Yamaha Psr 293 Drivers For Mac Os
I have been trying to connect my Yamaha psr 295 keyboard to garage band but have been hitting walls. I have a mac book pro with OS X 10.7. I have installed the driver that is provided by yamaha but it indicates its for 10.4 and below. The cable connecting the macbook pro and the keyboard is not the conventional midi cable but a usb cable. Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver V2.0.4 for Mac macOS 10.15-10.12: Mac: 3.4MB: 2020-11-25: Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver V2.0.4 for Windows 10 (64-bit) Win: 7.1MB: 2020-09-25: PSR.
Yamaha Psr 293 Price
I hope you got your manual. I just want to notify you that the PSR-500 you picked up is a great keyboard. This is confirmed by Yamaha since they did not want to retire it. When they introduced the PSR-510, rather than retire the excellent PSR-500 they demoted it in the PSR lineup and rechristened it the PSR-85. The sounds are great, the rhythms are phenomenol, the control panel is the best on the entire PSR-5xx line, etc. It's really an excellent machine.It does have several unfortunate weaknesses. The biggest is that its MIDI is not 'General MIDI (GM).' That means that when you download MIDI files from anywhere on the internet they won't play properly. The reason for this is that most MIDI Files you find are 'general MIDI compatible' and expect voices to be at a specific patch number on the synth, like flute is patch #55, e.g. But the PSR-500 will have something else at #55, meaning that when you should be hearing flute you'll be hearing koto or some other whack sound and the music will be garbled. You will need to use a MIDI editing software (like Power Tracks Pro, etc) to tweak the patches of the MIDI file, but that's too much trouble when you are downloading scores of songs. Another option is to use a 'MIDI Mapper' to translate between the MIDI file and the 500. There is a MIDI mapper built into Microsoft Windows, you can probably find an appropriate GM to PSR-500 translation file on the net.
Another weakness is that the PSR-500 does not transmit the built in rhythms over the MIDI, a big disappointment. Another problem is that the PSR-500 saves its sequences in a proprietary format that you won't be able to decipher.
All of that is what caused the 500's demise, but even with those problems, the 500 is an outstanding instrument.
Best of luck.
Larry Brown