Yamaha Keyboard Styles Yamaha Arranger History Keyboard. Press Release., Tyros4 PSR-S910,PSR-S710 Tyros3 PSR-S550B PSR-S900, PSR-S700 PSR-S500 Tyros2 PSR-3000/1500 PSR-2100/1100 Tyros PSR-2000/1000 9000 Pro PSR-550 Jan, 2001 PSR-9000 PSR-740/640/540 PSR-8000 PSR-730/630/530. click on date to view press release. click on model to see Features and Specifications from Yamaha US site. Navigation The navigation bar on the left will take you to a page of styles from the indicated Yamaha arranger keyboard. The available internal preset styles for that keyboard are shown.
On many of the pages there are additional style sets that are compatible with, indeed, have been tuned to work with, that particular keyboard. All of these style sets can be downloaded.
In all cases, you will be downloading a compressed file (a zip file) that must be uncompressed to get at the included styles. Be sure to check each page and to scroll to the end of the page. There are many thousands of styles available in this section. If Yamaha and/or arranger keyboards are new to you, you might be interested in learning a bit about these keyboards and the 'styles' they contain as well as Yamaha's track record for announcing new keyboards.
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New Keyboards Every Year Anyone who has had an arranger keyboard for a few years knows how much this industry changes over time. These keyboards are, at their heart, computers and like your typical desk-top computer, the features available seem to get better and better every year (although sometimes users are disappointed to see the disappearance of appreciated features). So, I've arranged the Yamaha styles section to reflect a small part of the historical record of Yamaha arranger keyboards. The table shown above lists the various Yamaha arranger keyboard model families and the month and year of the press release for that model. In fact, the press release dates provide a quick look at that press release. You can see a detailed listing of features and specifications by clicking on any model number. Very often, there will be several press releases over several months, so these dates are only approximate, but they do give you an idea of when new models have been introduced.
Purchasers are keenly aware that it is often many months after a model is introduced before we actually get to see it here in the states. And sometimes months after that before it is commonly available. The pages in this section are focused on the models starting with the PSR730 series introduced in 1997 and going all the way to the present PSR-S970 model introduced in July 2015. Some models represented a series of keyboards, for example the PSR740, PSR640, and PSR540.
Keyboards in a 'family' generally operated the same way with the more expensive models having more styles, more voices and, usually, more features. I refer to the top-of-the-line model in a keyboard family, but many of the styles provided will also work on the more junior brothers. We also mix a high-end series and a mid-range series. The high-end is represented by the PSR8000, PSR9000, 9000Pro, Tyros, Tyros2, Tyros3, Tyros4, and the Tyros5 and Tyros5-76. The midrange is represented by the PSR730, PSR740, PSR2000, PSR2100, PSR3000, PSR-S900, PSR-S910, PSR-S950, and the new PSR-S970. As the table indicates, a new mid-range keyboard is introduced one year and a new high-end keyboard the following year in a two-year sequence.
There's no guarantee that this pattern will continue, but chances are that new and better keyboards are now on the drawing board. The PSR-S970/S770 were introduced in July 2015 as replacements for the PSR-S950/S750. The Tyros5 replaced the previous flag-ship model Tyros4. Similar Keyboards Every Year If you have paid attention to the evolution of car models, you will undoubtedly have noticed a major model change occurring in one year and then that basic 'body style' being carried forward for several years before another major style change. You'll find that same idea in these arranger keyboard models. The PSR730 and PSR740 model families operated much the same way.
The introduction of the PSR2000 was an entirely new and different operational system. That system has been carried forward in the Tyros, the 2100, the 3000, the Tyros2, the PSR-S900, the Tyros3, the PSR-S910, the Tyros4, the PSR-S950, the Tyros5, and the PSR-S970. It is also essentially the same operational system used in the Yamaha CVP digital pianos. The similarity in the operating system means it is fairly easy to move from one model to another.
It also means that many of the styles will be somewhat interchangeable. I say 'somewhat' because while the operating system may be similar, the hardware is not and the voices and speakers included with each new keyboard are generally different. Thus, a style from an older keyboard may, indeed, play on a newer one, but it may not sound exactly the same. Styles, however, can be 'tuned' to optimize their sound on each of the keyboards.
More on this below. Preset and 'Tuned' Styles For each keyboard, the Styles page gives you the internal preset styles provided with that keyboard.
In several cases, you will also find additional style sets, tuned specifically for that particular keyboard, available on the 'Styles' page. For example, you will find the Tyros styles tuned for the PSR2000 on the PSR2000 Styles page.
You'll also find PSR740 styles tuned to the PSR2000 on that page. In both cases, modifications had to be made to 'original' styles to 'tune' them for playing on a PSR2000. Style Compatibility & MegaVoices While there have been a series of Yamaha keyboards produced, they have ALL included a basic set of 480 XG and GM voices. These voices are used in creating the styles for many of the keyboards. It is for this reason that one can take a style that was available on the PSR8000 and play it in the PSR740 or the PSR2000 or the Tyros5.
This style compatibility, however, was broken with the introduction of the Tyros model. This model included the new MegaVoice technology. This technology provided more realistic sounding instruments, particularly the guitars, for the styles built into the Tyros.
But the technology was only available in the Tyros. Those original styles will play, as is, in earlier keyboards, but they will NOT sound good. The earlier keyboards do not have megavoice technology. Fortunately, there is software available that can detect and remove the megavoices from the style and replace it with a standard guitar or similar voice. When you see Tyros styles for the PSR2000, that is what had to occur.
All the styles had to be tuned, fixing up the accompaniment voices where needed. In addition, the styles on the models from PSR2000 onward, have included one-touch-settings built in and stored with the style. The OTS use the preset voices on the keyboard. If newer keyboards have voices not available on older keyboards, then these voices would also have to be adjusted to 'tune' that style for use on earlier keyboards. This 'tuning' of styles is one of the strengths of the PSR and Tyros arranger line since the PSR2000 model. Not many users actually create their own styles from scratch, but many have learned how to modify an existing preset style to 'tune' it to their own particular preferences.
It is fairly easy to modify accompaniment voices and volumes to suit your own personal tastes. You can change the default tempo of a style and the various OTS voices saved with that. You can even take parts of a style, for example, a bass pattern used in one style, and put it in another style that you are tuning. All of this can be saved in a new version of the style that you can name whatever you like. So each user can create as many styles as needed with these keyboards. The lessons available in the section of this site help you learn how to do all this style tuning.
In this section of Styles as well as other sections, you will be able to download styles created and/or tuned by other owners for your use and enjoyment.
If you are a user keyboard, of course you're already familiar with the so-called Style. This style is certainly one that makes you simple to accompany a song.
But sometimes the style presets that exist on the keyboard has a lack of fit with the song being played. For example in Indonesia there is music, while the keyboard factory does not provide dangdut style. Fortunately, on some keyboards already provide facilities for its users to create their own style, like the keyboard Yamaha that provides facilities a Style Creator. However, although making a Style was done directly on the keyboard, eventually the process of making styles become very complicated and time consuming is not small.
Finally, the user must thought to look for software that can make these Style, with the aim to make the style more easily, quickly and freely. Perhaps the first thing to do is look on Google with keywords 'Download Free Style Creator' or 'Download Free Style Maker' or also 'Download Free Style Editor', and various other keywords. But very rarely they find what they really mean. And finally they had no other choice than to create a Style on the keyboard, or buy an artificial Style others who not infrequently made carelessly. For musicians who have advanced or expert level, of course this is very disturbing their musicality.
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When it is done, then Save As: Standard MIDI Files 0 (do not Save into Standard MIDI Files 1). Because the result is a MIDI file, then that can be recognized by the Yamaha PSR-Series as a Style, then the next step that you should do is change the file extension (from.mid to.sty). The steps are:. The first thing you should do is show up the file extension in Windows Explorer. The default settings of Windows usually did not bring his file extension (skip this step if you have Windows Explorer display the file extension). Bringing up the extensions are disable or enable the option 'Hide extensions for Known file types' in Windows Explorer.
The trick is:. Open Windows Explorer. Select Tools, then Folder Options, and select the View tab. Remove the checklist sign on the ' Hide extensions for Known file types'. Clik OK. The next step is to change the file extension that will make these Style.
For example the name of the file is Keroncong, then your files in Windows Explorer is displayed: ' Keroncong.mid'. Change the file by replacing ' Keroncong.mid' to ' Keroncong.STY' or ' Keroncong.S725.prs'.
(Especially for PSR-S900, I recommend you to change the extension to. If this came out the following warning: 'If you change a file name extension, the file may become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?' , Select Yes. Copy the file 'Keroncong.sty' into a flash-disk/diskette. Put the flash-disk on your keyboard, copy style, then load into your keyboard in the User Style.
Styles (and Other Files) for your Yamaha keyboard There are many sites on the internet where you can download files that can be used with the PSR keyboards. Our section will point you to some of the best. In the downloads provided at this site, we initially focused on files specifically designed for or tuned-to the PSR-2000. Over the years, we have expanded considerably and now you will find files you can use on any of the mid-range Yamaha arranger keyboards (PSR-730 to PSR-S910) or on the high-end arranger keyboards (PSR-8000 to Tyros3). Navigation This part of the PSR Tutorial includes five major sections, each of which may contain one or more subsections. The 'Style' sections are shown in the first four tabs at the top of each page. The fifth tab, 'Other Files', is for other files that you may want for your keyboard. Use these tabs to jump immediately to the section you are interested in.
A brief description of each section is provided below. You will also often find a 'navigator' shown in a sidebar on the left side of the page.
It shows the major subsections and provides another 'quick link' to help you find what you are looking for. Before long you'll have found the style and sound that sounds just right coming out of your speakers, your headphones and even your. Just browse around and, like all good musicians, experiment until that perfect sound hits your eardrums.
Click on the 'Introduction' link in any of the sidebars to return to this home page. 64,000 Styles.
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(23,000 styles) This section is organized by Yamaha arranger keyboard model in a chronological order starting with the PSR-730 introduced in 1997 and extending to the current top-of-the-line models,the Tyros3, introduced in 2008, and the new PSR-S910 introduced in 2009. The primary focus is, of course, on styles, both the original styles that came with that model as well as other style sets that have been specifically 'tuned' for use on that model. (7,000 styles) Many users find traditional style names uninformative. They prefer styles named with a suitable song name. That is the essence of the 'Gig Disks' put together by Gary Diamond and many others. Just load the 'song' you want and the keyboard is instantly set up to sound great for that song.
Gig Disks were initially designed to fill a floppy disk with styles (songs) that would be used when a performer was playing a particular gig. Recent keyboards, with their USB connections, are no longer limited to a floppy disk for style input and so it is possible to have many more styles instantly available. This section also includes a huge collection of gig disk songs from Tom's Gig Disk Library, which holds nearly 2,000 styles. Tom used this as his source when putting together individual playing 'gig' disks. (32,000 styles) Some PSR owners spend a lot of time collecting styles from the internet and saving the best that they find. You will find several such style collections in this section.
Some players not only collect styles, but they do a lot of 'tweaking' to rework styles to their own liking or keyboard. Style sets from several style 'converters' are also available here. Finally, Onacimus has painstakingly converted many of the original Yamaha style sets for use on later (or earlier) keyboards. His conversions are all here as well. (1,400 styles) You do not have to limit yourself to only those styles created by Yamaha. Styles from other arranger keyboards, although not directly usable on a Yamaha keyboard, can be converted for use on PSR keyboards.
Hundreds of styles from Technics, Roland, Ketron, and Korg keyboards have been converted and re-tuned for use on Yamaha keyboards. Other Files.
One of the really nice features of the PSR mid- and upper-level keyboards is the Music Finder system, which gets its information from a Music Finder Database ('.mfd' file). Each PSR and Tyros model includes a preset Music Finder database, usually with altered song names. However, users can modify or add records to this database and even replace it with an entirely new database. This section provides a variety of different Music Finder databases including databases with the 'correct' song titles for each of the PSR/Tyros keyboards.
Music Finder database are keyboard specific, but Michael Bedesem's program can be used to not only edit the database on your PC, but also to convert a database from one keyboard for use on a different target keyboard. Want to set up your PSR with your very own favorite set of instruments and/or styles with just the press of a single button? That's what registration files are for and you will find several useful files here. Registration files are machine specific. Registration files here are provided for the PSR-2000/2100, PSR-3000, and Tyros keyboards. You know you can add styles to your PSR or modify the styles that are already there.
Well, you can also modify the preset voices that are supplied with the machine. Scott Langholff has generously provided us with his collection of 100 voices arranged in 'Category Presets.' Mike has also provided a number of custom voices for Tyros owners. These voices may also work on other PSR and Tyros keyboards. These 'custom' voices are not new voice samples, which only some high-end models can handle.
When a user modifies a preset voice, the modifications are changes to some of the basic parameters that go to making up the voice that is heard. Only these parameter changes are saved as the custom voice, that is, the preset voice in the keyboard is loaded, and then the changes are made to the default parameters. Later keyboards have more realistic voices provided in the set of preset voices in the keyboard's firmware. These voices, which usually contain much large voice samples, can not be duplicated on earlier keyboards. Songs can be greatly enhanced by the Multipads supplied with your PSR. Here, too, you can load in additional multipads and thus expand the options available. You will find many additional multi pad files provided by Leo Dunne and Vince Lutz on the Multi Pad file pages.
This page updated on January 17, 2015.
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