Is the G70 able to make styles out of midi files?

Tom

Style Converter
The G-70’s Style Converter is an easy and intuitive tool
for creating your own Music Styles based on one of
your own songs or a Standard MIDI File created by
someone else. In either case, it is enough to play back
the Standard MIDI File once to transfer its data into the
G-70’s song RAM memory where you can use the Style
Converter. You may want to edit the song before converting
parts of it into a Music Style. See “Editing one
or several tracks (TRACK EDIT)” on p. 165 and “GLOBAL
CHANGE” on p. 173 for details.
General considerations
Here are a few guidelines for converting song parts to a
Music Style:
• See “Concept” on p. 187 and “Looped vs. one-shot
patterns” on p. 187 for the different pattern types.
• The Music Style created using the Style Converter can
be used in Arranger mode (not in 16-track Sequencer
mode).
• Music Styles are accompaniment patterns. If the new
Style should be generally usable (i.e. for any song of a
given genre), try avoid chord changes in the “basic”
patterns (MAIN [1]~[4]). Remember that you can
transpose your Styles in realtime by playing different
chords in the chord recognition area. Also, it is usually
wiser not to include the melody in your conversion.
• Try to isolate the passages and parts that are really
typical of the song.
• Transitions, rolls, etc., should be converted to Fill-Ins.


Page 183 in the OS2 manual

For a really professional result, you will also have to
take advantage of the G-70’s Style Composer to
ensure that your new Style also “works” for minor
and seventh chords. See “Programming Styles (Style
Composer)” on p. 187.
• Though pattern length (and memory capacity) is no
issue, try to work in small but meaningful units.
Here’s an example: most songs rely on a structure
based on 4-measure blocks. Converting 6 measures is
thus a bit odd (though perfectly possible).
• Prepare a simple pattern for MAIN [1] and increasingly
complex accompaniments for the remaining
patterns.
• Always set the correct KEY (page 186). Only then will
the Style really work as expected when used with the
G-70’s Arranger.
• Your new Style resides in the G-70 Style RAM memory.
Do not forget to save it before selecting another
Style (in Arranger mode) or switching off the G-70.
Using the Style Converter
(1) Select and load a (different) song.
This is not necessary if you want to use the song you
have just recorded or played back. Otherwise, see
“Working with the Song Finder” on p. 146 (or
page 42) for how to load a song.
In any case, you should listen to it and try to isolate
the eight tracks whose parts should be included in
your new Music Style.
(2) Press the RECORDER [16-TRACK¥SEQUENCER] button.
The display changes to:
(3) Press the [STYLE¥CONVERTER] field in the right column.
(4) You may also have to press the [SETUP] button icon
to select the page shown above (if “CONVERT” is
currently active).
This page allows you to select the song tracks that
should become Style tracks. Remember that a song
may contain up to 16 tracks, while a Music Style
“only” provides eight.
The default assignments of song tracks to the Style
tracks (see the illustration above, last column in the
list) are made automatically. Though based on common
sense, they may not yield the desired accompaniment
pattern. As a rule, you should always listen
carefully.
(5) To correct one or several of the default assignments,
proceed as follows:
• Press one of the green fields to select the Style track.
Those are the tracks that make up your Music style to
be.
• Next, use the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial or the [DEC]/[INC]
buttons to select a song track in the list to the left.
Note: See “Arranger parts” on p. 78 if you’re not sure what the
abbreviations in the “Trk” fields stand for.
Note: If you assign several song tracks to the same Style track,
a bullet (“”) appears next to the Style track name in the table
to indicate that the Style track in question is already assigned
to another song track. (Though this is perfectly possible, the
result is usually not convincing.)
If necessary, press the [INIT¥VALUE] field to return to
the default assignments if that produces the best
result after all.
Auditioning the tracks
Press the [Jump≈to≈1st≈note] field to jump to the first
note of the selected song track (the one that appears
on a blue background). Playback starts automatically
from that point and you will hear all song tracks.
Press the RECORDER [PLAY÷STOP¥®÷ª] button to stop
playback (or to start it again).
Note: If the selected track contains no data at all, playback is
started from the very first song measure.
Muting tracks
Sometimes, it may be necessary to mute certain parts
so as to concentrate on what the other tracks do, and
to decide which tracks should be converted into a
Music Style. To do so, press the [MUTE] field and then
the lines of the song tracks you don’t want to hear.
Such tracks are flagged with an “M”.
Commercially available Standard MIDI Files are protected
by a copyright. Please note that the Style
Converter should only be used to create Music Styles