User Style Recording - Generalmusic WK3 World Keyboard Owner's Manual

• 16 User Style recording
The USER 1 and USER2 buttons of the STYLE/
SONG GROUPS section recall User-programma-
ble Styles, free locations that allow you to record
your own Style arrangement patterns. Up to 16
User Styles can reside in memory, 8 in each User
Group.
A new Style can be created by recording every
part yourself, or by modifying a copy of an exist-
ing Style. This second option is discussed fur-
ther ahead in the chapter.
User Styles can be loaded into memory from disk
and saved to disk, as already explained in the
Disk chapter 6 of the User Guide.
THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF A STYLE
Styles provide automatic accompaniments based
on the system of chords. In particular, the Major,
Minor and Seventh chords trigger three complete-
ly different arrangement patterns.
There are 4 Variations of the Major, minor and
7th and each Variation breaks down into several
different elements: basic, Intro, Fill, Ending.
These four elements form the basis of a struc-
ture consisting of 44 short sequences, or "Riffs",
for each Style.
WHAT IS A RIFF?
A Riff is a musical motif capable of repetition (loop-
ing). It can also be expressed as a "phrase" or
"lick", but it is important to understand that the
Riff must be capable of repetition. In fact, when
you play with Styles, you will note that the pat-
terns are short repeating sequences.
The table shown below lists all the Riffs that make
up a Style.
The basic Riff is the principal pattern of the Style
which repeats continually until stopped, or until it
is "broken" by a Fill, Intro or Ending pattern.
The Fills, Intros and Endings are triggered by
pressing the relative FILL, INTRO, or ENDING
buttons.
A Riff can vary in length from one to sixteen meas-
ures (bars) long.
Each Riff consists of up to 5 Style tracks: Drum,
Bass, Acc1, Acc2, Acc3.
Var1 Var2
Major1 basic Major2 basic Major3 basic Major4 basic
Minor1 basic Minor2 basic Minor3 basic Minor4 basic
7th1 basic 7th2 basic
Fill1 Fill2
IntroMajor1 IntroMajor2 IntroMajor3 IntroMajor4
IntroMinor1 IntroMinor2 IntroMinor3 IntroMinor4
Intro7th1 Intro7th2
EndMajor1 EndMajor2
EndMinor1 EndMinor2
End7th1 End7th2
The Style Riffs
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Var3 Var4
7th3 basic 7th 4 basic
Fill3 Fill4
Intro7th3 Intro7th4
EndMajor3 EndMajor4
EndMinor3 EndMinor4
End7th3 End7th4
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