Styles are the life blood of an arranger keyboard owner. Your keyboard, of course, comes with a number of preset styles built into the firmware of the keyboard. The newer and more expensive keyboards have better and more numerous styles. But, no matter how many and how great the styles included with your keyboard, eventually, you get used to all the preset styles and begin to yearn for something new and something different.

Of course, one of the great advantages of the Yamaha PSR and Tyros keyboards is the ability of users to load external styles into their keyboard as quickly and easily as they load the preset styles. To facilitate the use of external styles, the keyboards include external storage device(s) -- USB drives, hard drives, or, on earlier keyboards, floppy disk drives or Smart Cards. These storage areas are used to hold additional files for your keyboard, such as more style files!

Where Do New Styles Come From?

You Create Them! - As you become more comfortable with your keyboard, you will discover that you can modify any of the preset styles in many different ways. You can change the One Touch Setting (OTS) voices used. You can change the accompaniment voices. You can increase or decrease the default tempo. You can set your own, preferred, left-hand voice. Many users will "tune-up" a style with changes like this to modify it to fit a particular song. The revised style can then be saved to one of the user storage areas as a "new" style. If a style were altered to fit a particular song, it is often saved with a filename reflecting that song. So, users themselves can create new styles by modifying the preset styles.

Others Create Them! - Unfortunately, not everyone has the time, or the talent, to tinker with styles and make their own versions. Fortunately, many folks who can modify styles have also chosen to make their versions available to others by uploading them to various internet sites. There are many such sites on the internet where you can find style files for use with Yamaha keyboards and there are, literally, thousands of these styles available for download. Some of these styles are "tuned" preset styles, some are simply copies of preset styles from earlier keyboards, some are styles taken from arranger keyboards of other manufacturers and reformatted and tuned to work on Yamaha PSR and Tyros/Genos keyboards. Some are styles that have been converted from midi files and some are styles that very talented users have created entirely from scratch. And, of course, you can also find commercial sources that have created styles and are happy to sell them to you.

PSR Tutorial Styles

This Styles section has thousands of styles that you can freely download. These styles are in compressed "zipped" files to minimize storage space and minimize download times. After you download the "zip" file, you need to "unzip" it on your computer to get to the included style files. You can then transfer these files to your Yamaha keyboard. Even if you have a high-speed internet connection, it can take a long time to download and compile your own collection of styles. And then, of course, you have to unzip everything to get to the actual style files.

The PSR Style Collections were created so that users who did not want to bother with all that, could simply get one of the PSR Tutorial style collections. Unfortunately, the style collections are no longer available. So, if you want to add more styles to your own style library, you have to download the individual style sets provided in the Styles section of this site.

This page updated on September 29, 2024.

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