Made midi - now what can I do with it?

[gfraden]

Hello Everyone. I hope everyone is well and safe. My wife and I are doing fine. It's been a long time since I've been to the forum. With social distancing and isolation you'd think I'd have plenty of time, and reason, to visit here. However, with fewer commitments because of the situation, I've expanded into other things that I didn't time for before. One is using MuseScore. I just made a song in MuseScore, actually, made a song into a key that I wasn't able to buy on Musicnotes. I then exported the song to midi and took the midi to my PSR-S970 and played it. Now what can I do with it? Can I add a style, change voices? I know practically nothing about midi and am envious of those of you who do so much with it. Maybe, in this time of isolation, midi is something to expand into.
Thank-you for reading this and for any help,
George

[DerekA]

Once it's on the keyboard, a MIDI file ins known as a 'Song'. You can make it sound better on your PSR when it plays back.

Open the file in the Song Creator.

If each part is on a separate MIDI channel, then you can use the Mixer to make then sound better. Change the voices to use the voices built into the keyboard. Assign DSP effects (up to a max of 4 on the 970). Play with the volumes and the pan positions.

You can also record new parts into the file by playing on the keyboard and recording keyboard parts into song channels.

You can play a style and record it into the file, by setting up some record channels to 'listen' to the style channels (e.g. set up channels 9-16 to record the 8 style parts).

Take look at the 'recording songs' lessons on the forum https://psrtutorial.com/lessons/playing/rec/index.html. You're essentially starting half way through with a MIDI file already built.

Have fun!

[gfraden]

Thank-you so much Derek, that is exactly the advice I need. It is clear and succinct. What a great help! Now it's up to me. Like I said, midi is a mystery to me. I want to solve that mystery and you've given a good, doable place to start, I think. I appreciate your help.
George