If it needs to be said, when one plays with styles as Yamaha's, one is not constrained to a track, and one can play spontaneously, for any length, in any key, improvise, not fixed for a duration of time. But probably learning to modify them is a better starting place, than making them, because making styles, I believe, is a much higher challenge. But that's not about making styles, though. I use voice-less MIDI keyboards playing separate synths.

I use Yamaha styles all in a computer with an arranger software, and do recording of MIDI, Audio simultaneously in Sonar LE, as I play and do some vocals too. There are some style-makers for sale, and style converters from other brands of keyboards to yamaha format.īut getting ready, good, working styles is just a few mouse clicks.Google 'Yamaha Styles download'. Some of those things can be rather laborious, though. But that does not need sonar necessarily, because there are also more convenient, free softwares to do those things.ĭo a googly search for 'Yamaha Styles editors'.'Yamaha Style makers'.Go to the great 'Unofficial Yamaha site', google that one too. I do modify them, as to what instruments they play, sound-levels, and effects. I don't make styles, because there are tons of them available for free in the internet. When you are done, and close Sonar, the modified STYLE (MIDI) file is saved with the modifications or creations, and the other software takes it from there, and you finish it in the Style-maker software.Ī yamaha Style is a MIDI file, with special headers. Typically, the Style maker software calls sonar, basically it automates the LOADING of MIDI tracks into sonar, where you can then do changes you want. Style making is done by some softwares, with Sonar in combination with those softwares that are free to download from the internet.

Create yamaha style from midi