Hi Everyone,
I decided to start a bit of a styles group for the members who may be interested in creating our own pads & styles.

Hopefully it may be a learning experience for us all.

I've downloaded a couple of waltz styles and xmas pads which Bebop sent to his mailing list.

I've also added a Bossa Guitar style which I've just finished.

The styles are in the files section of the group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kn7000styles/

best wishes
Rikki

It's good to see the Technicsusers community
groving, and also that more and more websites
related to this keyboards coming up.
However, please be careful regarding uploading
so we don't spread commercial copyrighted files
that way.
Happy playing and posting
GJ

BTW, there are also Kennet's KN7000 Group
at Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kn7000/

Gunnar is absolutely right about professional copywrite files
That's how we ended up losing the Technote forum

Hi Rikki,

I like your "style" to use a play on words. You are an idea generator and contributor and it is super to have you as a member of our KN family. I support and encourage you in this effort to develop styles for a couple of reasons. First, the styles will be generated on KN instruments thus negating any need to tweak midi stuff. Second, I am going to try to learn how to create styles so I can assist you in building a library of KN styles for our SynthZone KN family. In doing so I will be feeding my knowledge of my instrument and that has to be a positive step to take. I may have to ask for some help now and then on the technical side of style creation. Hope I can lean on you for that help. Finally, I hope others will join this effort. Everyone of us hears music differently, hence the potential for a wide variety of really neat styles to select from. I will begin tonight, using Alec's manual for the KN6/65 instruments as my guide, to see if I can understand the composer well enough to make an initial style.

Thanks, Rikki, for your enthusiasm and expertise.

Best Wishes, Chuck

Rikki,
I haven't been able to find your Bossa Guitar style in the files section of the Yahoo kn7000 group. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
Cheers,
Walt

So should we just forget about having web sites for sharing members music?

Larry Hawk

Hi Walt,
I actually started a KN7000 Styles Group. It's not the KN7000 Group. The reason for doing it is that the group is specifically to do with styles & pad creation.
I was hoping to get some of the forum members interested in creating their own styles & pads.
We've got the best keyboard around for doing just that.
Many forum members have the musical abilties(which I lack) but they're not quite sure about the process. Collectively we may just get some styles created for our keyboards.

Even though the styles wouldn't be of use to owners of prior models, maybe the method of how to go about it, might benefit them also.

The files are at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kn7000styles/files/Rikki%27s%20Styles/

best wishes
Rikki

If you had taken the trouble to read and understand what I wrote correctly you would see clearly it has nothing to do with members or anybody else exchanging their OWN music

Hi Guys,
point taken, the site is not for sharing commercial styles/pads. It's to try and help us create our own.

Thank you Jonny for the reminder. It should have been the first thing I should have posted on the site.

best wishes
Rikki

Thank you Chuck,
you're too kind. If you get stuck with anything to do with styles, don't hesitate to write in. That's what the group is for.

I ended up ordering Alec's KN6/65 manual also. I'm just waiting for it to arrive.
Apparently it has a great section on style creation. It probably would have saved me a lot of time in hit & miss experimentation ( haahaa) which I enjoy doing anyway,

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chuck Piper:
[B]Hi Rikki,

I like your "style" to use a play on words.

No Larry, that's not the point here. If you record using the onboard styles
or those you create yourself or made by other who don't claim copyrights etc.
it's not illegal, at least as far as I can see it.
The problem starts when we use i.e. external styles bought from a webshop or
elsewhere, and maybe use a new for each song to upload for free download, then
we spreading this stuff illegal. The same are if we do this with midifiles.
Many posts being done about this issues already, so it's not nessesary to
repeat all that who is posible to find in earlier treads.

But Rikki's intention is to create a group to share experiences and results when
create styles and pads yourself, and that is really great. My point is only to
place a little reminder about that we should keep in mind about this rules.
Too bad if we see the same mistake from byegone days be repeated, the lack of
producing new quality styles are probably a result of what happened, just a few
buy the styledisks, but a lot of people share it openly via internet.

Again, happy playing and style & pads creating
GJ

Rikki, this styles group will be only for KN7000 or for KN2600 too?
Do you think new KN2600 will be able to load and play all these KN7000 styles?

Hi Bluebird,
I'm fairly certain they'll load on a kn2600 as they're done in composer format ( not custom ) They may need a bit of tweaking as I'm not sure if your sounds are identical to the kn7.

There's only 3 of mine on site as yet, plus some pads ( hoping the other members will contribute some of their own also (haahaa)

Main idea behind the site is to get us creating some of our own styles and pads.
best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bluebird:
[B]Rikki, this styles group will be only for KN7000 or for KN2600 too?

Styles created using the KN7000 will load and play on the KN2600. But what about the other way around? KN2600 creations to KN7000? Just something to think about.

Anthony