In my post earlier I did say that you can have the STYLE, LEFT and RIGHT Split Points in three different places. In the set-up below, the keyboard has been split up into four distinct areas: STYLE; LEFT; R1 + R2; R3. http://www.ar-group.org/Files/Tyros4SplitPoint1.jpg Not sure how you would use the ...

When sitting at the keyboard a couple of days ago I decided to play a song I had recorded a while ago .. Beautiful Dreamer . I remembered that I had played my own version of this and hadn't stuck to the original bar lengths, but could I remember what key I had played it in? I finally decided that I ...

Hi James, I have downloaded your two WAV files and listened to them both one after the other, front to back and back to front .. but still cannot hear any difference between your two recordings. I know that you were probably using Pachelbel's Canon In D Major as an example for something to play, but...

Hi James, Still can't hear a difference, even though I now know what I am looking for. Sorry! As I said, I do notice a difference (a HUGE difference!) when adjusting the EQ when using the amplifier and speakers. But not when I am recording. I'll try what Den has suggested and see what happens. But E...

Hi James, No difference at all! And I have quite acute hearing. I think it may be a case of knowing what difference you are expecting to hear .. and then hearing it. I even clicked at random on one, played a few bars and then played the same few bars on the other. and sometimes played the 'after' be...

Oh yes! We all say that! Hugh

Mike, Thanks for that. It was quite a challenge to put this up and try and make it easy to follow. As I 'play by ear' I don't have the sheet music for most of what I play, so if I want to play something I have played before I need to know, at the very least, what key I had played it in. So I plan on...

Next we need to get our NOTEPAD document up and running. So do that and get it up on the screen. Click with your mouse into the document (the cursor will probably be flashing in there anyway) and do a right-click with the mouse. In the box that comes up click Paste (left click). http://www.ar-group....

Next. We need to find the WORDS & CHORDS for our song Can't Help Falling In Love . There are several places where I look for WORDS + CHORDS (all Guitar sites .. of course!!!). One place I often look is The Guitar Guy , and I would click on SONGS or ARTIST and then look in the Alphabet List to fi...

Here is one I want to play. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love vGJTaP6anOU To accomplish what I am trying to do (to get the WORDS of the song + the written CHORDS showing on the Tyros 4 screen) there are two things involved. 1. I have to find the words and chords of the song from the interne...

If you can only play from 'reading the dots' then this is not for you. But for me, so long as I know the melody of a song and have the chords laid out in front of me then I can play it. I can usually make do with just having the chords, written out in 'bars' along a line. But having the written word...

Brian, You're quite right, of course. We all buy keyboards for different reasons. As you say, the majority of people just want to sit down and play their keyboards with the on-board STYLES, and it is an achievement to succeed in playing one tune, and then another. And very satisfying. When playing i...

Brian, I should think the three PARTS of my own that I 'program' most into AR STYLES (and of course have to do each one individually) are an arpeggio; a 'repeating piano' .. high up; .. and I quite often change the 'pattern' for the BASS PART. With the BASS pattern I often find it's not suitable for...

Brian, Thanks for posting this one. What he describes (ie. what you can do with the STYLES) applies to all the Yamaha keyboards, including my AR80 organ .. which is over 20 years old now! It's just a question of which buttons to press to get what you want to do. And in your case with the PRS-SX700 i...

I would like to point out that when we set up the STYLE CREATOR we were in SECTION: MAIN A . So this drum sound we have removed, and the cymbal we have added has only been done for MAIN A . If you wanted to do that with the whole STYLE you'd have to do the same to MAIN B, C and D; and all three INTR...

Right. We've done our recording and are happy with it. So now we have to find it. Bear in mind that these keyboards put things into 'compartments', and to see any of what we are looking for we have to go to the right area of the keyboard. Looking at the MAIN SCREEN ... http://www.ar-group.org/Files/...

Making an AUDIO RECORDING You can do Recordings in MIDI or AUDIO, but here we'll take a look at AUDIO RECORDING . When you make an AUDIO RECORDING the file you get is a WAV file ( .WAV ). This is a file that holds all the music information so typically is a fairly large file, something like 30-40MB...

Here's a video showing the technique of how to play the keys to make them sound like the acoustic instruments.

Keyboard playing techniques to emulate other instruments

Here's another one. Not done on a Tyros, but the principle is the same. As I said above, you have to know in your head what it is you are trying to create.

PSR-S950 Style Programming Demonstration

STYLE PARTS - Creating a STYLE from scratch Not something I would particularly want to do as there are so many existing STYLES for you to choose from. And you would have to know in your head what it was you were wanting to 'create'. I would normally start with an existing STYLE and add into it some...

I've COPIED a Topic SysExJohn did in 2015 and am posting it next as it seems highly relevant to what we are discussing here.

Hugh

Maybe we use these 'half tones' more often than we think! After all, there are instruments that are not specifically tuned to 'Equal Temperament' and theoretically you could play any 'in-between' notes you wanted to. Like with the violin above, and the trombone. And , of course, this includes the vo...

Trumpet

What does a real Trumpet sound like? Can we get this sound (and play a trumpet like this) on our keyboards?

Alison Balsom - Trumpet Concerto in E Major

Tony,

It's a very good source for sheet music. Don't know if you can access this without joining? Take a look .. and tell me.

Click this LINK:
http://www.tierce-de-picardie.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=358&t=7862

Hugh

Hi Carloss, Another clever use of video to accompany your composition. Those seagulls at the end really were taking control of the music and finishing it off. Where did you get the pictures of the sea with breaking waves? Did you take them? I was half expecting a shark to suddenly appear at some poi...

Hi Carloss,

Fascinating! Loved the way you worked Big Ben into your composition. When were you in London taking those pictures? Loved your way out composition.

Hugh

Thanks Tony for posting your Hymns once again. As Carloss said, you always make it look so easy to play an organ! I go along with what JohnT says about The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended . I had two Uncles who were Vicars, one at Bexhill-on-Sea and the other at Langtree in North Devon. Sang this in t...

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From 1965, played on my AR80 organ.

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And the original.

Del Shannon - Keep Searching 1965

Saxophone

Here's another great sounding Saxophone played by Derek Miles on his Genos keyboard.

When I Fall In Love

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Have had a reply from Jørgen now, and he says this about the files that Geoff had bought: Hi Hugh Sorry for the delay in answering. The two style files are SFF1, which means that they will run at all keyboards from the last app. 20 years. There are no logical errors in the files. Runs perfect at my ...

Geoff, Den can send you loads of things that will work on your PSR-S700. You have my email address and phone numbers so just let me know what you want and I'll pass it on to him. I know too that you would like to get those STYLES that you bought to work on your machine, so let's hope Jørgen can help...