No pedal with Yamaha?

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I purchased a Yamaha ES 8 Keyboard, but it did not come with a pedal. Does
anyone know if these synthesizers come with pedals or are the accessories I
have to purchase? Also, does anyone know if the Yamaha Motif ES 8 is
supposed to come with a video or DVD tutorial included? Mine did not.
Thanks

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"song writer" <iwritesongs@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I purchased a Yamaha ES 8 Keyboard, but it did not come with a pedal.
Does
> anyone know if these synthesizers come with pedals or are the accessories
I
> have to purchase? Also, does anyone know if the Yamaha Motif ES 8 is
> supposed to come with a video or DVD tutorial included? Mine did not.
> Thanks
>
No Video, no pedals. And one more surprise: You can't edit/write to any of
the stock sounds. If you so much as want to edit the volume, you have to
save it to a separate memory location, in which they too are limited in
number.

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> > No Video, no pedals. And one more surprise: You can't edit/write to any
of
> > the stock sounds. If you so much as want to edit the volume, you have to
> > save it to a separate memory location, in which they too are limited in
> > number.
> >
>
> Hmm... But I can still edit and write on the machine, right?
> I'm new to this...
> Thanks
>
Yes. Out of the 800 or so presets I think you get like 1 or 2 banks
worth.(128 locations ea). To me this is unheard of. You can't even switch
locations. ie: you decide you want preset 3 to be in preset 1, you can't do
this. You have to re-write them to a "user" location, overwriting one of
Yamaha's user presets. Also you only get one banks worth of Performance Mode
(combinations) and one banks worth of Master Mode. It's a weird setup. But
this is about the only gripe I have with it. And though it's a MAJOR gripe,
the rest of the keyboard is nice. The piano sound is unsurpassed...