NEW Yamaha YC88 Firmware Update 1.30

Best YC channel on YT

As a new YC61 user I really appreciate all this great info! Thank you so much!

Thanks for all of your videos, you are the best ❤

Thanx to you i updated my yc61…step by step 👍

Excellent, thanks

Really appreciate the info, thanks a lot! :)

Bought my YC61 this time last year. Never imagined it would be more capable and have new sounds, a year later. Thanks for demystifying the update procedure, and for your channel in general. Going to make music, now.

Thanks man. Very helpful for me!

Thanks Steve, Just want to add my voice to the many others to thank you for your excellent videos!

Steve, I got the YC88 about a week ago and I just love this board like no other. I really appreciate your YT videos, what a source of great information. You do an exceptional job and I thank you greatly!!

Thanks Steve, once again you have hit it out of the park! I am sure I am not the only one here that is in my late 60's and grew up with analog gear which was a LOT easier to wrap our minds around compared to all of the moving parts in the modern, digital world. Your VERY precise and easy to understand videos are a Godsend! Peace and namaste.

I have one and without a doubt one of the best stage keyboards, beautiful sound and with the best organ emulator I know!!! This update came to complement a lot and best of all... without paying!

I'm starting to save up for one of these. It seems like the best option for my needs that I could possibly afford. Nord just gets too expensive for eighty-eight keys. I really appreciate that Yamaha has been listening to users and adding very good features and new sounds in each update. The improvement in the rotary speaker really blew me away.

Thanks for putting this together - you’re definitely the YT authority on the YC boards. I did this update a few days ago and it’s a nice update. Something you mentioned that I wish I knew beforehand—when you save either a ‘backup’ or ‘live set all’ file, you can later load individual live sets from within either of these file types to the YC (they will load to the currently selected live set). The update instructions do not mention this. Before I re-loaded my previously-backed-up live set file containing my custom live sets, I backed up all the new 1.30 live sets individually (4 banks worth, 32 files 🤓) to upload later. It would be a nice feature if the YC could save/load banks of live sets.

Now it works..PUH. Great. I download the Update one more time and load it again with slow down mind. I think something in the proses was not ready. Great sounds. Thank you for that. Im on board again.👍👍👍👍👍👍 PGM File is ready !

I can't believe I'm almost a year behind the firmware update on my YC-88. I keep it at our vacation home that's in the middle of a PacNW forest—and which gets frequent power outages. So you freaked me out when you said (@6:40)..."Under no circumstances should you interrupt the power cycle in any way or turn the YC off—or you can permanently damage your keyboard." 😮 It's in the process and I'm sweating bullets, man!

Thanks for doing this. One tip = turning on and off a device so many times increases the chance of in-rush current from damaging the power supply. Using Zero Surge protection, it prevents the damage from in-rush current.

Thanks for a clear and concise video! My firmware update failed after two attempts with a "Checksum Error". Repeated the process with a different USB drive and it finally worked.

As an IT Pro who works with device ops a lot, I can vouch for the quality of this presentation. Minor note: there is a typo in your description: 1.03 instead of 1.30.1 which is the current release.

I don't like how difficult they make this. I just got the yc and made a live set I really like. I should be able to save it on their app, soundmondo, update my keyboard and reload it. But after all my efforts I found that I must have the latest keyboard update to use soundmondo. Extremely frustrating. I shouldn't need 2 USB stick lol.