Wow Dengizich. I thought I read somewhere that Medeli got in trouble for blatantly copying features of Yamaha's operating system. Wasn't there a "stop sale" or "cease and desist" order? If Medeli did the same thing when developing the E-X series under contract to Roland, I wonder whether Roland is considered an accomplice or co-defendant in the case?
I do make and use my own styles, but they're very simple. Something akin to a Yamaha "free play" style with no drums, a sustained bass note, and a lot of long sustained pad notes to provide a basic accompaniment. That's all a free play style is--nothing magical requiring special programming. Just creative use of basic functionality that has always been there. I use sync stop or turn off "arranger hold" to create breaks in the pattern and provide a degree of movement and rhythm as the chords change. I always hoped that Roland would add a user-controlled 'retrigger' parameter, which is important for this type of style. After years of experimentation I've concluded that, if Roland does have retrigger it's implicit in the sound sample, rather than a feature of the style player. (If nothing else, you can always force retrigger at measure 1 beat 1 with sync stop.)
Yamaha has many more parameters available, and their style behavior is much better documented compared to Roland's. If I really wanted to get serious with custom styles, I would probably create them for my Tyros, and then use the easier simplified chord fingering on the Roland together with my special style to feed Yamaha's arranger engine with full, multi-note chords. The best of both worlds!
Edited by TedS (Today at 05:49 PM)
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