Hello All,

I almost never create my own styles as there are so many out there I can make use of and I already spend so much time recording and composing that I would probably never make music If all I did was compose styles, I strongly think it does take a person with a knack for it and thats probably not me.
If you ever wanted to get endlessly caught up in the making of many styles you could go into Cakewalk or Steinberg and either import or create them from scratch. Cakewalk has many drum patterns to use and modify. As was already stated, a style file is not much more than a MIDI file, if you initialize a Yamaha disk you can load any midi into it you want and by changeing the name from.mid to .sty you can load styles with a little knowledge of A/B /Fill1/Fill2(this info can be found at synth zone).
I do have a question for a style maker that might read this . Can I load a style into my sofware program which supports Sysex and write program changes, volume changes,etc. onto my Yamaha disk to be fed midi out to my other performance gear?