I wouldn’t have it any other way than creating styles.

Having my own styles created by myself with my playing/performance style and technique taken in to account is a competitive advantage for me.


When I play, I am not trying to sound like the recording of a song. Most of the performance, I try to sound like a 2-6 member band. As such, I don’t make my styles with a lot of instrumental style parts. I would use 3 of the 8 style parts for drums and percussions. A bass, one or two comping instruments make up the style parts. I almost never use all 8 style parts.

Any other sounds I would use with the left and right live keyboard parts.

With copy and paste, style creation is not as long and difficult as you think.

If you stick with a keyboard for about 6 months, and consistently set-aside time to develop styles, you would be surprised as to how quickly your style library would grow.

On paper, the mediastation seems to have one of the best style creation and performance feature set for an OMB.

Note, if you use a different style for each song you play, and you like to have lots of instruments playing at one time, then style creation would not be to your benefit.