Song Styles; Song Style Performances; To Select And Playback A Song Style; Select A Song Style - GEM WK2 Owner's Manual

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• 7 Song Styles
A Song Style is an 8-track Song created by recording a Style (Rom or User) with the key-
board 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 ex-
ploit 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
accompaniment patterns (Drum, Bass, Acc3, Acc2, Acc1) and 3 to the keyboard tracks
(Upper 1, Upper 2, Lower).
Disk-based Song Styles in WK2 format only can be loaded to the RAM using the Load All
procedure.
In many other respects, Song Styles are similar to Song, except that they do not contain a
Lyrics track.

SONG STYLE PERFORMANCES

A Song Style is governed by a single associated Song Style Performance, which deter-
mines how the Song Style plays. This simplifies Song Style recording, because all the
information necessary to record and playback are housed in the Song Style Performance
without having to set parameters while recording. When you record a Song Style, it is best
to programme the associated Song Style Performance beforehand.
A Song Style cannot be saved as a MIDI file, only as an ALL data package.

To select and playback a Song Style

WK2 can memorise up to 7 Song Styles to the locations numbered from 104 - 110 (USER
section).

SELECT A SONG STYLE

Refer to the DISK chapter for explanations regarding how to load Song Styles to WK2
memory from disk.
1. Specify the number corresponding to the desired Song Style on the left hand selection keypad.
The left display arrowhead moves automatically next to the SONG menu function.
2. Press PLAY/STOP to start the Song Style playback.
3. To stop the Song Style playback at any moment, press the STOP button.
NB. Pressing the START/STOP button starts the last selected Style, while the PLAY/
STOP button starts the last selected Song, or has no effect is the relative location is
empty.
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