You may have noticed that while the styles in the PSR and Tyros keyboards are grouped by category, it isn't always so obvious where you will find a particular style.  For example, on the Tyros3, waltzes can be found in many different categories (BALLAD, BALLROOM, COUNTRY, ENTERTAINER, MOVIE&SHOW, R&B, SWING&JAZZ, and WORLD).  Styles for Country songs can be found in COUNTRY, POP&ROCK, BALLAD, and BALLRROM. 

Grouping Style Types in a Registration File

To simplify finding styles of a particular type or genre, you can pick out your favorite styles and save them in a single registration file, which can hold at least 8 different styles, one in each of the 8 registration buttons. Suppose you saved all your favorite waltzes in a "Waltz" registration file. Then, whenever you come across a waltz you want to play, just load your Waltz registration file and you will have your favorite Waltz styles to choose from. You can "name" each registration buttons with the name of the waltz style saved there.

Standard style names do not always give you a good idea of what the style actually sounds like. But you could name the registration button after a song that would go well with that style. A simple way to do this would be to use the Music Finder to find songs with a 3/4 beat. Sort those songs by Style and you will have a quick list of many waltz styles along with songs that go well with that style. Select a song you know with the Music Finder, which will configure your system so that it is ready to play that song. Now, "memorize" your keyboard setup in one of the registration memory buttons in your "Waltz" registration file. Name that button after the song title. Be sure to save the registration file. When you get all 8 registrations filled, you will have a variety of waltz styles and the songs that they go with. If you are familiar with the songs, this gives you a good idea of which style to pick when you want to play a new waltz.

Modifying Preset Styles

While there are some very nice styles included as preset styles in the PSR and Tyros, not every style may be to your liking. Of course, you can adjust or "tune" any of the preset styles by adjusting the volumes of individual instruments, by changing the instruments used in the accompaniment, or by changing the OTS voices included with the style. This can dramatically change how a style sounds. All of your alterations can then be "saved" in a single registration button. Using this method, your "waltz" registration bank would hold not only a variety of waltz styles, but styles that you have altered to suit your playing. For example, suppose you always play a left-hand voice and, normally, one different than Yamaha uses as the default left-hand voice with a style. You would want to load the preset style, select the appropriate left-hand voice, turn it on, and make whatever additional adjustments you want (perhaps you want to also alter the default right-hand voices). When the style is the way you want it, you would THEN save it to one of the registration memory buttons. Now, that button brings up the indicated "preset" style and then makes all the adjustments saved in that registration.

You could also, of course, simply copy the style to the USER area and make all the changes you want there, including changing the one-touch settings.  But if you save the modified style in the USER area, you will be using up quite a bit of the limited amount of memory available for user files. You are saving, after all, the entire style and all your adjustments to the style. You don't, however, have to save the entire style; it is built into the PSR. By saving your adjustments in a registration memory button, the preset style is loaded and then all of your adjustments are applied.  A registration file only takes about 11 to 12K of memory and can store up to 8 setups.  The size of a style varies.  On the PSR3000, preset styles ranged from 20k to 109k with an average of about 40k. Using that average, 8 styles would use up 320K of memory -- that's quite a bit more than 12K in a registration file.  You can easily see the advantage of saving adjustments to internal styles in a registration memory file.

Note, however, that with the introduction of USB drives (replacing the Floppy drive), storage limitations are virtually eliminated. A USB drive can hold thousands of styles so you could alter the preset styles to your liking and simply store them on the USB drive. If you have a Tyros model with a hard drive, you do not, in reality, face any space limitations on storing styles in your keyboard. The space saving feature of registrations is most applicable to models that only have floppy drives for user storage.

Expanding Voice Options

When you are "tuning" a style, if you save a MAIN and/or LAYER voice (RIGHT1 and RIGHT2 in later models) that is not already in one of the four OTS buttons in a registration memory button for that style, then you can have five voice sets (R1 and R2) readily available for that style rather than just the four you get with the OTS included with the style.  But you can go even further.  You can use the [FREEZE] button to freeze the currently loaded style so that it does not change when you press a different registration button. So, after you select, for example, the style saved in registration memory 1 [RM1] and then [FREEZE] that style, you can now select any of the other registration buttons ([RM2] ... [RM8]) and the style, including the left-hand voice, will not change, but the right-hand voices will change. So, with the initial style, you have access to the voices in its 4 OTS settings, plus the voices you have saved in the 8 registration memory buttons.

Some Sample Registration Files

The sample files provided below were were created for the PSR-2000 and should also work on the PSR-2100. If you have a later keyboard, you can use the idea suggested here to create your own category registrations. In fact, my "favorite" styles changed as later Yamaha arranger keyboard were introduced. I also found, somewhat to my surprise, that my "favorite" voices also changed with newer keyboards. So, a "Ballad" registration category for the Tyros3 would be significantly different than one created for the PSR-2000.

Additional registration files can be found in the Styles > Other > Registrations section as well as in a number of the Styles > Gig Disks pages.

In setting up each of the category-based registrations below, I tried to use a different MAIN voice in each registration button, so that if you do freeze the style when it is first loaded, you can then switch to any of the eight registrations main voices while that style is playing.  Note also that I seldom like the LEFT voice specified with the internal preset styles so I usually change it. By "freezing" the style, the LEFT voice is also frozen with the style. So, the other registration buttons that change the MAIN voice, will not be changing the LEFT voice. All of these registrations are available in a single zip file.  If you just want to "try out" one or two, you can click on the registration file category title do download just that file.

Swing & Jazz - Moderate
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
Style	JazzBallad1	BBandBallad	MoonlightBld	JazzClub	Swing1	BBandMid2	Swing2	BBShuffle2
Tempo	72	82	82	114	118	130	140	148
Left	NylonGuitar	GrandPiano	Strings	Live!Strings	BrightPiano	GrandPiano	GrandPiano	JazzOrgan3
Main	Harmonica	NylonGuitar	GrandPiano	SClarinet!	STrombone!	AirTrumpet	SoftTrumpet	AltoSax
OTS1	ModernHarp	Vibraphone	STrombone!	GrandPiano	GrandPiano	SClarinet!	Musette	60sClean
OTS2	Vibraphone	MutedTrump	SoftTrumpet	JazzGuitar	STenorSax!	STrombone!	Strings	JazzOrgan1
OTS3	STenorSax!	STenorSax!	SClarinet!	STenorSax!	RotorOrgan	BrassSection	SFlute!	GrowlSax
OTS4	GrandPiano	WWEnsemble	Sax Section	PopBrass	PopBrass	PopBrass	STrombone!	STrumpet!
Swing & Jazz - Bright
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
Style	BBandFast1	BBShuffle1	CatGrove	BBandFast2	Charleston	Ragtime	Dixieland	GypsySwing
Tempo	152	158	180	182	206	210	220	232
Left	BrightPiano	GrandPiano	GrandPiano	GrandPiano	BrassSection	Sax Section	HonkyTonk	BrightPiano
Main	SClarinet!	STenorSax!	Vibraphone	STrombone!	SoloTrumpet	Banjo	SSopSax!	GrandPiano
OTS1	STenorSax!	GrandPiano	JazzOrgan1	GrandPiano	Banjo	HonkyTonk	HonkyTonk	SoloViolin
OTS2	BrightPiano	GrowlSax	JazzGuitar	SClarinet!	HonkyTonk	SClarinet!	SClarinet!	NylonGuitar
OTS3	PopBrass	60sClean	STenorSax!	STenorSax!	SClarinet!	MutedTrump	STrumpet!	Small Accord
OTS4	SClarinet!	PopBrass	Sforzando	PopBrass	MutedTrump	STrumpet!	STenorSax!	SClarinet!
Ballad
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
Style	Unplugged	LoveSong	CountryBld	PopBallad	PianoBallad	8BeatMod	8BeatAdria	AcousticBld
Tempo	68	70	72	77	78	92	100	158
Left	PolarisEP	SoftAccord	NewTines	Live!Strings	DrawbarOrg	JazzChorus	NylonGuitar	DreamHeaven
Main	BrightPiano	Vibraphone	Fiddle	NylonGuitar	SoftTrumpet	GrandPiano	STenorSax!	Oboe
OTS1	NylonGuitar	NylonGuitar	NylonGuitar	SSopSax!	GrandPiano	SSopSax!	STrumpet!	12 StringGuitar
OTS2	SSopSax!	SSopSax!	ModernHarp	GalaxyEP	SPanFlute!	SuperDX	Musette	SmallAccord
OTS3	LeadGuitar	SPanFlute!	PedalSteel	FolkGuitar	SSopSax!	Wire Lead	Mandolin	SPanFlute!
OTS4	Live!Strings	GrandPiano	GrandPiano	WireLead	Live!Strings	Live!Strings	SweetHeaven	STrumpet!
Country 1
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
Style	FingerPickin	Cntry2-4	CntryShuffle	CntryRock	Cntry8Beat1	CntryPop1	Cntry8Beat2	CntrySwing1
Tempo	94	105	112	128	134	142	148	150
Left	FolkGw3	BrightPiano	NylonGuitar	ClickOrgan	HyperTines	JazzChorus	StageEP	HonkyTonk
Main	PedalSteel	VintageOpen	ModernHarp	SmallAccord	HawaiianGuit	60sClean	Fiddle	GrandPiano
OTS1	NylonGuitar	Musette	60sClean	VintageOpen	StageEP	PedalSteel	ModernHarp	ModernHarp
OTS2	ModernHarp	PedalSteel	SmallAccord	ModernHarp	SolidGuitar	SmallAccord	StageEP	StageEP
OTS3	SFlute!	GrandPiano	PedalSteel	PedalSteel	GrandPiano	VintageOpen	PedalSteel	PedalSteel
OTS4	Strings	Strings	Strings	Strings	PedalSteel	GrandPiano	GrandPiano	Fiddle
Country 2
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
Style	ModCntryPop	CntryBrothers	BluegrasS2	HullyGully	Hoedown	Bluegrass1	CowboyBoogie	CountryPop2
Tempo	70	112	120	126	128	142	164	180
Left	PolarisEP	E.Guitar	BrightPiano	60sOrgan	HonkyTonk	Bow Strings	Pizz Strings	Elec. 12String
Main	ModernHarp	GrandPiano	Musette	SoftTrumpet	Fiddle	ModernHarp	TrumpEnsem	60sClean
OTS1	NylonGuitar	StageEP	Fiddle	BrightPiano	Banjo	Banjo	Elec.Guitar	Super DX
OTS2	StageEP	Musette	VintageOpen	TuttiAccord	ModernHarp	VintageOpen	Musette	SmallAccord
OTS3	SolidChord	VintageOpen	HonkyTonk	JazzOrg1	PedalSteel	HawaiinGuit	HawaiinGuit	PedalSteel
OTS4	GrandPiano	Strings	Fiddle	PopBrass	Strings	HonkyTonk	GrandPiano	Live! Strings
Waltz
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
Style	EnglishWaltz	SwingWaltz	PopWaltz	GuitSeranade	CntryWaltz	BandWaltz	TradWaltz	OberWaltzer
Tempo	75	90	94	106	128	136	160	192
Left	Orch. Oboe	GrandPiano	Jazz Chorus	BowStrings	ModernEP	BrightBrass	HahChoir	Strings
Main	SFlute!	Musette	SClarinet!	ModernHarp	NylonGuitar	BallroomBrass	Orch.Brass	Clarinet
OTS1	BrightPiano	GrandPiano	SSopSax!	NylonGuitar	ModernHarp	Musette	Musette	Musette
OTS2	NylonGuitar	STenorSax!	ModernHarp	SmallAccord	BrightPiano	GrandPiano	SmallAccord	Hachbret
OTS3	STenorSax!	STrumpet!	VenusEP	SSopSax!	PedalSteel	SClarinet!	SClarinet!	SClarinet!
OTS4	Live!Strings	Live!Strings	GoldenAge	Live!Strings	STrumpet!	STrumpet!	STrumpet!	STrumpet!

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