Here you will find new original styles designed and written by Carillon for Yamaha PSR, S Series, SX Series, CVP, Tyros & Genos keyboards carrying the SFF Logo (please note this, therefore, excludes the PSR 5700 & 6000 instruments). I haven't tested any of this myself, but I feel sure this is going to be your best resource.Brand New Yamaha Keyboard Music Style Software designed exclusively by Carillon for Yamaha Instruments The best resource I know of for this 3rd party software is curated by a chap called Jørgen Sørensen on his site - The Unofficial YAMAHA Keyboard Resource Site On two pages he has links to all the known editors for Yamaha keyboards. All 3rd party software will have had to try to reverse-engineer how the algorithms are applied. Unfortunately, the exact details of how this was done I have to keep to myself even to this day.Īnyway, the background aside, I still don't think there is a dedicated publicly-available Yamaha resource to handle these files at consumer-level.

Even more complex algorithms for other scale & non-scale notes were capable of keeping the whole thing sounding reasonably musical.

Much smarter algorithms could dictate quite clever re-voicing to make a player's voicings always appear to move to the nearest 'good' note for the chord, with correct voice-leading etc.

Whether it was simple transposition of the entire chord - the simplest was to transpose in parallel, up until a certain key, then wrap over to transpose down. There were some rather sophisticated algorithms & different rule-sets which dictated which note went to where on transposition, & these rules could be set per track/instrument by the programmer. Using C Maj7 as the base data gave each note a 'function' from which the ABC could be calculated. The note function & movement was then re-calculated live during playback. So, my information is 20 years out of date, but these styles were always actually made in a static C Maj7 chord. Lower models would be handled by another team, who trimmed down, re-voiced & re-edited from the data we made for the top models. I was part of Yamaha's writing & mixing/editing team who made the internal styles & a lot of the first release-cycle of the then-known 'disk styles' you could buy, initially for the high end products such as the PSR-6700, right up to the last before I left, the PSR-9000 & Tyros. I used to, in the 90s, actually make these things for a living -) I haven't worked there for 20 years, but I don't think that has changed in the intervening period. As far as I'm aware, Yamaha themselves never released a style editor to the public.

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