I had forgotten that Technics offers style conversion software .

Is everyone happy with it ?

How much are you using this tool ?

hi danno
i had forgotten about it too it is a bit of a carry on ,and it does not convert yamaha styles, the roland ones are not too bad though, i have not put anythig that has been converted on to the 7000 yet but i think i will try it one day. Somehow there seems to be just too many styles flying about and it is difficult just to remember what they are, and a pain to document everything, so i keep using the old tried and tested ones . Does anyone else feel like this?
jan

[This message has been edited by kozykeys (edited 10-07-2002).]

Yes, I agree. I rarely buy or download styles. I most often use the built-in ones, which these days there are plenty of! I occasionally have created my own style, or modified an existing one. I do have a half-dozen given from friends/forum people. But probably 95% of what I do, I do with the many varied built-in styles. There are so many ways to modify them, including "on the fly" as you play, such as muting then later un-muting parts, etc., to give more variety.

I do create my own sounds and registrations (panel memory settings), that's where I tend to put my originality in [plus hopefully in my playing]. Hence, I have not accumulated a huge collection of external styles.

Jim

Where can I download a style conversion disk?

I have a KN6000, and need the style conversion to play my songs from the KN5000 and 3000.

Thanks,
KN_Fan

You don't need a style converter disk to play the kn5k style disks. Just load the style and save it back to disk in kn6k format. To use earlier than the kn3k styles you will have to have access to the next step-up keyboards and do a load and save until you reach the kn3000/5000 level. Very time consuming, but better than losing the styles.

If people want to use the on-board styles, thats fine. Me, I like variety and will only use a style one time for a recording, and never again.I convert a lot and though time consuming in some cases, it saves starting from scratch. I started a library with notes when I first started conversions and it saves me a lot of time when I'm trying to find a style to fit a certain song. I may go through 30-40 styles to find the one I need, so a few thousand isn't too many. If a performer plays the same tunes over and over, then only that many styles would be needed, and the on-board styles may do the job. Hey, whatever it takes to keep the music alive!

I can load the KN3 patterns into the KN6000 and they work OK after a little modifying as to volume and reassigning the parts if needed.

Larry
larry.gosmeyer@verizon.net

Back to the original question, I haven't used the style conversion software but that's mainly because I have built up a large library of KN6000+ styles. Bud has done a great job in converting styles and making them available, and I have made a list of these styles plus the tempo of each one, and I regularly look thru this list to find something suitable. I have also styles from a German site that unfortunately now seems to have closed down, and a number of styles from various other sources.

The last time I looked at the style conversion software I seem to remember that Yamaha was missing (as Jan has said). Now if they included Yamaha then that would open up a lot more styles. Meanwhile, I've plenty to use.

Mike

With all the styles that are available to us from different sources I wonder why no-one produces good 2/4 rhythmns. I don't mean Marches. I am trying to find a good style for "Rhythmn of Life" with good fills but no luck. Any suggestions? I know hoiw to patch up a 4/4 to sound like one but it isn't the same- I don't know why they are so hard to find. Cheers Jean.

Now here's the difference...I play for public entertainment both solo and with a young girl singer and I find a much warmer response from the audience when I play a number using the correct rhythm (absolute copy of original hit) including intro...
I use EMC Style works Professional which includes the facility to convert Yamaha rhythms and it does them superbly providing the opportunity to play many more popular numbers accurately.
Anyone particularly interested in specific rhythms for specific numbers get in touch and I'll see what I can do - anything up to KN5000 and therefore useable on the KN6/6500...I don't anything about that side of things re the KN7000 yet...
Roger M

Hello Roger ,

It's interesting to hear that an audience will respond to a style better when it sounds like the original song .

This is one reason that I use 75% midi sequences during a performance because the styles are good , but people react better when they can recognize the song right away .

Styles can not handle a bridge of a song .


dano