It seems as though Yamaha has responded to concerns about their earlier styles and revamped some of them in the newer boards. It also seems as if they have changed formats on some of them. I'm not sure whether the new formats are needed because of the complexity of the styles or because Yamaha is trying to make them more difficult to copy and / or convert.

There was a rather detailed discussion about it on Bob Gelmans Yahoo groups PSR styles site. It may help shed a little more light on the subject for you Graham. It seems as if even some of the people who are known as good style makers are having difficulties converting / making good sounding styles for use on the newer Yamaha boards. Maybe there are other reasons, but I find it to be more than just a little coincidental that it suddenly seems that on the new boards, good style making has become seemingly more difficult if not next to impossible at the same time that Yamaha has asked that their styles be removed from public domain, and that they've announced plans to offer the styles themselves, but if the asking prices I had seen are true they can keep them. ( unverified at this time, but something along the order of 3 USD per style ).


I'll admit I do miss the Yamaha styles just a little for live work now that I no longer have a PSR, but I can live with the ones on my PA80. At least I can make my own styles that sound decent on it fairly easily for the tunes that their styles don't work well with.

Korg AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 03-16-2002).]