Hi Jan,
I recommend that you dig a little deeper into the
details of the Yamaha Style File Format. I think then a lot will become clearer to you.
You can find information about this in addition to the Reference manuals for the various Yamaha keyboards (which can all be downloaded for free), e.g. also here:
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http://www.wierzba.homepage.t-online.de/stylefiles.htm>>>
http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/articles.htm(See "Style Creation Course" and "Style Reference" here.)
A Yamaha Style file is basically a MIDI file and can contain
up to 16 MIDI channels. The channels 9 ... 16 are the so called "Accompaniment channels" (also called "Destination channels" or "Target channels) that are assigned to the known Style Parts Rhythm1, Rhythm2, Bass, Chord1, Chrord2, Pad, Phrase1 and Phrase2.
Only these channels/Parts are visible on the keyboard (e.g. in the Mixer or in the Style Creator).
In most cases, however, channels 1 ... 8 of a Style file also contain MIDI data. These are mostly alternative accompaniment patterns that are played depending on the
Chord type being played. For this purpose, all possible channels (1 ... 16) are assigned to one of the 8 Accompaniment channels (9 ... 16) by the so-called "CASM" part of the Style file (and finally played via channels 9 ... 16).
By the way: If you play using a Style and record this as a MIDI file, you will have exactly that in the MIDI file what you PLAYED before. It is almost impossible to record ALL possibilities that a Style offers as a MIDI file: In addition to all Main Variations, you would also have to record all Intros, Endings and Fills/Breaks, in the most varied of chords and keys. Especially with the Fills/Breaks, the
exact trigger time also plays a major role.
Of course, it doesn't do any harm to thoroughly test such things. But there is also the risk of getting bogged down or losing track of what you actually want to do.
In my opinion, you will achieve the best results if you choose a suitable Style for a certain song to be played, then play the song "normally" with this Style and record the whole thing with "MIDI Quick Recording" on the keyboard. (Minor mistakes are not a problem here.)
Then you transfer the recorded MIDI file to the computer via USB stick and import it into a suitable MIDI processing program (e.g. a DAW such as Cubase or Cakewalk, or MixMaster). The keyboard should be connected to the computer via (USB-)MIDI during the entire process, and the correct MIDI driver must be installed (with the SX600 this the
Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver, but with e.g. SX700/900, PSR-S, Tyros5, Genos this is the
Yamaha USB-MIDI Driver).
Important: A Style
recorded as a MIDI file must be played back on the keyboard via the SONG Parts (MIDI Receive Port
1), i.e. NOT via the STYLE parts of the keyboard (which can be addressed via MIDI Receive Port
2)!
Best regards,
Chris