Just wondering about your opinion..

1)Which keyboard has the best preset styles.
2)Which keyboard has the best 3rd party/ user styles available.


I know its probably been discussed before but no recently...and there recently was someone asking to start endless discussions like this one because he was bored...

Roland Arrangers have very good Factorystyles and there is a large number of Userstyles.
Free userstyles made by Style Factory The Hoxophone and by Mart Weeho are in a large number available at the Danish Roland Arranger Forum. http://roland=arranger.com
Which styles are the best is a matter of taste.
Depending of what you like to play.

1. Is down to Personal taste, so there can be no definite answer.
2. Is easy to answer, its Wersi, as no other manufacture has the amount of directly playable styles available to them.

Offcourse its a matter of personall taste...

Untill now i heard everyone say that roland styles are not that good, but then the first reaction just says Roland styles are superbe..

And about the "Best" 3rd party styles .....saying that Wersi has "Most" styles doesn't automatically make them the best, does it?

Hi Bachus
Comparing Yamaha and Roland styles, I would take the Roland over the Yamaha any day of the week.
BTW It’s more fun using Smilies rather then saying what you mean. (Details are on the left when you post)

Bill

Korg styles are rich and well thought out. 3rd party Korg styles are limited.

Hi,
I've always wondered, does a singer who uses the styles as backing for their voice, have a different criterior to a person who plays keyboard melody plus styles ie
I've found some styles seem a bit too busy to play along to, wheras for a singer , is a fuller arrangement better?? ( obviously I don't sing, or I wouldn't ask such a dumb question)


Wonder if that's why we may get such differing veiws on styles???

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bachus:
[B]Just wondering about your opinion..

1)Which keyboard has the best preset styles.
2)Which keyboard has the best 3rd party/ user styles available.




[This message has been edited by rikkisbears (edited 05-08-2008).]

1. i'd say ROLAND
2. could be YAMAHA

#1 is easy... whatever arranger each one of us personally plays. Who on earth would buy an arranger that they DIDN'T think had the best on board styles?

#2 is harder. It depends on WHAT third party styles you needed... (if the internal styles didn't already cover what you need - negating the need for #2 )

Why not add fuel to the fire... how about some topics like

Who is the best player here?
Who has the best PA?
Who has the best gig?
Who prefers to use style mode ONLY?
Who doesn't like to have anyone here listen to their music?

That ought to keep us occupied for a while...

I recently did some research after Korg...

And i think they have some decent internall styles.... But currently korg is lacking in support towards 3rd party developers. See this discussion While there where some very very nice things available for the PA1X pro...

Egerlaender style performance
more style demos

But then with the new compressed style format for PA800 and Pa2X and Korg keeping it to themselves there will be no third party styles created for these keyboards, hell you can't even use EMC to convert other manufactorers styles to Pa2X format...You can not even edit your own styles on a PC..

So i agree with this knowledge that Korg is offlimits for me... And i was seriously thinking of going for the PA2X just a couple of days ago... ((Which means i am still saving for a Wersi, or Roland should come with a nice 76 keyer that fits my taste))

I personally really like the onboard styles of Ketron and wersi....

Next to that i think that i think that 3rd party styles are all about the sound quallity of the keyboard and less about the style engine... And this is where Wersi shines as its sounds just better then most other keyboards.. (at 2,3 or 4 times their price level this was to be expected)