Revoicing Yamaha Arranger Styles

[OldTimerBill]

Hi All,

i have been told that the styles on the older Yamaha arrangers are easier to revoice because the older Yamaha arrangers followed a more consistent pattern of assigning the same voice to the same channel in their styles. Can anyone comment on what they mean by “older”?

 

[Rayblewit]

What do you mean revoice?

 

[Rayblewit]

If you mean. . . Changing the voice throughout a song . . then it is as simple as selecting A,B,C, or D in the main variation settings.
You are asking age . .Mine is a 2014 model psr s650.
You can also select any voice at anytime quite simply by tapping a selection.
The earlier models are capable of this too.
Even the e series can do it.
I am not sure what you are asking.

 

[OldTimerBill]

Hi … you can take Yamaha styles from almost any Yamaha arranger keyboard, open them up in a style editor and replace the sounds that are assigned to the different channels of the style with different sounds (instruments). For example, channel 2 of a style could be the drum track. When you revoice you go in and replace the original drum kit with one that sounds better (to you). Some arranger keyboards have built in style editors and there is also standalone style editing software.

My question was about which older Yamaha arrangers used a more consistent system of putting the drums on channel 2, a guitar on channel 4, etc.

 

[Rayblewit]

Okay, thanks for clarifying.
That gets too technical for me.
Cheers

 

[joso]

Try my "Style Revoicer" software at http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/software/revsty/index.htm
Jørgen

 

[OldTimerBill]

Try my "Style Revoicer" software at http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/software/revsty/index.htm
Jørgen

Thanks Joso … this looks like a really good resource. Just from the picture it looks like what I could do is to pick the model of the keyboard and it will populate the list of sounds when you load up a style.

 

[TedS]

At some point Yamaha introduced proprietary "MegaVoices," especially guitars, to achieve more realistic sounds. If the style track was set up for a MegaVoice guitar, it won't sound correctly if you revoice with a non-MegaVoice instrument.

I think this is the difference between Yamaha's venerable Style File Format (SFF) which dates back to about 1997, and Style File Format 2 (SFF2) which I believe was introduced with the Tyros around 2001. Legal or otherwise, a lot of first-generation Yamaha styles can be downloaded from the Internet, and will play on newer arrangers. The reverse is not true. FWIW.

 

[OldTimerBill]

At some point Yamaha introduced proprietary "MegaVoices," especially guitars, to achieve more realistic sounds. If the style track was set up for a MegaVoice guitar, it won't sound correctly if you revoice with a non-MegaVoice instrument.

I think this is the difference between Yamaha's venerable Style File Format (SFF) which dates back to about 1997, and Style File Format 2 (SFF2) which I believe was introduced with the Tyros around 2001. Legal or otherwise, a lot of first-generation Yamaha styles can be downloaded from the Internet, and will play on newer arrangers. The reverse is not true. FWIW.

Thanks Ted. I was aware of the MegaVoices but I don’t know it will be an issue for me.