DonM: MANY Thanks for sharing the 9000 'Lounge Piano' style. Great brushes. I used it on Misty at my happy hour gig tonight and it really put the folks in a romantic mood with the rain lightly hitting the window along with the cozy warm fireplace going. BTW, the PSR9000 'Midnight Swing' is great too. I deleted the piano accomp part (chord2) though, cause I play in all the piano stuff myself. I increased the tempo to 120 and it's now the PERFECT style for 'Fever', finger snaps and all. I also don't use the style's intros and endings as I prefer to play my own. I also created and stored custom instrument (voice) setups for this style in OTS. The cool thing is that OTS settings are stored within the style itself, so that way you can later load the style from floppy and won't need to load a separate registration file because all the customized settings are now built into the style along with instrument setups (OTS 1-4). BTW, before you can edit/change a style along with OTS settings, you need to first store the original style in PSR2000 USER Memory. After editing and re-saving the style to USER memory, then you can re-save this newly created style to floppy disk.

I know you guys may think this is crazy, but I think the Yamaha brand name on the keyboard seems to impress a some in the audience. I guess because Yamaha is well known for their acoustic grands too. I don't know if you knew this, but I actually had to cover up the Technics name on my KN5000 with my own logo name because some club owner thought it wasn't impressive enough for his la de da club. Go Figure !

Joe: Thanks for your excellent explanation of the many ways you can configure the PSR2000 for song/file organization. I think I've worked out a good system that works for me. I store the bulk on my songs which use the internal styles, in the Music Finder. I store customized edited styles (along with OTS settings) on floppy because they load so quickly and don't require registration memory files either. I also created a few Registration Memory 'Instrument Setups' (1-8): one for each specific genre of music: Jazz Lounge, Pop/Rock, Country, etc. I also created a separate folder for registrations dedicated to a 'specific' song. I think once you decide on and then follow an organized approach, it just makes it a lot easier now to let your creative juices flow and start MAKING MUSIC ! Hey, that's what this is all about, right?

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Thanks Scott,
I'm gonna organize mine . . . someday.
Also my garage, my music, my life, etc.
DonM

Don, I look at it this way. Music is a TOUGH way to make a living. You always have to stay one step ahead of the competition. I feel my brain is constantly jumping back and forth between being totally spontaneous & creative (when performing) and then being overly analytical when I get immersed in the technical side of things. I guess I should strive for a happy medium, but that's too dull for me

Thanks to Joe for the 1) the explaining about floppy changes... and 2) for the file on PSR2000 styles and tempos.

I can't wait to get my hands on the 2000.

Hey Scott,

I am going to HOLD you to that (in the works) "Yamaha PSR2000 For Dummies" manual!

And charge me what you will -- I'll pay it!


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Regards and Aloha,

Charlie
http://artists2.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Wong_Songs/index-1.html

Amen, Brother! Amen!!

It's a DEAL!
Now I've just got to find the time to devote to this new project amidst all the holiday work (our busiest time of year) coming up.

Great! Now, remember, Scott. "For Dummies" is the key phrase here, speaking for myself at least!