Style Manager is designed to be a universal tool regardless of what make and model keyboard you play. Consider it the universal application that allows the efforts of different arranger communities to be combined and beneficial to everyone.

Find every style from every make of keyboard under one single applications. Looking for a style, search the database of all makes of keyboards and even press play and listen to the style directly from within the program. Like what you hear, then export to your keyboard in the format your keyboard supports.



What do ya think ?

Regards
James

Good idea in theory. But what about searching for all the multiple Style TITLES stored in people's collections?

James,

How much £££

The search engine (find button) will search for whatever you type in but the Sort button is the one everyone is likely to use.

When you press it you can set 1 to 4 options (conditions) to sort the database content in a way that suites you best.

This will be better because not all 8 Beat Styles will be called 8 Beat.

Because of expected piracy I will release it as donationware. That way nobody can rip me off because I won't be charging a single cent for the program and anyone can access it for free.

Thank you James

James,

Great Idea !!!
I will get it as soon is available + some donations of course.

Great idea and worth a donation, no question about it.

James,

I take from this that some folks think that some KBs have better styles than others, your grahics appears to suggest that T1 has some better than Korg. Now if you had said T1 Ballad to Ketron format, but hell Korg Pa2x has some very very good styles.

It's a great idea James and will take off, good luck as if you need it Irish!!

Kind Regards

Tony

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Hi James,
what a great idea.
Please keep us posted.

best wishes
Rikki

Hi James,
Sounds good to me - will look forward to it.
Didn't know you were a computer software programmer too. Good luck with the project.
best Wishes,
Tony

Looks good... What formats will it support? Anything that plays Roland styles directly from the computer will be handy.

Am I right in presuming the user themselves imports the styles to it, and fills in all the fields? And are those source and destination fields merely data, or do you actually envision this actually doing the conversion (a la EMC)?

Donny's question is actually a good one, as people will often rename styles. Could there be a function that examines the styles' data, and when it finds identicalness (even under different names), it groups them together? Some sort of bit comparator or checksum comparison, I guess...?

Looks promising, but I'm still hazy on what it is likely to be for...

Hi Tony Hughes.



No don't read anything into what you currently see in the image I posted. The concept here is to merge all the work the different communities do into one big and ultimate pot fully of styles, and then to blur the boundaries of those different communities by making styles available in one format available in countless other formats.

Regards
James

James,
Superb...count me in and of course I will donate to the efforts...

Lee S.

Hi



This means that the software includes a style converter?
If so, good luck ;-)

Regards
Jørgen http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha

Not yet. Right now think of it like iTunes for styles where everything is free. A single searchable place to go for everything regardless of what keyboard you own. Style conversion will be on the back end of things through the web server but all this will take time to get up and running.

The dream would be that this program is so successful that I could afford to hire a dedicated server. If I had access to that I could run everything live and in real-time. The second someone adds a file to it the database, everyone everywhere the world can access it.

Got to walk before you can run though. There's lots that can be done here, but it will all take time.

Regards
James

One thing I have learned in the last couple of years...never under estimate what James CAN DO!

Lee S.

The thing that would make it most attractive for me would be the thing that would be next to impossible to achieve, a seamless style converter.

Good luck! Pay no attention to skeptics like me.

Beakybird