Hi
If my search/browse of the forum has missed this please re-redirect me.
I am not new to the forum, the Tyros 2 and certainly not computers and files systems (having taught it at uni all my working life), but this is eluding me and now bugging me.
I will try to be as precise as possible so that I am on-point.
Although my new-to-me Genos is wonderful and the touch screen is brilliant (at last! but I crave it to return to lower case after the first-entered capital) , I still prefer to manage My Music from my computer (Windows), through the USB link.
On the computer I organise My Music folders/files as follows:
My Music
+ some artist
+ some artist
+ some artist
+ Vangelis
Conquest of Paradise
Love Theme
:
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire.RGT
Chariots of Fire.STY
Chariots of Fire.TXT
Chariots of Fire Score.PDF
Chariots of Fire.MID
Chariots of Fire.MP3
Chariots of Fire.WAV
Chariots of Fire.PAD
Chariots of Fire Right 3.VCE
etc.
Connecting to the Genos, it was trivial to create a new Root folder call MY MUSIC
and transfer all this to it.
However, to my surpirase, when I disconnected to play the Genos, I could not find/navigate to this folder when pressing either
SONG/STYLE on the top panel
Song/Style/Registration/Pad etc from the Home Screen
I can get to the RGT from an entry I create on the computer(via my excel spreadsheet, export as tab-delimited text and then rename as tsv) in a Playlist and then from PLAYLIST.
I can get to the STY, MID,MP3,VCE and everything via the brilliant Yamaha Registration Manager (Genos update) and building RGT files, BUT NOT
via the Genos built-in registration manager on screen.
Correct me, then, if I am wrong, but it seems that Genos insist for its internal software that Styles WILL ONLY BE FOUND in the STYLES root folder, and so on.
So this will mean that I will have to pass a "comb filter" through My Music to seperate/replicate all this out to:
STYLES
My Music
+ some artist
+ Vangelis
Conquest of Paradise
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire.STY
VOICE
My Music
+ some artist
+ Vangelis
Conquest of Paradise
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire Right 3.VCE
Chariots of Fire Right 2.VCE
SONG
My Music
+ some artist
+ Vangelis
Conquest of Paradise
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire 1.MID
Chariots of Fire 2.MID
Chariots of Fire.MP3
Chariots of Fire (Tyros 5 demo).MP3
Chariots of Fire.WAV
RGT
My Music
+ some artist
+ Vangelis
Conquest of Paradise
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire.RGT
Chariots of Fire.TXT
etc.
So before I go to this mammoth length of re-organisation, is there another way? Am I missing one last piece of the jig-saw?
I do know that it would work the way I want it to if I were to simply store everything on a big USB drive, but whilst ther is so much room on the internal pseudo-Hard Drive, how else better to use it and manage it via direct connection to my computer (which is next to it, PLEASE,PLEASE Yamaha, fix that I can do this via wifi in the next revision!).
As this is an Arranger Keyboard, unless I am missing something, it does not seem particularly well set up for working with the PC to manage to non-performance/play aspect of library management.
Any thoughts and help you can offer will be eagerly awaited.
Phil