214 Preset Styles
Here's
how Yamaha described the 214 PSR8000 music styles:
From standard 8 and 16-beat, to ballad and dance, the PSR8000 has the perfect accompaniment style for your music. All the styles make full use of XG control, effects, filters, etc., to make you sound your best. The One Touch Setting feature lets you select from four different texture variations for each style to find the accompaniment that's right for you. You can also create your own custom styles and grooves.
This top-of-the-line arranger keyboard, introduced in 1998. It was followed by the PSR9000, 9000Pro, Tyros, Tyros2, Tyros3, Tyros4, and now the Tyros5.
The 214 styles were in 13 categories. Click on the category links below to download the ZIP file. All of the styles shown are stored in a single ZIP file, which must be unzipped before the styles can be used.
| 8Beat - 20 Styles | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-8 Beat 1 2-8 Beat 2 3-8 Beat 3 4-8 Beat 4 5-8 Beat Adria |
6-Heart beat 7-Organ Ballad 8-Piano Ballad 9-Pop Rock 1 10-Pop Rock 2 |
11-8 Beat Soft 12-8 Beat Heat 13-8 Beat Soul 14-Guitar Ballad 15-8 Beat Pop |
16-Polka Pop 1 17-Polka Pop 2 18-Polka Pop 3 19-Baroque 20-Pop Rhumba |
| 16Beat - 20 Styles | |||
| 21-16Beat1 22-16Beat2 23-Pop Ballad 1 24-Pop Ballad 2 25-Funky Pop |
26-Hip Hop Pop 27-Soul Shuffle 28-Street Pop 29-Soft Fusion 30-West End |
31-16Beat3 32-16Beat4 33-Pop Ballad 3 34-Pop Ballad 4 35-Funky Fusion |
36-Analog Pop 37-Game Show 38-Cool Night 39-Fusion 1 40-Fusion 2 |
| Ballad - 10 Styles | |||
41-Love Song |
44-16Beat Ballad2 45-Epic Ballad 46-Slow Rock 1 |
47-Slow Rock 2 48-Slow Rock 49-6/8 Ballad |
50-Modern 6/8 |
| Rock - 18 Styles | |||
| 51-Rock 1 52-Rock 2 53-Hard Rock 54-Rock Shffle1 55-Rock Shffle2 |
56-6/8 Rock 57-Jazz Rock 58-Soft Rock 59-Rock Ballad1 60-Cowboy Rock |
61-Rock 3 62-Rock 4 63-Sunny Rock 64-Rock Ballad 2 65-Rock Ballad 3 |
66-80's Rock 67-LA Shuffle 68-Rock Classic |
| Dance - 20 Styles | |||
| 69-Eurobeat 70-Entrance 71-Euro House 72-Techno 1 73-Trance 1 |
74-Rave 75-Clubdance 1 76-Dance Pop 1 77-Dance Soul 78-Hip Hop |
79-Trip Hop 80-Techno 2 81-Techno 3 82-Dance Pop 2 83-Dance Pop 3 |
84-Clubdance 2 85-Trance 2 86-Cool Dance 87-Funky Dance 88-Groundbeat |
| Disco - 20 Styles | |||
| 89-70's Disco 1 90-Disco Girls 91-Disco Samba 92-Meneito 93-Disco Latin |
94-Disco Hands 95-Disco Queen 96-Disco Fox 97-Disco Rock 98-Disco Pop |
99-70's Disco 2 100-70's Disco 3 101-Party Pop 102-Disco Tropic 103-Soul Dance |
104-Electro Pop 105-Disco Philly 106-Disco Clap 107-Disco Slap 108-SynthBoogie |
| Swing - 18 Styles | |||
| 109-Swing 1 110-BigBandSwing1 111-BigBandSwing2 112-Swing BaIIad 113-Swing WaItz 1 |
114-DixieIand 1 115-Ragtime 116-Gypsy Swing 117-Jazz Quartet 118-Lazy Jive |
119-Swing 2 120-BBSwing3 121-CooI Jazz 122-Bebop 123-Jazz WaItz |
124-DixieIand2 125-SwingWaItz2 126-BigBandJazz |
| R&B - 17 Styles | |||
| 127-4/4 BIues 128-6/8 BIues1 129-BIues Rock 130-BIues BaIIad 131-Rock & RoII |
132-Twist 1 133-Boogie 1 134-BB Boogie 135-Funk 136-R&B |
137-SouI 138-6/8 BIues 2 139-BIuesShuffIe 140-Pop ShuffIe1 141-Pop ShuffIe2 |
142-Twist 2 143-Boogie 2 |
| Country - 17 Styles | |||
| 144-CountryRock1 145-CountryRock2 146-CountryRock3 147-CountryShuffIe1 148-CountrySwing1 |
149-BIuegrass1 150-Country 2/4 151-FoIk Rock 152-CountryBaIIad 153-CountryWaItz |
154-CountryRock4 155-Two Step 156-CwbyBoogie 157-CntryShuffIe2 158-CntrySwing2 |
159-BIuegrass 2 160-Light Pop |
| Latin - 20 Styles | |||
| 161-Samba Rio 162-Bossa Nova 1 163-More Bossa 164-Reggae 1 165-Reggae 2 |
166-Pop Reggae 167-Swing Reggae 168-EspagnoIe 169-Lambada 170-Mambo 1 |
171-Jazz Samba 172-Pop Bossa1 173-Pop Bossa2 174-Bossa Nova2 175-PopChaCha |
176-SaIsa 177-Merengue 178-Tejano 179-SpPasodobIe 180-Mambo2 |
| Ballroom - 20 Styles | |||
| 181-Vienna WaItz 182-EngIish WaItz 1 183-SIowfox 184-Foxtrot 1 185-Tango |
186-Samba 187-Rhumba 1 188-ChaChaCha 189-PasodobIe 190-Jive |
191-Quickstep 192-EngWaItz2 193-Foxtrot 2 194-Foxtrot 3 195-Foxtrot 4 |
196-Shuffle 197-BB Quickstep 198-Beguine 199-Rhumba 2 200-TangoArgen |
| MarchWaltz - 14 Styles | |||
| 201-March 1 202-6/8 March 203-TaranteIIa 204-Musette |
205-Pop WaItz 206-PoIkaOber 207-PoIka1 208-WaItzOber |
209-Trad WaItz1 210-Trad WaItz2 211-March2 212-PoIka2 |
213-Overture 214-BB WaItz |
Additional 2-part Styles
(Feb 2017) I recently converted 254 Yamaha song styles from 4 variations to 2 variations for a friend who still uses a PSR8000. These might be of use to members who use some of the more recent keyboards that still use 2 variation styles. Click on 2 Part styles.zip to download this collection.
Best wishes,
Brian Miles
PSR8000 - New Yamaha Flagship
January 29, 1998 -- The PSR8000 is the new flagship of Yamaha's Portable Keyboard
line to be introduced at the Winter NAMM (98 Session in Los Angeles. "Incredible
power and innovation best describes this keyboard," states Jim Presley, marketing
manager, Portable Keyboard Department, Pro Audio & Combo Division, Yamaha Corporation
of America. The PSR8000 is a 61 key, touch sensitive, 64 note polyphonic, keyboard
using Yamaha's remarkable "XG" MIDI standard. A direct to computer, "To
Host" port, and both pitch bend and mod wheels are included. This instrument
was designed for the professional, live performance, musician, the serious hobbyist,
or anyone who loves to play and sing music. The surprising list of professional
features continue with an optional hard drive, SIMMs expandable wave RAM, after
touch, multiple pedal control outputs, and a 3.5" HD disk drive with "Style
File" and "Disk Orchestra" compatibility (enabling access to a huge
library of songs on disk).
The expandable wave RAM compliment the sampling capability of the PSR8000. Memory is expandable to 32 Megabytes. Sampling complete with loop editing is another unexpected feature of this remarkable keyboard.
The stunning sound quality is due, in part, to Yamaha's Advanced Wave Memory (AWM) tone generation, Yamaha's XG MIDI compatibility, a newly designed bass reflex sound system, and enhanced, multi-efffect DSP.
Yamaha's XG MIDI format, never before available in a portable keyboard, is backwards-compatible with GM (General MIDI) but adds a super set of voices and controls for audio, effects and more, resulting in unparalleled life-like sound reproduction. The "To Host" port enables the direct connection to the serial port of a PC or Macintosh without the need of a MIDI interface card or box. A simple cable from the keyboard to the serial port is all the hardware needed. This opens a world of music, educational, and creative possibilities to the more than thirty million U.S. households with personal computers. Especially important for laptop users, where the addition of cards may not be an option. Laptop users are becoming a bigger part of the total computer market. Much attention has been paid to ease of use, with a larger, icon-based, backlit display. All user interfaces have been completely redesigned, taking the PSR8000 to a new level of user-friendliness. Yamaha's auto accompaniment is world renowned for its styles being natural, musically correct, and a joy to play. VA (Virtual Arranger), a new innovation from Yamaha, adds more than a simple variation of the style the user plays. It will add riffs, phrases, chord changes, and other embellishments appropriate for that style, making users sound even more professional.
Innovations continue with a microphone input for vocals which links up with an internal vocal harmonizer, enabling the player to, literally, sing harmony with him/herself in real time.
If remembering the words is a problem, another innovation called "LY"(Lyrics) will scroll the words across the large, backlit display, in time to the music, becoming a comprehensive Karaoke system. Want to enhance voice a little? How about adding reverb using the, built-in, multi-effect processor. Yamaha is world famous for its DSP technology.
A large library of professional performing sequences is available that include both lyrics and harmony parts. The harmony parts actually tell the PSR8000 when to add harmony to the user's voice in the song, how many parts, and at what intervals.
The PSR8000 at a SRP of $2995.00 will set new standards of performance/value. The musician who has wondered why someone couldn't put it all into one package will be delighted to see that Yamaha has listened by providing the PSR8000. The stunning performance of the PSR8000, in one complete package, is going to make musicians rethink the way they play live music.