ArrangerPilot is a repertoire organizer and a MIDI controller for a Yamaha PSR-SX. Each song on the instrument is a registration bank: the style, the voices, and the buttons for the intro, the verse, the chorus and the ending. The keyboard can open a bank. It does not keep the order of the evening, the lyrics, or which song comes next. That is what the app is for.
The library is built from the bank folder on a USB stick. Each bank becomes a song, with the button labels, notes and the duration. A set list is the order for the night and the total time. On stage the screen is dark and the current song is large: lyrics or the song map, and a pedal to turn pages. The registration buttons are not on this screen. They stay on the instrument, so you keep looking at the keyboard while you play.
The app never writes to the instrument. Over MIDI it sends a number — open bank 5 — and the instrument counts that number in the folder that is already open. The sounds stay where you made them. The first tested model is the PSR-SX720; other PSR-SX models follow as they are tried on the instrument. On a laptop it runs in Chrome or Edge. On a phone or tablet, install the app from Google Play or the App Store: a browser on iPhone or iPad cannot do MIDI, and neither can Safari.
In the app
The order of the evening
Lyrics and chords
Which song is next
The total time
MIDI · bank 6
On the instrument
The style and the voices
Registrations 1–8
The sounds you made
Set up once
DEMO/
Demo - Begin The Beguine.T558.rgt
Demo - Blue Moon.T558.rgt
Demo - Blue Skies.T558.rgt
1
Same folder
The app and the instrument both use one flat folder of registration banks on the USB stick.
5Begin the BeguineA
6Blue MoonC
7Blue SkiesEm
2
One tap
On stage, a tap recalls that bank. The screen shows the song, the lyrics or the song map, and a pedal turns pages. Registrations are pressed on the instrument.
ArrangerPilot → PSR-SX
sendsbank 6
writesnothing
3
Nothing is written
Banks are created on the instrument. The app only sends the bank number over MIDI.
Demo PSR-SX72010
1All My LovingD
2Aloha ʻOeD
3AmapolaC
4Anema e coreG
5Begin the BeguineA
6Blue MoonnowC
7Blue SkiesEm
8Georgy GirlA
9MistyC
10My WayD
What is inside
Song library
Every registration bank is a song with button labels, notes and duration.
Set lists
The order of songs for the evening and its total duration.
Stage
Dark screen, the current song large, lyrics or the song map, a pedal to turn pages. Registrations stay on the instrument.
Never writes to the instrument
Banks are created on the instrument; the app only recalls them over MIDI.
On your phone
The same library on a phone or tablet. The apps are in Google Play and the App Store.
