Free Expansion Pack

[Howardw]

Same for me, code not valid. Hopefully, there will be an answer soon.

I had forgotten that I had a Yamaha MusicSoft account as registering the Genos seems to have resurrected it. My last purchase was in 2003 for a copy of XG Works V3!!

[kenley]

At Last finally worked for me, put in the promo code, after trying all day yesterday, tried tonight promo code accepted 

[Oxford1035]

l had the same problem and emailed Yamaha. They added it to my account for me, so l now have the Christmas pack 

[Flemming]

I have registred my Genos and got my coupon code for a free Ex. pack. But I'm in doubt which to choose? Best of Europe or Christmas. My normal ekstra need music is mostly modern Europe music for dancing, a lot of Swedish styles a la Wikingerna, and further more a lot of country-like music. Which Ex.pack would fit me the best?

Will there later come a new Country pack, and does anyone know if its possible to wait until then by purchasing my free pack?

Thanks
Flemming

[alfonata]

Confusing
I live in Belgium and had to register my Genos with Music members Europe with a password that
Minimum 10 characters must contain.
I then received a coupon code and a package code for a free package
To obtain this I had to go to Musicsoft.com from Yamaha;
For login I need another password here (minimum 6 characters)
With this new password the coupon code of music members Europe then turns out to be invalid

[wmidsgw]

Hi Alfonata

If you contact Yamaha Support with your voucher code and indicate which pack you want
then they will load the free version into your 'Cart'......this  is what I had to do in the end
and everything went through ok.

Gordon

[Oxford1035]

I have registred my Genos and got my coupon code for a free Ex. pack. But I'm in doubt which to choose? Best of Europe or Christmas. My normal ekstra need music is mostly modern Europe music for dancing, a lot of Swedish styles a la Wikingerna, and further more a lot of country-like music. Which Ex.pack would fit me the best?

Will there later come a new Country pack, and does anyone know if its possible to wait until then by purchasing my free pack?

Thanks
Flemming

l downloaded this one for the 970 as recommended by Voodoo -
  https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/keyboards/arranger_workstations/psr-s970/vse.html

Really impressed by it as it's free.

Went for the Christmas pack, so have both now 

[Flemming]

The link points to several packs, don't know which you mean. I'm not interested in PSR-packs as I have a Genos.

There are 3 packs to choose between, I'm don't want Iberian, but I'm in doubt which of the other two would be the best for me. Yamaha don't tell much about what is in the pack. Some more mp3 could be nice.

Best regards
Flemming

[alfonata]

HI  flemming

go  to  yamahamusicsoft;com
go  menu  (left upper  corrner)
Sound  and expention  librarries
premium packs  and  voice

Your  instrument (genos)

3 packs   voorr  genos  (easy  Christmas,pop upricht piano, schlager)

klik  on the icon of  the pack  and  you  find   samples  and  what is in  thepack

[Howardw]

At Last finally worked for me, put in the promo code, after trying all day yesterday, tried tonight promo code accepted 

Same for me, tried again today and it worked perfectly first time. Perhaps Yamaha have fixed some kind of bug on the web page?

[Del 123]

Hi,

Likewise with Howard, I tried the code gain yesterday and was finally successful.

I want to thank David for forming this thread last week and bringing the free packs to my attention otherwise I would never had known!

Last week unfortunately I had a work accident on the Cathedral falling through a ladder well on a 150ft scaffolding and dislocated my shoulder and fractured a number of shoulder bones - the pain was the worst pain I have ever encountered! Not long came home from hospital!

So the free pack was a much welcome diversion.

Merry Christmas to you all.
Darren

[alans]

My thanks also to DavidB and all other contributors to this thread,I was also  not aware of the free pack,after a frustrating  couple of days trying to download my chosen pack I successfully achieved it yesterday,but owing to time constraints I have not yet loaded it into my Genos.Hopefully I can do this later today.

Alan

[fozzie]

The link points to several packs, don't know which you mean. I'm not interested in PSR-packs as I have a Genos.

There are 3 packs to choose between, I'm don't want Iberian, but I'm in doubt which of the other two would be the best for me. Yamaha don't tell much about what is in the pack. Some more mp3 could be nice.

Best regards
Flemming

Hi Flemming!
My Tip, go for the Best of Europe.
/fozzie

[wolfram]

It's not possible to send the extraced sounds & styles.I can download the free pack but imposible open,so i can have a folder.
thanks before,
wolfram

[alans]

Hi Wolfram

Sorry to hear you cannot load your free pack successfully,I loaded mine  in today without problems,I also loaded a PSR S670 latin free pack which was also in my YEM, a friend of mine got sometime ago for her keyboard when new.The only problem I had,which I hasten to add was a user fault 😂😂, was when trying to load the Genos it told me it was going to format the expansion memory ,I hesitated a while then realised it that was normal and then loaded the free Genos pack and the 670 latin pack with success.

Perhaps you  could tell us what procedure you are using, it is not difficult once you understand it.

Alan

[supersteve]

I just managed to download "The best of Europe" free using the voucher.

Be careful when entering the code as (0) and (O) look similar in the codes,, 0 zero are slightly oval where as O are round

this could be causing some people a problem.

mine worked first time.

steve

[DavidB]

Unfortunately mine still won't work. I'm fully aware of computer characters, 0 and O's, I and 1's etc.

Doesn't matter how I try it the code is invalid.

[supersteve]

Hi

I have just come to install my free pack with my others and noticed this !! Using YEM all the packs are reloaded into Genos (yes) Memory is  Formated upon installation. I assume I am doing it correctly but I am concerned about the size of the pack installation ??

At the top of yem screen it says
Pack installation size 2025/2048 looks like I am reaching my Limit ? what does the 2048 refer too and how can it be made bigger.
My packs are all Musicsoft originals ? does this mean an end to my purchases, or am I getting the T4 fear non expandable.

Steve

[zionip]

Hi

I have just come to install my free pack with my others and noticed this !! Using YEM all the packs are reloaded into Genos (yes) Memory is  Formated upon installation. I assume I am doing it correctly but I am concerned about the size of the pack installation ??

At the top of yem screen it says
Pack installation size 2025/2048 looks like I am reaching my Limit ? what does the 2048 refer too and how can it be made bigger.
My packs are all Musicsoft originals ? does this mean an end to my purchases, or am I getting the T4 fear non expandable.

Steve

Hi Steve,

On YEM 2.5.0, there are 2 limits for expansion size for Genos:
Voice Wave Size: 1843 MB <-- This is the Genos built-in 1.8GB expansion flash size limit.
Pack Install File Size: 2048 MB <-- This is the "Genos_PackInstallData.ppi" file size limit.

Since there is no flash expansion option for Genos, we are all stuck with 1.8GB flash for expansion packs.  When you are close to the pack install file size limit, you will have use YEM to go through all your expansion packs, pick and choose the absolutely needed voices and styles per expansion pack, and generate your custom expansion pack install file for Genos.

I recommend that you can exclude the Bonus Audio Style Packs under the "Other Downloads" section from the following URL because these are the converted audio styles of Tyros 5 that you may not need to save some space for expansion:
https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/keyboards/arranger_workstations/genos/downloads.html#product-tabs

There is a whole discussion thread on this topic:
https://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,40820.msg319996.html#msg319996

As explained by pjd here:
https://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,40820.msg320103.html#msg320103

pjd said: "I don't believe there are any hardware reasons to prefer a particular partition size. I think it's the case of Yamaha saying, "Well, 1.8GB should be enough." What happened to the other bytes that make up the 2GB voice waveform partition? Voice metadata."

What pjd meant was that 1843 MB of the Expansion flash on Genos is for voice data, and the rest of the 2 GB, i.e. 205 MB, is used by voice metadata, which usually means the information that contains the attributes and the paths to retrieve the corresponding voices, audio styles etc.

Thanks,
Paul

[supersteve]

Many thanks Paul for the links and information, looks like I have a bit or sorting out to do.

Steve

[alfonata]

Hi  DavidB

see that the procedure that you post in the beginning of this topic does not want to work for you. too

[DavidB]

Well, in fairness, it's not my procedure, it's Yamaha's, but yes, so far it hasn't worked for me either.

[wolfram]

Hello,
It has work to download the free pack"the best of europe"and vie USB transported to the genos!
thanks for the help,
kind regards,
wolfram