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THIS is a site dedicated to enabling your Yamaha PSR-9000, 9000 Pro, Tyros, or Tyros 2 to make MORE BEAUTIFUL music than you ever dreamed possible.

The above five "Arranger" keyboards are, so far, the very best Yamaha has ever made in terms of musical creativity and flexibility. Even the so-called "professional" keyboards can't even begin to match them in terms of quickly creating and recording a new and highly realistic-sounding Song Arrangement.

But some people are totally amazing. After paying a hefty price for one of these magnificent keyboards, they WILL DO NOTHING WHATSOEVER to enhance its sound quality!

Perhaps they don't know that the internet has available SEVERAL THOUSAND free Accompaniment Styles, as opposed to the 300 or so factory styles in their keyboard.

And perhaps they don't know that all those neat features (Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Harmony, Portamento, Sustain, Sound Creator, Compressor, EQ, Tremelo, Trill, etc. etc.) were inserted by Yamaha to improve the sound of their music.

And saddest of all, perhaps they don't know about Registrations.

(I've seen it happen dozens of times. You mention "Registrations" to them, and their eyes quickly glaze over -- the word sounds meaningless.)

So... the first thing we need to do is clarify what a "Registration" is!

(If you don't want it clarified, but just want to know "What the hell good is it?" CLICK HERE)

It's really simple when you think about it. When playing a musical keyboard, you need to use certain "settings" to get the sound you want. A REGISTRATION IS NOTHING MORE THAN A HANDY FILE CONTAINING THOSE SETTINGS, all in place and ready to use.

Thus, if you need a Guitar and a Clarinet both playing together, about 4 feet apart -- you set them up in your File that way.

And if you need a softly wailing Harmonica in the background, you put that in your File also, along with some Reverb.

And every time you need a Guitar, Clarinet, and Harmonica playing together -- you return to that file.

Simple as that.

Or it can be more complex. Maybe you want the Harmonica and Clarinet playing together, but with the Guitar making chords whenever you play "harder" on the keys.

Or maybe you want that guitar to "strum" notes repeatedly while the Harmonica and Clarinet play together.

Or maybe you want the Harmonica and Clarinet not only playing together, but also HARMONIZING (i.e., when the Harmonica is playing a "C," the Clarinet is playing an "F" in perfect harmony.)

The file can be as complex as you want it. You can fill it with any of hundreds of Effects, you can brighten or tone down the instruments by using EQ, you can create your own "User Voices" that behave and/or sound differently from the normal ones, you can even make the notes sound "different" or appear out of nowhere by playing a little harder or softer.

But somebody has to set all these things up first. And when you've got everything set up -- it's called a Registration.

Registrations don't always sound "terrific." In fact, if they're not done correctly, they can sound terrible!

The trick is in learning how to make them sound GOOD. It requires practice and experience. (You could actually think of it as an Art Form.)

SOME people confuse Styles with Registrations. Please try not to make this mistake -- there is a BIG difference here.

Simply stated, a "Style" is the accompaniment music playing in the Background AUTOMATICALLY. And a Style CAN be stored in a Registration.

But a Registration can store MUCH MORE than "just" a Style. While that Ballad or Country or Rock music is pouring forth in the background from the Style -- you'll need some instruments in the foreground to play the Melody -- that is, the Song Itself.

A Registration holds ALL OF THESE, and much more, ready for you at a moment's notice. And you can have hundreds of different Registrations, with a different style stored in each.

Anyway, I somehow got fascinated with making Registrations. Almost every kind you could imagine. And as I have mentioned elsewhere, I've been giving out these Registrations for nearly three years now.

Free. At no cost whatsoever. And of course, all they cost me is my time.

(Dave at work in his beautiful Studio with a View...
I learned very quickly not to lean forward while playing.)



Table Of Contents:
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INTRODUCTION
IN THE BEGINNING (or, "How It All Started")
WHAT ARE REGISTRATIONS?
SO YOU DIDN'T RECEIVE YOUR REGISTRATIONS?
MAYBE IT'S YOUR EMAIL
WHAT KIND OF MUSIC CAN I PLAY WITH THEM?
HOW YOU CAN GET THE PIPELINERR REGISTRATIONS
HOW THE REGISTRATIONS BEGAN
TESTIMONIALS FROM OTHER USERS
125 MORE TESTIMONIALS
MY OTHER PAGES
F.A.Q. for PSR's, CVP's, and TYROS 1 & 2
THE YAMAHA INFO SEARCHER
HOW OLD IS THAT YAMAHA KEYBOARD?
MOST RECENT INFO ON 9000 and 9000 Pro
9000 MUSIC FINDER DATABASE
(getting the "Real" Song Names)

OWNER'S MANUAL UPGRADES FOR BOTH 9000's
OWNER'S MANUAL LOCATOR FOR ALL MANUALS
AN INSTANT TYROS MANUAL
TYROS DATA LIST
PSR-3000 and 1500 MANUAL & DATA LIST
UPGRADES FOR TYROS, PSR-9000, and 9000 Pro
HOW WILL THE UPGRADE HELP?
OTHER HELPFUL LINKS
COMPARE ANY 2 KEYBOARDS! (or anything else)
COMPARE YAMAHA'S LATEST KEYBOARDS!
SOFTWARE AND OTHER LINKS
HARD DISK DRIVES
PSR STYLES GROUP
FREE STYLES ARCHIVE
PSR SONGS GROUP
FORUM FOR TYROS (and other Arranger keyboards)
FORUM FOR PSR-2000 / 2100 / 3000 KEYBOARDS
REVIEWS ON THE 9000 AND OTHER KEYBOARDS
REGISTRATIONS FOR THE TYROS?
HELP OPERATING THE TYROS
HOW THE TYROS VOICE EDITOR WORKS

UNDERSTANDING YOUR TYROS

A FEW TYROS SECRETS

TROUBLESHOOTING THE TYROS

DAVE'S OWN TYROS DISCOVERIES

WHAT WILL STORE IN A REGISTRATION?

LIST OF ALL TYROS VOICES

TYROS SPECIFICATIONS LIST

THE TYROS OWNER'S MANUAL

TYROS VOICE DEMOS, VIDEOS, and MIDIS

A LOOK "INSIDE" THE TYROS

TYROS MUSIC FINDER DATABASE
(getting the "Real" Song Names)

WHAT IS "XG," AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

TOOLS

GIVING AWAY REGISTRATION SECRETS

YAMAHA'S SECRET GLOSSARIES

SOME SMALLER KEYBOARDS

IN THE BEGINNING
(or, "How It All Started")

Making Registrations is not that hard, once you get the hang of it. What can be hard is getting them to load into other people's keyboards. For a while, this little technicality kept me pretty busy, because for some reason the new Registrations refused to Download properly: they required folders with special names, wouldn't work without an OS upgrade, and required special settings and tons of patience -- but, with the help of others**, we finally found a way to make the job "simpler."

Sure, I didn't charge anything for the more than 380 Registrations, but maybe I should have. They were made for just the PSR-9000 and the 9000 Pro, but according to several who have tried, nearly two-thirds of the 380 even work in their new Tyros! * * *

Just What Are "Registrations," Anyway?

Most of you already know about Registrations. If you're not using them, at least you've seen them on your Yamaha (and other) keyboards. Do you like playing genuinely beautiful music? Perhaps you don't know it yet, but good REGISTRATIONS ARE YOUR VERY BEST TOOL when it comes to coaxing really sweet sounds out of your keyboard.

Why? Because a Registration is nothing more than a "frozen" setup in which Voices, Effects, Harmony, EQ, Compression, Touch Sensitivity, Panning, Reverb, Chorus, and many other features are WORKING TOGETHER to produce a more pleasing and effective sound... and a good Registration setup can be very beautiful to listen to. Unfortunately, most of us are not Programmers, and either don't want to or don't have the time to learn how to be one.

That's where I come in.

Having had several years of experience in programming both computers, keyboards, synthesizers, and sound modules, I got ahold of a PSR-9000 and decided to set up a few fancy programs (Registrations) and make the keyboard REALLY show off its potential.

Just good clean fun, I told myself. But somehow, I went completely bonkers and didn't stop until I had created more than 380 Registrations, each different, and also a few "tweaked" Styles. (A "tweaked" Style is one from the Styles area of the keyboard that is set up with several Variations of the basic Styles Voices... so that each variation has DIFFERENT Voices, Panning, Reverb, Velocity, EQ, or whatever else, in place of the originals.)

As it turned out, I was so enthralled by these beautiful sounds the 9000 had enabled me to create, that I felt it would be rather selfish to just keep them to myself. So... I decided to give them away.

I didn't know what I was getting into.

So You Didn't Receive Your Registrations?

Sure, it can happen. And of the more than 1200 persons who have so far requested that I send the Registrations, only about 8 percent wrote back afterward to let me know they'd been received. And... since email DOES often fail, I never knew (a) if the Registrations were never received, (b) if they were received but didn't download properly due to inexperience, poor software, not following directions, or some other reason; (c) if they were received but were used incorrectly,* or (d) if there are still people out there waiting for me to Send Their Registrations, who are too bashful to inquire WHY THEY NEVER ARRIVED.

(One gent in Tacoma, Washington wrote me THREE TIMES, asking if I would send the Registrations. I sent them EACH TIME. He never did write back, so I don't know if he's received them. For all I know, he may still be waiting.) And you wonder why I doubt the reliability of email?

Fortunately, most of the 8 percent who did write back were quite pleased, and a few even wrote Rave Reviews -- which was encouraging.

And so, it is to those who were kind enough to write back, that this page is dedicated. Its purpose? To let ALL PSR-9000 and 9000 Pro owners know that the Registrations are STILL AVAILABLE, and if somehow you were missed the first time around, I feel terrible about it but we can try again.

*(Registrations only work well if both the Accompaniment and the Registration "Freeze" buttons are turned ON; also, I only worked on the Voices... YOU need to select the Style you want. Please don't be one of those who expect me to do EVERYTHING. If I had attached a specific Style to each Registration, I would be hearing "WHY did you use that crummy style?" LOL.)

MAYBE IT'S YOUR EMAIL

(I just got this note in the mail. Here it is, word for word):

"Hi Dave,

I just received your e-mail with the attachments, but for some reason I am unable to open the attachments. My e-mail-Outlook Express will not recognize attachments. Is there any other way I may receive them?

Thanks for your help."

In cases like this, or in other cases where your email program DELETES attachments, I have another way of getting the Registrations to you, so don't despair -- just write me about the problem.

What Kind Of Music Can I Play?

Since we're on the subject of "personal tastes," let me clue you in about mine: most of my Registrations have set-ups that are geared toward Easy Listening, New Age, Country, Ballads, Blues, Light Rock, Swing, Big Band, Folk, Dixieland, Classical, and certain types of jazz. (Oh, sure, you can also use them with Marches, Reggae, Latin, Alternative, Soul, Gospel, Disco, etc. etc., but if you like playing Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop, Acid Rock, Progressive Rock, or anything using a Distortion Guitar, you probably won't enjoy many of these Registrations.

How YOU Can Get The Registrations:

To obtain Pipelinerr's Tyros, 9000 Pro, or PSR-9000 Registrations, CLICK HERE

HOW THE REGISTRATIONS BEGAN

Vince Marek started it all off in the PSR-Styles Group on July 18, 2001 (message #4856, for those who need to check) with this rather eloquent post:

"A week or two ago Dave sent me over 100 of his registrations for which I am ever so thankful. This man has a great talent for taking a voice and then varying all the different parameters such as filters, equalizers, effects, etc and then appropriately mixing several voices together to get the most beautiful sounds. I was able to take his zip package and load it on my 9000 PRO on the first pass. Smooth as silk.

Being new to the instrument (and this group), Dave's registrations have helped me immensely. I have learned how to get in there and tweak voices on my own. His sharing was generous and greatly appreciated. For Dave and those like him who want to share their creations and contribute to the education of others like me, this group should so facilitate. One day I hope to do the same.

Heck, just appreciation for beautiful sounds is justification in itself for such a file."

Vince M.

TESTIMONIALS ON REGISTRATIONS
FROM OTHER USERS:
(received in email)

"Hi Dave... you... should now be aware that everything is OK. I am all loaded and have listened to many of the sounds and am gobsmacked. They are brilliant, you must have spent an eternity setting them all up. You have my admiration."

(Rob Faint, U.K.)

(from a post in the PSR-Styles Group):

Hey Dave,

I received the files from you for the PSR9000 and installed them. I have played through many of them and they are really great. It is like getting a new keyboard for FREE.

Thank you for sharing your work with us. I highly recommend these files to everyone.

My best to you and yours, Happy New Year all year

Bebop

Bill "Bebop" Forrest, San Jose, CA. USA
(Moderator, SynthZone TECHNICS FORUM)

"Just love all these regs I've got, especially those that repeat, wow !!!!!! Only been through some of them so far and they are absolutely fabulous."

(Shirley H., New Zealand)

"Your registrations are GREAT - you have some really good combinations, and the effects added are excellent - we are very grateful for you making these available, being very much a keyboard enthusiast myself I know the time you have spent in doing these."

(Frances S.)

Hey, Dave, we need more testimonials...
MORE ! ! !

(THIS IS NOT DAVE. So far we have not been able to determine who this man is.)

STILL NOT CONVINCED?
CLICK HERE for

125 MORE TESTIMONIALS

My Other Pages

Here are a few other pages I've written which may be useful for 9000 owners:

WHAT ARE "REGISTRATIONS"?

REGISTRATIONS -- HOW TO LOAD AND USE THEM

TIPS N' TRICKS FOR THE 9000 (the 9000 Help Station)

DAVE'S CHART COMPARING THE PSR-9000,
9000 Pro, and PSR-2000

(It's not complete yet. You expected maybe perfection?)

DAVE'S CHART COMPARING THE PSR-9000,
9000 Pro, and Tyros

INFO ON EDITING AND RECORDING
WITH THE PSR-9000 and 9000 Pro

DAVE'S BEST MUSIC LINKS (new, really good!)

DAVE'S LYRICS PAGE

F.A.Q. for PSR'S, CVP's, & TYROS 1, 2
(UPDATED 11/2008 -- Thanks to the brilliant Michael Bedesem for this amazing work)

YAMAHA INFO SEARCHER
(ALL KEYBOARDS)

THE ABOVE is a YAMAHA INFORMATION SEARCHER for ALL Yamaha keyboards. It can help you find info on Hard Drives, Creating Custom Styles, Sequencing With Cakewalk, Connecting A Video Monitor, Recording Multi Track, Transposing A Song, SIMM memory, Converting MIDI Sequences, Troubleshooting, Downloading FLASH ROM Updates, Formatting Zip and Jaz Disks, etc. etc.

(IMPORTANT! AFTER ENTERING, you will need to click on "Portable Keyboards," and also you'll need to know that the PSR1500, PSR3000, PSR9000, 9000PRO, and all TYROS keyboards are considered WORKSTATIONS.)

HOW OLD IS THAT YAMAHA KEYBOARD?

HOW OLD IS THAT YAMAHA KEYBOARD -- 2

FIND THE (YAMAHA) KEYBOARD THAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU

COMPARE YAMAHA'S 2004 KEYBOARDS
SIDE-BY-SIDE

(You can compare up to FIVE of Yamaha's latest keyboards SIDE-BY-SIDE, but you need to get them all on the SAME PAGE or the side-by-side will not work. To do this, go to bottom of the above page and set PRODUCTS PER PAGE to either 25 or 50. This will align ALL products onto the same page for comparison. Here is an example of how they will look side-by-side):

CLICK FOR COMPARISON OF TYROS AND PSR-3000

AND WHAT IS THAT OLDER
KEYBOARD WORTH NOW?

Click Here For
YAMAHA'S MOST RECENT PSR-9000 INFO (2003)

(on ALL PSR-9000 Related Issues)

Click Here For
YAMAHA'S MOST RECENT 9000 PRO INFO (2003)

(on ALL 9000 Pro-Related Issues)

THE PSR-9000 FAQ

THE PSR-9000 FAQ
(download, in English & German)

OWNER'S MANUAL UPGRADES
for PSR-9000 Version 3, 9000 Pro Version 2 (a .pdf file download)

YAMAHA MANUAL LOCATOR -- FOR ALL YAMAHA MANUALS

TIP: enter PSR9000, 9000pro, Tyros, or whatever, under "Model Search." (Ignore "Category")

ANOTHER PLACE TO FIND YAMAHA MANUALS (SYNTHMAN.COM)

YET ANOTHER PLACE TO FIND YAMAHA MANUALS (Usersmanualguide.com)

STILL ANOTHER PLACE TO FIND YAMAHA MANUALS (USERSMANUALGUIDE.COM)



INSTANT TYROS MANUAL (a .pdf file download)
Courtesy of www.musiciansfriend.com

TYROS DATA LIST (a .pdf file download)

PSR-3000 and 1500 MANUAL (a .pdf file download)

PSR-3000 and 1500 DATA LIST (a .pdf file download)

Another PSR-3000 and 1500 DATA LIST (a .pdf file download)

YAMAHA COMPATIBLE HARD DRIVES

UPGRADES FOR TYROS, PSR-9000,
and 9000 Pro

the PSR-9000's Version 3.06 OS UPGRADE
(Latest Download as of 5/26/04)

the 9000 Pro's VERSION 2.06 OS UPGRADE
(Latest Download as of 5/26/04)

OCT. 2004 UPGRADES FOR BOTH 9000's and TYROS

TYROS v1.40 Upgrade (the real one)

European v 1.40 Download Site:

4.92 MB

(Also) Improved Sound Generator on V3.04 for PSR-9000 !!!

USB STORAGE MODE (HDD)

HOW WILL THE UPGRADE HELP?
(The "UP" Lists below will tell you)

PSR-9000 Version Up List
(shows all enhancements produced by the Upgrades, thru 3.06)

9000 Pro Version Up List
(shows all enhancements produced by the Upgrades, thru 2.06)

Other Helpful Links and Info

CONNECTING MUSICAL KEYBOARDS TO COMPUTERS
(really good stuff here)

SAMPLES OF "EFFECTS" & THEIR USE

GLOSSARY OF "EFFECTS" (and more Samples)

FOR INFORMAL "RATINGS" ON "OLDER" YAMAHA KEYBOARDS

FOR INFORMAL "RATINGS" ON "OTHER" KEYBOARDS

(COPYING "MUSIC FINDER" FILES TO A FLOPPY):
(courtesy of Michael Bedesem)

In Function/Utility/ System Reset page, select Music Finder on right and then copy, Next to Floppy and then SAVE.

JORGEN SORENSON'S STYLE DUPLICATES MANAGER
(This program operates with data files created with the above PSR Style Database and will not only list duplicate style files found in one or two data files, but will also allow the user to delete these duplicate style files or to move or copy these duplicate style files to user selected folders.)

MUELLER'S 9000 INFO
(if you didn't understand the 9000 Manual...)

Jorgen's PSR-9000 Instrument Def (zip) File
(lists the Voices of the PSR-9000)

9000 Pro Instrument Def File
(lists the Voices of the 9000 Pro)

SOME KEYBOARD TIPS N' TRICKS
(For the PSR-9000, 530, 740, 2000, 9000Pro, Tyros, and others)

THE UNOFFICIAL YAMAHA KEYBOARD RESOURCE SITE
(Loads of good resources & software for PSR Owners)

VINTAGE SYNTHESIZERS

PETER WIERZBA'S PSR STYLE DATABASE
(Helps "sort out" both Styles and MIDI Songs; recommended by Bob Gelman)

SONG RHYMING TOOL #1

SONG RHYMING TOOL #2

SONG RHYMING TOOL #3

(This one is amazing. But to use it, you need to use * for a Wild Card. Example: *under will give you Thunder, Blunder, Asunder, and dozens more.)

MMRegEdit (for Editing Registrations on the 9000)

LAWSUITS OVER SONGS

(Hear both versions and judge for yourself who is the "originator.") Thanks to Michael Graver.

THE INTELLIGENT NEWBIE'S GUIDE

Great advice on buying/using gear. Also some Reviews. Thanks to DJ.

RECIPE CONVERTER

This thing just knocks me out -- I don't care if it doesn't belong on this page, I love it! I needed to make a recipe for Pizza Sauce, and the one given was TOO BIG, so I converted it by asking for a recipe 1/20th that size (or .05, the fraction I used)... and it worked flawlessly!

RECIPE CONVERTER #2

Cay you believe it? ANOTHER ONE, and it works just as well, only differently. I can see myself using both, so maybe you will also.

Compare Any 2 (or 3) Keyboards!
(Or Anything Else, If You Do It Right --
but Be Sure To Read The Disclaimer):

http://www.compare-stuff.com/



Software And Other Links

Getting The "REAL" Song Names Into Your 9000:

PSR 9000 MDB (Musical Database download)

9000/9000Pro MDB (Musical Database download)

(from Heikoplate):
PSRUTI
(PSR Utility, for working with Lyrics, Karaoke Files, etc.)

(from the Mojoflux Team):
Visual Styler For Creating Your Own Styles

Hard Disk Drives

http://www.yamahapkclub.com/tyros/info/hd.htm

(Yamaha-compatible hard disk drives for 7000, 8000, 9000, & Tyros.)

PSR STYLES GROUP

PSR STYLES GROUP

(for those of you who found this page via Search Engine, the Styles Group is a friendly bunch of Yamaha PSR keyboard owners who use this site to trade PSR styles, post questions to the others, and give out information. Everyone who loves playing keyboard music is welcome here, and more than 5000 different "styles" are FREE for downloading into any Yamaha PSR keyboard that allows Custom Styles and has a disc drive. Membership is free, and Group Leader is Bob Gelman.)

The Amazing
SPECTROMATIC STYLES ARCHIVE

Once you are a member of the above PSR-Styles Group, you can ENTER HERE, then CLICK ON THE FIRST LINK ("BACKUP") and after one more click on the "Black Page," you will have instant access to more than 5000 Styles that will work in several Yamaha PSR keyboards. (The Styles Group also offers hundreds of more Styles in their "Files" area, but let's not be piggy.)

PSR SONGS GROUP

(And this is the Styles Group's twin, a place where PSR owners and others can trade songs they've created, discuss keyboards, and get acquainted with other keyboard owners. Free membership. Group Leader: Bob Gelman.)

SVPWORLD ARRANGER KEYBOARDS FORUM

(This is a Forum for the Tyros and other "Arranger" keyboards, also free. Here you will find various Yamaha keyboard owners, from amateurs to professionals, each in their own Group. There is also a 2nd forum for those who want to share their keyboard music with others. Group Leader is Simon Williams. Unfortunately, the Forums on this site have largely been abandoned by most members, due to the owner's reluctance to allow members to play "cover" songs -- songs which are well-known and which he feels may possibly create copyright problems -- on his site. Perhaps in the future things may change, but for now the site is a mere shadow of its former self, with few members participating.)

A FORUM FOR PSR-2000 / 2100 / 3000 OWNERS

The Ringmaster here is Joe Waters. You can even view the posts here without having to join!

REGISTRATIONS (and more) FOR THE PSR-2000 & 2100:

REGISTRATIONS LINK #1

YAMAHA FORUMS UK

(Nice-looking Forum for Yamaha and other keyboards, but the posts seem rather infrequent. Still, you can read the posts for free.)

YAMAHA CLUB

(This one's also for the U.K. Seems like Yamaha doesn't want to acknowledge its U.S. customers, doesn't it? Anyway, though it costs to sign up, you can visit the Message Board and even post on it for free.)

REVIEWS

Two Reviews On The Yamaha 9000 Pro Keyboard

~ Electronic Musician ~
(Click On "Product Reviews" near top center):
http://www.giles.com/yamaha1/whatsnew1.html

~ Keyboard Magazine ~

http://www.giles.com/yamaha1/review/pdf/9000pro_Keyboard_1001.pdf

A few more nice Reviews of the PSR-9000 and 9000 Pro:

Epinions Review of PSR-9000 (but only if you Sign Up)

Harmony-Central Review of the PSR-9000

Harmony-Central Review of the 9000 Pro

Electronic Musician's July 2003 Review of the TYROS!

(A Printable Version, Maybe Even Easier To Read)

Just Some REVIEWS Of Various Keyboards

~ also ~

Reviews On Many Other Yamaha Keyboards

Registrations For The Tyros?

***
According to more than three hundred keyboardists who have tried the Pipelinerr Registrations in their new Tyros, nearly two-thirds of the 380 work just fine.

The reason some do not is probably because some voices I created on the 9000 were "custom" voices (had faster decay, slower attack, repeating echoes, etc.) -- and these are apparently set up differently on the Tyros.

Help Operating the Tyros

Joe Waters tells us the Tyros is similar enough to the PSR-2000 that much of what works for one will work for the other. Joe says:

Not owning a 2000, you probably haven't spent much if any time looking at the PSR-2000 Tutorial site. But, now that you are expecting a TYROS, you can get a jump start by reviewing some of the material there. The TYROS works pretty much like the PSR-2000 (and the CVP pianos). The screen shots will look nicer, but they'll show the same functions.

If you review the lessons on the Music Finder, I did put a few Tyros screens in there so they could be compared with the equivalent PSR-2000 screens so readers could see how close they are.

I could put a lot more Tyros screens throughout that Tutorial, but have been waiting to get my new computer completely installed and set up before starting that. The lessons there on Registrations, modifying accompaniment styles, creating OTS, will all be applicable to the Tyros. The Tyros will have MORE options in various places, like having the three intro buttons on the keyboard instead of just one.

When you look at the file system it operates the same, but the Tyros has an additional area for files. The PSR-2000 only has PRESET, USER, and FLOPPY DISK. The Tyros can also have a HARD DRIVE. If you don't already have it, here is Joe's link:

http://psrtutorial.com/
(JOE'S EXCELLENT PSR-2000 & TYROS TUTORIAL)

[NOTE: Both Joe and I have tried every way we know, but still my Registrations WILL NOT work in the PSR-2000, 2100, or 3000. Please do not write and ask me about them if you own one of these keyboards.]

How The Tyros Voice Editor Works (click on photo)

UNDERSTANDING YOUR TYROS

Here we are gradually adding A WHOLE SERIES OF NEW PAGES that will hopefully make the Tyros easier to understand. (Check them out.)

A FEW TYROS SECRETS

(Yep, ya gotta "click" it)

TROUBLESHOOTING THE TYROS

(Another one ya gotta "click")

DAVE'S OWN TYROS DISCOVERIES

Would you like to change some of the Voices in that Style? The Tyros makes it easy. Just press the [Channel ON/OFF] button, which gives you a pop-up window at the bottom of the LCD display. Now you can turn each voice on or off by using the lower LCD (1-8) buttons during Style playback.

To select new voices, press any of the upper LCD (1-8) buttons to call up the voice selection display, where you can select and change the voice of any part (Rhythm 1, Rhythm 2, Bass, Chord, etc.) To select different voices, press any of the Voice buttons at the upper Right side of keyboard. Also you can use the BACK/NEXT buttons.

WHAT WILL STORE IN A REGISTRATION?

(We've found a few surprises... and a lot of things that won't store at all!)

http://www.geocities.com/pipelinerr//REG_STORAGE.html

(The Complete List: Everything That CAN Be Stored... And Everything That Can't.)

TYROS INSTRUMENT DEF FILE

(Ever wonder exactly what voices can be found on the Tyros? Thanks to Paul Tumelty, here is the official Cakewalk Definition File, right on this link):

http://www.geocities.com/pipelinerr//TYROS_DEF_FILE.html

(A somewhat differently organized list can be found here, by Simon Williams):

http://www.svpworld.com/tyrosreview3.htm

(And here is a chart showing all 300 On-Board Tyros STYLES):

http://www.svpworld.com/tyrosreview2.htm

TYROS SPECIFICATIONS LIST

So ya want "all" the little details about what the Tyros can do?

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