Hi Bachus
I didn’t find the korg convertor particularly good.
Really depends on the midi file that one wanted to convert.
Didn’t do a great job on the ones I tried, yet other people did have success.

A song style I don’t think will ever sound as good as an original midi file.

That's OK, I want it for just the ONE song, I'll use another one for the next song.

Hi John,
with the way some of the demonstrated styles have been programmed, you have no choice but to start at the right time, or your whole song will be out of whack.

They appear to be song specific? or , all but.

Think most arranger players want styles that are more generic, heard some people complaining that the sx styles were geared too much towards particular songs.

Maybe longer patterns only work for specific song styles.

Anyway Bill,
been a very interesting watch.

May give my Band in a Box another try, though must admit I’d sooner be experimenting for a Korg rather than my Yammie.

Think I know where I went wrong with my 32 bar patterns, when I tried them for the korg a couple of years back,
Should have had a core set rhythm , bass, drums, piano or guitar and used the fancy short fill ins at set intervals ie every 2 bars or 4 bars or 8 bars whatever happens to work for some specific songs.
I shouldn’t have let biab come up with its own random patterns, which probly works fine when there are chord changes involved for a biab song, but doesn’t work all that well with the single chord an arranger requires for a style.

Anyway something to think about.

Rikki and friends, we can go the tech. route, or we search and search for the right style – and they are good things. People who are having difficulties in life normally look outside themselves for an answer. It is the same for this topic.

Tech and style search, although they are good things, account for 35% of sounding good. Imagination (self) is what is needed to complete your work/sound; and it is normally the last place we look.

What can I do with the style I am using? With my registrations, with my mixer. Leaving a style, then coming back to it? Can I select the ending, and then come back to the style? Am I listening to the original song and using the above to create what I want? The best part of this method is, when I learn it, and I can apply the same thinking to the next song -- I the next 100 songs will sound much better – it will sound like me.

Use all you have in you, John C.

PS, Dave is a perfect example of things out of the box. His set up is him, and his performance is him. Do I like how he sounds, well, I thought I would send him a PM message about that.
(he he he he ha ha ha oooops!)

That depends on the conversion... if the orriginal song has 7th chords orwhatever in it.. chances are the style will support it..

The results are very dependant on themidi file...

I been browsing my Genos today for advanced styles as described in the firstvideo..

I found all on board styles are so generic in nature that it doesn’t matter much when you start playing..

However user created songstyles is a different story..

I had a lot of fun experimenting with them..

Hi John,
For me it’s more of a case of fascination with the instrument ie how far one can go with the styles.
The onboard styles , quite frankly ,are never programmed to their full potential.
Most of the psr onboard styles I’ve used are only 2 to 4 bar loops.
Supposedly they can be up to 32 bars.
Maybe there is some sort of memory constraint that doesn’t actually allow larger files with 32 bars, that I don’t know, haven’t tried experimenting, yet.

Band in a Box and I , go way back to when it was first released, back in the 90’s.
I’ve mainly used it as a source for potential styles for an arranger keyboard, be it my Technics, Roland , Yamaha, Ketron and Korgs. Been thru the lot over the years.
I’ve always found ways of converting styles from one brand keyboard to another, (and I don’t mean using EMC style works) but getting a good style from BIAB has been elusive, so every now and again I drag it out and try some new ideas.
Time wasting exercise, for sure, but I’ve always had plenty of it . Haha