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...

Geoff, Going back to the PSR TUTORIAL website and looking at Styles For The PSR-S900/S700 I have downloaded the 300 STYLES from the top one in the list, Tyros Styles for the PSR-S900 . One I have picked up from the list is Guitar Serenade , which is one I have on my Tyros 4 and have used it to play ...

Thanks Les for keeping up with all this. Geoff sent me a few of his STYLE FILES so I could convert them for him, so I have downloaded Jorgen's SFF2 to SFF1 Converter program and this is what I get: http://www.ar-group.org/Files/SFF2Converter1.jpg When I put the STYLE file in I get this: http://www.a...

Geoff, I have downloaded that program from Jørgen's site and put your .STY files you sent me into it. The message that came up was that these .STY files are not Type 2 Style Files. So not able to convert them. I then thought I would try one of those Style Files (ending in .sty) in my Tyros 4 .. and ...

Geoff. Maybe forget about converting those ones you have bought for the moment. If you are just looking for more Styles that will work on your PSR-S700 then in the PSR Tutorial Website you will find this: Yamaha provided a utility, Voice Converter for Tyros2, that can convert T2 styles to a format t...

Thanks Les. Geoff. One of our Members, Jørgen ( joso ) runs his own website called The Unofficial YAMAHA Keyboard Resource Site . He has all sorts of programs he has devised for doing various things to do with Yamaha Keyboards. I have downloaded one that I use quite frequently for converting picture...

Geoff, When looking on the Yamaha Website the PSR-S700 and PSR-S900 have the same Owners Manual. So I think you can take it that anything you find out for the PSR-S900 will also apply to the PSR-S700. The LINK to the PSR-S900 & PSR-700 Manuals is below. Click on this LINK to VIEW (as a PDF File)...

Removing a DRUM sound from the Rhythm When you are listening to the Rhythm in a STYLE do you find that sometimes there is just one drum sound that eventually gets to you? Like a Rim Shot which seems to go on and on bar after bar. Well, there are a couple of things you can do with a Rhythm PART whic...

Carloss, There is a lot involved in your music. I don't think you could write it out on the back of a postage stamp! Your piano has a nice sound. If you tried playing your music on a keyboard, the keyboard would have difficulty recognising any of the harmonies you play as they are so way out. I will...

Tony, I do understand that! Perfect pitch is not just about whether something is 'in tune' or not (I would know that!) but if it's being played in the key it should be played in. Now when I play something, as I 'play by ear' and don't have the music, I would play it in a key that is convenient for m...

Using the TRANSPOSE Pressing the + will put the whole keyboard UP one semitone; the - will go DOWN one semitone. http://www.ar-group.org/Files/Tyros4MixingConsole.jpg Beware! Just tap it the once . If you hold your finger down it will shoot up the semitones in no time! Note: You do not have to tap ...

Here's another one played on a Korg Pa4X with a style made from a midi file. It's played by jackoj and is called A Bunch Of Thyme . Jacko says: The PA4X is a remarkable keyboard, it converted that style from a midi file but I must say that not all midi files are as true, they must be of high quality...

Den, I have been doing a bit of experimenting and discovered that if I use the FINGERED option I have to play chords with a minimum of three notes . I tried playing a chord progression just holding two notes down each time: C E ; A C ; D F ; and G B . With AI FINGERED it picked up the chords from th...

There are several types of Chord FINGERING you can set up. Click on FUNCTION under MENU ... http://www.ar-group.org/Files/Tyros4Function1B.jpg ... and you will see this: http://www.ar-group.org/Files/Tyros4FunctionScreen.jpg Click on the button next to CHORD FINGERING , move across to the far tab on...

Den, I think you mean G6, not F6. Thing is .. you are splitting hairs! What gives a chord it's 'identity' is (a) the notes in the chord that make up the harmony of it, and (b) what the 'root' of the chord is. A chord is identified from it's ROOT. Both Em7 and G6 have the following notes in the harmo...

Three Tutorials here on the Korg Pa4X showing how to 'balance' the various PARTS, and even to have some PARTS not playing at all. You can also replace a PART with one of your own. Korg PA4X Style Tutorial Part 1: Style Edit Page, Basic Editing, Creating New Styles EAomOldmWB0 In this video, it's how...

Hi Andrew, We are spoilt with our modern keyboards as we can record to .WAV at just the press of a button. But older organs are a different matter. At least with my Yamaha AR80 organ I could record to a floppy disk, and then play that back through the organ so the organ would play it back to me. Thi...

The SPLIT POINT is the note selected to split the keyboard into LEFT and RIGHT. Any notes played to the LEFT (including the selected split note) are normally allocated to playing CHORDS with a STYLE. Notes played to the right are for the Melody. To get to the page to set this up, press the FUNCTION ...

Here's a piece that Jon D has played that has a Stop the Style for a While in it. Cotton Fields https://app.box.com/s/pwun5toxr2akev00z4dt7l0fwtvbkum5 Jon didn't do it Den's three-key-pressing way. He says: The break was built in the style on one of my foot switches that was an easy way. :) :) :) I'...

When using a STYLE it doesn't really matter what inversion of a chord you play. The keyboard recognises the chord you are playing, and you hear the same backing, regardless. But this is not the case if you allocate a LEFT VOICE to the left of the split , as the keyboard will play the actual notes yo...

Den has already given us one way of getting the RHYTHM to 'STOP' in his topic Some novelty things to do with Yamaha keyboards . Press three adjacent keys together. This is mentioned in the video below by Fred Smith, and he explains other ways you can STOP/START the Rhythm/Style while you're playing....

Another video on Compression, explaining what Compression does. When I left school I wanted to be a recording engineer and record bands and orchestras, but the opportunities to do this in those days were very few and far between.

How To Use A Compressor

I found this video extremely interesting. In the early days of 'Cassette Tape Recorders' I came across a (cheap) recorder that had an 'Automatic Volume Control'. Looked like it was the latest technology, so I bought it. Mistake! It was obviously designed for Board Meetings in Offices. If somebody wa...

If you have any questions about your Tyros 4 or Tyros 5, or you would like us to put up a Topic about something to do with these keyboards, please let us know. Post your Question/Suggestion for a Topic by clicking on POSTREPLY , put a brief comment about what you want to say in the Subject: line (ye...

Still keeping on the tack of using the EDIT , there is another context where this can be used. If you make a REGISTRATION BANK where every REGISTRATION MEMORY is a different Song , then you can do as I did above and get up on screen the individual Registration Memories and NAME them giving each one ...

When I set up Melodie D'Amour I ended up using just REGISTRATION MEMORIES 1, 2 and 3. As you will see from the below, I actually have five REGISTRATION MEMORIES that are 'active'. http://www.ar-group.org/Files/Tyros4Edit2.jpg ie. Registration Memories 4 & 5 are not used in my song. Now as I use ...

When you choose a STYLE you always have 4 MAIN VARIATIONS of the STYLE .. A, B, C and D. As you go up the variations they usually get more busy as you go along. But what I listen for is the drum rhythm. When you have played a verse or two of a song and come to the 'hook', or 'chorus': From Wikipedia...

Now if you have a TYROS 5, there is another way to find a suitable STYLE for a song. You press the RECOMMEND button, play a few bars of your song .. and up comes a list of suitable STYLES to go with what you've just played. And they're 'live' so you can hear what they sound like. Reminds me of when ...