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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Styles for yamaha tyros 5 keyboard