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Will PSR-S970 Styles Work on a 660?

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Tresclub:
Thank you all for you replies, they are sincerely appreciated.

Warren

Chelsea 4023:
Hi,
I have just purchased a DGX660 for my niece and nephew a couple of days ago.
I would like to be able to provide them with additional styles on a USB stick.

There must be some DGX650 and DGX660 owners that have found additional styles for their instruments,
surely it would be a good idea to give owners an opportunity to upload them onto the forums
so that other DGX owners can enjoy.
Alternatively can any forum members point out which Yamaha instrument's styles are likely to work
on a DGX650/660.
Many thanks in advance,
Chris

vbdx66:
Hi Chris,

The DGX 660 can read both SFF1 and SFF2 style files directly from an USB stick. There might be two problems: if the file is too large the keyboard won’t read it and there might be a problem with the voices if the styles were made for another type of keyboard, for instance a Tyros with Megavoices etc.
It will be the same problem with the styles made for the PSR S970. I’d ather try styles made for older keyboards like the PSR 740 or the PSR S700 or S900.

Many of the styles found on this site will work, although some might sound clumsy. I’d say the best thing to do is to try them out and put aside all styles which sound find, then store them on an USB stick to that effect.

You’ll also find some software to tweak style files ln the main website, notably by Michael Bedesem and Jorgen Sorensen. But it takes time and there is a learning curve, so you might not want to tweak styles right now - just keep aside the styles that you like.

I will create a new thread and make it sticky so that people who have collected or tweaked styles which sound particularly well on the DGX line of keyboards could all be found at the same place.

There are a few rules, though:

- You cannot share a commercial style murchased through Yamaha or any vendor.
- If you share a free style which was provided on this site or another site, you have to give credit to the person who created / provided the style.
- The number of styles provided at once should be limited, let’s say to five styles at once.

I have been thinking a long time ago about doing this but haven’t done it so far since I do not have a lot of time myself at the time being to collect and try out style to check whether they sound find on the DGX, let alone tweak them. I’ll create the new thread in the forthcoming days nonetheless and we’ll see if some DGX enthusiasts are willing to share some styles with the rest of the community.

Best Regards,

Vinciane.

Chelsea 4023:
Hi,
Many thanks Vinciane, I look forward to working with the DGX660.
Chris

ougazz:
I received my DGX-660 a few days ago and I have some observations regarding style files from other Yamaha models:

1)  Most of the styles from other models sound and work OK in the DGX-660.  The exceptions are some of the Tyros styles.

2) The bad news:  I observed that, in most cases, when a style has A, B, and C parts, the C part is by far the best pleasing sounding of the three but the DGX-660 can only access the A part.  So, I used the Style ReMixer software to switch parts A and C of the style file.  This works, except that after doing this the DGX-660 does not access the ending part.  That is, when you push the ending button the 660 ignores it and continues playing.  In general, when I do any style file change using the Style ReMixer software the ending portion of the style is not used by the 660.  I appreciate if anybody adds some comments/solutions to this problem.

3)  I found the previous problem after I bought a style from the Yamaha store after listening to the style on their web page.  When I played it on the 660 the style was much different and of inferior musical quality. Then, using One Man Band (OMB), I found that it had A, B and C parts and that the C part was by far the best and was the one advertised by Yamaha. I repeated this with many other styles and found the same thing.  I wonder why the best sounding part of a style is almost always "hidden" away in the C part which many keyboards can not access.  Please provide any comments on this.

Thank you

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