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#350316 - 09/04/12 07:48 AM
New Yamaha Premium Styles from late August 2012
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#350373 - 09/04/12 05:02 PM
Re: New Yamaha Premium Styles from late August 2012
[Re: Beakybird]
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These aren't recycled styles. I like the Yamaha Premium styles. Many of them sound just as good as the styles that are on the keyboard.
I like the Premium Styles too...especially with the Tyros4 and it's ability to use SA/SA2 Voices in the styles. Most of my clients, as registered users, receive info on the latest Premium Styles via email, but it is also good to see the demo links posted here as well. Both these styles will also be great starting points for making more styles (using Style Creator/Assembly), or one can change their character by re-voicing the parts, and yes, I agree they sound every bit as good as the on-board styles. Ian PS...I find the Premium Styles much better balanced than the DOO Styles.
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#350377 - 09/04/12 05:28 PM
Re: New Yamaha Premium Styles from late August 2012
[Re: Beakybird]
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Hi Leigh,
I found that the programmers for a lot of the DOO styles were trying for a more aggressive sound overall, and tried to achieve it by attempting to work with the balance (or mix) of the style parts.
I have rescued quite a few to work for my needs by more judicious use of panning, and carefully adjusting the volume, EQ, Effects, and Filter for individual style parts. Thankfully, on the Yamaha's, this is pretty easy.
On the DOO styles, it seems they just boosted the overall volume.
Ian
PS...not all the DOO styles were bad...there were also quite a few that were very well done.
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#350421 - 09/05/12 07:45 AM
Re: New Yamaha Premium Styles from late August 2012
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Lets face it Yamaha styles are geared for the older adult ex organ home player/ballroom dancers compared to anything you would hear today on the charts, but hey, that's their strength and selling point for arrangers,......keeping the two camps separate Arranger/WS is good marketing strategy which in turn sells more units world wide, more choice more money,........the younger generation doesn't want to know premium Rumba styles, especially in the USA, etc, etc,... all the tools are available out there to make great music....and you don't need automatic styles to do that.....a good pro will just create track by track the music they need on any good WS..."THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO SOUND".....and that is what is driving "TODAYS" Music, coupled with computers the sky is the limit, creating your own tracks allows the musician to be so creative in every component of the music for a professional player, create your own bass lines, horn stabs, sax solos, string sections, drum solos, etc..its doesnt have to be repetitive style play,.. Auto arranger style play is OK and has had it's time and is still available to use for the right audiences, & home affectionatos,but, there's no denying the truth on what's out there in the music world TODAY. Take the blinders off and it will open your eyes to a whole new world of music. 
Edited by Dnj (09/05/12 07:48 AM)
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#350432 - 09/05/12 11:49 AM
Re: New Yamaha Premium Styles from late August 2012
[Re: Dnj]
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Lets face it Yamaha styles are geared for the older adult ex organ home player/ballroom dancers compared to anything you would hear today on the charts, but hey, that's their strength and selling point for arrangers,......keeping the two camps separate Arranger/WS is good marketing strategy which in turn sells more units world wide, more choice more money,........the younger generation doesn't want to know premium Rumba styles, especially in the USA, etc, etc,... all the tools are available out there to make great music....and you don't need automatic styles to do that.....a good pro will just create track by track the music they need on any good WS..."THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO SOUND".....and that is what is driving "TODAYS" Music, coupled with computers the sky is the limit, creating your own tracks allows the musician to be so creative in every component of the music for a professional player, create your own bass lines, horn stabs, sax solos, string sections, drum solos, etc..its doesnt have to be repetitive style play,.. Auto arranger style play is OK and has had it's time and is still available to use for the right audiences, & home affectionatos,but, there's no denying the truth on what's out there in the music world TODAY. Take the blinders off and it will open your eyes to a whole new world of music. I'm 50 years old, and I'm not an expert on the newest music, but I hear a lot of Yamaha styles in the dance and pop category that to my ears do reflect the newest sounds and even more that's great for today's adult contemporary music. I think that Yamaha's arrangers have something in it for everyone, but there's no denying that there is a greater breadth of styles for older music. And I want to again defend Yamaha Premium Styles from those who flamed the styles this thread is about. If you like '60's and '70's, you're probably going to like those styles. The Premium Styles are almost always seamlessly produced and take advantage of the keyboard's best voices. They are too expensive though. I won't defend Yamaha there.
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