Frequently Asked Questions
For PSRs, CVPs & Tyros 1, 2 & 3
Updated: June 25, 2009
Compiled by Michael P. Bedesem from responses to queries posted on SVPworld and other forums.
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Special thanks to Frank J. Blecha who assisted with the formatting and to the many authors, identified where known, who have contributed material.
CHORD EVENTS AND XF FILES
A. 1. How do you include chord events in a midi?
A. 2. How can I use chords with my PSR/Tyros?
A. 3. The difference between Chords, Chord Events and Single Step Chords
A. 4. Why do I see chords such as B#m instead of Cm on my Tyros?
A. 5. How to play an accompaniment derived from a midi file?
A.6. What is the meaning of Chord as used in the PSRs?
A.7. How can I see what chords are being played by a midi on the PC?
A.7. NEW! How to see what chords are used by a commercial midi on the PSR/TYROS.
STYLES
B. 1. Why parts of a homemade style might play in the wrong octave
B. 2. How do you make styles that change accompaniment with various chord types?
B. 3. How can I view/edit a style in Cakewalk?
B. 4. I have a style that is too large for my PSR. How can I make it smaller?
B. 5. What programs are available for making styles from midis?
B. 6. What sections must be included in a style?
B. 7. How can I make new styles by editing existing styles?
B. 8. How can I make copies of preset styles?
B. 9. What are the differences between the older and newer styles?
B. 10. How can I upgrade old styles to new styles?
B. 11. How do I create meaningful names for “Numbered Styles”?
B. 12. Why can’t some style parts be edited?
B. 13. How can I Solo a Style Part?
B. 14. How do I convert a midi or style to use MegaVoices?
B. 15. How can I determine which instrument & style was used for a song?
B. 16. What do the style extensions stand for?
B. 17. How can I extract a style from a PSR that does not have a floppy?
B. 18. How to make style on a keyboard
B. 19. What is a Casm?
B. 20. How can I create a PSR style from a Band in the Box style?
B. 21. Sometimes I have trouble changing voices in Cakewalk. What am I doing wrong?
B. 22. Can I add a break to styles that does not have one?
B. 23. Where should voice changes be located in a style file?
B. 24. What is a Break and how is it different from a Fill In?
B. 25. The playback of styles seems to ‘jump’ when I change OTS within a song.
B. 26. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a library of style parts?
B. 27. Why do styles sound funny when played on my PC?
B. 28. How to change the voices in a style in the PSR/Tyros
B. 29. How to change the voices in a style on the PC
B. 30. How Do I disable chord following for a style track?
B. 31. How to mute an instrument part using a registration or a custom style
B. 32. What controller events may be in the setup and pattern sections of a style?
B. 33. Left voice does not play even when it is enabled.
B. 34. How does a style respond differently to the chord played?
B. 35. Why do the accompaniment chords play when no style is running?
B. 36. How to Mute a Part in StyleCreator?
B. 37. How to permanently change a style’s tempo.
B. 38. What are the settings for the NTR and NTT in the Casm?
B. 39. How to maintain Channel On-Off settings when a style is changed?
B. 40. How to change a style’s beat
B. 41. How to copy all four OTS from one style to another
B. 42. How do I play just the bass line from a style?
B. 43. How do I convert new styles to work in older instruments?
B. 44. What programs eliminate MegaVoices from styles or midis?
B. 45. What are the best ways to identify duplicate styles?
B. 46. How can I make a style with several time signatures?
B. 47. How to transpose a style or a multipad.
B. 48. How to alter the sound of drum notes in a style.
B. 49. Why a style sometime sounds terrible when some chords are keyed.
B. 50. How to play other bass notes using a style.
B. 51. How to add a fill to the end of a variation pattern.
B. 52. How to convert modern styles/midis for use with earlier instruments.
B. 53. How to save an OTS voice.
B. 54. Where to find detailed information on PSR style and midi files.
B. 55. Using styles for solos and variety.
B. 56. When I change styles while playing the tempo changes.
B. 57. Improving drums in Tyros 3 styles.
B. 58. NEW! Eliminating the “scratch” sound in a style.
B. 59. NEW! How to change voices when a style variation is changed .
B. 60. NEW! How to organize a large collection of styles .
B. 61. NEW! How to convert Tyros 3 styles for use in earlier instruments .
B. 62. NEW! How to get more punch out of styles in the Tyros 3 .
B. 63. NEW! How to set different volumes for instrument and drum parts.
B. 64. NEW! How to determine the length of style parts.
B. 65. NEW! How to create 7/8 and other time signatures.
B. 66. NEW! How to play only rhythm using a style.
B. 67. NEW! How to lower the pitch of style parts.
MIDIS & SONGS
C.1. Why do midis made on a PSR sound terrible when played on a PC?
C.2. Why do PSR/Tyros songs sound better on the PSR than when played on the PC?
C.3. How to Quick Record a song on PSRs/Tyros
C.4. How to fix a midi, made on the PSR-2000, that plays off key after being edited in Cakewalk
C.5. How can I convert a Midi Type 1 file into Midi Type 0?
C.6. How can I play a group of midi song on PSR-2000/Tyros?
C.7. How can I prevent the accompaniment from starting when I play a midi song?
C.8. Tyros sometimes sounds strange when playing PSR-9000 Midi Files. What is wrong?
C.9. How to change voices, volumes, etc in a recorded midi
C.10. How to make a song remember right hand voices
C.11. How can I transpose the key while I am recording a midi?
C.12. Tips for making pitch bends
C.13. Is there a "rallentando" feature in the PSRs/Tyros?
C.14. How to make a registration on a PSR-2000/2100 remember Intros and Endings.
C.15. How well will midi files play on the PSR/Tyros?
C.16. Can I use channel 10 for non-rhythm voices?
C.17. Can I use a midi file to setup keyboard voices for recording?
C.18. How can I transpose a midi file to go along with sheet music?
C.19. What are the differences between Midi Type 0-1-2 files?
C.20. How do I set the Song Position Points?
C.21. How to place Variation Changes in a pre recorded midi
C.22. How to edit Song Position Events.
C.23. How to edit a quick recorded midi for chord errors.
C.24. How to transpose individual channels of a midi in the PSR?
C.25. How to save the transpose setting in a Quick Record midi?
C.26. How to use an external device to play along with a PSR.
C.27. How to record a medley of songs.
C.28. How to play a medley of songs.
C.29. How to change volume events in the Song Creator.
C.30. What does the setting XG on or GM on control?
C.31. How to edit song pointers on the computer.
C.32. How to turn Vocal Harmony On-Off in a midi.
C.33. NEW! How to Tempos in recorded PSR midi.
C.34. NEW! How to adjust the master volume of a midi.
C.35. NEW! How to delete bars in a recorded midi.
C.36. NEW! How to delete fade out in a recorded midi.
C.37. NEW! How to edit voices and chords in some Yamaha midi files.
MULTIPADS
D.1. How Do I install Multipad files found on the Net?
D.2. Recipe for making a Multipad in Cakewalk
D.3. Can Multipads use more than one instrument?
D.4. How do you make the Multipad change with the style?
D.5. Can effects be recorded with multipads
D.6. Why a Multipad sometimes does not play a styles tempo
D.7. What determines whether the Multipad changes when a style is selected?
D.8. How to create a pad that plays in just Bb?
D.9. NEW! How to make a pad from other pads in the PSR.
D.10. NEW! How to make a pad from one or more styles, pads or midis.
D.11. What is Multi Pad Synchro Start Function?
D.12. How to stop one pad when more than one are playing.
D.13. How to convert pads to use Megavoices.
VOICES
E.1. What voices should be used for styles and midis distributed to other users?
E.2. How Do I Select XG and Panel Voices in Cakewalk?
E.3. Where are the XG Voices in PSRs/Tyros?
E.4. What is the difference between the voice types?
E.5. I seem to have lost my touch sensitivity, what could be wrong?
E.6. How to use Harmony without playing style accompaniment?
E.7. What are the difference between the later voice types?
E.8. Can voice changes be made within the body of a midi?
E.9. Why Custom or User Voices do not sound the same when specified in a midi.
E.10. How to reproduce the sound of the voice demos or from a midi song file
E.11. Tyros 2 Voices, Voice Creator, PC Custom Voice Editor, Voice Set Editor and the Flute Voice Editor
E.12. Why all organ flutes have the same #
E.13. What does DSP do?
E.14. How to specify User Voices in a pre-recorded midi.
E.15. How to transpose just one of the right hand voices.
E.16. I cannot make Aftertouch work with some voices. Why?
E.17. How to change keyboard voices from Cakewalk.
E.18. How to avoid the long Custom Voice Loading time in Tyros 2
E.19. What are the preset and custom voice extensions in Tyros 2
E.20. What is the difference between elements and waves in Tyros 2 ?
E.21. Why does my voice category light blink when I depress it?
E.22. How to change the tune used to demo a voice
E.23. How to load custom voices on to a Tyros 2
E.24. How to access Tyros Custom Voices from BIAB
E.25. How to change a voice and not change all parameters
E.26. How to trigger a bass MegaVoice slide effect.
E.27. How to eliminate the pause when voices are changed with a reg or OTS.
E.28. Why keyboard voices can be different from what is in the registration.
E.29. How to copy the voices used in a recorded midi to a sequencer.
E.30. What do the Initial Touch settings do?
E.31. How to change voices later in a midi file.
E.32. What happened to the chords in my midi?
E.33. Where are the sound effect voices (e.g. water sounds) in my instrument?
E.34. How to change individual drum sounds.
E.35. How to remove the mod wheel from controlling volume of T3 preset organ voices.
E.36. How to switch off the distortion on some voices (e.g. T3 Whiter Bars).
E.37. How to add a Custom Voice to a recorded midi.
E.38. The SA2 button stays on after the foot is depressed.
E.39. Custom voices for the Tyros 2 & 3.
E.40. NEW! Why do voices change while playing a midi?
E.41. NEW! How to reproduce a demo voice?
E.42. NEW! How to reproduce a demo voice?
E.43. NEW! How to optimize voices when using midis off the net?
E.44. NEW! Aftertouch issues with converted voices?
E.45. NEW! How to prevent R3 being muted when R1 and R2 are turned on
E.46. NEW! How to change voices in the middle of a midi file
PSR AND TYROS
F.1. How do I reset my PSR/Tyros?
F.2. In the PSR-2000, should the User Area be used for styles?
F.3. Why does my PSR/Tyros have two midi ports?
F.4. Where are the Save and other controls in later PSRs and Tyros?
F.5. Hints on getting started with PSR/Tyros
F.6. How can I keep keyboard settings (e.g. split point) from changing?
F.7. My Tyros is acting strangely. What could be wrong?
F.8. How do I check which OS is on my keyboard?
F.9. Pausing the instrument accompaniment in Tyros
F.10. How do I access all song effects on the Tyros/PSR?
F.11. Assigning Song (Style or Voice) Buttons
F.12. Description of Tyros 1 Storage
F.13. How do I tell if Tyros/PSR will remember specific settings?
F.14. How do I initiate the test mode?
F.15. How can I get Tyros to remember tempo changes?
F.16. Viewing the channels that display in the Score window
F.17. How can I determine the free hard disk space on Tyros?
F.18. How to trigger rhythm solo or cymbal then bass solo.
F.19. Why does the accompaniment occasionally play a single note base line?
F.20. How can two PSR’s be set up in a Master/Slave organization?
F.21. What is the difference between the fingering options?
F.22. How to make the PSR/Tyros play bass like an organ with a floor pedal.
F.23. What is the Sxyz data in the Tyros style file names?
F.24. How can I determine the amount of user memory used?
F.25. Saving Mic Settings
F.26. How do I save edits to the Midi Setup?
F.27. How to save a chord/midi/ style setup where the chord triggers the style.
F.28. How to turn off effects.
F.29. How to prevent triggering accompaniment when playing a midi with chord & Vocal Harmony.
F.30. Why does a string part sometimes play with accompaniment off?
F.31. How to disable controller data when interfacing to a PC.
F.32. How do I to switch off midi song channels while a song is playing?
F.33. Eq settings for the PSR-2000/3000
F.34. Using Mixing Console to set up voices for sequencer recording
F.35. Why are the boxes in Song Creator/ Channel/ Setup sometimes grayed out?