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As you look over the records in the
Music Finder database, and try out some of the song records, you
will undoubtedly discover that some of the suggested styles and/or
tempos are not quite to your liking. Well, you can change
them! You can modify the record by editing it and then replace
the record with the values you want. Or, you can take an existing
record, modify it slightly and then save the modified version as
a new record. In this lesson, I'll show you how to
edit these records.
The Edit Screen
Let's start by examining the MUSIC FINDER RECORD EDIT screen. The
PSR-2000 screen is shown here. If you have read through the
lessons on Searching the Music Finder database, you recognize that
this screen is very similar to the searching screen.
You can edit the MUSIC, KEYWORD, and STYLE fields. You can
indicate the BEAT and the TEMPO and select any GENRE you want.
In fact, you can even create your own GENRE definition by entering
new Genre names. If you recall the earlier discussion on adding
a song to your list of "favorite" songs, you can see on
this screen that the FAVORITE field will have a setting of either
ON or OFF. If you added a record to your "favorites" category from
the main MUSIC FINDER screen, it is indicated on the RECORD EDIT
screen by the FAVORITE field being set to ON. You can put
a song in, or take it out of, your favorites list by changing this
field. ON puts it in your favorites list; OFF removes it from
your favorites list.
Field
Sizes
You enter characters to put information into
the MUSIC and KEYWORD fields as well as the GENRE NAME field.
The MUSIC and KEYWORD fields hold a maximum of 32 characters.
If your song title is longer than that, it won't fit in the database.
You will have to abbreviate it somehow. If you create your
own Genre Name, it can be a maximum of only 16 characters.
Editing a Record
Let's try editing a record. I will assume that you have the
"corrected" Music Finder database installed. From the main
Music Finder screen, scroll down the list until you find the record
for the song "All By Myself." A PianoBallad is suggested with
a tempo of 64. Suppose you like that tempo, but you'd prefer
to use the OrganBallad style for this song. (I'm not suggesting
this is a  better
style for this song, I'm only using this alternative style as an
example.) To edit the record, you would move to that record
to highlight it, as shown in the graphic, then press button [8]
- EDIT - to bring up the MUSIC FINDER RECORD EDIT screen.
The Edit Screen now appears and each field
shows the data currently stored for this record. You see that
MUSIC: contains "All By Myself"
-- the song title. The STYLE field shows the "PianoBallad"
style. The BEAT field shows "4/4"
and the TEMPO field is set at "64".
The GENRE for this field is set to "Ballad"
and the FAVORITE field is set to "OFF."
The Keyword Field
The KEYWORD field contains "70,00,ballad,movie".
I said earlier that you could have multiple keywords for a song
and this is an example of such a case. A comma separates keywords
so this song has four different keywords. Note that you do
not have to put a space after the comma to separate different keywords.
Since this field only holds 32 characters, that is an advantage
since the "space" would be using up one of the limited number of
characters allowed. You could search on any of these keywords
and this song would show up in the search results list. For
example, if you were to search on "ballad" as a keyword, you would
get a list of all the songs that had the word "ballad" among the
keywords for that song and this song would be in the list.
If you wanted to search on all the songs that were created in the
1970's, you could search on "70" in the keyword list, and this song
would show up. Yamaha put the decade of the song in the keyword
field for many of the songs in their database. You could edit
this list by simply pressing button [B], which would bring up the
character input screen with the keywords showing. Delete or
add to the keywords, as you like.
The Style Field
You don't type anything to change the style. You select the
style from the standard style selection screens. In this case,
we want to change "PianoBallad" so press button [C] to bring up
the MUSIC FINDER STYLE FILE SELECT screen. PianoBallad will
be highlighted because that is the current value in the STYLE field.
If you look right below the highlighted PianoBallad, you will see
that you are currently in the "Ballad" folder and you
are on the first (P1) of three pages of styles stored in that folder.
Press button [B] to change this selection to "OrganBallad".
You can double-click [B] to make the change and immediately jump
back to the edit screen or press the [Exit] button to return to
the Edit screen. If the style you want was not visible on
this page (P1) of the Ballads, you could press buttons [2] or [3]
to go to the second or third page of Ballad styles. If you
wanted a different style category, you would press button [8B] which
would move you "UP" and out of the Ballad folder to the Main Style
File screen showing all the style categories. From here you would
pick a different style category and find the style you want in that
category.
 When
you return to the edit screen, you see that "OrganBallad" is now
showing in the STYLE field. Note that the TEMPO field has also been
changed. When you loaded the new style, it automatically loaded
the default tempo for that style. If you wanted to save the record
at this point, you would simply press the [8A] button, indicating
OK.
You don't have to save at this point.
You can make additional changes if you wanted to, like changing
the tempo to something slower or faster. If you've changed
your mind and don't want to make any changes at all, just press
the [8B] button to CANCEL the operation.
Deleting a Record
Note that if you really didn't like this
song at all, you can use the DELETE RECORD option (button [I]) to
remove the record from the Music Finder database. You won't
actually save any space if you "delete" the record. The information
is still there, but it is not seen or used as part of the database.
The deleted record number becomes empty. (When you create
a new record (below), the smallest available empty record number
is used for storing the information for the new record.) When
you press the [I] button, a message appears prompting you to execute
[YES], abort [NO] or cancel [CANCEL] the operation.
Adding a New Record to the Database
Let's not replace the original record.
Let's just ADD a new record to the database. That way we will
have two records for "All By Myself" -- one using the PianoBallad
style and one using the OrganBallad style. In addition, let's
rename this record slightly so you can distinguish it from the original
record.
Let's modify the song name by adding a "2"
on the end of the name. This will help us distinguish this
record from the original record in the database.  Press
[A] for the MUSIC field. The character input display will
appear with "All By Myself" in the input field. Just add a
"2" to the name and then press the [8A] button to indicate OK.
(If you need some instructions on how to use the character input
screen, see our lesson on changing
file names.)
 Now
you are ready to save a "New" record to your Music Finder database.
Press the [J] button to select NEW RECORD. When you
do, a message box appears asking you to confirm that you do, indeed,
want to create a new record. Respond by selecting the YES
answer. When you return to the Music Finder main display,
you will see that your database now has 451 records and, listed
right below "All By Myself" will be "All By Myself2". You
have just added a new record to your Music Finder database.
Saving "Your" Music
Finder Database
Once you start modifying the original database,
you may want to save it under a different name. If you loaded
the "corrected" version of the database names, you may still have
that Music Finder database file (.mfd) available on a floppy disk
and can always reload it. But, if you've made a lot of changes
to the database while you had it in your PSR, reloading the mfd
file from the floppy disk would wipe out all of your changes.
You can keep that "corrected" database on the floppy disk
(or your hard drive) as a backup of the original database.
(The screwed-up name version is always available since it is saved
permanently in the PSR-2000).
As you tailor the Music Finder database to your own preferences,
you may have deleted a lot of records for songs you know that you
would never need. You may have added new records for songs
that you do play and modified many of the original records by selecting
a different style or tempo. When you make changes to these
Music Finder records, they stay in the Music Finder database even
after you power your PSR keyboard. When you turn it on again
and look in the Music Finder, you see that all of your records are
still there. But, if power were off for an extended period,
the Music Finder records may, like the other user data, disappear.
That is why you need to make a backup copy of your modified Music
Finder database on a floppy disk. Review the lesson on
Saving Music Finder Database Files
to see how to save your modified database to floppy.
Specifying External
Style Files
You can not select a style file from a floppy
disk and store that in the Music Finder database. You can
only select files that are in the PRESET area or in the USER
area. So, if you copy a file from a floppy disk to the USER
area, you could use that file when specifying a STYLE for a particular
song title. However, the Music Finder will only find that
style if it remains in the USER area. If you remove
it from the USER area, the song record stays in the database, but
the style name is blank and if you select that file, you are told
that the style is no longer available. But if you load it
into the USER area once more, then the record in the database will,
once more, work. So, if there are some styles that you use
all the time, and you, therefore, always have them in the USER area,
it would be safe for you to include them in "your" personalized
Music Finder database.
Music Finder Data in the Style
Suppose you like the 40'sBigBand style that was supplied on the
floppy disk that came with your PSR-2000. You could load it
into USER memory and then use it as the suggested style for some
songs you were adding to your database. Let's say you find
half a dozen songs that you add to the database for which you select
40'sBigBand as the style. After you add these records, you
copy the 40'sBigBand style back to a floppy disk. If you were
to reload the original Music Finder database, it would have, as
you now know, 450 records. Now, simply copy the 40'sBigBand
style back to the USER area. If you now look at your Music
Finder database, you see that the number of records has increased
to 456. The six records that you created with 40'sBigBand
as the suggested style were stored with the style when you copied
it back to a floppy disk. When that style is loaded back into the
USER area, the records that were stored with the style are automatically
added to the Music Finder database.
How does this work? I haven't a clue.
If you examine the PSR-2000 manual, you will see that it says:
When you copy or move a style file on a floppy disk to USER
drive, the record which was recorded when storing the relevant
style is automatically added to the PSR-2000/1000.
The above explanation doesn't really tell
the whole story. I have styles in my library that may have
been purchased commercially, like the Simon Williams' styles, or
may have been downloaded from the Internet, and then modified to
work on the 2000 with one-touch settings added. When I load
some of these styles, I find that the Music Finder database can
grow by dozens of records, all associated with the loaded style.
(I can rename the style and that doesn't matter since loading the
renamed style still brings up a lot of records.) The new records
thus added to the database for this style don't have songs that
seem to go with the style. If the information "saved" based
on the style "name" for a style in the USER area, or on a style
"number", or, perhaps, on the position within the USER area that
the style happens to be occupying. Perhaps some experts in
the audience can tell me. I simply haven't had the time to
reverse engineer the process and figure out what is going on.
When I do, I will be happy to pass the information on. But
for the time being, you might want to try sticking with the styles
that are presets in the PSR-2000.
Next Step: Major Revisions
Well, now you know how to edit records and
how to create new records. If you want to make slight changes,
the instructions above are all you need to know to go ahead and
fix some records or add some new ones. However, if you want
to make a LOT of changes to the database, the facilities in the
PSR are too cumbersome. But you don't have to do all your
editing on the keyboard. There are some utility programs available
that you can run on your personal computer that can help enormously
with organizing and managing your Music Finder database. I'll
talk about these programs in the next lesson on Music Finder Utilities.
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