I'm proud to show off my longtime good buddy Manuel Dorantes' new keyboard demo for Yamaha, showcasing the Banda Voice and Style Expansion Pack for the S950.

Maunel, you're looking great man! Congratulations on both your demo presentation as well as impressive weight loss. Here's wishing you a terrific time representing Yamaha Corp @ Namm this year.
Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to Namm this year, but perhaps in 2014. - Scott

Thanks Scott,

With that expansion pack and the vocal harmonizer, you can fire the Mariachi band. However, it looks like that pack is for the S650 and not the S950.

I can try to load it in my keyboard, but the website says it's for the S650.

Hi Larry-bird,
Oops, sorry.
I had meant to type S650, not S950.

Thanks for the video upload Scott...and yes, Maunel is looking great.

BTW...The Banda Voice and Style Expansion Pack for the S650 is free until 3/30/13



http://www.yamahamusicsoft.com/en/category/VSE/learn

Congratulations Manuel! It’s great to see you doing a demo for Yamaha. It makes very good business sense for Yamaha to finally produce some styles that would appeal to the Mexican market. In Mexico it’s not at all unusual to see OMB performing in public at a variety of venues like hotels, restaurants, street side cafes, bars, and all sorts of socials events. Most of the keyboardist that I’ve seen playing in Mexico use entry to mid-priced Yamaha keyboards and when they play music from their own country they have to resort to using often times sub-par 3rd party styles. Hopefully Yamaha will keep producing more authentic contemporary styles like bachata and reggaeton.

I wonder why these Mexican Banda styles only work on the 650 and not the 750,950, and Tyros?

I would suspect that the pack would work with the 750 and 950 as well as the T4. Not sure, but you may want to check with Yamaha Customer Service just to be on the safe side.

Cheers,

Gary

Excellent demo, Manuel, and you are a natural at showcasing these styles.

Nice work, buddy.

Ian

The Banda pack only works on the 650 - the 650 has less memory for loading the voices and therefore the samples/waveforms are smaller and of poorer quality. I doubt anyone would be happy with those playing on their S950 or A2000.

Just saying ;-)

Bill G

Great job Manuel So this is your January surprise you mentioned to me. Very impressive.

Scott L