Hi Dan,

SUCCESS!!!

Your Test.mid file played back perfectly on the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609.

I picked the 8 Beat Adria Style and your XF MIDI file changed the following 9 Chords:


Bb
Fm7
Ab7
C#Maj7
Ebm
F7
Bbm
A#


Your arrangement sounds very professional.

I see that you have the following Style Markers:


Main A
Fill In AA
Main B
Ending A


Thanks a million for sharing this.

I learned about this special capability of Yamaha Arrangers to track XF META Chord Events from the Yamaha XF Format Specs.
Please see Page 19 about Style Messages.


http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/pdf/xfspec.pdf


It appears Yamaha added these XF extensions to their original XG Format to allow Styles, Chords and Lyrics information to be included in a MIDI file.

This was to allow all Yamaha Arrangers to display the Chords and Lyrics and have the Chords change automatically.

The XGWorks MIDI Sequencer made it very easy to enter your Style Information with precise control over where you wanted to have the Main A, B, C, D sections and Fill-Ins including Intros and Endings.

This was the best MIDI Sequencer from Yamaha specifically targeted to help Yamaha Arranger Players sequence complete songs using the built-in styles of your instrument.

Yamaha stopped supporting this wonderful program once they took over Steinberg and began promoting Cubase.

I have doctored my 8 Test MIDI files to play back using the Piano Voice and the correct Tempo.

http://www.davidapps.net/testfiles.zip