Play Style on PC or on iPad

[steventrieu]

Hi all .
Please show me how to play style on PC computer or on iPad, because sometime i have a lot of style we need to test first before install to my Genos keyboard, or the name off the software i can purcharge .please help me out .

Thank you
Steven,

[mikf]

You really have to test them on the keyboard because that's where the high end voices are. They dont exist on PCs or IPads. Even if you get software to play the style on the PC it can never sound like the keyboard. The music you play on your computing devices that sounds good is audio, not midi which has no sound and needs the voices to turn the file instructions into sound   - styles are just 'special' midi files. With an audio file you just need to turn the digital signals back into sound which is a facility all of the computers and iPads have, but with midi the digital signal just instructs the device which individual voice to choose, which effects to apply, how loud etc etc, Computers might have some voices that midi can access but typically low quality and therefore midi usually sounds awful on these devices. 
Your best bet to audition styles is to transfer a large batch of style files to a usb, stick the usb on the keyboard and listen to them on the keyboard.
Mike