Hi Den,
The 'List view' on Tyros is an alternative way of viewing the list of files in a selection screen.
You can use and access this from most file selection screens by pressing 'VIEW' (upper 7) button at the bottom of the screen. Each press toggles between the 'Normal view' and the 'List view'.
Instead of the usual 10 items per page 'Normal view', it displays all the relevant items in a folder as a continuous list, one line per item.
There are buttons on the right hand side of the display that enable you to move up or down the list one page (15 items) at a time, or go directly to the top or bottom of the list. You can also use the Data wheel to move through a list and select an item with the 'Enter' button.
List view also numbers each line in the list and you can enter a number to move to a specific line directly, assuming that you know it. However since the line numbers are not fixed for a given item, when you add a new item, it will be positioned alphabetically in the list, but the line numbers for those items below the newly added one will change. So unless you never change the items in a folder, you are unlikely to know the line number of a specific item unless you have a photographic memory!
I tend to use both types of view, but what irritates me about the 'Normal View' is the inconsistent use of the buttons for moving from page to page on different selection screens. The Style selection screen only uses buttons 1 to 3 because the display needs buttons 4 to 8 for other functions (one of which is 'VIEW' of course!). However other types need fewer buttons for other functions, so Yamaha uses all of the remaining ones for pages, presumably thinking that this makes efficient use of the space in the display.
However I think that it would be so much easier if all selection screens used the same buttons for pages, ideally like the 'Style' screen which uses just 3 buttons. 1 button for '1 or Prev', a second for 'n(page number)', and the third for 'n or Next'. Then you don't have to concern yourself with which screen you are using in order to access pages because you always press the first button to move back from the current page, or the third to move forward. On screens other than 'Style' this would actually increase the number of button presses needed to access a page higher than page 3 than the current implementation, but I suspect that it would still be be quicker to carry out these extra presses, than to have to think about and check which button you need to press!
You can read about 'List View' and how to use it on page 26 of the 'Tyros4 Owner's Manual'.
Regards
Ian