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7/21/2019 Yamaha Arranger Registrations http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/yamaha-arranger-registrations 1/25 Yamaha Arranger Registrations Version 4.3.4 When working with registration files, some precautionary advise before using this program.  If you are working with setup.msi and have installed a previous copy of this program, use the Add/Remove Programs routine of Windows to uninstall that version prior to installing the latest version. If you are working with the file YamahaRegistrationManager.exe, navigate to the directory C:/Program Files/MBestsoft/YamahaRegistrationManager, and replace the file. The directory maybe C:/Program Files(X86) in later versions of Windows. The YamahaRegistrationManager.exe can also be used directly with the Run command.  Always maintain a set of backup registration files on your computer or a flash drive so that in the event of a loss of data either on the keyboard or computer you can rely on the backup file.  When converting registrations for use on a different keyboard, don’t overwrite the input registrations. Always store the converted registration in a different directory.  Create a My Registration for use in the program. Make settings on your keyboard that can be used to create new registration files or add a group to an existing registration using the program. A My Registration can be created from this setup created on your keyboard or from one of your existing registration files. (See creating My Registration) This program can be used for the following tasks:  Building new registration banks  Copying registrations from existing banks  Copying style and voice settings from existing banks  Editing settings contained in registration buttons  Add / Duplicate / Remove settings from registrations or a bank  Converting existing registrations to load on a different keyboard  Search for text in a registration bank or directory  Replace text in path names in a registration bank or directory  Preparing reports on the contents of banks
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Yamaha Arranger Registrations Version 4.3.4

When working with registration files, some precautionary advise before using this

program.

•  If you are working with setup.msi and have installed a previous copy of thisprogram, use the Add/Remove Programs routine of Windows to uninstall that

version prior to installing the latest version. If you are working with the fileYamahaRegistrationManager.exe, navigate to the directory C:/Program

Files/MBestsoft/YamahaRegistrationManager, and replace the file. The directory

maybe C:/Program Files(X86) in later versions of Windows. TheYamahaRegistrationManager.exe can also be used directly with the Run

command.

•  Always maintain a set of backup registration files on your computer or a flashdrive so that in the event of a loss of data either on the keyboard or computer you

can rely on the backup file.•  When converting registrations for use on a different keyboard, don’t overwrite the

input registrations. Always store the converted registration in a different

directory.

•  Create a My Registration for use in the program. Make settings on your keyboard

that can be used to create new registration files or add a group to an existingregistration using the program. A My Registration can be created from this setup

created on your keyboard or from one of your existing registration files. (Seecreating My Registration)

This program can be used for the following tasks:

•  Building new registration banks

•  Copying registrations from existing banks

•  Copying style and voice settings from existing banks

•  Editing settings contained in registration buttons

•  Add / Duplicate / Remove settings from registrations or a bank

•  Converting existing registrations to load on a different keyboard

•  Search for text in a registration bank or directory

• 

Replace text in path names in a registration bank or directory•  Preparing reports on the contents of banks

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Starting the Program:

When you open the program the first time, you will need to identify the target keyboardfor all output. Highlight the keyboard name from the pull-down list and click “Select”.

When you use the “Exit” button to end the session, the current target keyboard selection

is saved. The next time you open the program the target keyboard will be set to this one.

You can change the target keyboard at any time by clicking the “Change” button, whichwill open the pull down list again.

Once a target keyboard has been identified, action buttons will appear that will give youaccess to the following tasks:

1. 

Loading an existing registration bank for editing or conversion

2.  Open the Registration Builder to create new banks from existing banks

3.  Editing a registration (if “Empty” button line will create a new registration – seeMy Registration for more information)

4.  Write/Convert Registration bank – (when the editor is empty will create an empty

registration file for the target keyboard).5.

 

Perform a Bank Conversion where all the registration banks in a folder are

converted to the target keyboard – see Bank Conversion for more information.

6.  Delete a bank from the computer files.7.

 

Find / Replace text values in registration banks (Registration Name, Custom

styles, Custom multipads, MIDI Song names, Audio Files and Text Files).

8. 

Create reports of the button contents of one or more registration banks containedin a folder.

Note: If you hold the mouse pointer over any of the buttons or areas, a short note of the

task will be shown.

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Load a Registration Bank:

To load a registration bank for editing, or individual bank conversion, click the “Load

Registration Bank” button. An Open dialog box will appear to select the registration filefor editing. Only files with the type “RGT” will be shown. Select the file and click on

“Open”. The source keyboard name will be shown above the target keyboard when abank has been opened. Once a bank is loaded, an additional button will be available to

duplicate / remove settings from the bank, see “Duplicate / Remove Settings”.

The individual buttons will show the name currently assigned to the button. The name

“NewRegist” on a line is the default name assigned on the keyboard if the user didn’tchange the name of the button, and doesn’t indicate that it’s an available button.

“Empty” means that there is nothing in the button. A blank line contains a registration, as

some registration files have been saved without having a “Registration Name”. Clickingon an “Empty” line will add command buttons to “Copy External Registration”. If there

are “Empty” lines in the bank, clicking on an existing registration will add a button to

“Copy A Registration”, which will duplicate the highlighted button in the first “Empty”

button. Clicking on an existing registration will also add a button to view the Groupssaved in the registration.

Create My Registration:

On your keyboard, setup one button to contain your preferred settings that can later be

used by the Bank Editor program for creating new registration buttons and for theDuplicate / Remove settings to add new groups to an existing registration. Be sure that

all the group check boxes are checked when memorizing the settings to this button, so

that all sections of the registration file will be available in your registration. Once this

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bank has been loaded to the program, click on the line containing the registration you

want to use as My Registration. A button will appear “Make My Registration Settings”,when clicked will open the Registration Editor. You can change any of the parameters

before saving. After saving, this registration will be available to create new banks from

scratch for any target keyboard, and can be used to add missing groups to existing

registrations.

After My Registration has been saved, a new button “Edit My Registration Settings” willappear. You can use this to adjust the default settings at any time for future use. The

“Make My Registration” button will still be available to overwrite the current button file

if you want to change its contents.

This only needs to be done once when the program is first set up. A loaded registration

looks like this:

Create A New Registration:

If the registration bank is totally empty, (all buttons are “Empty” at start up, or the

command button “Clear All Registration Buttons” has been clicked, or there are “Empty”

registration buttons), clicking on an “Empty” line and then the command button “EditRegistration” will load the My Registration file previously created into the Registration

Editor. Update the Registration Name, and change settings as necessary and “Save” to

finish adding a new registration button.

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Copy An External Registration:

Copy External Registration lets you copy a button from another registration bank into the

button number selected either adding to the bank or replacing an existing registrationbutton. Click on a registration button line. A yellow button “Copy External

Registration” will appear. Clicking this will open a file selection box. Navigate to thebank that contains the registration to be copied and click open. A box will appear

showing the names of the registrations contained in the selected bank. Click on the

registration to be copied and click “Commit”, which will input the external registration tothe bank currently in memory. This registration can be edited by selecting it and using

“Edit Registration”. Only one registration button can be copied at a time. Repeat this

process to copy additional registration buttons - see Registration Builder for copying

from multiple banks. Note: A Tyros 1 registration cannot be copied into other targetkeyboards.

. Copy (duplicate) A Registration:

If there is an “Empty” button line in the registration bank, any other registration button

line can be copied to the first “Empty” button location. There must be one validregistration button to copy. If the bank is empty, create a new registration button using

one of the methods noted above, and then copy it to the other buttons. Edit each button

as necessary. This is useful when the registration bank represents one song and each

button is a variation during the performance, thus button 1 could be the base, copied tothe other buttons and adjusted.

Groups:

When a registration line is clicked, a “Groups” button will appear below the box. The

“Groups” button will open a small read only window in the lower screen showing thegroups that appear to be saved in the selected registration. This reports what is actually

in the registration file and does not necessarily reflect the groups that were checked when

the registration was saved. For instance, MIDI Song could have been checked, but if no

song was present there is no section in the registration file.

Delete A Registration Button From The Edited Bank:

Click on the line containing the registration to be deleted. A command button will appear

“Delete Registration”, once clicked a confirmation will be asked before removing the

registration from the bank.

Move Buttons:

Registration buttons can be rearranged within a bank by clicking on the registration line

to be moved and then using the move-up or move-down buttons to change the button

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arrangement for the registration. The select none button removes highlighting from the

selection box.

Registration Sequence:

If a registration bank that is opened through “Load Registration Bank” contains aregistration sequence, the sequence will be shown in a text box near the bottom of the

screen.

If the file doesn’t contain a registration sequence, there is an “Add Reg Sequence” button

to provide input of a new sequence. A sequence means a number order other than 1, 2, 3,4…etc. The sequence can be any arrangement of the eight buttons such as

15321542…etc. A sequence can be up to 30 button selections long.

The text box will only accept the numbers 1 through 8 in any order. No changes aremade to the Registration Bank file until the “Update” button is pressed, which updates

the temporary work area only.

Registration Builder:

This feature lets you build registration banks from existing banks. When clicked, a workarea will open to hold the bank file names and button contents.

To add banks to the work area, click “Add Banks”. A file selection box will open.

Navigate to the folder containing your registration banks and highlight one or more banks

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to be opened in the work area. Multiple banks can be added at a time using the Ctl/Click

or Shift/Click windows process. Banks can be added to the work area from differentfolders with the “Add Banks” command button. Up to 50 banks can be opened in the

work area at one time. If the target keyboard is Tyros1, any keyboard registration can be

opened in the Builder, however if the target keyboard is any other one, Tyros 1

registrations will not open in the Builder.

The work area will show the bank file name, the source keyboard type, followed by thevalid buttons within that bank for each file that is opened. Some file names may be

shortened to fit the window.

Selecting a line in the Registration Organizer work area to be copied to the Registration

Edit, will add two buttons: “Copy Reg” that will copy the selected registration into the

first available (“Empty”) button or to replace the contents of the button highlighted in the

Registration Edit area. Copied registrations can be edited and further copied within theRegistration Editor window. In the example above, button 6 in the Builder will be copied

into button 5, as it has been selected.

Registrations can be copied until all 8 buttons have been filled. You can save the new

bank at anytime by clicking “Write Registration Bank”. Writing the bank will clear the

Registration Edit area, leaving the Registration Organizer in tact. Writing a bank createdfrom the Registration Organizer will invoke the bank conversion routine if any source

keyboard is different from the target keyboard; see Write/Convert Registration Bank

below.

“Copy Settings” can be used when existing registrations are highlighted in both the editor

window and the builder window. When clicked, “Copy Settings” will open an additional

window to select the settings to be copied from the selected source registration, to thebutton highlighted in the registration editor.

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Settings that can be copied are:

Styles (Only existing panel styles in both source and target registrations can be

copied, custom styles can’t be copied at this time. Styles will not be available if Tyros 1and a different keyboard registration are involved. )

Style Attributes, meaning settings for intro, variation, style and left split point,chord fingering and style sync.

Voice Data for available voices

To copy style and style attribute settings, click on the check boxes. For voice settings,

first select a checkbox for a target voice, a selection of “From” box settings will be

shown – choose the “from” setting to be copied. Select another check box and “from”

settings or click “Process” to copy the settings. “Exit” will abandon the copy process.

To clear the Registration Organizer work area, click the “Clear Banks” command button,which clears both the Registration Edit and Registration Organizer areas. If there areunsaved changes, you will be reminded.

“Change” Target Keyboard

You can change the target keyboard at any time by clicking the “Change” button beside

the target keyboard name. This can be done while there are registration buttons in eitherthe editor section or the registration builder. However, if the target keyboard is changed

from Tyros 1 to any other keyboard, when “Select” is clicked both the editor and builder

will close, due to compatibility problems. If there are unsaved changes you will beprompted before these windows are closed.

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Edit A Registration:

A registration file must be loaded before editing can take place – see “Load a

Registration Bank”. Click on the button line containing the registration to be edited.

Click the “Edit Registration” command button to enter the settings editor. All the

parameters that can be changed are presented. After making changes, click the “Save”button to update the registration, or “Exit” to dump the changes.

If sections of the registration file are missing they will be grayed out with a message that

the section is unavailable. For the Tyros series, provision has been made to add Right 3

voice if the voice is not in the registration file. Other missing sections can be added from

the My Registration file by choosing “Add Group(s)” in the “Duplicator” box in thelower right corner of the edit screen and clicking “Process”, See Duplicator for more

information. If the option “Add Group(s)” does not appear it is because there is no My

Registration file available, see Create My Registration for more information.

Keyboards after Tyros 4 have information available on the source location of the voice

and a message will appear if this data is found in the registration file. The additionalinformation can be viewed by clicking each voice “Change” button.

Song, Audio, Custom Style and Multipad path names can be changed using the edit

button. Remember that editing a path cannot be verified via the computer, and thekeyboard will not indicate that the path contained in the registration is incorrect. Care is

needed in changing custom path names.

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Song, Audio, Custom Style and Multipad path names can be added using the “Add

…File” button. Remember that adding a path cannot be verified via the computer, andthe keyboard will not indicate that the path contained in the registration is incorrect. Care

is needed in adding custom path names.

Styles:Any panel style can be changed to any other panel style. Styles can be accessed by name;

by clicking the down arrow in the style box and typing the beginning of the name, clickon the chosen style name with the mouse. The “Select” button must be clicked for the

highlighted style to be entered it in the registration. Style selection can be filtered to

groups of styles, by selecting the group from the drop down box and clicking “Filter”. Acustom style can be replaced with any panel style that is available on the target keyboard.

Styles contained in a registration are evaluated relative to the target keyboard. If the

registration is calling for a style that’s not available on the target keyboard, the message

“Style not on…keyboard name” will be shown in the Standard Styles box. Clicking thebutton “What Style Name” will show the name of the source keyboard style, so that you

can select a similar style that is available on the target keyboard.

Voices: “Change”

The message “Not a …keyboard name…Panel Voice” will appear when a voice code inthe registration is not found as a panel voice on the target keyboard. The name of the

missing voice can be found by clicking the “Change” button to open the Voice selection

screen. The voice codes and name will appear at the bottom for a missing voice. Choose

a voice and click save to replace the “Not on keyboard” message.

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In the above example, the voice came from a Tyros 4 keyboard, so a Voice Location

description was available. The “D:/” indicates that the voice was a standard panel voice,however if the voice had been sourced from the hard drive, the description would be

“E:/…” or from a USB it would be “I:/…”. This data will be available for keyboards

after Tyros 4 only.

A message under codes of “Voice Not Found” means that the voice is neither a panel

voice, legacy voice nor a GM or XG voice on any of the covered arranger keyboards.

Voices can also be filtered to the same groupings as the keyboard by selecting the group

in the drop down box and clicking filter. The above example has been filtered to “Piano”.Voices can be changed to any of the other standard or legacy voices, however, custom,

GM and XG voices will show as custom voice and can only be changed to a standard

voice, but not a different custom, GM or XG voice.

Voices: “Edit”Clicking the “Voice Edit” button on a voice line will open a detailed edit of the voiceparameters. Any of these parameters can be altered to customize the voice for the

registration button being edited. This feature is available for advanced users.

Voices: “Flutes”

When the voice is set to Organ Flutes, the flute values can be viewed or altered by

clicking the “Flutes” button. This button (orange) is only shown when the voice is Organ

Flutes. Flutes footage values can be changed between 0 and 8, along with the othercontrols for flutes. Voice Edit will open the editor (noted above) to view and/or change

detailed settings.

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Multipads:

The message “Multipad not on…keyboard name” means that the multipad code in theregistration is not available on the target keyboard. Clicking “What Pad Name” will

reveal the name of the multipad of the source keyboard, so that you can select a similar

available multipad for the target keyboard. If the pad in the source registration is acustom pad, the file path of the custom pad is shown. Custom multipads can be replaced

by standard pads by choosing the pad name and clicking “Select”. If multipad sync/start

is available for the target keyboard a box is provided to pick the pads to start. PSR3000,Tyros1, S700 and S900 do not have multipad sync/start available. If the target keyboard

can use sync/start and the registration file lacks this feature, a button “Add Sync” is

available to add it to the file.

Foot Pedal:

If foot pedal data is included in the registration, values assigned to each pedal can be

changed. First select the radio button for the pedal to be viewed or changed, locate thefunction to be assigned to the pedal, and then click “Select”. If the function is “Volume”

a table of assignable locations will appear with the default as all checked. Adjust the

assignments as necessary and click “Ok”. Functions that effect voices will also raise thetable to select the assigned parts. The “Save” and “Duplicate” buttons are disabled until

the “Ok” on this feature has been clicked. No assignable locations will appear for other

foot pedal functions. Some functions in the list may not be available on your keyboard,

refer to your owners manual for available functions.

Duplicator:

The “Duplicator” box in the lower right hand portion of the edit screen can be used tocopy the settings of this registration to one or more other registrations in the open bank,

or to add or remove groups from the edited registration. If the radio button “Duplicate

Settings” is chosen, the registration will be automatically saved and the editor closedwhen the duplication is finished. If the “Add” or “Remove” radio button is used, control

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will return to the editor once the addition or deletion of groups is complete. See

“Duplicator” for details on the use of the duplicator program.

Saving Changes:

Changes made to any of the parameters on the edit screen are not immediately saved in

the registration button, except as noted under “Duplicator”. To update the registrationbutton, you must click the “Save” button. Clicking “Exit” will discard any changes made

during the edit. There is no warning about unsaved changes when you click “Exit”, it isassumed that you only wanted to view the registration.

Notes on “Not on Keyboard”

Tables of available styles, voices and multipads were complied from the Yamaha Data

Lists for each of the target keyboards. If the style, voice or multipad codes contained in

the registration are not found in these tables, the message “Not a xxx KeyboardStyle/Voice/Multipad” will be shown. Despite this message, you may find that the

keyboard will in fact find a style or a voice, and there appears to be no firm rule on this.Experimentation is the only way to truly reveal the availability of styles, voices andmultipads.

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Duplicate / Remove Settings from a Bank:

The “Duplicate / Remove Bank Settings” button provides a means to copy settings from a

registration button to one or more other available buttons in the registration bank, or to

copy certain settings to all registration buttons within a directory (See Directory

Duplication below). When clicked, a screen will open providing access to the duplication / removal process.

Duplication:First select the button number to be duplicated; selecting “OK” will show the registration

name and will update the “Settings to Duplicate” box to what is available in thatregistration to be copied. Once a “From” button has been selected and “Ok’d”, the“Duplicate Settings To” box will be available. You can select one or more “To” buttons

for copying the settings, once the “OK” button next to this box is clicked, both the

“From” and “To” selections will be locked. The “From” selection can be changed beforethe “To” section has been locked, except when duplicating from the editor.

The settings to duplicate will change to show only the data choices that are available forduplication on the button selected when the “From OK” button is clicked.

In “Settings to Duplicate”, choose one or more parts to copy settings. If “Style” is

selected, only the style code or custom style is duplicated, the other parts of style control,“Split Points” through “Sync Code” are only duplicated when they are selected. If any

of the six style related boxes are checked, and the “To” registration doesn’t contain a

style, it will be copied from the From registration. Clicking “Duplicate Settings” willprocess the copy choices to all the “Duplicate Settings To” buttons selected and close the

window.

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If there is a mix of Tyros 1 and other registrations, incompatible settings (style and

multipad) will be removed from the “Settings to Duplicate” section of the screen.

Add Settings: 

This feature is used to add Groups to an existing registration when the group is missingfrom the registration because it was not saved on the keyboard. An “Add Settings” radio

button will be available when a My Registration file is available. If My Registration fileis not available, this option will not been shown. Once “OK” is clicked on the Duplicate

Button section, the “Settings to Duplicate” will be updated to the values that can be

copied into the selected “Duplicate To” buttons. This feature will only insert values fromthe My Registrations file when the selected value is missing from the target file. Add

settings will not replace existing values in the selected target. To replace settings in

target registrations you need to select an existing registration button within the bank.

Remove Settings:Select the “Remove Settings” button and click “Ok”, this will lock out the source box,and will update the “Settings Box” to the sections of the registration file that can be

removed. Select the buttons to be affected by the removal and click “Ok”.

In “Settings to Remove” check the parts of the registration file to be erased. Checking

“Registration Name” will reset the registration name to “NewRegist”. Selecting “Style”

will remove the style and left voice from the registration file. Selecting “Voices” will

only remove the right voices from the file. All other selections will erase the portion ofthe registration file that has been chosen.

The above operations can only be done to registrations that already exist in the bank, andwhere registrations are “Empty” the radio buttons in the “From” area and check boxes in

the “To” area will be unavailable.

Duplicator – from the Registration Editor When the “Duplicator” is accessed from the registration editor, the “From” button will

automatically be selected when the duplicate option is chosen, and the “To” buttons willbe available for duplication. When either add or remove options are selected, both the

“From” and “To” buttons will be set to the button that is being edited.

Directory Duplication: Settings of a registration that is being edited or the settings of a selected registration canbe duplicated to all of the registration buttons of the banks contained in a directory.

There is no need to select a “To” button, because the value(s) will be copied to every

button in the target directory. When “OK” is clicked on the “To” line, a button willappear “Directory Duplicate Setup”. Choose the value(s) to be copied to all buttons in

the directory and click this button. The program will not copy certain settings, and this

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setup will evaluate the selections you have made, and when valid selections are made, a

button “Duplicate Directory” will appear. Clicking this button will open Browse Folderscreen to select the directory to be updated. Once selected, you will be asked to confirm

the update. Duplicated banks will be placed in a directory of the same name with

(Modified) appended to the name.

The example below shows the values that can be duplicated across all banks and

registration buttons in a directory.

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Find / Replace: 

This feature allows you to search the text values in registrations or registration

banks, and report where the search value was found, or replace the search value with

different text. You can also use this feature to change the storage code location for

custom files, say from USB “I:/” to hard disk “E:/”.

There are two modes of operation either covering the open bank being edited, or on adirectory of banks. If a bank is open in the editor, “Find / Replace” will search and/or

replace values in the open bank. If no bank is open in the editor, all lines are “Empty”

the feature operates on a directory of banks.

Open Bank Feature:

When you first enter the open bank Find / Replace, the first selection is the type of

operation you plan, “Text Change or Search” or the “Change of Storage Location

Codes”.

Choosing any of the available change of location codes will open a selection box to

identify what sections of the registration are to be changed. After selecting the sections tobe changed, click “Update Banks” to process the change.

Choosing “Text Change or Search” will open a text box to enter the text value to befound, click “OK” to set the text, and open the selection of areas to be searched. In the

example above, the value “:/” will search for every instance of a link to an external file in

the registration.

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To replace text, enter the text to be found and click “OK”, enter the text to replace this

value and click “OK”. Select the sections of the registration to be updated and click“Update Bank”.

In the example below the value “hdr.root” is replaced with the value “Audio” only in the

section of the registration dealing with audio files. This way you can move the audiofiles from the hdr.root directory to the audio directory without breaking the link in the

registration file.

Each operation of the Find / Replace routine will produce a report of data found or datareplaced during the operation. The report can be saved to a file or printed. The “Restart”button will clear the process back to the point of entering the program to complete further

searches or replacement on the bank.

Directory Feature:

When all lines in the registration editor are “Empty”, clicking the “Find / Replace” button

will enter the directory feature. This feature is similar to the Open Bank, except when theprogram is opened, you are asked for the “Source Directory”. Clicking “Select” will

open a “Browse for Folder” box to navigate to the directory to be searched or changed.

Once you have selected the source directory, you have the option of selecting or creating

a target directory for output, or to proceed directly with a search. The search option

works the same as open bank.

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In the example above, the Source Directory is searched for the value “:/” in the sections

Style and Multipad, with the result of 32 instances found.

If you click “Select” for the Target Directory, the program expects that you are about to

do a find and replace values in the banks of the directory. The process is the same asOpen Bank where you choose either a Text Replace or Storage Location update. The

process is the same as Open Bank, and in the example below the text value “demo reg +

mpad” has been replaced in every instance with the value “World of Dance” in two banks

that were in the directory “Atest”.

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Write Registration Bank:

Changes saved from “Edit Registration”, or actions of “Copy A Registration”, “Copy

External Registration”, “Delete Registration”, “Duplicate / Remove Bank Settings” and

“Move Registrations” are performed on temporary files. Nothing is updated until

“Write/Convert Registration Bank” command button is clicked.

The default name for the registration bank is the original bank being edited, so eitheroverwrite it or enter a new name to create a new bank. The program uses the S917 icon

on new registration files.

If the input keyboard does not equal the target keyboard or if the registrations were

copied in from a different keyboard, the registration conversion process will activate.

Select a different style/left voice split point if necessary with Other Note available in the

range F#2 through C3. “Don’t change”, will leave the current setting for the split point.Select the expected location of custom styles, multipads and songs. If you’re sure that the

source keyboard and target keyboard custom files are on the same device, leave as “Don’tChange”, otherwise select the location where you are storing custom files.

Click “Convert Bank” to analyze the conversion. A listing of the buttons, problems and

warnings will be shown. A problem means that a style, voice or multipad is not on thetarget keyboard data table and that part of the registration may not load correctly. A

warning highlights that a custom file is expected in the location specified in the listing.

The report created by the conversion can be “Saved” or “Printed”. If saved, the defaultname of the report is “Audit.txt”, this name and location for saving of the report can be

changed.

If there are problems in the conversion, you can “Abort Conversion” and use the editor to

change the style, voice or multipad to one that is available on the target keyboard.

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If there are no problems, selecting “Save Conversion” will write the registration bank to aname and location of your choice.

If the input and target keyboards are the same, “Write/Convert” will go directly to file

save routine.

Bank Conversion:

Bank conversion allows you to convert multiple registrations in a batch mode. All theregistration files contained in a directory (one level) can be converted this way:

Any input keyboard (except Tyros 1) can be converted to:

Tyros 5; Tyros 4; Tyros 3; Tyros 2; Tyros 1

PSR S700; PSR S710; PSR S750PSR S900; PSR S910; PSR S950PSR3000

Tyros 1 registration files need to be converted to Tyros 2 using the Yamaha conversionprogram to update the style and multipad numbers that are used by the keyboards listed

above. Registrations from any of the above keyboards can be converted to Tyros 1

because the style numbers and multipads are modified by the program to the appropriate

Tyros 1 codes.

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Select the source directory containing the registrations to be converted. Select a target

directory to store the converted registrations. You cannot select the source directory asthe target as the files will be overwritten with the converted registrations. A new

directory can be created when selecting the target directory.

Select a different style/left voice split point if necessary with Other Note available in therange F#2 through C3. “Don’t change”, will leave the current setting for the split point.

Select the expected location of custom styles, multipads and songs. If you’re sure that thesource keyboard and target keyboard custom files are on the same device, leave as “Don’t

Change, otherwise select the location where you are storing custom files.

Click “Convert Banks” to process the conversion. A listing of the registration files, from

and to keyboards, buttons, problems and warnings will be shown. A problem means that

a style, voice or multipad is not on the target keyboard data table and that part of the

registration may not load correctly. A warning highlights that a custom file is required inthe location specified in the listing.

The report created by the conversion can be “Saved” or “Printed”. If saved, the defaultname of the report is “Audit.txt”, this name and location for saving of the report can be

changed.

In batch processing of registrations, target keyboard files will be created even tough there

are “problems” noted.

Delete A Registration Bank: An entire bank can be deleted from within the program by using the “Delete A Bank”

command button. This is useful to rid unneeded banks.

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Report Generator:

The report generator will create a text file report of the contents of registration banks

contained in a directory.

Bank name, button number and registration name is the minimum report format.

Optional inclusions in the report are style data, style control, voice, multipad data, voice

effects, harmony, foot pedals, file paths for MIDI Song, Audio and Text, and the name ofthe input keyboard. All options can be selected using the Select All box.

Fields in the report include, when all options are checked:

File/Bank Name

Button NumberRegistration Name

Style Name

TempoIntro or Fill Code

Variation Code

Sync Status

FingeringACMP Status

Style Split Point

Right 1 Voice NameStatus (On/Off)

Volume

Right 2 Voice Name

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Status (On/Off)

VolumeFor Tyros keyboards

Right 3 Voice Name

Status (On/Off)

VolumeSplit Point

Left Voice NameStatus (On/Off)

Volume

Left HoldLeft Split Point

Multipad Name

Multipad Volume

Touch On/OffSustain On/Off

Upper OctaveKeyboard TransposeHarmony

Status On/Off

VolumeFoot Pedal Assignments

MIDI Song file

Audio file

Text fileInput Keyboard Name

There is no viewing of the report within the registration manager program at this time, theprepared report must be saved using the “Save” button. The report, (output as default

name “Audit Report.txt”) is a tab delimited file that is best viewed by importing the file

into a spreadsheet program such as Excel.

To import the report, open a worksheet in Microsoft Excel and select Data and depending

on the version of Excel, select Import External Data, or in current versions From Text.

Navigate to the Audit Report.txt, click Import, the file is delimited so click Next, the

default is Tab, click Finish, the default location is A1 and click OK.

Enjoy!

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User's Agreement

By installing this software, the user signifies agreement with the following:

The author, Murray A Best, copyrights this software with all rights reserved. The author

retains all title and intellectual property rights.

No warranty is made regarding the suitability of this software for any application, or that

operation will be uninterrupted, or error free. The author is not responsible for problems that

result from installing or operating this software, and shall in no case be liable for special,

incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages arising howsoever.

The user agrees not to make changes or modifications to the software and not to decompile,

disassemble, or otherwise reverse engineer the software.

The software is provided free for private, non-commercial use. The user agrees not to sell

this software or bundle it with other software for commercial enterprise, without the express

written consent of the author.

The software may be distributed to other users as provided above as long as all components,including this agreement, are included.

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the author and the user, and may be

modified only by written agreement between the parties.