PSR Style Files Available Right Here

You obviously have a computer and a connection to the Internet or you would not be reading this page.  The Internet is a wonderful source of styles for your PSR.  And one of the very first places to look is right here.  The PSR Tutorial includes six major sections, all of which are accessible through the links shown at the top of all pages. The Styles section provides a variety of different styles and other files you can download for use in your PSR. Styles are being added to our Styles section all the time. Right now, in May of 2004, there are over 4,700 style files available. Many of the styles here were originally "tuned" specifically for the PSR-2000, but they will work just fine in the PSR-1000, the PSR-2100, the PSR-1100, the Tyros, and even the CVP digital pianos. Recent style additions have been tuned for the 2100 taking advantage of the additional unique voices in that model in the one-touch settings. There are over 2,800 of these "adjusted" styles, complete with OTS, available in the style archive.

Note: Over the years, the number of available styles has grown as new keyboards have been introduced. You can now find several thousand more styles for the PSR3000, the Tyros2, and the PSR-S900, many of these with the newer mega voices included. -- Joe Waters (January, 2008).

PSR-2000 Adjusted Styles?

Why would anyone have to adjust a style? Don't all PSR styles work on the PSR-2000/2100?  Well, yes, and no.  Yamaha generally uses the XG voice set in designing style accompaniment parts.  Since many of the Yamaha keyboards include this same set of 480 XG voices, the styles designed for one Yamaha keyboard should play just fine on another Yamaha keyboard.  They may, indeed, play just fine, but they may not sound just like the original and the sound difference may be in no small part due to the different kinds of speakers that may be available from one system to the next.  For example, a style from the PSR-9000 will play fine on the PSR-2100, but the drums sound too loud.  Similarly, a PSR-2100 style played on the PSR-9000 may have the drums sounding too soft.  If a style is developed on another keyboard, you may have to adjust the sound balance to suit your own keyboard and your own environment.  When you get to the point where you want to tune styles or other aspects to your own liking, just visit the Personalize section under Lessons.  There you will find a variety of articles that explain exactly how to do this.

Another difference is that the newer keyboards, such as the PSR-2100, may have additional features that were not available in older keyboards.  The PSR-2100/2000 family of keyboards have FOUR style variations; older keyboards, such as the 540/640/740 have only TWO style variations.  Another wonderful feature in the PSR-2100/2000 that is not available in older keyboards is the availability of  the four One-Touch Settings (OTS) that configure your keyboard with voices appropriate to the particular style.  What's more, YOU can add your own OTS to any style and save those setting with the style.  You can save the style in the USER area or on a floppy disk.  This means when you load an "external" file from some other source, it can come with the OTS already added to the style -- a big benefit for PSR-2100/2000 owners.  The majority of the styles available in our download section have had OTS added to the style.  You can learn to add your own OTS in the Personalize section.

Your friend has a Roland keyboard and you like some of the styles in that keyboard. Can he give you the styles from the Roland on a floppy disk so you can play them in your keyboard? Unfortunately, the answer to that is "No." He can give you the styles all right, but they are in format for use with a Roland, not for use with a Yamaha. Fortunately, there are commercial programs available that will "convert" styles from one keyboard format to the format appropriate for another keyboard. Many styles from other keyboards have been converted for use with Yamaha keyboards. The conversion program, however, works somewhat like the foreign language translators you may have seen on the Internet -- the result is readable, but no where as good as the product a human translator can produce. Many conversion, for examples, set the default tempo to 120 bpm no matter what the original style tempo was set at. In addition, the accompaniment voice volumes are all set to 100 -- certainly not the values that were originally used in the style. With the PSR, users can adjust styles, so these "converted" styles can be tuned by adjusting the accompaniment volumes, and in some cases the voice as well, and the tempo. In addition, since the OTS is stored in the style, OTS can be added to these styles from other keyboards. This is a labor-intensive task, but it is not rocket science. Anyone who studies the lessons under Personalize can learn to tune styles to their own liking. However, for many of the "external" styles available at this site, I (or others) have done that tuning for you. Of the 2,800 "tuned" styles available, only about 1,000 of those are from Yamaha styles. The rest are styles from other keyboards that are now available for you to use on your PSR keyboard.

Styles Available at PSR Tutorial

Yamaha

Yamaha styles from their older keyboards can be made available on the Internet.  For your convenience, we have made all of the PSR-8000 and PSR-730 styles available here.  These styles are two-variation styles and, while I have expanded some to four variations and added OTS, most of the styles you see here are in the original Yamaha format.  After you master our Personalize lessons, however, you will be able to adjust all of these styles yourself!

The newest Yamaha arranger keyboard is the Tyros.  It has terrific new styles that utilize a brand new feature in the Tyros called "Mega Voices."  These voices are used by the accompaniment styles to give surprisingly realistic sounding guitar and bass accompaniment styles.  Unfortunately, these styles, are not directly usable in a PSR-2000 (or a PSR-2100) since these models do not have Mega Voices.  The "tricks" used to trigger the Mega effects just trigger unwanted noise on the 2000.  But, if these Mega Voices are replaced with other instruments and the velocity triggers in the style removed, and Tyros voices not available in the 2000 replaced with other voices, the styles can be played in the PSR-2000, although they won't sound exactly like, perhaps not even much like, the originals, the can, nonetheless, sound very good.  I have converted many of these styles for the PSR-2000 and you will find those conversions on the Tyros2K page in the our Yamaha download section. Many of the panel voices on the 2100 are more similar to those used on the Tyros than are the 2000 panel voices. So, the tuning for the PSR-2100 can use more of the original Tyros settings because that model has more of those voices. So, for PSR-2100 owners, there is a separate set of conversion of the Tyros styles available on the Tyros21k page. These styles can not be used by keyboards that do not have the OTS feature as implemented in the Tyros/PSR2100/PSR2000 series. 9000 owners or owners of 740s etc., need to have the OTS removed for these style conversions to work. There are utilities available that will do this, but for the convenience of owners of earlier keyboards, we have provided a Tyros9k page where we have already removed the OTS.

When you received your PSR-2000, you found a floppy disk included with a number of styles.  These styles are, of course, not available in the preset styles, but you can, of course, use them by loading them from floppy or storing some of them in the User area.  Yamaha has made these "factory" disks available and we have included the styles (and songs) available on these disks here.  Visit the Factory Disk page to review what is available.  The styles from other Yamaha keyboards will also work in your PSR-2000/2100, but they will not have OTS included.  For the PSR-9000 factory disk styles, I have converted many of those to PSR-2000 versions for your convenience.

Roland/Technics/Ketron/Korg

Earlier, I mentioned the styles available from other keyboards. We have over a thousand of these styles available here, and over 600 have already been fine-tuned for use on the PSR2100/2000.  You will find over 500 styles from the Roland G1000/EM2000 series on our Roland page. There are over 300 styles available from the Technics KN5000 available on our Technics page .  These have been converted for use with the PSR, and about half of them have OTS included in the style. There are over 300 styles available on the Ketron page and over 150 styles on the Korg page.

Gig Disks

Style names (sometimes) provided clues as to the type of song a style would be appropriate for, e.g. BigBandBallad, Foxtrot, OrganQuickstep. But what if the style for a particular song were available. Just load that "song" for your style and now your keyboard is all set up to play that particular song. For many players, this is a much more useful way to find appropriate styles and this is exactly how "gig" disks are set up. A performer may have 30 songs he/she plans to play at a performance. All 30 are on a floppy disk and the style appropriate for each is named with the song title. Simply load that song and play it. These gig disks are very popular and we have several performers who have contributed to our library of gig disks. You'll find an additional 600 styles available under gig disks.

Downloading Styles

All of the styles available here can be freely downloaded to your PC allowing you to build your own personal library of PSR styles. If you need help in understanding how to "download" a file from an Internet site to your PC, complete instructions are given in our downloading lesson. Many sites provide styles individually that you can download. At this site, I have generally combined many styles into one single compressed file, known as a "zip" file. Compressing the style makes it smaller and this reduces the time needed to download, that is transfer the file from the Internet to your PC. If you have a slow Internet connection, you will understand the advantage of speeding up the download process. Of course, to use these style files, they need to be uncompressed (unzipped) and restored to their original size and format. We also have a lesson that explains How to Unzip a file for those that need help in this area. For those who prefer not to spend all their time sitting at the computer downloading and unzipping files, there is yet another option. If you become a PSR Charter Member, you will receive the PSR Tutorial CD-ROM. It has all the style files, plus many, many more additional files, available from this site -- in an uncompressed, ready to use format. Simply put the CD in your PC and copy whatever styles you want to a floppy disk and they are instantly ready for you to use.

Other Yamaha PSR Style Sites on the Internet

If you look under in the Links section, you will find pointers to many sites on the Internet that you may find useful as a PSR owner.  The biggest source of "free" styles is the Yahoo PSR-Styles group.  This is not only an active discussion group, but, when you join the group (there is no cost to joining), you will find many styles in their Files area.  You will also find a link to their "archive" site with hundreds of additional Yamaha style files.

PSR Support sites can also be a good source to look for more styles. The Unofficial YAMAHA PSR Resource Site site is built and maintained by Jorgen Sorenson.  Jorgen has a few styles that he has written himself, but he also has a whole page of links to lots of other sites on the Internet that provided styles for Yamaha keyboards.