CD-ROM 2010 Help
If you are relatively new to computers, CD-ROMs can also be new and confusing. Below are some steps to help you get started using the CD-ROM 2010 disc. The screen shots are from a computer running Windows 7.
Opening the CD-ROM
Place the disc in your computer's CD disc drive and close the disc drive door. The computer will read the contents of the CD-ROM and then present you with a dialog box showing you different options. The option you want to select is the bottom one shown in this screen shot: "Open folder to view files".
This will open up a directory window showing you all the files on this disc. You may see the directory as large or small icons or as a list of files. The screen shots below show the directory using the "Details" viewing option. At the highest level, the "root" directory, you can see that the disc holds a number of different file folders. It also holds a single file labeled "index.html". "HTML Documents" are files that are viewed with a web browser. If you double-cllick on the index.html file, it will automatically open up your web browser and then open that file.
Note that Windows will not automatically show the file type, that is, the ".html" part of the Name. To display file types, under "Organize" in the file menu bar, select "Folder and search options." In the Folder Options dialog box, select the View tab. In the list of Advanced settings, make sure that "Hide extensions for known file types" is NOT checked. This will display the file name extensions, such as ".html" or ".mid" or ".sty". Being able to see the file extension is very useful when working with files that you want to move to your keyboard.
Note also that if you are using Internet Explorer, it may present you with a warning about active content. The home page will be loading images and other material from files on the CD-ROM and we do want to allow this. So be sure to check "Yes" in this box. There is nothing on the CD-ROM that will harm your computer.
The "index.html" File
When a browser is directed to a folder without specifying what file to load, it will look for a default file. When a file is called "index.html", it is considered the default file and the browser will open it. In our case, this file is the "home" page for the mini web found on this CD-ROM. Double-clicking on the index.html file opens the "Home" page shown in the screen shot here, in which Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser was used. (Double-click on the image here to see a larger version of this page.)
Major Sections
The contents on the CD-ROM are divided into four main sections as shown by buttons to the right of the "Home" button.
This top-level menu is shown on all the pages. To jump to any major section, just click on that sections button in the top-menu. The current section is highlighted (like the "Home" button above) so you know where you are. (The illustrations below are using Internet Explorer. If you use Firefox as your browser, they will be similar. Not all browsers display a web page in exactly the same way.)
Songs
The various major sections will have sub-sections indicated by a secondary top-level menu. The introductory page of the "Songs" section is shown below (you can see that it is selected when you click on "Songs". There are five subsections under songs as shown by the five secondary-level buttons, which are displayed as "tabs." To jump to any of these subsections, just click on the appropriate tab.
Styles
The "Styles" section has three major components that include the preset voices from the PSR-S910 and the Tyros3. They also include the style conversions from Onacimus Sayaham (shown in this partial screen shot), which cover many of the earlier Yamaha keyboards. The Tyros3 preset styles are in the new SFF2 format and they may not work directly on your keyboard. Conversions of these styles are available, however, on the site. If you have a PSR-S910 or Tyros4, you should be able to play these styles directly.
Learning
The "Learning Center" has five major sub-sections as shown by the tabs below in the "Intro" page of the Learning Center. The material here is meant to be used on your computer and includes articles, lessons, and documents that you will find useful. The "Utilities" section, not shown here, has a similar interface with secondary tabs taking you to each of the subsections available there.
Using the File Directory
The web page displays present an user-friendly interface to much of the material on the CD-ROM. But you can also access any of the material by using the file directory itself.
MIDI Files
There are some 5,000 midi files on this CD-ROM. The are located in the "S" folder. From the top-level, or "root" directory of the CD-ROM, select the "S" folder and open it. You can simply double-click on this folder to open it. All the midi files are in this folder.
Note that all the style files will be in the "styles" folder. The articles, documents, and chord lessons are in the "learn" folder and the utilities are found in the "util" folder. The other folders shown at this top level ("css", "images", "Scripts", "SpryAssets", and "Templates") are used to support the web pages and do not have any files that are meant for your Yamaha keyboard.
The midi files are arranged in folders by PSR Performer. When you open the "S" folder, you will see a list of performer folders. To get to the midi files, open up one of the performer pages. In this screen shot, the folder for "BillVenice" is selected. Double-click on that folder to open it.
When you open up Bill's folder, you now see the actual midi files. Midi files are identified with the ".mid" file extension. The song name is in the file name itself. The last six characters of the filename identify the performer (BV), the volume number (02), and the keyboard (T2). If you double-click on a midi file, it will play on your computer. But these files are really meant to be played on your Yamaha keyboard, not the computer. You can copy the files from this directory to your USB drive by selecting them and then using "drag and drop". you could also copy the whole folder by using this method.
If you have used a USB cable to connect your computer to your keyboard, you could double-click on the midi file and it would be played on your keyboard. This is relatively easy on XP systems, but not so on Windows 7.
Style Files
The style files are located in the "styles" folder. Double-click on that folder to open it. You will find four style folders and four ".html" files that correspond to the four styles sets.
Tens of thousands of styles are provided on the PSR Tutorial Styles CDs. On this CD, however, you can still find a number of Yamaha's styles. The "tyros3" folder holds the Tyros3 styles in various category folders. Similarly, the "PSR-S910" folder holds the S910 styles in category folders. The Tyros3 and S910 styles use the new SFF2 format that was introduced with the Tyros3. Either keyboard will be able to play the other keyboard's styles. However, these styles will not be directly playable on earlier keyboards. You can, however, find some conversions of these styles for the PSR-3000 on the web site.
Onacimus has converted styles from many Yamaha keyboards to work on the PSR-3000. These conversions are found in his "3kMega" collection and his "3kStandard" selection. In this screen shot, we have selected the "3kMega" folder. Double-click on the folder to open it up and see the contents.
The styles are organized in folders by style category. In this screen shot, the "02-Ballad" folder has been selected. Double-click on this folder to, finally, get to the actual style files. There are 59 style files in this folder -- the screen shot below shows the first 7 files in the list. 
From here you can copy the style files to a USB drive and then take them to your keyboard to play. You can, of course, also copy any of the folders, or groups of folders to your USB drive and take them to your keyboard. All of the keyboard models should be able to play the Standard file collection. If you keyboard has mega voices, you will be able to play the styles in the mega file collection. The newer keyboards that use the SFF2 format will be able to play all the earlier styles that use the SFF1 format.
Since USB drives are available in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and higher capacities, a single USB drive can hold all the style files and all the midi files included on this CD-ROM. You can use drag and drop to copy all these files to your USB drive. Note however, that the Yamaha can only recognize a limited number of files at the "root" level, so you would want to put additional files in folders on your Yamaha. Note also that there is a limit to the number of entries in one folder so you would want to keep the number of files in a folder below 250. If the files have longer filenames, perhaps below 200.
Other Files
Many of the documents included on the CD-ROM are html files. Double-clicking on any of these files will open them up in your browser. Some files are ".pdf" files. These will open up in your Adobe pdf reader program. The fake book index listing is provided by starting letter in a series of html files. However, the entire index is also provided in that folder as a Microsoft Word ".doc" file. Double-clicking on that file will open it up in Word.
Hopefully, the above comments may help you get started using this CD-ROM. While these instructions are specific to the PSR Tutorial 2010 CD, they may also be useful for those who may have ordered some of the other CDs.
This page updated on March 13, 2012 .
