Navigation

This part of the PSR Tutorial includes seven major sections, each of which may contain one or more subsections. The major "Styles" sections are shown in the 7 tabs at the top of each page. Use these tabs to jump immediately to the section you are interested in. A brief description of each major section is provided below. You will also find a "navigator" shown in the far left column. It shows the major subsections and provided another "quick link" to help you find what you are looking for. The navigator on this, the Style Home Page, takes you to the major sections under Styles. Anywhere in this section, click on the floppy disk picture in the upper left-hand corner to return to this home page. For a summary page of everything in this section, go to the Styles Contents Summary page.

Yamaha Style Files

This section is organized by Yamaha arranger keyboard model in a chronological order starting with the PSR730 introduced in 1997 and extending to the current top-of-the-line model, the Tyros2, introduced in 2005, and the new PSR-S500 introduced in 2007. For each of these models you will find four available "pages". The primary page is, of course, for styles, both the original styles that came with that model as well as other styles sets that have been specifically "tuned" for use on that model. There are also pages showing the original Yamaha press release, the key features of the keyboard and the keyboard specifications. Buttons at the top of the pages in this "Yamaha" section allow you to jump to the subsection of your choice.

Yamaha Style Lists

Once you start "collecting" styles, you may be interested in understanding all the styles that are available. In this section, you will find lists of all the internal, preset, styles in the current family of Yamah keyboards.

Styles from Other Keyboards

Surprise! You do not have to limit yourself to only those styles created by Yamaha. Styles from other arranger keyboards, although not directly usable on a Yamaha keyboard, can be converted for use on PSR keyboards. We have done that for hundreds of styles from Technics, Roland, Ketron, and Korg keyboards. These styles have been adjusted for use on the PSR-2000 and should sound fine on the PSR-2100 as well. They sound best, of course, on the keyboards they were originally designed for. But, after a bit of style "tweaking," they can be made to be quite acceptable on the PSR-2x00. In addition, one-touch settings have been added to the PSR-2K versions.

Gig Disks

Many users find traditional style names uninformative. They prefer styles named with a suitable song they recognize. That is the essence of the "Gig Disks" put together by Gary Diamond and others. These have been very popular. Just load the "song" you want and the keyboard is instantly set up to sound just great for that song.

Style Collections

Looking for Christmas or Arabic styles? You'll find them in this section. You'll also find some SVP World styles here, various style collections compiled by Charley and from "Seeker" as well as Christmas Styles and Christmas Songs.

Music Finder Files

One of the really nice features of the PSR-2000/2100 is the Music Finder system.  Using the Music Finder, you simply locate a song you want to play, select it, and the style and tempo are set immediately.  Just touch the keyboard and off you go.  The Music Finder system gets its information from a Music Finder Database (mfd) file.  You can load your own Music Finder database.  This section provides a variety of different Music Finder databases including a large number of databases that are specific to an individual fake book.

Other Files

Registration Files

Want to set up your PSR with your very own favorite set of instruments and/or styles with just the press of a single button?  That's what registration files are for and you will find several useful files on this page.  These registration files are machine specific. Registration files here are for the PSR-2000 and PSR-2100 keyboards.

Voice Files

You know you can add styles to your PSR or modify the styles that are already there.  Well, you can also modify the preset voices that are supplied with the machine.  Scott Langholff has generously provided us with his collection of 100 voices arranged in "Category Presets."  This is another great resource that will help you enjoy your keyboard even more!

Multi Pad Files

Songs can be greatly enhanced by the Multipads supplied with your PSR.  Here, too, you can load in additional multipads and thus expand the options available. You find many additional multi pad files provided by Leo Dunne and Vince Lutz on the Multi Pad file pages.

MIDI Files

You will find a number of midi files available on the Factory Disk page under Yamaha styles.  However, there are many more MIDI files available in our PSR Performer's section. Most of these files were recorded on the PSR-2000, although you will also find Performers using the PSR-730, PSR-540, PSR-9000, and Tyros. The great variety of performers will not only show you what your keyboard can do, they will give you lots of ides you can use in your performances.