Can any Yammie users point me in the direction for a good (and safe site) for Yamaha styles? Looking for some good pop, pop ballads, latin, R&B, and dance styles.

Thanks

Have you tried psrtutorial.com ?

Thanks! Don't know why, but I thought he took that site down. I thought there was a topic here a while back about PSRTutorial going off line.

Lots of great styles there! Certainly brings some new life to my S-700.

Not a prayer, Squeak. The site has never been down, and is more popular than ever. There are 65,000 Yamaha styles there - how many do you need?

Gary

65,001

Is there any rating system?

Life's too short (and my patience too short!) to audition 65,000 styles!

Hi

Try the sites listed at http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/stylesites.htm
Exploring this will keep you busy quite some time...

Jørgen

I need some Christmas styles for "Christmas In July". I found Gary's. and that will give me a good start. Anymore suggestions?
Bernie

Gary
I just went through your Christmas set of a few years ago. They are mostly peppy and just what I need.

BTW, I noticed a few of my favorite midi endings that are in the style endings-nice touch.

A belated(10 yrs) thank you for your contribution.

Bernie

Diki,
We call it "style Hell".

I'am a complete style junkie - have collected, seldom even auditioned, and seldom used 95% of what I have. Can't refuse a good style download. One time i figured, counting all the various keyboards I have owned, I had nearly 125,000 styles. I know - rather dumb isn't it.

Deane

The rating system is like any other - listen to the style. If you like it, use it - if not, then don't use it.

If someone else were to rate the style, then someone that didn't agree with the rating would say it sucks. Kinda' like arranger keyboards, but with arranger keyboards you don't even have to own them, or even hear them, to say they suck.

Cheers,

Gary

Gary, have you listened to the 64,000 styles...I will take your word what styles suck..

Nah - I've listened to just over 15,000 of them, but none of them would benefit you, Fran - you don't own a Yamaha. Of the 15,000 I tried out, I probably kept 10-percent of them for my jobs. Ironically, some of the Roland conversions were among the better, third-party, conversion styles I use, so you probably already have them anyway.

Gary

Yep... that's about my take on things, too. Only high quality conversions of other factory style are really worth a damn.

I can count the number of really good user styles I have heard on one hand. On the thumbs of one hand, maybe!

Sure, there are SMF's of songs that have been converted into 'songstyles', and some of them can get good (as the SMF was, anyway!) but personally, I'd rather use an SMF, and gain the better voice leading in that case.

The rest? Well there's an art and a skill in being able to emulate every instrument well, and most user style creators ain't got them!