Patch Instrument Yamaha PSR-S900 and PSR-S700 for Cakewalk/Sonar

For a keyboard player who have a Yamaha keyboard PSR-S900/S700 well of course are familiar with voices from the keyboard instrument patch. This keyboard has advantages in that instrument patch has been labeled "Mega Voices" and also "Super Articulation Voices", which means the voices of these instruments is really almost like their originals. Using of these sounds can certainly add the harmonize and humanize impression on the song being played.

But unfortunately, the voices are not included into the category of General MIDI, so if you play the Standard MIDI Files on the keyboard, these voices will never be automatically selected to be played by the Standard MIDI Files. Moreover, for "Super Articulation Voices" is not recommended for your performance, but only for use on Song and Style on your keyboard. So what if you want to use the voices of "special" on MIDI files (Song) or also made your own style? If you are a user of Cakewalk (SONAR), then this page is the answer.

In Cakewalk, if you create a MIDI Channel, then you open the patch instrument, thus perform of the standard voices are included in the category of General MIDI. If you want the instrument patches are displayed on Cakewalk so that all the sounds found same as in keyboard Yamaha PSR-S900/S700, then you have to add the Cakewalk/SONAR Instrument Definition to your computer.

First you have to download the Cakewalk Instrument Definition Yamaha PSR-S900/S700. The file can be downloaded at here.

If you've downloaded the files, the next step you should do to stay to extract it from the zip file, and then import that file on your Cakewalk instrument patch. The steps are:

1. Click on Options, then select the Instrument.
2. Then will display Assign Instruments, select Define.
3. Then will display the Define Instruments and Names, select Import.
4. Import Instrument Definition (browse) to location where the Cakewalk Instrument Definition that you have downloaded, and select the file "yamaha_kbds_1.20", then Open. 
5. Then in Define Instruments and Names you will see several types of keyboard, select the S900 (if your users Yamaha PSR-S900) or S700 (if your users Yamaha PSR-S700), then click OK, then Close.
6. The display will return to the Assign Instruments, then block all output/Channels, and click on the column S900/S700 Uses Instrument, click OK.

If you've done all the steps as described above, so now you can display the sounds of  Yamaha PSR S900/S700 instruments in your Cakewalk (SONAR).