Studio Singers Did anyone already bought this pack?

[XeeniX]

Hi,

I saw this pack and a few more for that matter being available as new packs. Did anyone buy the Studio Singers pack already and what do you think of it? I listened to some sound samples on the Okonosekai homepage since I couldn't find any on the Musicsoft website where this pack is offered.

I find it hard to judge an expansion pack from just a few samples. Even with the holiday discount these expansion packs are a little too expensive to act impulsive. I bought quite a few of them over the years and not all had that "WOW" factor afterwards.

Any comments/insights about this pack even though I know it will always be a matter of personal taste would be appreciated and helpful

thanks in advance,
Peter

[niayinii]

i bought the  pack and  it  contains  no voice  samples as stated  its  only  registration and  multipage but  without the  voice sample  its waste.

i thought  it  was  the  S970 file so  i did  for the  tyros 5 as well  and  both  have  the same file size  and  content
i  guess  yamaha  has  to  refund the  purchase  cos  its  misleading

[niayinii]

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[Patrick]

Hi, do you have installed this pack in YEM and then make a PPI files for installation in the S970; you must see some voices samples in it; Happy New year to you Patrick

PS: info and voices of this pack on yamaha Musicsoft
https://uk.yamahamusicsoft.com/vse/studio-singers-psr-s

[XeeniX]

Thank you for your input but are you really sure there are no samples? That woudl indeed be very misleading in that case/
From what I can see/read on their homepage which includes an audio example unlike that on the Musicsoft site, 20 new voice saples and an sfx vocal kit should be included as well as the registrations and 10 remixed preset styles.

From what I read they mixed their samples with the preset vocals on teh T5. Not sure but as far as I know these vocal presets are not on teh S770/970 so exactly the same if what they are telling is true seems unlikely.
http://www.otonosekai.com/studio-singers-pack/

Think I hold of for a while until more is known.

again thank you for your input,
Peter

[karmacomposer]

According to the video on that link, there are indeed new stereo samples, not just styles and registrations.  Hence the need for a sample ram board and using YEM.

Mike

[EileenL]

I have bought this pack for my 970. Of course it has voices on it and you must press the Expansion button and go to the pack which is stored on the user section. There are some very nice voices on it including scat voices that a lot of people missed. I am pleased with it.
There are also some good multi pads on there.

[XeeniX]

Thank you Eileen for your reply,

I think I will buy this one as well now that at least one person likes it. Yamaha's own packs  do not always meet all my expectations but at least they are Yamaha and thus have a certain quality standard. Never bought a 3rd party pack so far and was a bit doubtful. Since you were pleased to me that means they have a certain standard as well and probably q few nice voices and pads on top of that

kind regards,
peter

[EileenL]

Hi Peter,
  They have to reach good standard or Yamaha would not handle them.

[XeeniX]

That's what I expected to Eileen,

But to be quite frank after buying this pack... It has a few nice multipads (the 2 vocal beat ones) and a couple of nice voices. Also the vocal kit is usable when you want to edit for example a sub rhythm in a style that uses handclaps and tambourines. But the rgt's and therefor also most of the remixed styles are (pardon my french) rubbish especially the 80sanalog style and 60sUnderground. On top of that after installing the pack my T5 started freezing with unexpected errors. Never had those before and they started right after installation of the yem pack where studiosingers was inserted.
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Unexpected error!
Turn the power off and on again.
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66119rxrcvmb
L102
113-200-v12-61n
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4 x in a row while using the pack. I repowered the T5 (bought brand new may 2017 with a FL1024 expansion board included by Yamaha. I than removed the pack again and installed the new YEM pack without studio singers but with other expansion stuff to fill up the entire memory and played without errors for a couple hours. Re-download the pack from my account to make sure it wasn't corrupted during download and re-installed it with differently ordered packs and BOOM the errors were back in irregular time intervals. No pinpointing possible besides the fact that the pack was installed again. T5 was reset to factory settings and all pedals etc. were disconnected while powering up. No usb drive attached (found these tips in this forum).

I removed it again this morning and did a re-install without this pack and so far (keyboards is played on for several hours  no errors. I e-mailed Yamaha support about this hoping they will take the pack back. They aren't exactly cheap and when sold under Yamaha flag you can expect at least the pack is error free. I do not know what their policy is (always a satisfied customer up till now) when you ask for a refund (either in money or in a voucher of some sort). When you are not satisfied about a purchased item. Whether that is because you are disappointed or in my case on top of that have lots of problems with the pack. I know over here and in normal shops they have to give you a refund of some kind but I am not sure about a webshop like Musicsoft. Well, I will await their answer. So far they always treated me as a king Hopefully this time that will be no different. Next pack I will pick will not be a 3rd party pack anymore that's for sure. Original Yamaha packs may be more expensive but at least the quality of both the pack itself as its contents was always quite alright 

kind regards,
Peter

[EileenL]

Sorry you have had problems I have my pack loaded into Genos and have no problems with it at all and it sounds Good. I also have it in my 970 with the same result. Hope you get it sorted OK.

[XeeniX]

Apreciated,

I will post an update as soon as I hear back from them and let you know how it ended.
For now I have no doubt they will somehow help fixing this. One way or the other. Let's see what next week brings

kind regards,

Peter

[Ed B]

Hi
I have also bought the pack and had one case of a freeze like Peter reported. I could not find any particular instant that I could locate. It was the same unexpected error," turn the power off and on". It was totally frozen and I had to pull the ac plug. This is just the second day with this pack. I have not experienced this with any other Yamaha packs or Jans EDM or PJ's pack.
I though the voices were fine. I expected to find styles but they were remixed using registrations.
I'm not sure how much I will use it, but it certainly has some novelty audio voices in the FX.
Regards
Ed B

[techlectics]

I purchased the pack this morning but will not have time to try it for a few days. There is currently a discount available (at least here in the US). Following is from an email I received from Yamaha.

"You're almost out of time to save 20% on everything including the latest products! Just use promo code "noel17"* at checkout to receive your discount."

This brought the price down to $71.99.

[XeeniX]

I have no answer from Yamaha but since I mailed thursday evening and the with weekend following that mail that is normal. As soon as I hear something from them I will let you guys now.

regards,
Peter

[XeeniX]

Problem solved. Seems the file got corrupted during download from Musicsoft. after yet another download and installation no more frozen screens. On top of that I was able to switched the pack for another one since I wasn't too impressed with it.Yamaha showed the customer care I was hoping for

kind regards,
Peter

[ULOCNI]

Hello Eileen,


I bought this pack for my 970. But if I installed it with some other packs, I can see the pack in 970, eg. in Registrations, but it si working wrong (no voice etc.).
If I installed it alone, everything is ok.


What I'm doing wrong?




Regards

[ULOCNI]

Solved.


Hi, everyone.


After some testing, installing and reinstalling I figured the solution: just putted the singers pack at first place, bank 001.
Now everything is in order.