This is my first keyboard. I was all set to buy the PSR-E413 from Yamaha but then the PSR-E423 came out with more voices, more flash memory and basically the same price. It looks just like the PSR-E413 except it's black. I love the capability of recording up to 5 of your own songs, each with up to 6 tracks (although only 5 actually allow you to put in melodies - the 6th is a chord track). You can easily re-record individual tracks on a song to tweak it just the way you like. You need to pay extra and buy a power supply (guess they figured they could make extra money by selling them separately), a good sustain pedal (I got the FC4), a decent stand and some headphones. I spent a week composing my own song and made some amazing music, only to find that my keyboard wouldn't connect to any computer. I finally returned it and the next one I got connected just fine, so I assume the USB port was bad on the first one, as it never got recognized as a device, so I couldn't download the drivers from their setup.exe program. I now have to buy some midi sequencer software in order to transfer my performance to my computer. That's not very well defined in the user manual, so you can get very frustrated trying to figure out why you can't get your song to come down.
I'm having a blast with this. I just hope I can eventually get my performance into a midi file. Good thing I bought a hand-held digital audio recorder too; otherwise I'd have lost my song from the first bum keyboard.Get more detail about Yamaha PSR-E423 61-key Touch Sensative Portable Keyboard with 482 Voices.
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