Adrian,
I think the best way if you have many of these rgt's from older keyboards would to use the batch convert option. For this type of conversion to work I always create a main RGT folder and under that a folder called source and one called target. When you have created those folders copy as many of your old registrations to the newly created source folder (that way when something should go wrong you still have your original registrations).
Now start Murray's Yamaha Registration Manager (YRM). In the main screen select your target keyboard (in your case either Tyros 5 (61 keys) or Tyros 5-75 depending on your model. The difference is the extended split point you can pick in the 76 key version. The rest is exactly the same. Once done click select to confirm your model.
Now click on the button that says Batch Banl Conversion and a new screen will pop-up. Click on select at the source folder and go to the new RGT folder and select the newly created folder called source (the folder where you copied the old rgt's to) Click ok and now click select at the target folder. Go to the new RGT folder and point to target and clock ok again.
Once back in the batch convert screen do not click convert just yet but enable the options Real Time Missing Item Substitution and enable the Problem Registrations to Directory: option.
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Real Time Missing Item Substitution -> will give you a pop-up window every time the program encounters a missing voice, style pad effect etc. giving you the opportunity to pick a T5 alternative voice, style, pad et cetera ON THE FLY and remembering that choice for future missing items which can be VERY handy if you do lots of conversions since for example if you encounter a missing style called PianoSlowBallad and you choose a JazzPianoBalld to replace it, it will do that for all other styles with the same name.
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Problem Registration to Directory -> Will move all registrations with problems which YRM can't solve right away to a folder inside the target folder named PROBLEM. Very handy since now you don;t have to search to sometimes hundreds of registrations to find one that needs extra attention from you to manually solve problems.
Now click convert and the conversion process of the entire source folder will start. It will convert ALL registrations in the source folder to T5 registrations which can be found in teh target folder and moves ALL the "broken" registrations to the problem folder. After the conversions are done I advise you to SAVE the audit report to the main folder called RGT. It is a log file in plain text format that is easier to search with notepad for certain information then to scroll thru sometimes hundreds of lines of text in the YRM log screen
My advice to you is to test run it with let's say 25 registrations first before doing your major batch process. Also do not do ALL f them at once but keep it somewhat limited (100 or so?) if you use the real time substitutions. Although very handy it can take quite some time in the beginning when teh substitution table doesn't have much substitutions in it. By converting this way the table will fill very fast and after a few batches will not need much attention anymore.
Last tip: If you want to know which source keyboard the registration is from simply load it in YRM once loaded it will show you on which keyboard it was created in teh main screen directly above the spot where you had to select the target keyboard.
After your batch conversions are done you can either:
- load single files in YRM and fine tune them there by clicking on a bank to enter the detail screen or..
- load them on your Tyros and change them there afterwards re-saving them.
Option 1 is best if you want to change things like bank names and pedals ad such (in teh detail screen is also some sort of batch option that makes it possible to duplicate for example the splitpoint, chord fingering type and pedals to ALL other banks in that registration.
Option 2 is best if you want to change voices, styles, pads and or effects. YRM can do it as well but listening to the changes in realtime on your keyboard is much quicker.
Hope this was helpful to you, don;t hesitate to ask if you need further assistance
regards,
Peter
P.S. Sorry for the typo's in my reply, I wish Murray programmed a realtime typo substitution table for me as well