Guides GENOS
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For more than a decade I have been building and developing styles and living the world of keyboards every day. Over the years, I have encountered almost every question, problem and point of confusion involving Yamaha keyboards. That is why I created a clear, structured series of guides, from the basics to advanced settings, with precise, accessible explanations so that you can understand, learn and feel fully in control of your keyboard.
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General settings
Exporting an info file from the keyboard to create samples suited to your specific keyboard.
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Downloads
Downloading, extracting and correctly copying styles and samples to a USB flash drive.
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Installations
Restoring a BUP backup file on the keyboard. The restoration includes everything in USER and the settings.
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Organization
Deleting styles frees up space and keeps folders organized.
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Organization
Copying styles, voices, registration banks or any other file between different folders or between USB and the internal memory.
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97
Installations
Transferring MIDI settings or just the effects, without installing a complete installation file.
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98
Organization
Renaming style, registration bank and recording files.
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General settings
Resetting the keyboard to factory settings without deleting files.
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Practical use
Maintaining a constant tempo when switching between styles while a style is playing.
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101
General settings
Changing or disabling the automatic shutdown time.
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General settings
The Split Point setting determines the last key used for automatic accompaniment on the left and the first key used for solo playing with the right hand.
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Explanations
Selecting the chord recognition method for the left hand.
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General settings
Creating a complete BUP backup containing styles, voices, settings and USER data for safekeeping or transfer to another keyboard.
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105
General settings
Determining what is heard when playing with the left hand while the style is off: accompaniment only, or bass and chord as well.
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General settings
The Pitch Bend Range setting determines how many tones the pitch rises or falls when you use the pitch bend wheel.
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Practical use
Connecting a sustain pedal to the keyboard and setting its function.
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Practical use
This setting determines whether the headphones work alone or alongside the audio outputs.
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109
General settings
Controlling the keyboard's touch sensitivity by changing the strength of its response to key presses, or disabling sensitivity completely.
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General settings
Determining whether the on/off state of accompaniment channels is retained when switching between styles.
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111
Getting to know the keyboard
Explanation of the Direct Access button.
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112
General settings
You can enter a personal name to be displayed automatically whenever the keyboard turns on.
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113
General settings
Setting a lock code to prevent unwanted use of the keyboard.
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General settings
You can control the metronome's volume and change the sound of the first beat to distinguish it from the others.
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General settings
Setting the keyboard's internal volume when the keyboard sounds quiet despite a high external volume setting.
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Practical use
Removes every effect from the voice so that it sounds completely dry.
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Practical use
Changing the octave in two ways: through the Voice settings or using UPPER OCTAVE.
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118
General settings
How to control the duration and response of the Fade In and Fade Out buttons on the keyboard.
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119
Practical use
Getting to know the built-in Arpeggio options for creating automatic strumming and playing patterns in a variety of styles.
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120
General settings
Controlling whether the touch sound heard when touching the keyboard screen is enabled or disabled.
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General settings
Adjusting the keyboard screen's brightness for clear, comfortable viewing while working.
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General settings
Adjusting the keyboard's small screen brightness for clear, comfortable viewing while working.
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General settings
Adjusting the brightness of the keyboard's button lights for convenient use and clear visibility while playing.
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General settings
Setting the animation effect when pressing and moving to the next step or screen on the keyboard.
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125
General settings
Setting how long pop-up windows remain visible on the screen.
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126
Practical use
Setting how sliders respond when changing values, including changing the value immediately or waiting until the slider reaches its current position.
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127
General settings
Calibrating the touchscreen to match presses more accurately and respond comfortably while using the keyboard.
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128
General settings
Setting up the keyboard's Wi-Fi connection to communicate with a computer and install samples directly from it.
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129
General settings
Setting up a Bluetooth connection to the keyboard to play audio wirelessly from external devices.
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130
Getting to know the keyboard
An option to turn on and change various voice settings on one screen.
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131
Tips
The Tyros keyboard can display a complete list of all chord types: an excellent learning tool for understanding chord structure and improving musical knowledge.
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General settings
Pedal setup: a general explanation of the useful options in the pedal settings.
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Organization
On the keyboard, you can save a voice in a registration bank together with a style, tempo and additional settings, so that everything loads automatically with the voice.
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Explanations
Enabling the FREEZE button and setting which data remains unchanged when switching between registration banks.
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Practical use
You can assign a voice for left-hand playing (Left), such as bass, and save the Bass Chord state together with the voice.
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Organization
Deleting voices from a registration bank to organize it or create a new bank.
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137
Practical use
All steps for working with the keyboard's recording system: starting, stopping and playing a recording, and renaming it.
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Practical use
Creating an organized playlist that allows several audio files to play continuously and switches between them automatically.
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139
Practical use
Routing each channel separately to the keyboard's audio outputs (L/R/1/2) for recording or a split connection to the sound system.
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Practical use
To get an authentic Middle Eastern sound, we enable the quarter-tone system and adapt it to the scale being played.
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General settings
A setting to display each sample's exact location in the software: LSB, MSB and Program values.
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Practical use
Allows you to set whether entry into a style includes a Fill or skips it, as needed.
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143
General settings
Resetting USER deletes all files and samples stored in it, leaving it completely empty.
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General settings
Completely resetting all personal data on the keyboard, including saved settings and user-defined effects.
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General settings
Setting fixed values that remain unchanged when switching between voices.
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146
General settings
Checking the firmware installed on the keyboard and displaying its version number.
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Downloads
Downloading the official firmware update file from the Yamaha website for the keyboard model, to install the latest version.
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148
Installations
Installing new firmware when the keyboard's version is out of date, for bug fixes and general improvements.
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149
Troubleshooting
Keeping the same style section — INTRO, A, B, etc. — when switching to another style, instead of automatically moving to a fixed section.
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General settings
Choosing what the Transpose button affects when you change key.
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Building and creating
Controlling, balancing and saving the volume of each voice (Right1, Right2, Right3, Left).
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General settings
After Touch changes the voice according to the pressure applied after playing a note.
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Practical use
Adapting the sliders to your personal needs for convenient, practical control of channel balance while playing.
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Practical use
Setting up a shortcut to quickly activate a custom Middle Eastern scale with a button press while playing, without opening the internal settings.
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Tips
Creating a playlist to switch neatly and conveniently between songs and styles in a predefined order.
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Downloads
Downloading Yamaha's official software for managing samples, voices and expansion packages.
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Installations
Combining samples and expansion packages into a CPI/PPI file for installation on the keyboard.
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Building and creating
Working with Yamaha Expansion Manager: loading samples, building packages and importing them to the keyboard.
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Building and creating
For the Motif to work in sync with the Tyros, appropriate MIDI settings are needed.
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Building and creating
In Voice Set, you can increase the voice's volume beyond the level shown in the external mixer.
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Building and creating
Explanation of Voice Set, the sound editing menu.
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Building and creating
Allows you to select an effect by category (reverb, delay, compressor and more) to suit the voice precisely.
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Building and creating
You can create a new Multi Pad from an external recording: a previously prepared wav file.
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Building and creating
With Multi Pad, you can create short loops to play alongside a style or additions to the style.
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Building and creating
Creating a new style on the keyboard and setting its initial data, switching between channels, deleting channels and deleting specific notes.
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Building and creating
Using Drum Setup to combine drum kits from different keyboards and set individual sound settings for each sample.
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Building and creating
For each channel, you can select a part from another existing style on the keyboard.
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Building and creating
Choosing voices when building styles and recording parts.
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Building and creating
At this stage, we learn to set parameters for each style channel and understand the meaning of the Play Root field.
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Building and creating
We understand what the NTR and NTT settings mean, how they work and what each option does in practice.
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Building and creating
The note range: setting High Key and Note Limit.
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Building and creating
This setting determines how notes behave when the chord changes.
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Building and creating
The Bar Copy and Bar Clear commands for duplicating or deleting bars.
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Building and creating
Adding movement and dynamics to a style while building it, such as PANPOT and more.
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Building and creating
Resetting data recorded in style parts, such as Expression, Brightness, Pan and more.
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Building and creating
You can align the strength of notes in a style by percentages to balance the dynamics and create a uniform velocity value across all notes.
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Building and creating
Building styles — Part 13 — EDIT — the Filter screen: controlling what appears in the editing screen
The Filter screen within the editing screen (EDIT), where you can control exactly which types of information are displayed.
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Building and creating
Each note is positioned by BAR, BEAT and CLOCK for maximum control over its timing.
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Building and creating
In Step Record, you can enter notes manually by length, pitch, volume and exact position.
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Building and creating
Additional editing options for notes and parameters in the EDIT screen.
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Building and creating
Smart control with Expression for changing dynamics.
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Building and creating
You can change the voice by changing the LSB, MSB and Program values, which determine the sample's location.
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Building and creating
DSP 1 and DSP 8/9 provide effects applied to the entire style or to specific channels within it.
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Building and creating
Adjusting channel volumes in a style to balance its different parts correctly: drums, bass, accompaniment and more.
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Installations
Installing external software that automatically balances all channels in a style.
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Building and creating
Increasing or decreasing the volume of the entire style at once through the software.
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12/05/2026 12:24 pm
You saved me with this guide. I was in the middle of a wedding and a fishbone got stuck in my little finger; I didn't know what to do. Yerucham the clarinet player referred me to you, and together we solved it in a few minutes. It was quick, helpful and amazing. A minute later, the groom came in and slipped on a banana. We both know that has nothing to do with either of us, but the sound of the sirens balanced perfectly with the style, which is an enormous wonder.
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12/05/2026 12:24 pm
You saved me with this guide. I was in the middle of a wedding and a fishbone got stuck in my little finger; I didn't know what to do. Yerucham the clarinet player referred me to you, and together we solved it in a few minutes. It was quick, helpful and amazing. A minute later, the groom came in and slipped on a banana. We both know that has nothing to do with either of us, but the sound of the sirens balanced perfectly with the style, which is an enormous wonder.
I used:
12/05/2026 12:24 pm
You saved me with this guide. I was in the middle of a wedding and a fishbone got stuck in my little finger; I didn't know what to do. Yerucham the clarinet player referred me to you, and together we solved it in a few minutes. It was quick, helpful and amazing. A minute later, the groom came in and slipped on a banana. We both know that has nothing to do with either of us, but the sound of the sirens balanced perfectly with the style, which is an enormous wonder.
I used:
12/05/2026 12:24 pm
You saved me with this guide. I was in the middle of a wedding and a fishbone got stuck in my little finger; I didn't know what to do. Yerucham the clarinet player referred me to you, and together we solved it in a few minutes. It was quick, helpful and amazing. A minute later, the groom came in and slipped on a banana. We both know that has nothing to do with either of us, but the sound of the sirens balanced perfectly with the style, which is an enormous wonder.