Song/Styles - Generalmusic WK3 World Keyboard Owner's Manual

• 8 Song/Styles
This chapter discusses Song/Styles from a gen-
eral point of view. How to load Song/Styles into
your WK3 is detailed in the Disk chapter 6, page
10 «Load All», while Song/Style recording is dis-
cussed in the Song/Style Recording chapter of
the Reference Guide.
WHAT IS A SONG/STYLE
A Song/Style is an 8-track Song created by re-
cording existing Styles (Rom or User) with the
keyboard tracks (Upper 1, Upper 2, Lower).
Song/Styles capture the chords that trigger the
Style accompaniment patterns on a "Chords
track" and you can choose to record one or more
keyboard tracks according to your requirements.
During the recording, you can exploit the Intro,
Fill and Ending patterns and change Style at will.
In practice, what you normally do in real time with
a Style is captured by the sequencer in Song/
Style Record mode to create a Song/Style.
Up to 8 tracks are engaged by the Sequencer to
record a Song/Style: 5 associated to the accom-
paniment patterns and 3 to the keyboard tracks.
Song/Styles can be loaded from disk in WK3 for-
mat only, or recorded using the Song/Style Re-
cording method.
In many other respects, a Song/Style is similar
to a Song. Song/Styles, however, do not contain
a Lyrics track.
The on-board Sequencer features several edit-
ing functions which allow you to modify a recorded
Song/Style by copying or cancelling parts and cor-
recting timing errors.
A "ghost track", called the Master Track, records
all general control messages which define the
instrument's global parameters at the start and
during the recording, such as effects changes or
Performance selections and tempo changes, etc..
SONG/STYLE PERFORMANCES
A Song/Style is governed by its associated Song/
Style-Performance which determines how it plays
and simplifies Song/Style recording because it
contains all the information necessary to record
without the need to set parameters while record-
ing. When you record a Song/Style, it is best to
programme the associated Song/Style-Perform-
ance beforehand.
A WK3 Song/Style is associated to a single Per-
formance. A Song/Stylecannot be saved as a
MIDI file.
Programming the Song/Style-Performances
Song-Performances are not accessed from the
Performance Groups, but directly from the PER-
FORMANCE button of the EDIT PERFORM-
ANCE section. A programmed Song/Style-Per-
formance can be copied to all other Song/Styles
in memory.
A general approach to Performance editing is
outlined in chapter 4, "Sounds & Performances",
page 10. For detailed programming, including
all the parameters of the Performance, MIDI,
Mixer and Sound buttons of the Edit Performance
section, refer to the Edit Performance chapter 13
of the Reference Guide.
An example of how to prepare a Song/Style-Per-
formance before recording a Song/Style is also
outlined in the Song/Style Recording chapter 17
of the Reference Guide.
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