Yamaha have released two new videos demonstrating a couple of the Premium Styles on their official Yamaha Tyros3 Website. The styles include Piano Bossa and Swedish Dance presented on the Tyros3, however there are many Premium Styles available for various Yamaha instruments, so make sure you head over to the Yamaha MusicSoft website to view their entire library, which includes audio samples.

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Yamaha have released two new videos demonstrating a couple of the Premium Styles on their official Yamaha Tyros3 Website. The styles include 20′s Swing 78rpm and Dirty Disco presented on the Tyros3, however there are many Premium Styles available for various Yamaha instruments, so make sure you head over to the Yamaha MusicSoft website to view their entire library, which includes audio samples.

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Recently I posted on YPKO that Professional Music Technology were hosting a special ‘Meet the Experts’ day at their Birmingham store on Saturday 22nd May to celebrate the newly refitted Yamaha zone – a dedicated space in the new store where you can experience the full line-up of products from Yamaha Music Production. Well I couldn’t resist, so Saturday morning I popped over to enjoy the new section.

The music store is absolutely massive in size with a maze of amps, a forest of guitars and more importantly for us Yamaha enthusiasts a new section devoted entirely to the Yamaha Synthesizers and Stage Pianos. I met quite a few people from Yamaha including Bert Smorenburg, who is the Yamaha’s international Synthesizer specialist. He was kind enough to give me a little overview of the differences between arranger keyboards and synthesizers. Recently there is certainly noticeable crossover as the flagship arranger keyboard Tyros3 features some of the sounds from the Motif range and the Motif itself uses backings similar to what us arranger people would consider calling an accompaniment style.

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Yamaha have released two new videos demonstrating a couple of the Premium Styles on their official Yamaha Tyros3 Website. The styles include Summer Pop and Movie March presented on the Tyros3, however there are many Premium Styles available for various Yamaha instruments, so make sure you head over to the Yamaha MusicSoft website to view their entire library, which includes audio samples.

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In this video, watch Glyn Madden enjoy the many delights of the Yamaha PSR-S910 keyboard, filmed and edited by James Woodcock. Glyn who is Editor of the Yamaha Club Magazine, performs with a selection of styles with information overlaid explaining some of the features used as he plays.

In the latest edition of the Yamaha Club Magazine, it has been announced that both Glyn Madden and I (James Woodcock) have been working on a CVP-509 video that hopefully will be released as a free promotional DVD, which is presented by Glyn Madden with performances from James Sargeant and Glyn. This has also been edited and produced by James Woodcock. I have no information currently on exactly when and where this will be released, but as soon as I do I will post news about it for you all.

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