In the first post, Toril asked whether it was possible to use PSR S styles in the E463 and that they would sound reasonably good. Jørgen, Michael and Peter have really shown the way! So, there are already quite a few resources available. Another potentially useful article is about converting the Yamaha DJX II patterns to styles: Parts 2 and 3 of the series:ĭescribe translation of a Standard Midi File to a style. Once someone has the background, I encourage them to read a few existing articles at my site. This document and other very useful information are published on Peter's site:Īnyone who is interested in creating new styles really needs to know what is inside of a style file - not just hand-waving, but to know in enough depth to start editing.Īnother alternative is the high-level tool MidiSoft Style Magic:Įven then, a modest amount of background information is needed. Honest to goodness, Jørgen has done a super job!Īnother excellent resource is "Style Files - Introduction and Details" by Peter Wierzba and Michael Bedesem: If folks don't like PDF, there are on-line versions of the same articles: The best suggestion that I can make is reading Jørgen's style creation course: Sometimes the result was strange, but sometimes it was also very good. In the past I had the PSR E433, the older version of the E463, and I was able to upload many styles to the keyboard. The E463 can store 10 external styles at a time. The E463 won’t read the styles directly from the USB stick, you will have to copy them to the keyboard. The best thing to do probably is to take any style that you like, which is in SFF1 file format and smaller than 50KB, copy it onto an USB stick, then upload it to the E463 and listen to decide whether you like the result. Styles which are using XG voices will give a better result than styles which use panel voices, because the E463 is XG-lite compatible, so in this case the mapping of voices will be correct. What you also could do is remap the voices in the style because if you read a PSR S style in the E453, there are chances that the mapping of voices will be wrong. If you need, say, Intro 2 and Variations C and D and Ending 3, you could always copy the variations you need in a new style as variations Intro 1, variations A and B and Ending 1, that way the E463 would have access to them.
Jørgen Sørensen has made various software to tweak styles, you might want to check those on the main PSR Tutorial website in the Software section.Īs for the fact that the E463 styles only have 2 variations, as long as the files are not larger than 50KB this shan’t be a problem the E463 will simply read variations A and B, Intro 1 and Ending 1. Thirdly, it is best to avoid styles with Megavoices and SA voices since the E463 doesn’t have those. Secondly, they need to be in SFF1 file format, the E463 won't read SFF2 files. There are a few rules to observe, though.įirst of all, the styles should be less than 50KB or they won’t load. You have to try it out, it is a kind of hit-or-miss thing.