Hello Antonio --
Thank you. I finally have time to explore a little bit.
I wanted to see where Genos was putting a few new user styles and registrations. On the Genos, I created a new folder "Church" for the styles and a new folder "Church" for the registrations.
I then connected the Genos to a Windows PC and restarted in USB storage mode. (Reference Manual chapter 16 for folks who would like to read the manual.)
Windows Explorer shows the top level as:
AUDIOREC.ROOT [A hidden directory]
MULTI PAD
PLAYLIST
REGIST [User registrations]
SONG
STYLE [User styles]
SYSTEM
TEXT
VOICE [User voices]
As expected, I found a Church subdirectory under both REGIST and STYLE, e.g., REGIST\Church and STYLE\Church. The subdirectories contained the right sort of registration and style files, respectively. I found two user voices that I created on day 0 and then forgot about them!
I think that once someone understands "The Yamaha Way", it's quite logical.
I also did an experiment with the registration file. Yamaha uses absolute path names within the registration to refer to the user style files. This seems to be what confuses some folks operationally. I don't want to re-hash this topic here because there are already so many long threads about it. Again, once someone understands the basic concept, the rest is (mostly) logical.
I'm developing my registrations and styles on USB drive with the hope of migrating them to the internal drive. If I think about this carefully enough, I might be able to migrating the files by simply modifying the drive letter at the start of style path names. Seems like there should be a tool to do this... Hmmm?
Hope this helps your exploration, too. It's important to remain dispassionate. :)
All the best in the new year -- pj
Hello Antonio --
Thank you. I finally have time to explore a little bit.
I wanted to see where Genos was putting a few new user styles and registrations. On the Genos, I created a new folder "Church" for the styles and a new folder "Church" for the registrations.
I then connected the Genos to a Windows PC and restarted in USB storage mode. (Reference Manual chapter 16 for folks who would like to read the manual.)
Windows Explorer shows the top level as:
AUDIOREC.ROOT [A hidden directory]
MULTI PAD
PLAYLIST
REGIST [User registrations]
SONG
STYLE [User styles]
SYSTEM
TEXT
VOICE [User voices]
As expected, I found a Church subdirectory under both REGIST and STYLE, e.g., REGIST\Church and STYLE\Church. The subdirectories contained the right sort of registration and style files, respectively. I found two user voices that I created on day 0 and then forgot about them!
I think that once someone understands "The Yamaha Way", it's quite logical.
I also did an experiment with the registration file. Yamaha uses absolute path names within the registration to refer to the user style files. This seems to be what confuses some folks operationally. I don't want to re-hash this topic here because there are already so many long threads about it. Again, once someone understands the basic concept, the rest is (mostly) logical.
I'm developing my registrations and styles on USB drive with the hope of migrating them to the internal drive. If I think about this carefully enough, I might be able to migrating the files by simply modifying the drive letter at the start of style path names. Seems like there should be a tool to do this... Hmmm?
Hope this helps your exploration, too. It's important to remain dispassionate. :)
All the best in the new year -- pj
I agree with you. Perhaps the right way is to rename the initial drive in I: /
and theoretically it should accept everything.
I try to do an experiment and I'll tell you what happens.
THANK YOU
Hi --
I took a few more steps today in between the snow shoveling and the blizzard.
I purchased and installed an expansion pack today (while the Yamaha Musicsoft sale is underway). All went well with YEM. It produced the expected install file.
Only one surprise. I left a few of the free packs selected and, lo and behold, it installed all of the selected ones including the new pack. One of the free packs is the scat voice pack that I put together for S950 (YEP) and S970 (YEM). The old scat pack works fine and now that I finally have a YEM-capable machine, I may make some adjustments in the voice programming.
After installation, the directories at the root level are:
AUDIOREC.ROOT [Hidden]
Expansion
MULTI PAD
PLAYLIST
REGIST
SONG
STYLE
SYSTEM
TEXT
VOICE
The "Expansion" directory is newly created and contains one subdirectory for each pack. Inside the subdirectories are the registrations, styles and MIDI files, etc. associated with the pack.
I also copied WAV files to the Genos internal memory. It took about 15 to 20 minutes to copy about 6GBytes using Genos USB storage mode. I'm storing the WAV files in a subdirectory named "WAV" in the SONG directory.
If anyone is ever unsure about where to put files, one can always create a subdirectory in the appropriate directory (by file type) in the regular way. Then, boot the Genos in USB storage mode, look for the new subdirectory and then copy files.
The last discovery came from reading the manual. :) Owner's Manual Chapter 9 "Data Backup and Restore" mentions a UI check mark to include (or exclude) audio files from backup. Nice touch. I want to be able to save all of my other files (styles, etc.), but not the audio files. With all of my audio files, I could easily exceed the 1.9GB limitation on back-up size. I'll try a backup tomorrow.
Hope all of this info helps someone -- pj
P.S. With the backing tracks at hand, I'm over the moon playing this keyboard. :)