About MIDI
60 PSR-E323/YPT-320 Owner’s Manual
Reference
You can also use this instrument as a remote con-
trol device for the Digital Music Notebook appli-
cation on your computer (via the MIDI
connection) —controlling playback, stop and
transport functions from the panel.
● Remote control keys
PSR-E323/YPT-320: To use the remote control
functions, simultaneously hold down the lowest
two keys on the keyboard (C1 and C#1) and
press the appropriate key (shown below).
Sends the PSR-E323/YPT-320 panel settings to
an external MIDI device.
When recording a PSR-E323/YPT-320 perfor-
mance to an external sequencer or similar equip-
ment, you can use this function to send the
current PSR-E323/YPT-320 panel settings so
that when the sequence is played back the origi-
nal panel settings are automatically restored.
You can set Initial Send in the Function settings
(page 56).
Transferring data between the PSR-E323/YPT-320 and a computer
The PSR-E323/YPT-320 includes 102 preset
Songs and 106 Styles, but you can load other
Songs and Styles from your computer and use
them in the same way as the preset Songs and
Styles as long as the loaded Song is SMF format
0* or the loaded Style is SFF (Style File Format).
Loaded Song data will be stored to Song num-
bers beginning with 108 and one of the loaded
style/s can be registered as the 107th style.
In order to perform the operations described in
this section you will need to use a computer con-
nected to the Internet to download the free
Musicsoft Downloader application.
* The SMF (Standard MIDI File) format is one of the most
common and widely compatible sequence formats used for
storing sequence data. Most commercially available MIDI
sequence data is provided in SMF Format 0.
You can download the “Musicsoft Downloader”
application from the following website. Make
sure that your computer has an Internet connec-
tion.
http://music.yamaha.com/download/
●The minimum computer requirements
for Musicsoft Downloader operation
are as follows:
• OS : Windows 2000/XP/Vista
* Only 32-bit is supported.
• CPU : 233 MHz or higher; Intel®
Pentium®/Celeron®
processor family (500 MHz or
more is recommended)
• Memory : 64 MB or more (256 MB or
more is recommended)
• Hard Disk : at least 128 MB of free space
(at least 512 MB of free space is
recommended)
• Display : 800 x 600 HighColor (16-bit)
• Other : Microsoft® Internet
Explorer®5.5 or higher

Remote Control of MIDI Devices

PSR-E323/YPT-320 Panel Setting Trans-

mission (Initial Send)

C1
C#1
C6: Fast forward
B5: Start
A5: Stop
G5: Rewind
F5:Top (move to the beginning of
the song)
E5: Metronome ON/OFF
• Remote control of MIDI devices will function independently of
the PC2 mode.
NOTE

Installing Musicsoft Downloader

• Visit the Yamaha website for more information on the latest
version of Musicsoft Downloader (version 5.4.0 or higher) and
how to install it.
NOTE