This weekend (Roughly Friday 25th June, 2010 5pm UK Time – Monday), the Yamaha Music Soft website will be having a 20% off sale on voices and voice packs for the Tyros3 keyboard, Premium Styles, MIDI songs and the new Digital Lesson Books.

Yamaha have also released two new videos demonstrating a couple of the Premium Styles on their official Yamaha Tyros3 Website. The styles include Piano Slow Shuffle and 80′s Pop Rock 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 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 Club Subscribers will now be receiving the latest edition of their United Kingdom based bi-monthly Magazine, which has been released recently and features various articles and guides that will aid you in the use of your Yamaha keyboard or digital piano.

The June/July edition of the Yamaha Club Magazine features news of ‘RS-3′, a new Regi-Stick for Tyros3 compiled by Yamaha demonstrator Richard Bower. There’s also another set of theatre organ samples, this time recorded directly from the Wurlitzer organ housed in Blackpool Tower’s famous ballroom. The latest magazine also includes all the regular favourites, with ‘hints & tips’ and ‘workshop’ pages – all contributed by top players, teachers and technicians.

For more information, visit their website:
> The Yamaha Club Magazine

Nearly a year ago, I played the Simon the Sorcerer theme on the Yamaha Tyros3 keyboard. Recently I taught myself another piece of gaming music nostalgia, this time from the classic puzzle game Lemmings. Using a bank of registration memory settings that I created, a Premium Style accompaniment, multipads, a range of voices and even a couple of Lemmings sound clips that I trigger with a foot pedal. I really hope you enjoy my latest performance.

Lemmings is a puzzle computer game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Psygnosis in 1991. Originally developed for the Commodore Amiga, Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time, and several games magazines praised the game, giving it some of their highest review scores at the time. The popularity of the game led to development of numerous ports to other systems, including most recently ports to the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 in 2006 and 2007, and the creation of several sequels.

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Yamaha have released a new firmware update (v1.10) for the PSR-S710 and PSR-S910 keyboards that adds many network features that didn’t exist before. Wireless encryption standards WPA and WPS are now supported (encryption is to protect your information over a wireless network, requiring a password to login to your home network). Also a selection of wireless lan adapters are now added to the supported list.

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