DGX 670 sending it back for a refund

[Bill F]

I have only had this keyboard a week. A week of searching, reading the owner's manual, reference guide and data sheet has not helped. This thing sounds awful. Recording limited to only tracks 1,2 or 3 and can't even record percussion drums.
Many of the buttons do nothing. I am glad that I saved the boxes but re-packaging will be a pain. I have remove the 3 pedal unit, disassemble stand and pack up the keyboard. I was really excited when I bought it but so disappointed now.
If anyone knows of keyboard that actually works like it should I would welcome your suggestions.
Thanks.

 

[Bouncingogre]

Hi Bill

I can understand your disappointment with your DGX670 because I had the previous model, the DGX660 when it was first released, and sold it on after only 6 months.
Both models had great reviews, but like you I had expected a great deal more.

Main criticism is the positively AWFUL display. Working the display required so much button pressing and farting about, that actually doing anything became a chore and detracted from playing to the point of just giving up.

Yamaha manuals are not good anyway, so all in all an abysmal experience.

Tell us exactly what you want to do, and I'm sure between us you'll get some good suggestions.

I play a Korg Pa5x now. I don't buy Yamaha any more.

 

[Biggles]

Well you would buy a Yamaha, the keyboards from hell.

Great piano sounds, rubbish everything else, especially the damn awful Menu systems.

 

[Gunnar J]

I've always had the impression that the DGX series is intended to work as PIANO that have some styles, but not announced as an arranger workstation keyboard?
Another thing is, that the user- and referencemanuals as well as specs usually are to find for download to read before buy.
If we know what we're looking for, and not have any shop to visit, read those documents carefully, search YT videos and all the info there is to find.

Keyboards from heaven or hell .....
I can easily find something that do not work or sound as I wish or want it to do at every brand there is. The big challenge is to find what's nearest to what we desire within the price limit we have set before buy anything.
But, even if we want it to, I don't think we're going to find the "one fits all". That's why many have several models to enjoy and amuse themselves.

 

[Bill F]

I had a beautiful 100 year old upright piano and never owned a keyboard. So I thought a keyboard might be nice having different instrument sounds etc. So I read up about a lot of different ones and the Yamaha DGX670 got a lot of good reports. But it hasn't taken me long to realize that it's not very good. The grand piano sounds OK but chords in the lower octaves sound muddled and awful. The notes of those chords sound OK when played individually, but not together.
And why so many different ways to navigate through the maze of menus, settings and controls? There's the tab buttons, the menu button, rotary dial, 4-way cursors and 16 buttons below the display screen that take on various functions. Why not a simpler consistent way to plow through the mire of menus?
I just want to play a piano and maybe switch to an organ or other voice and possibly to record a few tracks with various instruments. And it doesn't help, as someone said, that the manuals are written in Klingon.
Live and learn!

 

[Biggles]

I had a beautiful 100 year old upright piano and never owned a keyboard. So I thought a keyboard might be nice having different instrument sounds etc. So I read up about a lot of different ones and the Yamaha DGX670 got a lot of good reports. But it hasn't taken me long to realize that it's not very good. The grand piano sounds OK but chords in the lower octaves sound muddled and awful. The notes of those chords sound OK when played individually, but not together.
And why so many different ways to navigate through the maze of menus, settings and controls? There's the tab buttons, the menu button, rotary dial, 4-way cursors and 16 buttons below the display screen that take on various functions. Why not a simpler consistent way to plow through the mire of menus?
I just want to play a piano and maybe switch to an organ or other voice and possibly to record a few tracks with various instruments. And it doesn't help, as someone said, that the manuals are written in Klingon.
Live and learn!

Because its a Yamaha.

They are the masters at very deep and confusing menu’s.

You are right though, but it is not just Yamaha, most are written in Klingon, translated into Urdo, then into Italian and then into Farsi, then into Sami, finally into worst of all American English and all translations are not by native speakers.

Take a look at a Korg XE 20, vastly easier menu system and still a digital piano with arranger features.

If you are after a digital piano with full arranger and recording features and 88 keys then you effectively have a choice of one, a Korg Pa5X 88.

It is the inbuilt recorder that the issue resides, most are not user friendly and of limited functionality.

 

[DungBeatle]

Korg Pa5X 88

There's a used one here for $3,709.95:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/used/1712816/?smpm=bu_uar&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt4C-BhBcEiwA8Kp0CTvpxqH7QxLqFcyicbaulQr6nDUBJqgiZmUIz6U-k6vUz0zr-yuT8RoCW4YQAvD_BwE

~Bob