10-21-2024, 01:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2025, 12:45 AM by Hugh Wallington.)
How to take screenshots of a Yamaha keyboard, like the one below
First, you have to ‘set the keyboard up to take screenshots’. With all the keyboards you have to make sure there is a Memory Stick inserted into the USB Port at the front (and remove any Memory Stick you have plugged into the back); and that your keyboard is OFF.
You then have to hold down three buttons as you turn your keyboard ON. On most PSR and Tyros keyboards these three buttons are the third and fourth buttons on the top row of the VOICE section, plus the first button in the second row.
On the Tyros 4, these three buttons are ORGAN and STRINGS (top row), and GUITAR (second row) .. no easy task, as they are quite far apart ...
... and you turn the keyboard ON at the back! You have to hold those buttons down until the display has completely loaded on the screen.
When you have something on the screen you want to take a picture of, you press the No:8 button in the REGISTRATION MEMORY.
As the picture is being taken you hear ‘fairy bells’ in your headphones (if you’re wearing them). You can hear the sound it makes in the YouTube video further down.
The screenshots are BITMAPS (ie .bmp) and are given the file names CAPT0000.bmp; CAPT0001.bmp; CAPT0002.bmp etc., and they are put on your Memory Stick. I would then transfer them to my laptop, re-name them .. and save them as JPEG (.jpg), these being smaller files and easier to handle.
Note: My Tyros 4 won’t do screenshots if there are already some .bmp files on the Memory Stick .. so I DELETE any that are on there using my laptop.
With the ‘touch screen’ keyboards (eg. Genos and SX series) the buttons you have to hold down are the BREAK button, and the ENDING 2 and 3 buttons.
Thanks James for these pictures of your Genos 2, below.
The button you press to take the picture is the ONE TOUCH SETTING 4 button.
Below is a YouTube clip telling you how to take screenshots of the Genos.
Having screenshots of your keyboard is very useful when you want to ask a question or explain something about your keyboard in the Forum.
When you have taken the pictures you want, turn your keyboard OFF and then ON again, as those buttons that were being used for taking screenshots are not available for normal use.
And how about other keyboards, like the Korg? Can you capture the screen on those? Chello has already asked this question for his Korg Pa5x.
https://chellos-keyboard-players-club.co...-Korg-Pa5x
If you have any comments about taking screenshots of other keyboards, please post a REPLY and tell us how you do it.
Hugh
First, you have to ‘set the keyboard up to take screenshots’. With all the keyboards you have to make sure there is a Memory Stick inserted into the USB Port at the front (and remove any Memory Stick you have plugged into the back); and that your keyboard is OFF.
You then have to hold down three buttons as you turn your keyboard ON. On most PSR and Tyros keyboards these three buttons are the third and fourth buttons on the top row of the VOICE section, plus the first button in the second row.
On the Tyros 4, these three buttons are ORGAN and STRINGS (top row), and GUITAR (second row) .. no easy task, as they are quite far apart ...
... and you turn the keyboard ON at the back! You have to hold those buttons down until the display has completely loaded on the screen.
When you have something on the screen you want to take a picture of, you press the No:8 button in the REGISTRATION MEMORY.
As the picture is being taken you hear ‘fairy bells’ in your headphones (if you’re wearing them). You can hear the sound it makes in the YouTube video further down.
The screenshots are BITMAPS (ie .bmp) and are given the file names CAPT0000.bmp; CAPT0001.bmp; CAPT0002.bmp etc., and they are put on your Memory Stick. I would then transfer them to my laptop, re-name them .. and save them as JPEG (.jpg), these being smaller files and easier to handle.
Note: My Tyros 4 won’t do screenshots if there are already some .bmp files on the Memory Stick .. so I DELETE any that are on there using my laptop.
With the ‘touch screen’ keyboards (eg. Genos and SX series) the buttons you have to hold down are the BREAK button, and the ENDING 2 and 3 buttons.
Thanks James for these pictures of your Genos 2, below.
The button you press to take the picture is the ONE TOUCH SETTING 4 button.
Below is a YouTube clip telling you how to take screenshots of the Genos.
Having screenshots of your keyboard is very useful when you want to ask a question or explain something about your keyboard in the Forum.
When you have taken the pictures you want, turn your keyboard OFF and then ON again, as those buttons that were being used for taking screenshots are not available for normal use.
And how about other keyboards, like the Korg? Can you capture the screen on those? Chello has already asked this question for his Korg Pa5x.
https://chellos-keyboard-players-club.co...-Korg-Pa5x
If you have any comments about taking screenshots of other keyboards, please post a REPLY and tell us how you do it.
Hugh
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