Hello there.

Like you say, we all have our own ways of storing the style files we've gathered over the years. I've lost count of the different ways I've tried to catalogue the hundreds I've collected. A lot of these styles don't work on my keyboard, some do half a job, others need editing as instruments are missing, some have no fills or one touch settings. These are the ones I am going to edit to make useful when I get the time. Problems is, I never get around to it. I need something that tells me this style is going to play on my instrument well without editing, it's worth the bother of downloading and I can spend more of my time playing the instrument. It would take me the rest of my life to learn the skills to carry out all the work on my own.

This community will give us all the opportunity to contribute what we are able to do. I can certainly upload styles and review their functionality and worth. I can also report which files function on my keyboard and recommend any improvements that could be made. If the more skilful members could provide some easy to understand instructions on editing we could all contribute a little bit more.

We've waited a very long time for something like this and I feel we've all relied on PSR Tutorial for our styles or the few internet sites storing sometimes dubious style files.

I look forward to visiting this site often and hopefully contributing and learning more about these keyboards we all love so much.

Regards Steve

    Stevie Thank you Steve, that's exactly what I am hoping to achieve, so we can all join forces and organize that mess that accumulated over decades once and for all, hopefully.

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      your project you are hitting the nail on its head. Watching your Youtube video reminded me on my own agony with this topic which I tried to soothe with an automated excel database of songs and styles.
      But your product looks like a convincing approach to take us all forward.
      Thanks fot this effort!!!
      Good luck for you and us!

      I accidentally found this site. All I can say is Wow.

      As a relatively new arranger keyboard user I have been though a lot of pain trying to find specific styles. I downloaded all sorts of zip files of styles all of which used different naming protocols. I used a bulk editing tool to create a consistent naming protocol across all the files which I then merged into a huge single folder. I then had to split the folder into smaller files and put them on a USB stick so I could select them directly from my keyboard. I have ended up with several thousand styles of which I will only ever use a relatively tiny number. What a pain all that was!

      So many thanks for creating this site. It is exactly what is needed.

      Thank you and congratulations. Really nicely done. As a new owner of a PSR SX-720, I sure will spend a lot of time here.
      The function to save the styles directly to the keyboard is brilliant. It reminds me of the soundmondo site that I use to directly download patches to my Yamaha MODX before.

      Hello,
      A big congratulations again for the creation of this site which brings us real riches: advice, tips, sharing of styles and many other things that I have not yet discovered, because I am new to this forum.
      I was lucky, two days ago, to find 3 UVN voices that a member of the forum had shared. Alas, no way to find the author of the publication whom I would like to sincerely thank.
      I would like to know if there is a section dedicated to sharing UVN sounds (T4). The Tyros 4 is much more practical than the Tyros 5 which, unlike the T4, must imperatively use the YEM (or YEP?) software from Yamaha.
      I managed to download the intro sound "
      which fits perfectly to my Tyros 4. For UVN sounds, I am lucky to have the optional 512 MB flash card. This is the minimum necessary for expansion, unfortunately, this card is no longer available for sale.
      If anyone has UVN sounds to share, I am interested! I have a few that I could also publish as a share.
      Sorry, I may not be in the right section for my message, but it is primarily intended for all the efforts you make.

        The voice " Lion awebawe"Sorry, I forgot to mention the UVN voice 😁

        Tatayet Hm this is the first time I hear about the UVN files, is it something that still works on modern keyboards? We definitely need to expand to sharing voice settings and maybe even new voices/instruments, but I haven't put much thought and research into the subject yet (what is a "voice" really, how to organize them, how to download and install them, etc). If we have knowledgeable people on the subject maybe we can start a new thread dedicated to implementing a voice catalog.

            StylePlayer
            Hello. UVN voices are voices in much richer extensions (waveforms) than the original ones which are in Vce. It's a shame, in the discussion, I can't attach an example and there is no section on the forum for that, I think.
            For the extension of these voices, the Tyros 2 uses TVN, the Tyros 4 and 5 use UVN. A huge advantage for the T4 compared to the T5, the Tyuros 5 must imperatively use the YEM software, it's a pain to replace a single voice because you have to erase everything and start downloading the voices again! The Tyros 4 is ten times more practical, no need for this software! We download these voices with the "voice creator" in the menu on the T4 keyboard.
            On the other hand, you have to install a flash card which, nowadays, is impossible to find (512 MB or 1 GB) in order to be able to use these voices in waveforms. I leave them and use them with a USB key, but you can easily put them on the hard drive. I have voices that require more than 20 MB, you can imagine that it has nothing to do with the original ones that are barely 1 KB! For example, I have a female choir voice or children's choirs, men or women, the waveforms take 14 MB, but it gives you chills when it sounds on the keyboard.
            It would be too long to explain, I invite you to take a look on the web to get information. If you have a way for me to publish a test of a Uvn voice, even if it is only a 1 MB voice, give me the details; it would surely interest the owners of Tyros who have the flash card.
            I managed to find a used one, 512 MB two years ago, I would have preferred the 1 MB but I already have a lot of UVN voices, organ sounds, sax, flutes, Montavani violin, a shadows guitar... breathtaking! Nothing to envy the DX 7, Korg M1 or D50, it's sometimes better!
            Card not found, I put the link to have an overview, the 1 MB is also not found even second-hand. Happy the owners who certainly do not plan to sell it!
            https://www.amazon.fr/Yamaha-Flash-Memory-512-Mo-Motif/dp/B0049P23Y8

                Tatayet I see, thank you for the explanation. Yeah it would be great to have a place to share new instruments, but currently it's probably in distant plans, I wanted to focus first on the factory voices/ots settings. But lets see if there is a high demand for UVN voices, maybe there is, then we can look into it sooner.

                Thank you.

                  Hello Style Player
                  I'm giving you some information about the UVN voices that can be put as options on the Tyros4 and 5, TVN voice on the T2 and 3 if I'm not mistaken. You can add these IF and only wavelengths if you have added the 512 MB or 1 GB flash card on the keyboard. This card is no longer available for sale, with luck like I had two years ago, you could find a second-hand one on the net.

                  A little reminder: For the Tyros 4 which is more recent than the T4, you need to have the YEM software (see on the net for explanation). It's absurd, it's so simple with the Tyros 4 to load or remove one or more UVN voices while with the T5, it's a hassle! I have to erase all the voices and put it back. (So you can format to start over).
                  CAREFUL: It is not a question of deleting only the name of the UVN voice, it is IMPERATIVE to delete all the waves that correspond to the voice select: Voice creator > no category (in general) > locate the name of the voice > with the cursor, position yourself >delete select for all the corresponding waves which become on a black background and then delete. Above all, don't do "ALL" for delete!
                  I am attaching some information, I invite you to find out more on lenet, other forums, for example "TYROS.fr" for more information:

                  It's a well-known "problem" now on T4: the edit+delete library only deletes the name file of the location on the flashmemory... To free up your flash memory, you have to delete the wave files associated with each voice (sometimes up to 80 files per voice)... To do this, voice creator/expansion module/ (at the top right-F button, scroll with the rotary wheel until you get to "no category"... there, your remaining wave wave files should appear in the central table = if you want to remove them all, to make a clean slate, delete+all+ok= the process starts and can be quite long depending on the number of MB used = blue bar that progresses... If you only want to remove some of them, you have to select everything manually and run a delete+ok without going through "all"...

                  Don't forget = wave deleting (as described) and library edit (moving/deleting files in flash locations are two independent processes)... Hoping to have guided you a little... You will find tutorials on this subject on all Anglo Saxon forums!

                  But why doesn't yamaha explain itself clearly for this problem. What is the point of having a 1024 MB ram if you can't empty easily. And apparently another problem, if I understood yamaha correctly on the reference guide, you can't save a downloaded premium pack like the vintage keyboard pack present with the purchase of my machine on an external support. We areforced to remove those present in the ram expansion, being even limited apparently to a certain number of possible wavs for the entire 1024MB ram.

                  I hope you can put some info in a forum section about these voices in the form of UVN waves. Have a nice day.

                  Ps : PS: I was wrong, it's not on this forum that I got UVN voices, but if someone has installed a flash card on their Tyros 4 and wants some UVN voices, I can send it to their email address.
                  Tatayet