The Styles - Korg Pa5X Performance Manual

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The Styles

The Style and its Elements
Styles are collections of musical patterns in a particular music genre – or 'mu-
sical style' – offering an eight-parts automatic accompaniment, similar to an
eight-member band playing with you. Chords you play on the keyboard will be
recognized and will adapt the patterns to suit the music. Different sections can
be selected to let you create a complete song in real time.
Accompaniment parts
Accompaniment parts are like the members of a band. With Pa5X you get five
pitched instrument players (for example guitar, piano, strings, synthesizers), a
bass player, a percussion player, and a drum player.
Chords and patterns
Accompaniment patterns are repeating musical patterns (like a bass groove, a
guitar riff or a piano chord progression) that are dynamically adapted to match
the recognized chords. They may vary depending on the type of chord (like C
Major, C minor, or 7th).
Sections and Style Elements
Songs are made of different sections (Intro, Verse 1, Bridge, Chorus 1 and so
on). There are different patterns for each song section, and they are collected
under the Style Element buttons (INTRO, VARIATION, FILL, BREAK, ENDING).
While the name of the Intro, Fill, Break and Ending are the same as the name of
the corresponding song section, Variations can be used either for Verse, Bridge,
Chorus or Special sections. The arrangement becomes denser the higher the
element numbers go.
Intro Verse
Intro 1
Variation 1
Auto Fill
Pa5X can automatically match each Variation with a Fill. When the
indicator is on, when going from a Variation to a different one a Fill is automati-
cally selected, without having to press one of the
Fill Chorus Break
Fill 1 Break
Variation 2
/ Verse Fill Chorus
Fill 3
Variation 3 Variation 4
FILL buttons.
Ending
Ending 3
AUTO FILL