was to build your own ! At the time I was a keyboard tech 'by day' .. so I gave the project a try, and built a 5 voice poly synth Using CEM 3040 oscillators and SSM2040 filters - and with some help using a microprocessor to make the keyboard scanner - it actually worked.... Really hard to tune - but when it worked it sounded not bad ! Loved the filter sounds -- and used the SSM2040s for other projects at the time. (Quite cheap and easy to get - then! ) ended up with a few spares, which I kept for years, always thinking I'd use them again one day. In the end I had 8 unused devices left, and sold them to a dealer about 10 years ago -- At the time he didn't believe I actually had 8 unused SSM2040s -- so I had to send him a photo. (copy attached) He paid me what I asked .. but I think they might be worth a lot more now -- hey-ho! The homemade 'Prophet clone' synth got broken up years ago -- all I have left is a couple of short tracks recorded onto a cassette recorder.... Not very good either musically or recording wise, but it brings back some happy memories

Based on 'scaling' the photo at the top of this page: https://usa.yamaha.com/products/music_production/stagekeyboards/yc/specs.html#product-tabs - and assuming Yamaha's specified width measurement of 896mm for the whole keyboard is correct? .. then the width of one octave of keys comes out at 160mm.....

Certainly looks like it..... I would have been surprised if it has full size Yamaha 'piano' keys -- and, as I say, using Yamaha's own photos the keys certainly seem to measure out at 160mm (159mm) per octave, and not 164mm.

Published spec has the overall width of the YC61 as 896mm -- bit of 'scaling' using Yamaha's own photos indicate one octave of keys as 159mm and not 164mm -- so Yamaha 'synth' size keys then....