CD-ROM Contents

The information below is extracted from the ReadMe file on the CD-ROM. It will give you a better idea of what you will find on Styles CD-ROM #1.

This CD has over 19,000 styles on it. In addition to the thousands of styles, you will find a "Utilities" folder. I want to tell you about this folder first. It includes several essential utilities. ($28)

PSR Utilities

PSR Styles Database

The PSR Styles Database can be used to read the entire CD or any part of it. You can use it to catalog your styles and see just what you've got. You can list all the styles and sort them by name or by folder or by tempo or by size or by whether they have OTS or not. You will find this a very handy program.

The PSR Styles Database can be used to dump information to a rich text format (rtf) file or to a CSV file that can be imported into Excel. I've done that to produce the several Microsoft Word rtf index files shown in the directory, for example, PSR3000.rtf, which gives you an alphabetical list of the style files in every subfolder in the PSR3000 main folder. Do not be anxious to immediately print out these files -- some of these main folders have over 4,000 records and this makes for a very long printout. Better to edit the file if you are looking for a particular style.

MIDIPlayer

MIDIPlayer not only plays midi files, it can also be used to load and play style files. Not only that, it can convert a style made for one PSR keyboard so that it can be used on another PSR keyboard. Thus, if you have the PSR-2000, you can still take advantage of any of the styles that may be listed under TYROS. Simply load the styles into MIDIplayer and set the target instrument to be PSR-2000. Using the batch facility, you can now copy all those files from a "Tyros" folder, convert them to PSR-2000 format, and store them in a folder of your choice. (That folder, of course, would have to be somewhere on your hard drive where you can save files. You can not write to or alter any of the files on this CD-ROM.) Voices that are unique to the Tyros are converted to similar voices on the PSR-2000. This is essential for "Mega" voices. You can also use this program to automatically add OTS settings to styles that do not have OTS included. If you load a particular set of styles in your keyboard and find that they are all too "quiet" for your keyboard, you can use Michael's Midiplayer to automatically increase the volume of all the styles to a higher setting. I have used this program to prepare some of the folders you find that are specifically "for" a PSR-3000.

Note: the full version of MidiPlayer 7.16 is included. I have also included a copy of the 7.19 update. Michael Bedesem periodically updates his software and you can get the latest update by downloading the update file, if you already have the full version. You have the full version on this CD, so all you would need is the update.

Style Organization

Original Yamaha Styles

The "OrigYam" folder has the internal preset styles for a many of the Yamaha arranger keyboards. Styles in the "OtherKbds" folder have styles that originated on arranger keyboards from other manufacturers and have been converted to run on the PSR/Tyros keyboards.

"Song" Styles

Styles in the "SongStyles" folder are styles that have been renamed to represent the song that the style was designed for. Some of these may be original preset styles, but many are styles where the tempo and the voices have also been adjusted to work well with the named song. The "Gig" Disks from the PSR Tutorial site, which have proven to be so popular, are available under the "SongStyles" folder.

Styles by Genre

Styles in the "Genre" folder generally represent styles named after a particular music genre, e.g. Country or Foxtrot or Ballad or March etc. In the various collections there, however, you may still find some styles that have a "song" name. The subfolders may indicate the instrument the styles were created on or for, i.e. PSR2000, PSR2100, PSR300, Tyros. There are, of course, a lot of styles in the "Tyros" folder(s) that may work perfectly fine on the PSR3000. Remember Michael Bedesem's MidiPlayer can always be used to convert a style if you need to for you particular keyboard.

One Touch Settings

Most of the styles for the later keyboards include OTS. Styles for earlier keyboards did not have OTS. Styles without OTS can be found in the NoOTS-4V or the NoOTS-2V folders. The "4V" stands for 4 Variations (Main A,B,C,D). "2V" is mostly 2 variations, but may also include some styles with 0, 1, or 3 variations.

With the literally thousands of styles available here, you have much to explore and can look forward to many hours, days, months, of musical fun and enjoyment!

-- Joe Waters

February, 2009 Update

Using the Duplicates feature in the PSR Style Database, I eliminated several thousand files that were exact duplicates of other files on the CD. I also eliminated a number of files that were not exact duplicates, but were "related" and had the same tempo and the exact same file size. This allowed me to add additional files (from Jeff's collections) and unzip some of the 2 variation styles that were zipped on the original. I also added the PSR-550 original styles.

Folder organization was also revised a bit, particularly to separate the "song styles" from the genre-type styles. Please note that the styles available on this CD-ROM (Styles CD#1) are all different from those on the Styles CD#2, which was released in February 2009.

This page updated on January 8, 2012 .