I am having problems with making registrations with my S970. I had a bank of 8 registrations but decided to start a new bank so I followed Fred's video on creating a new bank, ie press upper B key when switching on.
I then made two registrations in this bank and saved the name, the trouble is it saved over the top of my existing bank so I lost those, fortunately no big deal. I thought maybe I went wrong so tried to save the file and ended up with two the same name but one you can not edit or change the name. Anyway to cut a long story short I pressed function and reset files and registrations so now no banks are showing. I will try again tomorrow now but not sure where I am going wrong. It seems a strange file system, I am used to files on a computer but the Yamaha system seems to be defeating me.
Chris,
Take it slow and master only one thing at a time. You tried to do two things at once (create an empty bank, and save banks). Tackle the saving part first.
To save the existing bank of registrations:
1. Press the registration button (J on a Tyros, but it could be something else on a PSR).
2. Press the Save button.
3. Give the file a name, say Reg1.
4. Press OK.
Next, save the bank again to another name, like Reg2.
Next, rename a bank:
1. Press the registration button.
2. Press the Name button.
3. Press the button next to the file you want changed (eg, Reg1).
4. Change the name (eg, to Reg3).
5. OK
Now when you press the registration button, you should see Reg2 and Reg3 as your registrations.
Next, you can try deleting one of them.
Once you've mastered the file operations, then you can start working on real registrations.
Set yourself a procedure you follow. As Royce posted, you can start with a blank bank. But if you're like me, I never bother. I just memorize over an existing registration. Just develop a procedure you're comfortable with.
Hope this helps,
Fred