52,752 styles, in SFF1 format (for Tyros1, Tyros2, PSR-1000, PSR-2000, PSR-3000, and PSR-S900) and all later keyboards.
Styles Library #1 includes almost 53,000 styles. All are in the SFF1 format. Two-thirds of the styles (34,000) include OTS. 46,000 styles have 4 variations. If you were to use the PSR Style Database to break out styles by category, you could find 5,700 ballads, 3,200 Jazz styles, 3,000 Country styles, 1,400 BigBand styles, 900 Bossanova styles, or 800 Gospel styles. There are hundreds of gems here just waiting for you to discover them.
Styles Library #1 is the original Styles#1 through Styles #4 collections with duplicate styles (from Styles#7 and Styles #8) removed. I limited this style collection to only styles in the earlier SFF1 styles format. Later collections include a mix of old (SFF1) and new (SFF2) style formats. The newer keyboards can read both of these formats, but earlier keyboards are limited to the earlier SFF1 format. The PSR-2000, PSR-2100, PSR-3000, and PSR-S900 as well as the Tyros1 and Tyros2 all use the earlier SFF1 format. Not only can owners of these keyboards access all the styles in this collection, there are folders and sub-folders with thousands of styles tuned specifically for their particular Yamaha model. Of course, owners of later keyboards can also access all the styles in this collection.
The styles are organized into 5 main folders, each with many subfolders.
The "Collections" folder has 7,376 styles in 10 subfolders: Bart (237), Brian (608), Charley (362), Chris (1,913), Dennis (52), Eileen (1,404), Harry (350), JohnH (1,860), Patrick (402) and Christmas (189). Each of these contributors has a page on the main PSR Tutorial web site.
Some collectors had such large collections that they have their own main folders: "Coll-JohnV" (8,287 styles), "Coll-Henni" (6,616), "Coll-Jeff" (3,878). There are a whole series of smaller collections found in the "Coll-Other" (4,550) folder. These individual collections are usually organized by the categories established by the original collector.
The value of song styles is in the filename itself. So these styles are arranged alphabetically. Even though there are 10,000 song styles on Styles #7 and all those were eliminated from this collection, nonetheless, there are still 3,017 song-styles in this collection. Actually, there are even more than that since many of the "collections" above include song-styles. The songs in these alphabetical folders were drawn from the Gigs section of the site and also from files in an earlier Forums section no longer on the site. Where songs here came from a particular performer, I added a two-letter abbreviation to the end of the song name to identify the source. For example, song styles from Gary Diamond are identified with a GD.
This folder has subfolders for 15 different Yamaha arranger keyboards (PSR-7000, PSR-740, PSR-9000, 9kPro, CVP209, PSR-1700, PSR-2000, Tyros 1, PSR-550, PSR-2100, PSR-3000, Tyros 2, PSR-620, PSR-S900). There are 3,160 Yamaha styles in this section. These are the original preset styles from each of these keyboards. If you have Styles #8, there will be some duplicate file sets found here.
This section has styles that have been converted or tuned for particular keyboards. If you have one of these earlier arrangers, you will find styles from earlier (and later) keyboards, converted for use on your keyboard.
As in the Collections section, all of these conversion folders could be put under a common "Conversion" folder if you want.
This final section has 1,864 styles from the forum uploads and elsewhere arranged into genre categories. Note that many of the collections mentioned above also have their styles organized by category.
Not every Yamaha keyboard has a USB port and, as such, even if you copied these file collection onto a USB, you would not be able to use the files directly from the USB drive. If you have a PSR-2000 or a PSR-2100, you are simply out of luck. You would have to copy the files from the USB to your computer's hard drive and, from there, copy small sets of style files to a floppy disk, which you can take to your PSR-2000 or PSR-2100.
Unlike styles you may have received on a CD-ROM drive, the files on a USB drive can be changed. They can not only be loaded, but they can be revised and saved again in a new version. You can add additional files to a USB drive. But, what is most important, you can also delete files! When you delete a file, it is gone forever. So, if you received this collection on a USB drive, while you now have some 53,000 styles on the drive, they are not permanent; they can disappear. So a backup copy is important.
If you downloaded this library in the form of zip files, these files can serve as your backup. Unzip them and create the original library an your hard drive or on a USB drive.
If you are copying these files from a USB drive to your hard drive, it may take a long time to copy 53,000 styles. Making a copy of this USB drive involves hours, not minutes. Time will vary depending on your computer. Usually, copying files to a USB drive is much slower than reading files from a USB drive.
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