Starting June 30, Yamaha Premium packs, expansions will be free

[Bachus]

Will not be ready for UK for a couple of weeks.

Thats something i expected and can live with..
May i ask where this information can be found?

It would be great if Yamaha would communicate more openly about this..
That would make the whole situation much less confusing..

[EileenL]

Hi Bachus,
  Several of us were told when we got in touch with Music Soft to give them a couple of weeks to sort out European side of things.

[Bachus]

Hi Bachus,
  Several of us were told when we got in touch with Music Soft to give them a couple of weeks to sort out European side of things.

Thank you...
Thats good to know...
Al i heared/read it should be okay in 2 weeks
But a couple of weeks could be more then just 2 weeks..

I guess Yamaha will give us a heads up call when they are ready for it?

[harden37]

Thank you Al,Francesco,Dromeus for your help. I did get the file downloaded but looks like I can not load CPF Files in tyros 4 . Hope Yamaha comes around with a way to load them. Will keep pushing buttons.LOA.

harden37

[Bill]

Thats something i expected and can live with..
May i ask where this information can be found?

It would be great if Yamaha would communicate more openly about this..
That would make the whole situation much less confusing..

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[Bachus]

Thanks Bill, hadnt seen that one yet.
Since i decided to wait and stop visiting the website,
Till someone here announced the situation is stable again.

Its great to see there are some directions now on Yamaha's website..

[vanzee]

Hello,
my experience:
I could download 6 packs via "Library" in my account (old account from Musicsoft Europe).
When ordered it shows "Pending", after a while this changes in "Available",
start download by clicking in the little square in the names of the packs in "Order".
Installed via YEM in Genos, no problems, all OK.

[Al Ram]

Great information on this thread.  Thanks everyone.   

Thanks to the info on this thread i have been able to successfully donwload and install some nice packs. It is appreciated.

Has Anyone been able to install the "Best of Europe" pack in a Genos keyboard ?

If so, how did you do it ?

thanks in advance.

[EileenL]

Hi Harden,
  You will have to make sure the Packs are for Tyros 4 because these load differently as a Library load
whereas the newer keyboards use the Yamaha Expansion Manager via computer to load packs into keyboard memory.

[andy_v]

Great information on this thread.  Thanks everyone.   

Thanks to the info on this thread i have been able to successfully donwload and install some nice packs. It is appreciated.

Has Anyone been able to install the "Best of Europe" pack in a Genos keyboard ?

If so, how did you do it ?

thanks in advance.

I think you should find that you can load the PSR-S970 version of the pack (via YEM).

[harden37]

Thanks Eileen,
I will double check the pack. Did not know that.


     harden37

[JohnS (Ugawoga)]

The choirs keep failing to download

[EileenL]

I don't think they have the European side sorted yet so that is probably why.

[JohnS (Ugawoga)]

Hi Eileen

They downloaded in the end
All packs look ok now on the usa site
All load into the Genos
I lke the Celtic pack and the organs not too bad ,but the choirs . Hu Hu and that's it
I would not go overboard on these sounds , but one or two are useful.
I got the choir i was after with sample robot . Now that is worthwhile .

All the best
john

[Dromeus]

They downloaded in the end

Congratulation. I could only download a few packs, most consistently fail after loading 50-200 MB. Tried with Firefox and Chrome.

[Stijn]

The MusicSoft site is still under construction, so if you can't download the packs you can get a copy from my Dropbox.
The packs are not ID encrypted so they need no key when you import them in Yamaha Expansion Manager.

This is the link to the free packs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r686w5l7o8kal62/Free%20packs%201%20Jul%202020.zip?dl=0
I included these packs: BallroomStyle, Celtic, Colors of Iberia2, Choir& Vocals, Euro&UsOrgan
I didn't download the packs that were included in the GenosV2.0 SuperiorPack; SA2 FemaleVocals_Genos, SA2 PanFlutes_Genos, SA2 Trombone_Genos. I didn't include the other free packs as they are for PSR only.

Stijn

[Dromeus]

Thank you, Stijn, much appreciated. "Best Of Europe"appears to be ID encrypted, so I was not able to import that pack into YEM.

I didn't include the other free packs as they are for PSR only.

I thought that the Euro Dance Pack was available for Tyros/Genos, too? Let's wait and see...

[anandmaloo]

Hi,

A Stupid question.  My Genos memory is already filled a lot. But I also want these freebies, mostly styles.  Is there a way to delete any voices or styles from these free packs (which i don't like) and save some space in my Genos memory. Will un-checking them while installation save me space in Genos memory ?

Regards

Anand

[overover]

Hi,

A Stupid question.  My Genos memory is already filled a lot. But I also want these freebies, mostly styles.  Is there a way to delete any voices or styles from these free packs (which i don't like) and save some space in my Genos memory. Will un-checking them while installation save me space in Genos memory? ...

Hi Anand,

STYLES that are installed via a .cpf or .ppf Pack do NOT require any storage space in the Voice Wave Expansion Memory (but the included Styles will be automatically copied to the corresponding subfolder of the Expansion folder in the USER drive when installing Packs on the instrument).

To save space in the Voice Wave Expansion Memory you can simply deselect unneeded Voices in Expansion Packs. (Click on the desired Voices so that the green checkmark disappears.)


Best regards,
Chrs

[Wim]

The latest info I heard from Germany is that the European Site will be available round the end of september.  After expirering the license of their sites Yamaha take in considering to go along the old way with the sales oft software that way. Finally they agreed to make a new site and change some policy. First they agreed to finish the USA site. Later the Euro site. Bringing all the names and purchases over to there new site took a long time. And than also carona.

The new policy is.  The Premium packs  give away for free. Except  of course those from third parties. They also had in mind to do that for styles and song (midi) files. The problem here. Copyright of the composers. So Yamaha makes new Premium packs  therselve is still the question.

rgds
Wim 

[Joe H]

Hi,

A Stupid question.  My Genos memory is already filled a lot. But I also want these freebies, mostly styles.  Is there a way to delete any voices or styles from these free packs (which i don't like) and save some space in my Genos memory. Will un-checking them while installation save me space in Genos memory ?

Regards

Anand

Another option is to use YEM Content Explorer to extract the styles from the packs.  That way you can keep them on the User Drive or on a USB stick. But keep in mind that saving those styles without the pack Voices will require you to do a remix of the styles and they may not sound as good without those pack Voices.

https://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,43547.0.html

https://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,53624.msg417847/topicseen.html#msg417847

Joe H

[overover]

Another option is to use YEM Content Explorer to extract the styles from the packs.  That way you can keep them on the User Drive or on a USB stick. But keep in mind that saving those styles without the pack Voices will require you to do a remix of the styles and they may not sound as good without those pack Voices. ...

Hi Joe,

to my knowledge, the "YEM Content Explorer" (YEM-CE) can NOT extract Styles from .cpf Packs (only from .ppf Packs).


Best regards,
Chris

[Joe H]

Thanks for the clarification. I did not know this since I don't have any .cpf files loaded in YEM.

Joe H

[jugge]

This morning I was able to download the rest of the packs. Download speed is about 5-10 times faster and no failures at all.
Not sure if I was just lucky or if they sorted out the issues now.

[jugge]

So after downloading all packs, I found that only about 10 of them have the filename that ends with genos.cpf
The rest of the packs - like entertainer and eurodance - have filenames pointing to other models like S700 and S900 series.
Will we be able to load those into Genos?

[Stijn]

Thank you, Stijn, much appreciated. "Best Of Europe"appears to be ID encrypted, so I was not able to import that pack into YEM.

I managed to download it again, so this one should work:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kf4cwu53y8zs2nb/Best_of_Europe_Genos.cpf?dl=0

Stijn

[Dromeus]

I managed to download it again, so this one should work:

Awesome, thanks again.

[filoaman]

But I also want these freebies, mostly styles.  Is there a way to delete any voices or styles from these free packs (which i don't like) and save some space in my Genos memory. Will un-checking them while installation save me space in Genos memory ?

Beware that some styles from expansion packs use voices from the pack especially drum-kits or percussion.
So even if you install only the styles without the corresponding voices, the styles would not sound correctly since will missing voices...

[DerekA]

The rest of the packs - like entertainer and eurodance - have filenames pointing to other models like S700 and S900 series.

None of the EuroDance packs worked for me.

The only one I could even import to YEM was the S770 one, and that's only because I used to have an S770 so it's still on the install target list. But when I selected the Genos as target, it would not let me select the EuroDance pack to include in the install file.

However Euro/US organ and Choir have worked fine. Thank you Yamaha for those

[Bob88]

Just went through the procedure of selecting 2 free packs,entered all the required
information , proceeded to complete order and have not heard or received  anything since. Bob