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My Yamaha PSR e423 Keyboard Review

by Roger Guevremont
(Canada)

Yamaha PSR e423 Keyboard

Yamaha PSR e423 keyboard review - Use this keyboard to learn, play, or perform...

Product Features

Black finish that looks Professional

Yamaha Education Suite

Comes with Pitch Bend wheel

Synth Control Knobs, effects, sound envelope and Arpeggiator

around 700 Voices, 174 Styles, 40 arpeggio Voices

Record your own songs with the 6-track sequencer

Read more on psre423 on Amazon

I received the Yamaha PSR e423 as a gift. It has very good sound, very good accompaniment, arpeggiator, styles and voices. All is very good.

Don't expect too much from MIDI however. As stated by Yamaha and their service people: it works ... HOWEVER the accompaniment parts of PSR e423 cannot be read by software such as One Man Band, Notation Composer (Notation Software) as well as several other lower cost software packages that I tried.

The very expensive 'Steinberg Cubase 5.1 Advanced Music' system DOES WORK!!

This Steinberg software costs several hundred dollars (for use with the Yamaha PSR e423 keyboard costing less than $300)??

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New Owner of Yamaha E-423 PSR Keyboard
by: Jaxzon

Thank you for who created this website. Im about 2 weeks into owning the Yamaha PSR E423 keyboard. Did my research on it online and all the reviews i've read and what I heard in demos on youtube were great. The sounds and styles seem really good. However I'm more into writing songs and the thing that bugs me the most is recording the drum track on the sequencer the accomp is ALWAYS ON. It can't be shut off! the only way around it is by lowering the split point to the lowest key C. I don't like that at all. I also don't like the fills and intro/ending layout synch stop and start are next to each other and if you hit fill it will automatically go into the next one you have to hit it quickly twice to keep it on same pattern.
I used to own PSR 510 in the mid 90's. I loved that board. You could change the accomp and and sequencing was a lot easier on the board. I like to create and I haven't yet but it seems to me to do what I want I have to connect to my PC. I give the board 4 out 5 stars. It looks great too.

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Psr e423 and psr i425
by: YourGuide

Hi Vikram,

Though psr e423 does come with built-in few Arabic, Indian and Chinese Styles, you would more Indian music on the psr i425.

You should be able to add midi files of popular songs to your Psr e423 and then you can play on top of those songs. Your manual should provide you more information.

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psr e423 and psr i425
by: viksin

i want to know that can we add voices and styles to psr e423 .i m confuse in psr e423 and psr i425.pls help me my email id is vikram.singh1303@gmail.com by looks and memory and no of voices and styles e423 is good.but it does not have indian voices and styles .so can we addd voices and styles to psr e423?pls help me soon

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MIDI USB output channel
by: Alex

How do you change the midi channel that it outputs? I can't seem to find anyway of changing it!

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Accompaniment signal level
by: Jack

Hello, do you know how to change the output level of the automatic accompaniment? It seems to be too loud...

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Indian Rhythms and voices on the PSR e423?
by: Anonymous

Is there any Indian rhythms and voices in this board?
Is there freeze option in this board?

-joseph

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Just bought a Yamaha PSR e423
by: Anonymous

Newly bought 2 days back in kolkata. Nice voices. Great experience playing with arpeggio and chord function. In learning stage, could have added some indian beats like2/3, 3/2/2 etc.

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Voice of yamaha psre423
by: joy

I want to know if there is any kind of indian voice added on this keyboard? please help me as i am going to buy this keyboard.

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Yamaha PSR e423 Keyboard Review
by: Michael

Hi, I have been struggling for days now trying to figure out how to get my Yamaha PSR E423 to work with Cubase.

Please can you help me?

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PSR e423 vs YPT 320
by: Shalom

Thanks for the video and happy that I found this page! I was having a tough time deciding between this one and the YPT 320. I was looking at the YPT 320 because it fitted by budget perfectly bit this seems to have much more power, and has all the action. All those knobs and arpeggiators plus terrific sounds...

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Yamaha psre423 Keyboard
by: Libs

Why just talk about the sounds, this has got many more features. You can easily connect it to FL studio, Reason, Ableton or Audacity and get your recording done on the computer. You can save it as an mp3 or wav file and you are ready to hear it on any portable player like iPod.

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PSR e423 vs PSR e413
by: Oct

I read somewhere that this is almost same as the now discontinued Yamaha e-413. I don't think so!!! I wish I had seen this keyboard earlier. Nevertheless I enjoy my PSR 413 but this is a cool keyboard.

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Excellent sounds
by: Brez

The psr e423 sounds like a much more expensive keyboard. I also own a Roland XP-50 and some of the voices on the Yamaha are as good as the one son Roland. I think it's a very good deal at these current prices.

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Mac Drivers for Yamaha PSR e423 Music Keyboard
by: Anonymous

FYI, while there is not Mac driver listed on Yamaha's site for the psr e423, the 413's driver does work.

Yamaha psr e423 drivers

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Yamaha PSR e423 Piano Keyboard
by: Tommy

You need drivers! I think you might already have had them on your computer. But those of you have Mac need to know that the yamaha-psre423 digital keyboard is not compatible with Mac, it won't work with Mac. Hopefully the newer keyboards from Yamaha will provide drivers to support both PC as well as Mac.

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Yamaha PSR e423 Music Keyboard
by: Sunny

I think the sound is very good for the price. If you want better sounds from Yamaha, then you will have to consider the arranger workstations or the synthesizers from Yamaha, both of which would be expensive.

Besides, the yamaha-psre423 keyboard has a standard midi-over-USB interface, so you don't need to install any drivers to make it work with your computer.

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Yamaha PSR e423 Music Keyboard
by: Acer

I feel the Yamaha psr-e423 digital piano keyboard is a bit overpriced, and most of the sounds available are more of effects, for instance phone ringing, footsteps, etc. I would definitely have preferred a better sound and would not have mind if certain features were missing. Not to say that this is a bad keyboard, just that they could have designed the Yamaha psr-e423 better.

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