300 Preset Styles
With the introduction of the Mega voice technology in the TYROS, Yamaha paid special attention to the Tyros styles. Here's how they are described in the "Features" section:
The 300 musical Styles found in this digital workstation are best described as having a backup band at your fingertips. Choose a category of music (like Rock, Country or R&B), select a Style from the menu and play your favorite song. It's that easy. Each Style has up to 8 different musical parts that provide drums, bass, guitar, horns, strings and any other musical instrument that suits the genre of music you have selected. TYROS also features many different types of Accompaniment Styles. Pro-styles provide professional and exciting arrangements combined with perfect playability. Session-styles automatically enrich the player's chords with additional color notes or even harmonic progressions. Basic-styles cover a wide range of music while the arrangement is kept basic and generic, and therefore extremely versatile....
Yamaha has always had great Styles, but with TYROS, they are taken to new heights of realism because of the Mega Voice Technology. An example is the new Unplugged Styles. Because the Unplugged Styles are guitar-focused, a major amount of time and effort was dedicated to making sure that these Styles "voice" like a guitar would, on both regular and extended chords. For the ultimate realism, the guitar parts in these Styles were actually played (and programmed) by an LA session musician using a Yamaha Pacifica Guitar with a G50 MIDI converter! You can rest assured that our Global Style Programmers take all of the work out of making realistic band tracks that you can use for live performance, studio work, song writing and MIDI file creation. With TYROS, just do what you do best – sit back and play.
Looking for musical Styles for your local church choir? TYROS has you covered with many new additions to our gospel section. They're so good, you'll want to get on your feet and clap along. How about jazz? One of the goals of the US part of the Global Style Team was to incorporate some Styles that would work for hobby and gigging musicians that like to play jazz. The goal was to make it so you can grab your favorite fake book, sit down, select a jazz style and play. Great detail was spent on the walking bass and guitar parts, making sure that they voice correctly for extended chords (like 13s, sharp and flat 9s and sharp 11 chords). When you get your hands on a TYROS, try the Slow, Moderate and Fast Jazz styles and the Slow and Moderate Jazz Waltz styles. They really swing!
This same team of programmers also decided to apply their musical knowledge and expertise to some of the R&B and Latin styles in TYROS. When you combine this extraordinary programming ability with the tremendous sounds in the keyboard, you can't help but make good music. You can use the built in Styles, play Styles directly from floppy disk or optional hard drive, purchase Styles at YamahaMusicSoft, search the Internet for Yamaha Styles that other customers have created, or create your own. And TYROS is backward compatible with Styles created for other Yamaha products.
While the TYROS was backward compatible, that is, styles made for the 9000 Pro or earlier PSRs could be played on the TYROS, the reverse is generally not true. The mega voices used by many TYROS styles simply do not exist in earlier keyboards. The velocity settings used to trigger effects of the mega voices, just cause unwanted sound when played on earlier keyboards. So these styles must be converted for use with earlier keyboards. The conversion involves removing the mega voices and substituting voices used in the TYROS that are not available on other keyboards. You will find a number of such conversions available here in the style pages for those earlier keyboards.
For newer keyboards, such as the PSR3000 and the Tyros2, most of these styles will work just fine, although again, some tuning may be required to adjust the balance of the voice volumes or to substitute voices. In all the keyboards since the 2000, the styles included voices in the four one-touch settings. These panel voices often have to be adjusted to match the panel voices in your own keyboard.
The TYROS styles are listed below by category. You can click on the category titles to download a zip file of the styles in that category. The default tempo and signature is shown with each style.
| BALLAD - 26 Styles | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16Beat 80 16BeatBallad1 76 16BeatBallad2 66 6-8ModernBallad 64 6-8Orchestral 62 6-8SlowRock1 73 6-8SlowRock2 105 |
8BeatAdria 100 8BeatBallad 101 AcousticBallad 158 AnalogBallad 77 ChartBallad 62 Chillout 80 EasyBallad 94 |
GuitarBallad 90 GuitarSerenade 106 LoveSong 70 OrganBallad 78 PianoBallad 68 PopBallad 77 PopNewAge 66 |
PopWaltz 94 PowerBallad 60 R&B 83 RomanticBallad 68 Slow&Easy 64 |
| BALLROOM - 30 Styles | |||
| 9-8Waltz 100 ChaCha 128 ClassicWaltz 180 DiscoFox 125 DiscoHands 122 EnglishWaltz 90 Foxtrot 184 Jive 176 OrganQuickstep 200 |
Pasodoble 122 PolkaPop 126 PubPiano 130 Quickstep 200 Rumba 108 Samba 110 Schlager 120 SimpleChaCha 128 SimpleFoxtrot 180 |
SimpleQuickstep 208 SimpleRumba 116 SimpleWaltz 125 Slowfox 108 Swingfox 192 SwingWaltz 90 Tango1 130 Tango2 130 TheatreOrgMrch 124 |
TheatreOrgQStep 200 TraditionalWaltz 180 VienneseWaltz 180 |
| COUNTRY - 21 Styles | |||
| Bluegrass 150 CntryBrothers 112 CntrySing-along 160 CntryTwoStep 126 Country2-4 105 Country8Beat 148 |
CountryBallad 72 CountryPop 148 CountryRock 128 CountryShuffle 126 CountrySwing1 150 CountrySwing2 130 |
CountryWaltz 140 CowboyBoogie 178 FingerPickin 94 Hoedown 128 ModCntryBld1 66 ModCntryBld2 68 |
ModCntryPop 68 NewCountry 118 SingrSongWriter 106 |
| DANCE - 40 Styles | |||
| 6-8Trance 155 70'sDisco1 120 70'sDisco2 117 70'sDisco3 122 70'sDiscoFunk 112 80'sDance 120 ChartPop 92 ClassicHipHop 93 Clubdance 123 ClubHouse 128 |
ClubLatin 124 CoolBlues 94 DiscoChocolate 106 DiscoFunk 126 DiscoPhilly1 100 DiscoPhilly2 118 DiscoTeens 138 DreamDance 128 EuroHipHop 90 EuroTrance 140 |
FrenchHouse 123 Garage1 127 Garage2 133 Groundbeat 94 HipHopGroove 85 HipHopLight 90 HipHopPop 104 House 115 Ibiza2000 128 Ibiza2002 135 |
LatinDJ's 127 NewR&B 98 RetroPop 128 SaturdayNight 110 SwingHouse 120 TechnoParty 132 TripHop 109 UKPop 124 USHipHop 105 USPop 96 |
| LATIN - 33 Styles | |||
| Beguine 113 BigBandMambo 104 BigBandSalsa 102 BigBandSamba 114 BossaNova1 140 BossaNova2 140 BrazilianSamba 96 Calypso 112 Caribbean 106 |
Carnival 116 CubanBolero 90 FastBossa 175 GypsyRumba 166 HappyReggae 88 JumboReggae 100 Latin-a-GoGo 180 LatinDisco1 124 LatinDisco2 100 |
Mambo 104 Merengue 130 Montuno 100 PopBossa1 160 PopBossa2 150 PopLatin 103 PopRumba 160 PopSamba 110 RockChaCha 120 |
RumbaFlamenca 110 RumbaIsland 112 Salsa 106 SheriffReggae 92 SlowBossa 106 Tijuana 200 |
| MOVIE&SHOW - 13 Styles | |||
| ChristmasSwing1 158 ChristmasSwing2 184 ChristmasWaltz 80 ModBrdwayBld 60 |
MovieBallad 80 MovieDisco 108 MoviePanther 114 MovieSwing 90 |
Sci-fiMarch 130 SecretService 80 Showtune 135 TapDanceSwing 125 |
WildWest 150 |
| POP&ROCK - 30 Styles | |||
| 16BeatUptempo 100 60's8Beat 130 60'sGuitarPop 128 60'sRock1 152 60'sRock2 142 60'sRock3 126 70's8Beat 182 8Beat 116 |
8BeatModern 92 BritPop 86 BritPopSwing 110 BubblegumPop 128 CaribbeanRock 138 Cool8Beat 100 FusionShuffle 92 GuitarPop 100 |
HardRock 116 HeartBeat 148 JazzPop 102 KoolShuffle 100 Live8Beat 86 PopShuffle1 90 PopShuffle2 120 RockBallad 72 |
RockShuffle 137 RootRock 128 SoftRock 75 SouthernRock 131 Unplugged1 120 Unplugged2 120 |
| R&B - 35 Styles | |||
| 6-8Blues 65 6-8Soul 48 60'sRock&Roll 170 AmazingGospel 58 BlueberryBlues 96 BluesBallad 70 BluesRock 120 BluesShuffle 115 BoogieWoogie 166 |
ComboBoogie 166 ComboTwist 172 CrocoTwist 176 DetroitPop1 172 DetroitPop2 150 FranklySoul 128 GospelBrothers 108 GospelFunk 106 GospelSisters 90 |
GospelSwing 110 JazzFunk 120 KoolFunk 130 LovelyShuffle 120 ModernR&B 100 MotorCity 98 NewGospel 94 Rock&Roll1 172 Rock&Roll2 176 |
Rock&RollShfl 192 Skiffle 190 SlowBlues 49 Soul 117 SoulBeat 124 SoulShuffle 106 Swingin'Boogie 178 Twist 174 |
| SWING&JAZZ - 42 Styles | |||
| 30'sBigBand 120 40'sBigBand 82 AcousticJazz 160 AfroCuban 200 Bebop 240 BigBandBallad 82 BigBandFast1 180 BigBandFast2 185 BigBandMed1 130 BigBandMed2 130 BigBandShuffle 158 |
CatGroove 180 Charleston 206 ClassicBigBand 120 CoolJazzBallad 70 Dixieland1 224 Dixieland2 220 EasyListening 72 ElectricJazz 120 FastJazz 205 Five-Four 168 GypsySwing 232 |
JazzClub 164 JazzWaltzFast 194 JazzWaltzMed 180 JazzWaltzSlow 110 JumpJive 200 LoungePiano 75 MediumJazz 142 MidnightSwing 82 ModernJazzBld 61 MoonlightBallad 82 OrchBigBand1 144 |
OrchBigBand2 133 OrchestraSwing 126 OrchJazzBallad 72 Ragtime1 176 Ragtime2 210 SimpleShuffle 132 Swing1 162 Swing2 152 Swingin'BigBand 200 |
| WORLD - 30 Styles | |||
| 6-8March 120 BandaPolka 120 BandaVals 195 Casatschock 136 Enka1 82 Enka2 66 Flamenco 169 FolkRock 124 |
FrenchMusette 200 GayGordons 190 GermanMarch1 112 GermanMarch2 112 GypsyPop 120 Hawaiian 100 HullyGully 126 IrishDance 94 |
JapaneseFolk 93 Jig 120 LimboRock 92 MariachiWaltz 170 MexicanDance 120 Norteno 120 OberPolka 128 OberWalzer 192 |
PopEnka 92 ScottishReel 112 SpanishPaso 135 Tarantella 136 USMarch 116 Zirtaki 137 |
Additional Styles for the Tyros1
All of the styles found on the PSR-3000 styles page should play directly in the Tyros1.
Tyros1 Demo
- Glynn Madden - Tyros 1 (20:22 - Aug '07
Yamaha Unveils TYROS
High-End Portable Keyboard Reproduces Incredible Voices, Lifelike Guitar Sounds, With Yamaha's Exclusive Megavoice Technology
BUENA PARK, CA (November 6, 2002)—Yamaha
Corporation of America, Portable Keyboards, has launched a new dimension in
sound and performance with the introduction of the TYROS keyboard.
Even before hearing TYROS, the innovative, functional, and beautiful design indicates that this is something quite new. Easily morphing from a keyboard with or without speakers, TYROS is an extremely versatile unit for stage, studio, or home. Control surfaces are designed for high visibility in low light environments, and include several different formats for speakers, depending on application. Add a huge, adjustable color display and the overall impression is stunning.
Like its predecessor—the PSR9000—TYROS is a 61-key, portable keyboard complete with microphone input, digital mixer, vocal harmonizer, a built-in digital audio system, and professional features like aftertouch, pitch bend and mod wheels. Designed for users at every level, TYROS includes GM compatibility and auto accompaniment features, and can be connected directly to a computer via its USB port. In addition, TYROS is fully compatible with the software of the PSR9000 and PSR8000.
Armed with Yamaha's new megavoice technology, the hallmark of TYROS is stunningly realistic sounds, complete with physical characteristics of the sampled instrument.
"Most digital keyboards can play back a recorded sample of a guitar," states Jim Presley, marketing manager, Portable Keyboards. "However, the guitar is a dynamic instrument and can sound quite different, depending upon how, and by whom, it's being played. Pick noise, string noise and other natural characteristics occur with different playing styles, and are lost in most digital keyboards. megavoice returns the 'missing elements' to produce a sound that is indistinguishable from the original."
The stunning sound quality is the best ever produced by Yamaha. Expanded to 128 notes maximum polyphony, TYROS is loaded with incredible voices that reproduce all the timbres and nuances of acoustic and amplified instruments. Innovative "Live Drum" sounds contain six layers of samples which cross fade from each other, based on velocity. They have been recorded in stereo, resulting in realism never before heard in sampled drums.
TYROS contains a large music database called "Music Finder" and all operations have been simplified through the direct access function, one-touch settings, and on-screen guidance—a necessity for the performing musician who must change settings quickly. The help screens can be accessed in 6 different languages for even more versatility.
A video output allows TYROS to display lyrics from a MIDI song file through a projector or directly into a television monitor—an especially attractive feature for houses of worship that display lyrics, or for home users as a karaoke device.
"The user interface and auto-arranger functions of TYROS are perfect for the beginner, as well as the professional musician who doesn't play the keyboard, but plans to use it as a writing tool," adds Mark Anderson, product manager, Portable Keyboards.