You certainly can Tom. Just place the new styles you'd like to use into a new folder ( or folders ), name the folder as you wish, and then insert the folder(s) into the "style" folder inside of the program. Or if you wish you can simply place your new styles into the existing folders. Either way it works fine.

XG works uses an .stx extension for it's internal styles, but it will also recognize .sty files. I have very few of the original XG works styles left in the program, as I removed most of them and put the remaining few I did want to keep all into one folder.

One thing to note. If you wish to use other manufacturers styles that have been converted to Yamaha's style format, in some cases, and particularly if they are raw conversions done with EMC styleworks, these do not work inside of XG works.

There is some type of CASM data that is required that EMC doesn't seem to provide ( I can't remember what it was, but Claude Veziau and I discussed this a few years back at another forum.

There is, however, a work around. You can take each of the non working conversions, place them into Michael P Bedesem's stylemaker, simply use the "Auto Casm " feature, and save without doing anything else, and the newly saved styles will work in XG works. Michael's program automatically fixes the problem ( whatever it was ).

A while back I did "re"convert some of the other manufacturers styles that were available back then. They are probably still posted in the files section of the Yahoo XG works files group. It's been awhile, so you likely won't find styles there from the latest kb's.

Like so many of their other software endeavors, Yamaha abandoned this one.. It's too bad too, because it had so much potential. If it even had the audio capabilities of SQ01, which by today's standards are pretty basic, it would still be a viable contender vs any of the other upper mid range DAW's. ( XG works stopped at 44khz / 16bit with no plug in capabilities vst Dx or otherwise )

Regards,

AJ


And mainly because I think I can type well when in reality I simply cannot, once again:


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