Installing Musicsoft Downloader; Connecting A Personal Computer; Transferring Data Between The Psr-Vn300 And A Computer - Yamaha Portatone PSR-VN300 Service Manual

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TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN THE PSR-VN300 and a COMPUTER

The PSR-VN300 includes 110 preset Songs and 106 Styles, but you can load other Songs and Styles from your computer and
use them in the same way as the preset Songs and Styles as long as the loaded Song is SMF format 0* or the loaded Style is
SFF (Style File Format).
Loaded Song data will be stored to Song numbers beginning with 108 and one of the loaded style/s can be registered as the
107th style.
In order to perform the operations described in this section you will need to use a computer connected to the Internet to
download the free Musicsoft Downloader application.
* The SMF (Standard MIDI File) format is one of the most common and widely compatible sequence formats used for storing
sequence data. Most commercially available MIDI sequence data is provided in SMF Format 0.
G Installing Musicsoft Downloader
You can download the "Musicsoft Downloader" application from the following website. Make sure that your computer has an
Internet connection.
http://music.yamaha.com/download/
The minimum computer requirements for Musicsoft Downloader operation are as follows:
• OS : Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP Home Edition/XP Professional
• CPU : 233 MHz or higher; Intel® Pentium®/Celeron® processor family (500 MHz or more is recommended)
• Memory : 64 MB or more (256 MB or more is recommended)
• Hard Disk : at least 128 MB of free space (at least 512 MB of free space is recommended)
• Display : 800 x 600 HighColor (16-bit)
• Other : Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 5.5 or higher
• Visit the Yamaha website for more information on the latest version of Musicsoft Downloader (version 5.4.0
NOTE
or higher) and how to install it.
G Connecting a personal computer
After installing the Musicsoft Downloader application on your computer, connect the PSR-VN300 as described below.
A Yamaha UX16 or similar USB-MIDI interface (sold separately) will be necessary for MIDI connection between the PSR-
VN300 and a USB-equipped computer.
Make sure to purchase a Yamaha UX16 or a quality USB-MIDI interface at a musical instrument store, computer store or
electrical appliance store.
If you use the UX16 interface, install the driver supplied with the interface on your computer.
USB
A USB-MIDI interface
(such as the Yamaha UX16)
MIDI IN MIDI OUT
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