StylePlayer
 Configure your sound source. StylePlayer will operate
(Color denotes program controls)
General Description
This program plays Yamaha Style Files Format #1 & #2
style files on a PC’s sound card or on a PSR or other midi
device (if the user has midi output), and permits
adjustment of the internal style volume. It offers the
following features:
Selection of Play characteristics. You can choose which
section (Main B, Main C, etc.) of the style to play, which
track(s) (Bass, Chord 1, etc.), if any, that you wish to mute,
reproduction of major or minor chord, or a single play or
continuous repeat. A PC volume control is provided for
adjusting the playback loudness from the PC’s sound card.
Transposition and other corrections. Style tracks are often
programmed in keys other than CMaj (e.g. Gbm7(b5) ) and
receive additional processing as specified by the Ctab
parameters when the style is loaded into and played on a
PSR. StylePlayer emulates this processing so that the
sound, especially when played via midi on a PSR, is very
similar.
For those that want to know more about what’s inside the
program, StylePlayer corrects for Source Chord/Chord
Type, Destination Track, Note High and Low Limit, and the
scale/chord tone rules for Bass/Phrase, and Chord/Pad.
Display of Stylename, Copyright, File Size, Tempo and
Time Signature. The Stylename is the name that is visible
in the instrument’s display. It is different from the
filename and often contains useful information about the
characteristics/intended use of the style. The copyright, if
any, is shown in the same box. These and the tempo and
time signature are for information only; they cannot be
changed.
Adjustment of Style volume. Some styles, especially those
converted from other instruments often sound too loud on
a PSR. Style Player includes a volume control that indicates
the average volume of the style and permits scaling the
volume controller events for all channels and all sections
simultaneously.
Adjustment of Style tempo. If desired, you can change the
tempo of the style.
Save to disk and Add to Floppy functions for making
copies of a style after auditioning and/or adjusting the
volume.
StylePlayer Operation
with any instrument or sound card that can play midi files.
However, it uses XG/panel voices and use with a PSR (via a
midi cable), or a Soft Synth with XG capability, or an
appropriate sound card is strongly recommended (see
below).
When an XG sound source is not used (and especially
when the GS Wavetable SW Synth is
selected), click the Player button to select GM
and force the Sub Rhythm part to play a drum
voice on channel 10. Note: StylePlayer will
remember your choice and use it whenever
you open the program.
Because styles played through a sound card offering the
standard General Midi (GM) voices will not sound like
what you will hear when the style is loaded on a PSR or
used with another XG sound source! The difference is
dramatic! Since the primary purpose of StylePlayer is to
audition PSR style files, how StylePlayer sounds should be
an important consideration.
 Select the style that you wish to play by clicking Open
Style in the menu bar, browsing and highlighting the
desired file. The path and name of the selected style will
display at the top of StylePlayer’s window and the internal
information such as tempo, time signature, etc. in the
captioned boxes.
Alternative methods for opening the program with a
selected style include dragging a file from Windows
Explorer to a StylePlayer desktop shortcut, or to the
StylePlayer window when it is open.
Alternatively, you can also double click on the filename in
Windows Explorer. The latter method requires that the
extension ‘sty’ be associated with StylePlayer. To do this,
in Windows Explorer, select View\Options (or Tools\
Options in XP) and then click the tab ‘File Types’. Click new
Type and under Description of Type put “Style Files” with
no quotes and under Associate Extension put “sty” with no
quotes. Click New and under Action put “Open” with no
quotes and under Application Used put “C:\Program Files\
StylePlayer\StylePlayer.exe” with no quotes. Click OK and
then Close and Close to exit the dialog.
 Initiate play by clicking on the Play button, or
depress the Enter key on your keyboard.
StylePlayer defaults to playing all tracks of the
style (“All Sections”). To select
other sections, click once on
the name in the Select Style
Section box, then click play, or
double click any section that
you wish to play. The highlighted description in
the Style Section always shows which section is playing or
that will play when the Play button is clicked.
To mute any track, uncheck the track
name in the Play Box by clicking on the
name or the checkbox. All checked
tracks will continue to play. Buttons
immediately below selection box allow
implementing “Uncheck All Channels”
and “Check All Channels” operations.
To adjust the playback volume when
using a sound source on the PC (e.g.
sound card or soft synth), using the left
mouse button, drag the PC Sound Source Volume Control.
 To adjust the volume settings in the stylefile itself,
using the left mouse button, drag the Style Volume
Control (left =softer; right
=louder), and then click on the
Set button. To restore the
styles original settings, click on
Restore. To preserve your
settings, you must save the
style. The position of the slider indicates the average
volume of the style. Factory styles generally have volumes
near mid scale. Average volumes greater than 2/3rd scale
will likely sound too loud in a PSR.
If the average volume is at minimum, it indicates that this
style does not have any volume controller events and the
volume cannot be adjusted by StylePlayer. Alternatively,
some styles may not have volume controller events for all
channels in all sections and hence only a portion of the
style may be adjusted. You can work around these
problems by adding a set of 16 mid scale volume events to
the style before any other events which may or may not
exist. To do this, click on the menu item
AddVolumeEvents, and Click OK.
Volume controller events may be viewed and individually
edited in the program MidiPlayer See:
http://www.svpworld.com/dnn/Software/Stylemanagerse
ries/MidiPlayer2byMichaelPBedesem/tabid/112/
Default.aspx.
 To adjust the tempo of the style double click on the
tempo and enter in a new value. Note: This
will adjust all tempos in the style to this
value. Some modern styles change tempos
in intros and endings. These differences will
be eliminated.
 Save a style to by clicking on the SaveStyle menu ites.
 Stop play. To terminate in the process of
an “all sections” or a single play, or to halt
when Repeat is On, click the Stop button or
depress the Enter key on your keyboard.
 Repeat Play. The Repeat option button provides either
for a single play (Off –default) or
continuous play (On). Repeat is not
available for “All Sections”.
 To exit the program, depress the Exit
menu item.
User's Agreement
By installing this software, the user signifies agreement with the
following:
The author, Michael P. Bedesem, 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.
The user is responsible for using this software legally and
in accordance with any copyrights that may pertain to
third party style files.
This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between
the author and the user, and may be modified only by
written agreement between the parties.
Communication & Support
Any questions, comments, suggestions for modifications or
improvements, or problem reports would be most
welcome. Please forward these to the author at
mpb@sover.net. John Vernon asked for the ability to plat T3 styles and was
the beta tester for this functionality.
Acknowledgements
Michael Bedesem
V1.5.6 8/06/09
StylePlayer is one of several programs in the StyleManager
Series that is intended to give users the ability to work
around common annoyances, overcome operating
discrepancies between instruments, or facilitate the
management of PSR Style and Registration files.

The corrections applied in order to make the style files

play properly on a PC would not have been possible
without the CASM section format compiled and largely
decoded by Jorgen Sorensen.

Bob Gelman has been very helpful in program testing and

it was in response to his suggestions that SoftSynth
compatibility was encouraged and the All Sections play
mode included.

Many people have requested that the display update

during “All Channels” to indicate the style currently being
reproduced. It was their insistent requests that stimulated
a revision that included Repeat, GM setup and Auto Check
functions. Their comments improved the program for all.

Frank Hand and Ronny Buermans gave V1.2.4 a close going

over and discovered behavior which the program, and it’s
users, will thankfully now be without.

With Version 1.2.8, special mention is made of Alexandre

Santa Clara who suggested the volume control, drag &
drop operation and file size display in addition to careful
review of the program’s operation.

Peter Wierzba also assisted in debugging the program, and

encouraged improvements to the Play/Stop operations,
the inclusion of drag & drop capability, and that the
program should remember the GM/XG setting.

Frank Hand has provided tireless assistance in the process

of tracking down problems which were difficult to
reproduce on the development system.

Jolibois Didier was not the first to identify the need to

modify a style’s volume so that it will play properly on a
PSR, but it was his request that encouraged me to add this
functionality to StylePlayer.

Michael Rath has made a number of useful comments and

suggestions. He requested functionality that led to the
Enter key being able to control the Play and Stop
operations.

Charles Walker requested the ability to alter tempos to

support a project he was working on. It was added in
V1.5.1.