SFM Style Studio

For hardware playback, connect MIDI from the computer to the keyboard. For MIDI recording, also connect MIDI from the keyboard to the computer. A supported USB-MIDI connection may provide both directions; otherwise use a suitable MIDI interface. Audio is separate: listen through the keyboard audio outputs and your normal monitoring system.

1. Turn on the keyboard and connect it to the computer.
2. Click Recording… and choose the MIDI input that receives your performance.
3. Click MIDI output… and choose the output connected to the Yamaha instrument.
4. Check that the keyboard MIDI Receive settings accept the required channels.

For Genos system-effect control, allow System Exclusive messages. If MIDI activity is visible but there is no sound, check MIDI output, keyboard receive routing, selected sounds and audio monitoring.

Open Style: choose a Yamaha .STY file and select the section and Part to edit. Open project: use a .sfmstyle file to continue work with application-specific editing information. New: configure tempo, time signature, sections and bar lengths, then add notes, record MIDI or insert patterns from the Library.

The 15 section slots are Intro I–III, Main A–D, Fill A–D, Break and Ending I–III. A blank project still needs musical content, suitable Voice assignments and appropriate chord-conversion settings.

Each section contains Rhy1, Rhy2, Bass, Chord1, Chord2, Pad, Phrase1 and Phrase2. Select a section first, then choose its Part. M mutes, S solos and R arms a Part for recording; these audition controls do not delete notes.

In Editor, click notes to select them, drag horizontally for timing, vertically for pitch, or drag an edge for duration. Use + Add note or double-click to add notes; right-click to delete. GRID controls resolution, SNAP aligns supported edits, and the lower Velocity lane changes MIDI velocity. For playback, confirm MIDI output, set the yellow cursor, click Play, use Loop section when needed, and click Stop to finish.

1. Select the destination section.
2. Click R on the Part that should receive the recording.
3. Open Recording…, select MIDI input and a channel, or choose OMNI.
4. Set count-in and recording quantization, then place the yellow cursor.
5. Press Record, play, then press Stop.

The take records into the armed Part. Recording uses overdub, so new notes are added rather than replacing existing notes automatically. Recording stops at the section boundary; set section length before recording a longer take.

Click Mixer. With Apply to all sections enabled, changes target the corresponding Part across project sections; off applies only to the selected section. Enable Live Yamaha preview to send supported changes while editing.

Controls include Volume, Expression, Sustain, Chorus send, Reverb send, Filter Cutoff/Resonance and supported Part EQ. In Chorus / Reverb, choose a Genos Type, set Return, click Apply live to Genos, adjust each Part send level and audition. These operate Genos hardware effects, so always test the exported Style on the target keyboard.

Open Tools → Quantize, choose notes or the current Part, select size and Strength, then compare by listening. Fit to bars adjusts a phrase to a target span rather than quantizing timing.

Use Tools → Beat Repeat or Drum Roll on a rhythm Part. In Edit note effects, apply supported Modulation, Expression, Sustain, Resonance, Cutoff, Reverb or Chorus envelopes to selected notes. The Library scans a local Yamaha Style collection, lets you preview a pattern and replace selected Rhy1/Rhy2 Parts; save first because this replaces destination drum Parts.

Use Tools → Change voice or Voice properties to choose a catalog entry or set Bank MSB, Bank LSB and Program. Expansion Voices require matching expansion content on the keyboard; naming a Voice in the app does not install the sound. Use Tools → Chord rules (advanced) to inspect supported CASM settings. Keep existing rules for an imported working Style unless you understand the intended change.

Click Save to store the editable .sfmstyle master. Click Export STY, review validation information, export to a new .STY, then test sections, Voice/Drum assignments, levels, effects, chord response, transitions and endings on the target keyboard.

Version / Phiên bản: 1.9.15: Pan and Auto Pan editing are temporarily disabled while under development. Volume remains available and existing Pan data in Styles is preserved.

• No sound: check MIDI output, keyboard receive routing, notes in the section, Mute/Solo and audio connections.
• Wrong Voice: confirm Bank/Program values and required expansion content.
• Reverb/Chorus inactive: check Part send, global Type, Return, MIDI routing and SysEx reception.
• Duplicated notes: inspect existing overdub notes and duplicate MIDI routing.
• Export unavailable: check validation, compatible structure and license status.
• Wrong language: use ENG / VN.