The Styles; About The Wk2 Styles; Selecting Styles - GEM WK2 Owner's Manual

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• 4 The Styles
You can enjoy playing the keyboard sounds in real time while WK2 takes care of the accom-
paniment, as if you were playing with a band of musicians. The automatic arrangements
are provided by the WK2 Styles.
This chapter describes the automatic arrangements of the Styles, how to select them and
how to store them to the Performances.
The tracks contain several programmable parameters:: sound, volume, pan, transpose,
detune, reverb, chorus, pitch bend, pedal volume and damper.
The arrangement patterns are fixed for the ROM Styles; in the USER Style locations (96-
103), it is possible to load disk-based Styles in the following formats: WK2, PK7, WK3 and
CD.
IMPORTANT: If the disk-based User Style contains less than 4 Variations (e.g. only 2), after
loading the Styles, be sure that the Variation indicator in the display indicates either Varia-
tion 1 or 2. This is to prevent total silence at Style Start.

ABOUT THE WK2 STYLES

Styles are a collection of musical patterns representing many types of music, ranging from
rock and pop to traditional and Latin music.
Each Style has 4 Variations, 4 Intros, 4 Fills and 4 Endings. A Style, therefore, provides a
complete range of musical structures with which you can whatever type of music you prefer.
Styles provide automatic accompaniments that are triggered by chord information received
from the keyboard and the accompaniment patterns change to suit the current chord.
Each Style consists of 8 tracks: the first 5 are engaged by the sequencer for the auto
accompaniments, and the remaining 3 belong to the real time keyboard sections. The 5
accompaniment tracks are divided as follows: track 1 Drums (drum sets), track 2 BASS,
tracks 3, 4 and 5 correspond to ACC1, ACC2, ACC3 respectively (accompaniments 1, 2
and 3).
The WK2 contains 96 permanent Styles in ROM and can house an additional 8 disk-based
USER Styles in RAM.
The Styles are arranged in groups of 8, as shown in the Style tables on the top of the
instrument panel (STYLE / SONG).

Selecting Styles

1. Press the SINGLE TOUCH PLAY button (the corresponding display indicator turns on).
With the S.T.PLAY function on, whatever Style you select will always be the ROM ver-
sion, allowing you to draw information directly from the internal memory, eliminating all
the operations carried out on the panel.
The S.T.PLAY button also automatically activates the ARRANGE ON/OFF and AR-
RANGE MEMORY functions (in the ARRANGER panel section - the ARR. MEM dis-
play indicator also turns on).
2. Specify the number corresponding to the desired STYLE on the left hand selection keypad.
The WK2 sets automatically to Style mode.
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