Working on a New "Gems" Styles disk.........

[rattley]

Hello Friends!

A little history..........

Back in the day when I first joined PSR Tutorial I was the proud owner of a new PSR1000. This was my first "real" arranger, having always had the cheaper toy-like ones. It also had a built in floppy drive which was a Godsend at that time since file transfers were always a pain in the kiester before floppys. Remember actual physical cartridges that only had 10 styles for $80? Floppys made large style collections possible and manageable. Soon after joining this forum some of those current members welcomed me and others with open arms. The knowledge and encouragement of those dear members made it only natural to want to share some of my creations with them too. It's been a love affair ever since.

Around 1996 I started making my "Gems" style disks. I made 14 of them over those earlier years and they still remain here for download!  These were similar to the "Gig Disks" Gary Diamond was making at the time. There seemed to be a regular stable of talent making and sharing styles and stuff. The reason those Gems disks only had about 20 styles on each of them was because that's all that would fit on a floppy. Now one could easily have a million styles on a single USB drive...........

The only real dilemna I'm having completing my first new Gems disk is how many exclusive Genos2 voices I should have in these styles. I hate not to use my newest favorite piano voices like the Character Grand and Uprights in the right hand voicing, and I guess its easy enough to chose different OTS for older keyboards? There aren't too many exclusive Genos2 voices I put in the style mix. Yamaha still likes their MegaVoices and most are still excellent choices. I still find lots of voices I like in the Legacy folder. And the same with the older drum kits. Newer isn't necesarily better!!

I also belong to the psrtutorial forum and plan to frequent both. Sometimes I do double-posts so all my friends can keep in touch with me.  -charley