Styles - Auto-Accompaniment; What Are The Styles; Selecting Style Mode; Use The [Yes/+] And [No/-] Buttons To Select A Style - GEM GK 350 Owner's Manual

Styles - Auto-Accompaniment

What are the Styles?

Styles are a collection of musical patterns representing many types of music, rang-
ing from rock and pop to traditional and ethnic music. The GK350 contains 96 differ-
ent auto-accompaniment Styles that can be used to provide fully-orchestrated ar-
rangements. The sophisticated Auto Accompaniment system can provide automated
bass and chord backing that is perfectly matched to the selected accompaniment
Style. The Styles are formed by 5 sections, or tracks, that generate the automatic
arrangements: Drums, Bass and 3 Accomp. An additional two tracks, Upper and
Lower, are for the keyboard sounds. The automatic arrangements are triggered by
playing chords (fingered or one-finger) on the lower part of the keyboard below the
split point.

Selecting Style Mode

To select the Styles, you must set the GK350 to STYLE mode.
1. Press the [STYLE] button.
The message "STYLE" appears in the top left hand corner of the display to show
that the instrument is ready to accept a STYLE selection.
To enable the Style auto-accompaniments, you must select one of the two chord
recognition modes (ONE FINGER or FINGERED).
2. Press the [SINGLE TOUCH PLAY] button.
Pressing this button activates the KEY START function automatically and ena-
bles the Style auto-accompaniments by recalling one of the two chord recogni-
tion modes (ONE FINGER or FINGERED). The left display arrowhead points to
FINGERED or ONE FINGER. The display example below shows FINGERED
selected.
The FINGERED and ONE FINGER chord recognition modes are explained in
detail further ahead.
You can select a Style in three different ways:
Use the [YES/+] and [NO/–] buttons to select a Style
In STYLE mode, the [YES/+] and [NO/–] buttons of the numeric keypad step through
the individual Styles one by one.
3. Press the [YES/+] button to select the Styles in increasing numerical order.
4. Press the [NO/–] button to select the Styles in reverse order.
Holding the button down scrolls rapidly forwards or backwards through all the
Styles. The selected Style number is shown in the top left hand corner of the
display, under the STYLE marking.
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Note: When SINGLE TOUCH PLAY is on, the sounds
memorized in the Style Performance are assigned to
all the tracks. Selecting a Style changes the sounds
of the accompaniment sections (Drums, Bass,
Accomp) as well as the keyboard sections (Upper 1,
Upper 2, Lower). When SINGLE TOUCH PLAY is off,
selecting a Style changes the sounds of the accompa-
niment sections only.