In some cases the expansion pack styles make use of custom voices contained in the expansion pack so you might want to keep styles and packs together, its easy enough to export them using the program and try them - this can help reduce the need to add a pack to YEM (if it only contained styles) and ensure you make the most of your internal expansion memory.

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Ive got the Expansion manager running great using WINE so it was time to work out how to merge more than one pack together, my previous keyboard (PSR-S650) could have one Expansion pack installed at any time, the S970 has 512Mb of memory so can have more packs installed at once (if they are merged into one).

I also wanted to see if I could bring in some of the style tracks from my old S650 packs.

Importing packs is easy enough, you just click on the, locate your Pack Project File.ppf and its imported.

I also found I could locate my old S650 packs which are.YEP format.

The question now is how to export these out in a file format that I can load into the S970.

The Install target will show your instrument name, after a few seconds this will colour in a purple colour.

To import expansion packs remember to select MY PACKS at the top left, this gives you the option to click and import etc.

You can save files and custom pack settings in MY PACKS but cant use them in the instrument.

To do this click the PSR-S970 on the left, you now have the option to select multiple packs (Green tick), or deselect them.

You can also highlight files within the packs and excludeinclude.

Insert the drive, Press the Function button, select the pack, in this case Ive added several of my S650 packs so there are 14 packs merged into one.

Voices and Styles are there - I wouldnt expect everything to work, after all Ive imported some files from an older keyboard but they are there, its just a case of keeping note if anything does not work, then you can customize the pack a little more in the Expansion Manager and load it on the keyboard which will remove the items which you dont like or dont work.

Reply Delete Replies Fatdadkev 19 March 2016 at 00:05 You import them as I mentioned in the post - To import expansion packs remember to select MY PACKS at the top left, this gives you the option to click and import etc.

Then you can select one or more packs and export as a single PPI file - bear in mind the format from the older Sx50 range is not the same as the Sx70 range - I found a lot of my older S650 YEP files would not work, they would import but not function when installed in the S970.

Delete Replies Reply Reply obedsmusic 18 March 2016 at 22:05 how do i connect my s950 so that it appears in the expansion manager listing Reply Delete Replies Fatdadkev 18 March 2016 at 23:53 You will need the.n27 file for it - youll need to look in your handbooks to work out how to do this.

Bear in mind the format for the 950 and 970 are different so YEP files or other expansion files from the 950 might not work.

I used to have an S650, if I try to import a YEM file from that I only get partial success, most of the instruments and styles will not work - Ideally the files need to be PPF to install into YEM not the older YEP format.

Delete Replies Reply Reply Unknown 10 April 2016 at 16:58 Do you know how to convert.PPI to.PPF Reply Delete Replies Fatdadkev 11 April 2016 at 10:42 I think its pretty much a one way process, there are a couple of packs that have ppf and ppi files but Ive not seen a converter to take the installation file to the project (ppf) file.

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It might be worth looking on jososoft to see if they have anything Delete Replies Reply Reply Unknown 11 June 2016 at 04:28 can u mail me your styles collection steve71056gmail.com thank u Reply Delete Replies Fatdadkev 11 June 2016 at 07:21 Hi Steve, not really - some of the expansion packs I paid considerable money for and most of the individual packs are towards 200MB in size, you can get some free expansion packs from Yamaha and in that instance its easier to download them direct.

In terms of individual STY files (without expansion voices etc.) you can find lots to download, a suitable website is jososoft.dk, the styles section is - Kev Delete Replies Reply Reply Fatdadkev 12 June 2016 at 12:34 Some info for anyone who might be wondering about styles etc.

You can get a program from jososoft which will extract STY files from expansion packs ( ), then you can add them to a USB stick with all your other styles.

The purpose of YEM is to allow you to consolidate several Expansion packs into one big one, this way you can create a custom expansion pack and maximize the use of your internal memory.

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