The capacity of these small drives has increased over the years while the prices have fallen. Since the introduction of the PSR-3000, the Yamaha arrangers have included USB connections and USB drives have become very popular with all computer users. Users could copy the files from the CD-ROM to their computer and then to a floppy disk or a USB drive where they could be immediately loaded and played on their Yamaha keyboard. These large style collections were delivered on CD-ROMs with all style sets 'unzipped' and ready to use. A fourth collection, released in 2011, focused on Yamaha internal styles and includes all the preset styles from Yamaha PSR and Tyros keyboards introduced in the previous decade. The third collection was released in August of 2010 with 15,700 styles. A second was released early in 2009 with 16,000 additional styles and the original collection was also revised at that time.

The first collection was put together in the fall of 2007 and included about 19,000 styles. If you don't want to bother with all that, you can simply get one of the PSR Tutorial style collections. And then, of course, you have to unzip everything to get to the actual style files. Even if you have a high-speed internet connection, it can take a long time to download and compile your own collection of styles. You can then transfer these files to your Yamaha keyboard. After you download the 'zip' file, you need to 'unzip' it on your computer to get to the included style files. These styles are in compressed 'zipped' files to minimize storage space and minimize download times. This Styles section has thousands of styles that you can freely download. And, of course, you can also find commercial sources that have created styles and are happy to sell them to you. Some are styles that have been converted from midi files and some are styles that very talented users have created entirely from scratch. Some of these styles are 'tuned' preset styles, some are simply copies of preset styles from earlier keyboards, some are styles taken from arranger keyboards of other manufacturers and reformatted and tuned to work on Yamaha PSR and Tyros/Genos keyboards. There are many such sites on the internet where you can find style files for use with Yamaha keyboards and there are, literally, thousands of these styles available for download. Fortunately, many folks who can modify styles have also chosen to make their versions available to others by uploading them to various internet sites. Others Create Them! - Unfortunately, not everyone has the time, or the talent, to tinker with styles and make their own versions. So, users themselves can create new styles by modifying the preset styles. If a style were altered to fit a particular song, it is often saved with a filename reflecting that song. The revised style can then be saved to one of the user storage areas as a 'new' style. Many users will 'tune-up' a style with changes like this to modify it to fit a particular song. You can set your own, preferred, left-hand voice. You can increase or decrease the default tempo. You can change the One Touch Setting (OTS) voices used. You Create Them! - As you become more comfortable with your keyboard, you will discover that you can modify any of the preset styles in many different ways. These storage areas are used to hold additional files for your keyboard, such as more style files! Where Do New Styles Come From?

To facilitate the use of external styles, the keyboards include external storage device(s) - USB drives, hard drives, or, on earlier keyboards, floppy disk drives or Smart Cards. Of course, one of the great advantages of the Yamaha PSR and Tyros keyboards is the ability of users to load external styles into their keyboard as quickly and easily as they load the preset styles. But, no matter how many and how great the styles included with your keyboard, eventually, you get used to all the preset styles and begin to yearn for something new and something different. The newer and more expensive keyboards have better and more numerous styles. Your keyboard, of course, comes with a number of preset styles built into the firmware of the keyboard. Styles are the life blood of an arranger keyboard owner. Click on any of the numbers above to go directly to a detailed description of that style set.

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