
There are also many free tools for creating and editing Styles on the PC, e.g. A highly recommended program is "Style Magic YA" from the Polish manufacturer MidiSoft ( ). the program called "EMC Styleworks" by John (which is however not cheap and unfortunately does not guarantee perfect results by far).


To do this remove the checkmark for "Style" in the System tab (see the second picture).Ĭreating a Yamaha Style on the computer is a completely different topic. You can use "Local Control" in MIDI settings to switch off the Style playback via the internal sound generation. Or, if your DAW does respond to BankSelect and ProgramChange messages from the Style, you have to insert/change these events correctly in each Style Part (BankSelect MSB = CC0, BankSelect LSB = CC32, ProgramChange). You have to make sure that the Sounds in your DAW are not changed by BankSelect and ProgramChange messages of the Style.

from plugins in the DAW) using USB-MIDI Port 1 (or DIN MIDI A Out) and routing the desired Channels (of 9 - 16) to the desired Sounds of the DAW. So you can control your external sounds (e.g. When the standard MIDI template "All Parts" is selected on the keyboard, the Style Parts are transmitted on Channels 9 - 16 MIDI Port 1 (see attached picture).
