Originally posted by Sander:
Interesting topic.
I own a Roland VA-7 and I am not always satisfied with the styles. Therefore I have to make my own styles sometimes which do not sound perfect most of the time, but make a song more realistic. It's the only way not to 'cheat' (using a SMF for instance is 'fake' in my opinion). A lot of styles that came with the VA-7 were too specific and then we had a way to long ending and sometimes also the same useless length on the intro. Then I found some converted styles (X1 to G1000) and loaded them into my keyboard. That was a pretty good and very welcome addition! It adjusted the balance a bit, unfortunately not everything was sounding that good, when talking about the styles (I left the 'old' styles on this issue).
As you may have noticed, I'm very critical about this issue, because I think that styles are very very important. I just can't play my entire repetoire with about 20 styles.
Kind regards,
Sander