So I am still VERY wet behind the ears with the Genos, and poking around here and there trying to figure things out. I bought the optional Lessons-2021 memory stick here and decided I would use the various .MFD files included and convert them to the Genos PlayList format with the internal conversion program. PlayLists seems like such a good idea, I figure this would be a great place to start with some add-ins. I started with the Tyros5 file and that seemed to work just fine, from what I could tell, so all seemed well. And while I was in that mode, I went and converted all of the rest of those .MFD files I could find. The more the merrier, right?
Was that a mistake? Reason I ask, is because when I tried MANY of those playlists the results I got were, well, unsatisfactory, to say the least. Matter of fact, if I hear the intro to the style 90sBeatBallad one more time, I fear for my sanity.
After figuring out that it was a registration issue, and finding LOTS of registration folders in my USER section, with nearly every single one of them using that 90sBeatBallad as the style of choice, well something surely went amiss in the conversion process. Seems that nearly EVERY item on those new playlsts has the #1 registration button lit, and that is what it is using when I play it. Now, not all of them, but I would say easily 90 percent of them. Granted, I haven't checked ALL of the new playlists that I wound up creating. Honestly I was REAL close to going off my rocker hearing that style mentioned above over and over and over again. As an aside, a few of the newly created PlayLists I checked seemed to have zero entries in the playlist itself.
So I guess one of my questions would have to be, is trying to import .MFD files from some (many?) of the other Yamaha arrangers just a real bad idea for the Genos? Second question would have to be, is what I have done fixable without having to use a sledge hammer? Is there a general RESET procedure I could use to just wipe out all of them in one fell swoop? Or just manually deleting ALL of those newly created registration folders the best bet to pursue? I almost started to do that, but figured I have better ask question first before maybe just making matters much worse.
I haven't done anything on the Genos yet that would cause me any heartburn if it got wiped out at this point. I only really played with the general Equalizer settings a bit, but I tweak it so much that starting from scratch would probably be in my best interests anyway.
Honestly, I did watch as many videos as I could find concerning PlayLists and registrations, but obviously those questions I now have after sticking my toes into those functions were not pre-answered in any of them.
So, advice please?
And is there a list of things that I should NOT try to do on the Genos concerning using older model styles, voices, registrations, etc? I sort of feel gun shy having stumbled on one seemingly right off the bat here.