sam18
These are the symptoms you get when you load an SFF2 format style into the "E" series boards, which require SFF1 format styles. We had a rash of this between late November and Christmas, when a lot of folks were receiving "E" series boards as gifts. The larger PSR series boards have totally different symptoms. They just refuse to load the style, and give an error message. SFF2 styles started with the PSR-S910 and Tyros 3. A nice gentleman by the name of Jorgen Sorensen wrote an SFF2-to-SFF1 style format converter. He calls it
Style Format 2 Converter. You can download it from:
http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/software.htm
For the much older boards, I believe prior to the PSR-2000/2100, you need his
Style Old Format Converter, and if you have a lot of styles to check for format, he offers the
Style Format Finder. Jorgen puts a lot of time and work into his utilities, so please be kind. His work is shareware, not freeware. His utilites require either the Java or the Microsoft .Net Framework runtime programs. Read the entire description for any utility you want to download. It will tell which runtime program you need.