Originally posted by rikkisbears:
Hi Lucky,
excuse me for butting in, but I think AJ may be reffering to modern dance styles ie Techno , rap etc
On my SD1+ "Dance" is modern dance the Audya may differ? ,
Sounds to me like Technics type styles may have suited for the type of music you play. I had at least 20 foxtrots for my Technics keyboards, plus heaps of the other type styles you mentioned. Technote created dozens of style disks.
Technote, company that created Technic styles, actually ended up doing the same styles for Roland. Don't know how good they sound on Roland Keyboards, as I don't own one. I nearly did a Roland though, just to get the styles back & save me having to convert the ones I wanted.
best wishes
Rikki
Hi Rikki,
Yes…I did read AJ’s post again….he IS talking about modern dance styles.
This short dialogue we’ve had is starting to make me realize it’s also the dance styles that are problematic for me. I need really “dry” styles that I can build on during performance. I have a Roland E-300 which was very advanced for it’s day. It has very basic styles (but convincing) that I can start out with and then add 4 sets of “layers” of drum variations to the SAME basic beat. It works well for me.
The thing I have noticed over the years is that with each generation of keyboard styles, they HAVE to make a new pattern (you can’t sell a new keyboard with an old patch (dance style). And over the generations they lost sight of the basic dance style pattern. I found this noticeably so with the Fox Trot and “Tango’s.” I like tango’s and many other basic dances, particularly Latin. Ketron is still somewhat traditional, but I found the Korg to be bordering on overkill with their drum patterns.
I have hundreds of great dance styles for my Roland. Many I bought and many were downloaded from the Net. Also I have styles that fit one situation only…example: Beach Boys/Fun, Fun, Fun, Beatles/Michelle/ Yesterday, Jerry Lee Lewis/ Whole Lot of Shakin & Great Balls of Fire, etc. I would really miss all of these. When I get time I’m going to have to look into whether or not I can convert these styles fairly easy to a new keyboard format.
No one responded to my post about "who (or what country) makes up the drum patterns for the various keyboards." Or HOW they get made up. Do you have any ideas on this?
I wish I had the time to do proper keyboard shopping, but in the meantime no one has complained yet about my E-300!
Lucky
[This message has been edited by Lucky2Bhere (edited 04-23-2009).]