I was speaking with Jorgen Soresnson today about using an electric drum set to make really long and authentic style variations, and he mentioned that there might be a limit to the size a style file can be. Does anybody know if this is the case and if so what is that limit?

Thanks, Chony

Hi Chony,
are you refferring to bars or kb's ??
I notice some of the T2 styles are quite large ( kb's) compared to earlier PSR'styles.

Sorry, but I don't know what the limit is, if there is one.

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by chony:
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[This message has been edited by rikkisbears (edited 04-12-2007).]

Just checking my style libraries...The average Yamaha style is around 10 bytes...Roland's average is around 25 bytes...I have many Roland styles over 40 bytes, and no Yamaha's over 14 bytes...So I would think the Yamaha style size is small compared to Roland..

You probably mean Kbytes Korg styles are 15-20 Kbytes but they are compressed to save space.

Kind regards,
Tommy

A quick look at my T2 styles, the largest is 129KB called 70's TV theme

Hi Fran,
they must be the earlier styles I was reffering to like the Psr9000's etc .
The newer styles are much larger ( even on my little psr1500,) more bars & additional tracks , on the whole more sophisticated.

Hi Chony
I think there was definately a limit to the size of the style a psr9000 for instance could load,I'm going by emc's conversion software,
ie try to convert a large t2 style for instance to psr9000 format, the conversion works, but a message also crops up noting
the whole style probably won't load due to it's size.
May also be restrictions on the size the lower end arrangers can load, though to date I haven'tcome across one yet that my psr1500 won't load.

best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fran Carango:
[B]Just checking my style libraries...The average Yamaha style is around 10 bytes...

Hi Rikki, I actually selected the PSR9000 styles..I picked them out at random..Craig has mentioned the Tyros 2 styles were larger..I remember the PSR's that I owned had trouble loading converted styles because of size.

There is a limit, but with others I do not remember what it is! I know that when I had a PSR3000 and tried to use some Tyros styles, the keyboard would not accept them, as being too large. I think also that one or other of Michael Bedesem's software tools will tell you if the file is too big for a particular PSR. Perhaps if Michel is looking in he can perhaps give us the numbers.
Keith

Fran's Bytes are bigger than your Bytes.
Geeez.

Yamaha style size:

The PSR-2000, PSR-1000, PSR-2100, PSR-1100, and PSR-550 seem to have problems when a style is larger then 78 kb.

I have personally not found any limit with the newer instruments (although I agree with Jorgen, that there probably is one) and I have not heard of cases where the largest T2 styles will not load.

Regards,

Michael