For now you'd need to put the split point and transpose information inside the Live Set name itself. You have limited characters - so there's some amount of "robbing Peter to pay Paul" that would be involved. By this I mean your main name conveying the "patch" would need to be short enough to fit the other information. You get 15 characters total.

Alternatively ...

Some use a tablet or laptop that can receive the Bank/PC messages and show the current patch on their external screen. Here you would have more options to have more characters.

I think it's a good idea to suggest utilizing the screen more for supplemental information. Other Yamaha synth products have a 2nd line in Live Set where I put this information (the 2nd line is in addition to the Live Set slot name naming the "patch" ). I just think it may take some time before this is implemented, if ever - and you may want to get something going in the meantime.

Thanks for your answer. I am currently using onsong to display this... but I rarely look the chords... 🙁 hopefully this can be implemented... 6 characters in a screen like this is easy to implement... it's a stage keyboard !

I think it's a good idea Matt.

You can easily get by without this on keyboards that crossfade the splits, but with a hard split point like the YC, you really want to be sure where it is - it can be pretty crass when you hit the wrong sound.

As for displaying the transpose... I did a duo gig recently on piano accordion, with a keyboard accompanist. She used the transpose button to shift one song. The next song used the same patch, and she launched into a confident intro, but forgot to cancel the transpose. Accordions have lots of buttons, but none of them are a transpose button, so I had a nice surprise challenge of transposing that one on the fly. Your screen display idea might have been the visual cue to avoid that, because currently a transposition is an invisible change on the YC, but can be a potential train wreck if you get it wrong with a live ensemble.

It's worth putting ideas like this into the YamahaSynth campaign in Ideascale. It seems this forum is more for players to engage with each other, whereas Ideascale is a more direct line back to the design team. I've raised a few issues there, and some have been fixed.

Good workaround to save it in the Live Set name - I hadn't thought to do that.

Thanks for your feedback. That real case that you mention with the accordion happens a lot.

If you save it on the live set, you might need more than 1 live set at some point in time, depending on the singer that night... and with only 160 livesets, that requires a lot of librarian use. That is the reason that I believe that a stage keyboard should indicate this to be immediate and changes can happen on the fly !

Also, yes, I was trying to add the suggestion to ideascale, but for some reason, I never got my account approved so I am still waiting for the email with the account activation, 🙁 . Would you please add it to ideascale for me please?

PS: those accordions without transpose buttons are a nightmare 😉 😀

@Matt - done

With a diatonic button accordion, you'd have to pick up the right accordion.

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Thanks Adrian !