I found this old topic, but it's not outdated.
Yamaha's audio style concept is good to impress possible customers but not helpful in daily use.
I used the audio styles to create other styles, but in fact, there are few.
Beside the T5 audio styles for Genos, there is no additional stuff. A limited time, the download shop offered an audio style package with 5 styles, that I doesn't really need.
I added the T5 audio styles for Genos to my PSR S970 and noticed, it's limited to about 8 or 9 styles.
I feel a bit fooled by Yamaha, because the audio styles are few, to slow down them let they sound terrible, the sound is muffled, part EQ for style and drums doesn't affect the audio part - it's one of the functions, the presenter needs.
In YouTube there is a comparsion between PSR S970 and Ketron SD7 and this is pretty unfair, because it let the Yamaha sound better, than it is.
Possibly a Ketron SD 40 could help with it's audio styles, but it has the same price like PSR S 970 had. I live in North Germany, this is a Ketron free zone, music stores claim, that nobody asked for Ketron and therefore would be no need.
What kind of conclusion is this?
When a customer never heard of Ketron, how can he ask?
Or when he heard and possibly scare stories, why should he ask?
Sometimes the local store says "I could it order for you, but you have to take it, to pay it, no money return, if not satisfied. Why don't you try these wonderful Yamaha keyboards?"
I thought about buying a Ketron SD 40, to add audio styles without the limitations, that Yamaha has, when they try to imitate Ketron. But I dislike it to buy this by mail order, to pay money, to try and then money back. I prefer to try the instrument without being required to anything.
But the nearest music store, where Ketron is on display, is in Cologne, far from Berlin and I have to pay much money for the train ticket and to spend a whole day.
Well, who would do something like this? So it's reasonable to go the easy way, to buy Yamaha or Korg and to live with some compromises.
GENOS could fix the audio styles' issue. But another issue is, that I would need three drum tracks in a style and the Yamaha keyboard seems always to hide drum kits, when I want to use this maybe on a phrase track. Anyone an idea, how to force the style editor to "see" drum kits for the phrase track?