How to connect to a yamaha PSR-E423 music keyboard

How do I download songs from my mac to a Yamaha PSR-E423 music keyboard. I have in stalled the drivers but now what?

Yes I did both aforementioned activities and Mac does recognise it as a USB device but there is no method to transfer midi files from supplied cd to Yamaha PSR-E423. It does not show up as a Folder to drag files into like the Windows version in the manual. Thanks for responding.

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CAN also be buffer-related, but it may be the disk. Is it a 5400 or 7200 RPM disk?
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