YAMAHA INTRODUCES POWER STYLES

BUENA PARK, CA (September 27, 2002)—Straight from the UK, Yamaha has introduced Power Styles, a line of new auto accompaniment patterns for Yamaha keyboards. Programmed by the same team of programmers who produced the superb styles built into Yamaha PSR keyboards and CVP-200 Series Clavinova Digital Pianos, Power Styles have been developed in direct response to requests from Yamaha customers.

Yamaha Introduces Power Styles

Power Styles are now available for users of the PSR-1000, 2000, 9000 and 9000Pro as well as the CVP-203, 205, 207 and 209 on the Yamaha Software site. The new patterns include "Pop Classics 1&2," "Latin," "Ballroom and Dance" and "Easy Listening." Customers can even audition each style before purchase, download them immediately afterwards—and be playing great new music with them in a matter of minutes.

Yamaha Music Interactive, Inc. General Manager Kevin Mitton explains, "Although Yamaha consistently talks to our customers to get their feedback and ascertain their musical requirements, it is, of course, difficult to include every genre and style of music within our keyboard auto accompaniment sections. This is particularly the case with the thousands of unique music styles all over the world - each often very important to particular regions."

To this end, additional styles have been programmed to try to suit local tastes, ranging from great new Latin styles to song-related styles paying homage to current hit chart sounds. Furthermore, in order to ensure the high quality standards Yamaha customers demand, several versions of each style have been made, so that the panel voices and other product-specific features on each keyboard compliment each other and take the music to an even higher level.

For more information or to start downloading now, visit www.yamahamusicsoft.com/power_styles/.