... I also would like in an upgrade to be able to record the free styles ...
Hi dawn68,
what exactly do you mean with "record the FREE styles"? Are you talking about AUDIO styles or maybe "FREE PLAY" styles?
(The SX900 does not include any Preset Audio styles, but they are still supported.)
Such Yamaha "
+Audio" styles also have two normal MIDI drum channels, but the majority of the drums come from the Audio drum track. Since there is no MIDI data in the Audio drum track, the Audio drums cannot be edited in the (MIDI) Step Editor or recorded in the MIDI Recorder. I.e. the drums in Audio styles can only be recorded via Audio Recording and cannot be edited.
(Well, theoretically you could extract the drum data from an Audio style and edit it externally. But that's not easy, and to my knowledge there is no official, generally available software program for this ...)
Best regards,
Chris