Re: Tyros 4 Styles Download Free
Vinnie Breidenthal
Styles are the life blood of an arranger keyboard owner. Your keyboard, of course, comes with a number of preset styles built into the firmware of the keyboard. The newer and more expensive keyboards have better and more numerous styles. But, no matter how many and how great the styles included with your keyboard, eventually, you get used to all the preset styles and begin to yearn for something new and something different.
Of course, one of the great advantages of the Yamaha PSR and Tyros keyboards is the ability of users to load external styles into their keyboard as quickly and easily as they load the preset styles. To facilitate the use of external styles, the keyboards include external storage device(s) -- USB drives, hard drives, or, on earlier keyboards, floppy disk drives or Smart Cards. These storage areas are used to hold additional files for your keyboard, such as more style files!
You Create Them! - As you become more comfortable with your keyboard, you will discover that you can modify any of the preset styles in many different ways. You can change the One Touch Setting (OTS) voices used. You can change the accompaniment voices. You can increase or decrease the default tempo. You can set your own, preferred, left-hand voice. Many users will "tune-up" a style with changes like this to modify it to fit a particular song. The revised style can then be saved to one of the user storage areas as a "new" style. If a style were altered to fit a particular song, it is often saved with a filename reflecting that song. So, users themselves can create new styles by modifying the preset styles.
Others Create Them! - Unfortunately, not everyone has the time, or the talent, to tinker with styles and make their own versions. Fortunately, many folks who can modify styles have also chosen to make their versions available to others by uploading them to various internet sites. There are many such sites on the internet where you can find style files for use with Yamaha keyboards and there are, literally, thousands of these styles available for download. Some of these styles are "tuned" preset styles, some are simply copies of preset styles from earlier keyboards, some are styles taken from arranger keyboards of other manufacturers and reformatted and tuned to work on Yamaha PSR and Tyros/Genos keyboards. Some are styles that have been converted from midi files and some are styles that very talented users have created entirely from scratch. And, of course, you can also find commercial sources that have created styles and are happy to sell them to you.
This Styles section has thousands of styles that you can freely download. These styles are in compressed "zipped" files to minimize storage space and minimize download times. After you download the "zip" file, you need to "unzip" it on your computer to get to the included style files. You can then transfer these files to your Yamaha keyboard. Even if you have a high-speed internet connection, it can take a long time to download and compile your own collection of styles. And then, of course, you have to unzip everything to get to the actual style files.
If you don't want to bother with all that, you can simply get one of the PSR Tutorial style collections. The first collection was put together in the fall of 2007 and included about 19,000 styles. A second was released early in 2009 with 16,000 additional styles and the original collection was also revised at that time. The third collection was released in August of 2010 with 15,700 styles. A fourth collection, released in 2011, focused on Yamaha internal styles and includes all the preset styles from Yamaha PSR and Tyros keyboards introduced in the previous decade.
Since the introduction of the PSR-3000, the Yamaha arrangers have included USB connections and USB drives have become very popular with all computer users. The capacity of these small drives has increased over the years while the prices have fallen. Taking advantage of this trend, in January of 2012, we introduced a new "style library" that included all of the styles in the first four collections, combined and reorganized into one convenient package distributed on a 4 GB USB drive.
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.
"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."
What are XPro Styles PAKs?
XPro Styles PAKs are styles that work with any version (Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, Audiophile Edition) of Band-in-a-Box 2023 (or higher). Each PAK includes over 100 styles!
Take a gander at what you can expect to find: modern disco funk, exciting gospel shout, busy jazz fusion, soulful R&B ballads, various Americana styles, modern pop country, blistering heavy metal, uplifting worship rock, lo-fi hip hop, a plethora of progressive rock, old-timey autoharp, modern surf rock, and many more!
What are Xtra Styles PAKs?
Xtra Styles PAKs are styles that work with the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box 2023 (or higher). With over 2,600 styles included in Xtra Styles PAKs 1-16, the possibilities are endless!
The package includes styles like March, Alpen Land, Fantasy, Hymn, Celtic, French, German, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Mexican and many, many other. The package also includes some styles that make use of the Tyros 3 Mega Voices.#
These styles are designed to run on the Yamaha Tyros 3 workstation but they should work fine also on the Tyros 4 and Tyros 5. Recent PSR models should load this styles well however some styles make use of the Tyros Mega Voices so you could need to revoice these styles to adjust and fix missing voices.
To fill this gap, I translated 23 Motif performances to PSR/Tyros styles. In keeping with the original source material, these styles are stripped down and lean. No orchestration to get in the way! Some styles use only bass and drum. INTROs and ENDINGs are short and basic. Depending upon the source performance, a translated style may have only three MAIN sections. However, all styles bring the groove.
Thanks for the advise. I think you right. Fact is both are arranger keyboards using styles etc. So I think to switch over to a TYROS4 or the successor of TYROS4 over 2 years or later will be a wise decision.
Without doubt the Tyros range has better quality acoustic/real world instrument sounds and the Tyros 4 is the best examople of that even above the XS/XF workstations sounds , period. The styles are well programmed , expertluy balanced and tweaked and there is a hell of a lot more available yamaha styles than there are korg PA styles.
The korg has a fully featured and fully functional sampler, the Tyros does not, it has effectively a sample play back function and not a sampler. The Korg has deep editing features in every respect from the onboard sequencer through to very detailed sound editing and style creation tools which makes the korg a monster all round instrument for the musician that wants to create new styles , new sequences new sounds whilst still having the ease of use of an arranger keyboard ready to kick ass out of the box.
In short Jan if you love the Tyros styles , you just want to power up anfd play and dont really dig into either sound or style creation , then stick with the Tyros range and if you can afford it grab a T4, you wont look back...... until tamaha come up with the T5 etc of course:-)
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