The pack didn't have any styles, in fact it may have had 1 demo style or midi, I can't remember which, but it was predominantly sounds, vocal sounds similar to what you now find in the SX900, but I bought this pack before the SX900 existed to use on my S975 which is what I bought it for, unfortunately, every time you have to load new packs you initialise the instrument (always thought that was very odd), and eventually the file stopped working. If I try and load it in the instrument now it says cannot load file, I guess because since then I have used many other packs and the free packs as well as installed YEM on another laptop which didn't ask for my user and profile details so maybe all that just caused the file to be unusable.
It would be fantastic if the file could be hacked, I still have the original file to load into the instrument but the S975 doesn't load it anymore, I have both the CPI and CPF versions of the file.
The file may have stopped working because when you have to input username and password, it does an online check, which is why I asked you to try it offline. But it likely is looking for a response from a server that no longer exists :1 Although the other thread you found, someone stated that the header was identical to the cpf one, but with bytes 8 through 59 missing, as per kla4
"Just found out that the SME files are NOT encrypted. In fact the 'free versions' (SME) are missing a (fix sized) block of data from address 0008 to 0060 compared to the (payed) .cpf files.
From address 0060 up the .cpf file is identical to the .sme file.
What we have to find out : What data needs to be inserted from address 0008 to 060"
So maybe someone could go into resedit/hex editor, and see if there's a similar block of data from either an s975 cpf file (locked by model, not serial#) or even ppf file and insert that into your .sme file and see if it's usable?
But, if there are no styles, the following isn't really a solution, but more of a bandaid: for a lot of the Studio Singgers sounds, there may be substitutes available.
Without being able to find any examples of what the sounds were online, I'm just guessing here:
For solo singers, download the free Greetings from Italy v2 (sometimes just called Italy v2), and you'll find a bunch of soprano singers in there.
Next, for the jazz scats, the only free one I'm aware if was *created* by pjd! Available here:
https://sandsoftwaresound.net/scat-voices-yem-alpha/Paul has an amazingly detailed website on the inner workings of Yamaha synths and arrangers.
And of course, there are some free vocal and choir sounds available at CMS sound designs
https://www.cms-sounddesign.com/freeware/choir-freeware/This doesn't fix your issue, but if enough of the studio singers sounds have equivalents from the listed above, you simply might not care anymore
Mark