KVR Announcement

This release is particularly appealing to PSR and Tyros owners. The massive body of styles supplied has been reworked and contains hundreds of new fresh styles, perfectly playing out of the box even on these arrangers.

You can check the styles list and listen to some of them with the online player. You won't believe to your ears (rendered on a "humble" PSR S770, with stock sounds and DSPs)!

Of course you do not have to believe us: you can directly play first hands all of them (860 !!) on your arranger with our free demo. So that you can even experiment the advanced features, unmatched by any competing product.

The demo is fully functional (saves are disabled) but forces you to exit and restart it every 15 minutes or so. You can keep and use it forever.

Regards,
Groovyband Live! Team

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Groovyband Live! Realtime Arranger is a modern software running on Windows 10 devices (desktops, laptops, tablets). Touch screen is not necessary but strongly recommended. The program generates a stream of midi messages that must be rendered to audio with a compatible sound generator.
To deliver an outstanding result (= guaranteed out of the box immediate satisfaction with no need of any tweak), Groovyband Live! and its preset styles are painstakingly optimized for any sound generator it officially supports. Currently supported are XG Sound generators built-in mid/high end Yamaha arrangers (let's say PSR S950, S770 or better).
Support for other sound generators is under development.

Check our website for further details and the up-to-date online manual.

How does this compare to Arranger?

spam?

So, I looked at the styles list and played some demos.
I recognized all the styles from various Yamaha models, that are free for download on the PSR Tutorial site. ....
Mmmmmhhh
Eric

Expensive too especially because you need an Yamaha psr aswell. No thanks.

Hi,

1. I installed your demo.
2. Set-up midi exactly as per your instruction manual.
3. It works partly, but the notes hang immediately.
4. If I select "Panic" every second it sort of plays.
5. StyleMagicYA works perfect with my unit.
6. MixMaster works perfect with my unit.

I use a PSR S770

Anxious to try it out.

buildtofly@yahoo.com

Henni

Re-installing my Yamaha midi driver solved the problem!

Much to expensive and doesn't look that professional. vArranger gives you thousand of styles and works great.

Can’t come even close to V-arranger

Since there is no demo for vArranger, I cannot compare. What I CAN say is that there are some stunning effects added to many of the guitar voices. It seems like Groovyband is mostly about adding more effects to styles. Yamaha styles are generally known for relying heavily on effects, so these new effects do add great value to the nearly 900 supplied styles.

Pity I cannot duplicate these results direct on my arranger as I now miss those effects sorely after auditioning the Groovyband styles. (i.e. my new 220CountryStraitsRvo style is as close as I can come to theirs) It would have been wonderful to use the program to add those effects and then afterwards use the style direct on the arranger like any other style.

Also, according to the documentation they've added the same Revo drum technology that the Genos uses in that every drum note is different to the previous one.

Thanks Henni for your appreciation. It is exactly because we are so confident to have a good offer that we want everybody to try it out for free and listen with their ears what they get before spending their hard earned money.

Since you liked so much the effects applied to the guitar tracks, in a couple of minutes we have prepared for you this mod of the preset CountryStraits style:

Open online audio player at Audiomack

We have added an extra DSP to the second guitar track, we have (slightly) customized these DSPs for Intro3, Var2, Var3, Var4 end Ending3 so that they always sound (subtly) different. As a real guitarist would do with his pedal effects when changing riffs. Additionally for Var3 we have muted some tracks to better standout the surviving guitar track + drum&bass.

Added additional compression + hard limiter in post processing. It sounds like any professional CD master or radio broadcast. As always for our demos, the sound comes from a stock PSR S770: everybody can effortlessly obtain such results with Groovyband Live!

We attach the modded style. You can open it with the demo to play it live or as a base for further experiments: unzip and copy it anywhere into the "USER STY" or "PRESET STY" folders found in the program main install directory.

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Groovyband Live! is not just (easily editable) stunning effects. It has a lot more functionality over the stock firmware.

Here you can find some hints: features in depth (5 minutes read).

Of course we have a complete up-to-date user manual that explains everything that can be done (and how).

We are also continuously improving the program at a fast pace: changelog.


In a following post we will summarize some of the killer features on offer you "can't live without".

Regards,
Groovyband Live! Team