By way of background, I don�t own a Technics keyboard myself, but I do have a local friend who does. And while he makes good music with his unit, he is not familiar with all the ins and outs of the machine. I�m trying to get a couple of styles that presently reside in my friend�s Custom Memory onto an SD card so I can take them to a PC and convert them using EMC Styleworks to play on my Tyros. (I�ve had experience with the Styleworks conversion process and know I can make that happen.)

Frank Bez, whom I have met, has been kind enough to offer some help via email in trying to accomplish the above. But there must be something I�m doing wrong because I can�t make the transfer happen.

I�m posting the steps given to me by Frank that I�ve tried and perhaps someone out there can point out where I may have gone wrong.

Go to the Program Menu
Select Composer
Select Custom Copy
Remember the location of the Custom Style and switch arrow if necessary
so the Custom is on the left
Choose the Memory bank
Press OK
Press SD Button
Press SAVE
Go to 2nd page and turn all parts off except Composer
Press SAVE

When I follow the above mentioned procedure, what happens is that a pre-existing style residing in the specific Composer Memory location I�ve chosen (say A, for example) gets saved on the SD card rather than the style I wanted from Custom Memory. In my case this happened to be an 8-beat style. When I reported this to Frank, he suggested clearing the Composer Memory first. I then tried the steps again, this time clearing the appropriate Computer Memory location in the process. The display indicated �clear� for that location, and then, in fact, showed that I had successfully placed the desired style into that Composer Memory location. So I thought things would be fine after that. But much to my surprise, when I ran the .cmp file through the Styleworks program, I again got a conversion of the same 8-beat style. (I did reformat the SD card prior to trying this procedure for the second time, so I know that the original 8-beat style had been removed � it had to have been saved via this second attempt.)

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what might be happening? Are there any other ways to transfer styles residing in Custom Memory to an SD card?