Creating Your Own Styles; Conductor - Kawai Concert Performer CP136 Owner's Manual

Creating Your Own Styles

The Concert Performer contains 262 built-in Styles covering a wide
variety of musical genres. There are two powerful features that
allow you to edit any of these Styles to better suit your musical
tastes, or even create your own Style entirely from scratch! These
are the Conductor and the Style Maker.
The Conductor allows you to edit the Style data and personalise it
to your taste. The Conductor offers two ways to edit: Easy Edit
and Advanced Edit.
The Style Maker allows you to create Styles of your own.
There are three ways of using this feature: Make a New Style, Edit
an Existing Style, and Phrase Combination.
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Conductor

The Conductor is used to edit Preset or User Style data.
There are two editing methods offered by the Conductor.
Easy Style Edit This is an easy way to edit the Style data. The CP built-in styles are comprised
three different types, Full, Intimate, and Solo Piano Styles. A Full Style consists
of six instrument tracks called Sections. These are the Drums, Bass, and four
Accompaniment tracks. The Intimate Styles have four Sections, Drum, Bass,
And Two Accompaniment tracks. The Solo piano Styles have two
Accompaniment Tracks (Right and Left hand) and no Drum or Bass tracks.
When you play a Style, each of these sections plays a musical Phrase composed
for that type of instrument. Each section can play one of four different musical
phrases, one for each of the four variations within a Style. Easy Edit lets you
assign which of these four Phrases will be played by each section for each of the
four variations within the style. This means you can mix and match the different
phrases for each section to create your own unique arrangements. Once you are
satisfied with your edits, you can save your Easy Style edits to the PRESET
STYLE.
Advanced Style Edit This allows you to edit the finer details within a Style. You have control
over each Section's Sound Assignment, volume level, panning, chorus, and
reverb settings. Once you are satisfied with your edits, you can save your
Advanced Style edits to the USER CONDUCTOR.
The CP can store up to 20 User Styles on board at one time.
However since you can also save your original Styles onto a floppy
disk, your library of Styles is virtually unlimited.
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