Most all my songs are my own versions, and I rarely, if ever, use an intro, or any ending except the short one. I just play the intro usually using variation 1.
However there are certain songs that have signature intros and riffs and if you can't play them, using the intro would be necessary. One song that comes to mind is Sweet Home Alabama. Hit that intro/lick and the place explodes! Maybe you have to be down South though! And, you can use a generic style for that song, but it's hard to keep playing that riff over and over while singing, so I use a style that was made from a midi file when I do it.
Without a doubt there are other songs that are like this, where you really need to either play or the signature riff or have it in the style/midi file to sell it. . . Pretty Woman, Grapevine, Amarillo By Morning, Suspicious Minds, Wonderful Tonight, New York, etc.
DonM

Nope, same "down under" Don, usually I have not even got past the D part of the riff and the crowd instantly know it..same as Brown Eyed Girl, Copperhead Road and a few others I could name but everyone knows em so I won't

Dennis

Over the past decade I've accumulated more than 44,000 third party styles for Yamaha. Some are just plain awful, some are pretty good, and a bunch of them are fantastic. The latter category is what I use for my audiences - it's what they want, and I get paid to provide the music they want to hear. I've shared many of those styles with many, many members of this and other forums, and most will tell you those styles are second to none.

Cheers,

Gary

If you have the chops you can also easily record the intro yourself in your style into and endings creator and make it song specific also. I prefer to play my most of own intros live..

Don't think I've ever used an Intro other than the count-off...

Compared to 500 -600 max styles of Korg. Hopelfully this will grow but will take a decade or so.

For me, the onboard styles provided with the keyboard are more than enough... if you spend some time to tweak and change some things in them, add, take away, re-voice and so on. I know many users prefer to use something existent already - why waste time creating something new? - but for many other users that's the whole point: to create or re-create something of their own and use it in their performances.

Me, being a minimalist in aproach, I think we're trapped quite often in Acquisition Syndrome... Styles, sounds, vsts, vstis, DAWs, gear... In fact, today's equipment, even in the basic form is most of the times enough - just the personal abilities must become better.

44.000 tousands styles?!?!?! I understand the wish of getting all that is available (?!) but in real, do we ever use more than 200-300?

Blessings,
Adi

+1

+2

Had my Wersi Abacus for almost 10 years now (It actually came out in 2000) and I haven’t come across anything that would even remotely make me want to change.

Bill