Hi Marcus,
Thank you for informed response. I have been using Recycle to make the REX files successfully in both the Tyros 5 and PSR S-970. I was looking to engage the forum members to see if there was a way to make our own Audio Styles using WAV or MP3 samples.
GTS...
Hi GTS
If you prefer not to slice your WAV or MP3 drum sample track/loop into a REX, there can be another option, but the tempo must be locked into the tempo within the sample. The WAV/MP3 would also have to be made into the full length of the song you want to play. If the sample is short, but can be repeated and stitched together into a full song length, then the other option is creating an Audio Link to an Audio Multipad while synced to a suitable style. So the Audio Multipad becomes the audio drum track, but synced to a style in a fixed tempo using Sync/Start.
Some drum loop samples are recorded already in a fixed tempo, but if you have no idea what tempo your WAV/MP3 drum track sample is in, then while the sample plays from whatever source, start any style on your Tyros 5 tap the "Tap Tempo" button to the tempo of the sample and make note of the indicated tempo. This will be your fixed tempo your style will be played with and eventually synced to your audio sample drum part.
Syncing an WAV or MP3 drum sample to a style1 Find the suitable style you wish to derive the non-audio drum parts from and set to the fixed tempo of your WAV/MP3 file.
2 Play the style through with the original drum track on, so you can hear the drums as a temporary template. Make an audio recording of the style drum track with the Tyros Audio Recorder and copy to your USB drive and transfer to your PC.
3 Assuming you have some kind of audio editing software, software that visually shows the wave form of the audio files must be used, as one becomes a template while you edit your WAV/MP3 drum track file that eventually becomes your Audio Multipad.
4 Most Audio Editing software allows two audio tracks to be over and under each other in the program display so both tracks can be played and seen at the same time. You can visually see the wave forms with the highs, lows and importantly the peaks where the drums or beat is located within the wave. Should be easy to adjust one of the two tracks by moving it to line up the peaks since the tempo in both tracks should be really close. It is the WAV/MP3 track that requires the editing. May have to take slices and re-adjust sections to match up the peaks in the style track which should be above or below, depending how you loaded the two tracks. Also while played together in the audio program, you should be able to hear style drum track playing with WAV/MP3 track. After editing to sync the timing, save and normalize only the WAV/MP3 track while muting the Style audio track template. This saved audio file becomes your Audio Link to your Audio Multipad on your Tyros 5.
5 Create your Audio Link from your edited WAV/MP3 audio file and Audio Multipad on your Tyros 5. Select your style and mute the drum tracks. Sync/Start and arm your style and then Sync/Start and arm your Audio Multipad. Pressing any note or chord should start both your style and the synced Audio Multipad. Most likely the Audio Multipad will not start exactly at the correct time to the style. Make note if the Audio Multipad starts too soon or late. If so, re-import to your Audio Editing software to trim or add time to the beginning, save again, and re-create your Audio Multipad.
6 Once you get your style and Audio Multipad to start at the same time and volume balances are set, while both the Style and Audio Multipad are armed with Sync/Start, you can create a registration save. Meaning, when you call up your registration save, your synced style with the synced WAV/MP3 file is ready to go, only requiring a note or chord to start. Still have to play your chords to control the remaining style parts, and of course the fixed tempo must remain to keep the audio drum part in sync.
This option is not very good and requires quite a bit of work to edit and sync, but possible. Biggest disadvantage is the fact that you would have no manual control over the drum Mains and Fills as the WAV/MP3 drum track is fixed and must run through. That's why conversion to the REX method is better. Last option, your WAV/MP3 can be loaded to the Tyros 5 Audio player, that will allow pitch and time stretch adjustments, however no way to sync to the other style parts.
Regards, Marcus