Hi Folks,
my request to GENOS is special. And the solution too.
I like it to use Yamaha keyboards together with other keyboards and to connect they by MIDI cable together, so I can access both keyboard’s sounds from both keyboards.
When I wanted, that the other keyboard’s styles play Yamaha keyboard’s drum kits, the drum mapping wasn’t compatible. Tyros models allowed me, to edit the drums, that they may match with the other keyboard’s ”drummer“.
I discovered the following, when I use in style editor the ”drum setup“ function, it creates a new drum kit, what is stored with the style.
So I can use ”dummy styles“, when the drummer from another keyboard wants to play the Revo! kits.
I do it so:
1. I record the other keyboards style to a MIDI file and give this MIDI file the same name, like the source style.
2. I use the Java app midi2style by Jørgen Sørensen to turn the MIDI file’s drum part to a Yamaha style file with one pattern.
3. I load it
4. I listen to the pattern, notice, what drums are wrong and adjust these
5. I go to step edit, remove all note messages except the first one, turn all note values to the lowest value, so if the style would be accidentally started, that it may not be audible
6. store this dummy style
7. try, with what styles it may match and if not, do it again
8. I do a list of styles that works with this dummy style.
I tested this, by connecting my PSR S 970’s built in keyboard with the multi timbral part ”RHYTHM 2“, it works fine. Have only to care, not to change accidentally the dummy style’s drum kit.
The best would be, to keep all the source styles, could be, that you may want to change the drum sound or you have to redo.