Larry,

It might be a good idea to store the S900 styles (that you use) that aren't on the S910 (that is, if you are planning on getting one) in a flashdrive folder ...they should work perfectly in the latter.

When I went from the 3k to the S900, there were a few styles from the former missing on the latter.

Many of the new S910 styles are from the Tyros3...plus, I imagine most of the T3's styles should work with a bit of revoicing, if necessary.

Do Yamaha keep a consistent nomenclature for styles across different models? In other words, will the same style have different names when newer or different models come out?

Sometimes the names are different for the same basic style, but usually the intros and endings are changed a bit as well...the four main variations are usually the same.

Sometimes there may be changes in the voices...but, not very often.

I'm looking at my T2 files now. A lot of T2 styles had to be modified to play in the S900, but will probably play perfectly in the S910.

The T2 and the S910 have very similar specs as far as voices with the nudge going to the T2.

T2: 42 Super Articulation Voices,
S910: 38 Super Articulation Voices
T2: 18 MegaVoices
S910: 18 MegaVoices
T2: 23 Sweet! Voices,
S910: 24 Sweet! Voices
T2: 58 Live! Voices,
S910: 29 Live! Voices
T2: Live! Drums (9 drum kits),
S910: 0 Live! Drums
T2: 39 Cool! Voices,
S910: 46 Cool! Voices

I don't think there is much of a difference between the drums on the T2 and on the S910, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Beakybird



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I'm hoping the T3's styles will load directly into the S910...won't know for sure till I get one of the latter...but, if they will, it shouldn't be too hard to revoice the T3's styles to the S910's soundset.

The T2's styles shouldn't be a problem either.

Ian

Larry, it looks like you were comparing S910 to T2, but the list all said S900...

Is that the 900 or 910 list?

And Ian... is there a list somewhere that clears up what style is what? Changing the Intro doesn't count as a new style, in my book!

I don't know about any list, Diki. Perhaps someone has one and can share it.

I posted a link to the Data List, which shows the different styles. Obviously, some will likely be the same styles that have been reworked for the newer keyboard's voices. This is not at all uncommon with all brands. And, some just change intros, breaks, fills and endings, but still use the same style. Unfortunately, there is no way to determine any of this until you actually sit down at the keyboard and listen to each and every style and its variations. Then, and only then, can you make the determination.

Because some of the styles found in older models are quite good, I usually copy them to a folder, then burn them to a CD for future use. Granted, this takes some time, but it's well worth the effort. Over the years I likely have accumulated more than 40,000 styles, many of which are quite good, and because of this I still use some 5 to 8 year-old styles during performances.

In many instances, I have renamed the styles to a specific song title, hence my creation of Gig Disks several years ago. The reasoning behind this was that in my collection of styles there are likely 50 or more Big Band Fast, Big Band Med, Big Band 40s, etc.., styles with the exact same names from the same manufacturer that do not sound alike. I'll reserve my judgment of the S-910 until I can sit down with the board for a couple hours, which hopefully, will be sometime during mid October.

Cheers,

Gary

Oops. That was a typo on my part. I corrected my previous post changing S900 to S910.

Beakybird



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