Sunday 27 September 2015

Yamaha PSR-S970 - Use FC7 pedal to control Wah Wah

This took some working out - I saw Yamaha do it in a Demo video but could I get it to work - No was the simple answer.

However, I now know how to do it, if you want to listen to a video using it for Right hand Guitar Voice here's my version of Le Freak .

Please excuse the quality of the pictures, I used my phone to capture them.
There are two steps to setting this up, first you set up the DSP then you set the pedal.

To set the DSP - Select a Wah Guitar then underneath the display select "Effect Type", Set DSP 4 to Right 1 to modulate the Right 1 instrument.
Then select MODULATION as the Category, and PEDAL WAH as the type




If you press EXIT at this point you can set up the parameters on the Amp emulation



I saved my setting to a preset (Press button G - SAVE)

Now, set up the pedal, press FUNCTION and button D - CONTROLLER



 In this case I have an FC5 footswitch as Pedal 1 and an FC7 as pedal 2, select FC7 pedal with Button A or B, Scroll down to PEDAL CONTROL (WAH).

DONE !

You can add a 2nd Right instrument, just make sure you edit the DSP4 to say RIGHT 2 as the assignment , there are several Wah options such as VCM Pedal Wah Disco.




Have FUN !

4 comments:

  1. KEVIN---On your You Tube---Come Fly With Me----How did you get that trumpet--looks like you used Big BAND trumpet---to make the sound---going up or going down with sound & also the worbling sound ??---I have a 970-----e mail with your instructions keyboard16335 @ gmail.com MUCH appreciated ----I enjoy your performances , what's the sheet music your using ?? THANKS !!--John from USA

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    1. John, I saw your comment on Google+ notification, did you get my reply OK ?
      The BigBand Trumpet does the shrill automatically when you apply more touch, the up and down was the 2nd instrument in the background (Right 2) which does the intonation up/down - set your keyboard with the same settings as listed in the song information and you'll get the same effects, the sheet music was just a random version I pulled out the pile, I've probably got 5 or 6 different versions of this so it was the first one I stumbled across and so I used that one - Kev

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  2. Hai sir.I have psr s650.i created a pack by using Yamaha expansion manager software.. But when saved this pack is saving in ppf format..but my keyboard don't support ppf format... Sir help me to convert ppf to yep.....

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    1. Unfortunately you're asking the wrong person - the sound format of the voices in the S650 is different to keyboards using PPF or PPI packs - I no longer have an S650 - I have the S970 and I don't know how to convert from one to the other.

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