Style Record Mode; The Style's Structure - Korg PA 80 User Manual

10. STYLE RECORD MODE

By entering the Style Record mode, you can create your own
Styles, or edit an existing Style.

THE STYLE'S STRUCTURE

The term "Style" relates with music sequences automatically
played by the arranger of the Pa80. A Style consists of a pre-
defined number of Style Elements (E) (Pa80 features ten dif-
ferent Style Elements: Variation 1-4, Intro 1-2, Fill 1-2,
Ending 1-2). When playing, these Style Elements can be
selected directly from the control panel, using the corre-
sponding buttons.
To explain the Style structure, we can use a tree-structure, as
shown in the following diagram:
Pop Ballad
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3
Variation 4
Intro1
Intro 2
Fill 1
Fill 2
Ending 1
Ending 2
CV1
Drum
Perc
Bass
Acc1
Acc2
Acc3
Acc4
Acc5
CV2
CV3
CV4
CV5
CV6
CV1
CV2
Style Record mode
Each Style Element is made up of smaller units, called Chord
Variations (CV), but not all of them have the same number
of CVs. Variations 1-4 have up to 6 CVs each, while the other
Style Elements have only up to 2 CVs.
When you play on the chord recognition area (Lower, Upper
or Full, depending on the Chord Scanning section on the
control panel), the arranger scans the keyboard and deter-
mines which chord you are playing. Then, depending on the
selected Style Element, it determines which Chord Variation
(CV) should be played for the scanned chord. Which Chord
Variation corresponds to each scanned chord is a setting of
the Style: the Chord Variation Table. Each Style Element
contains a Chord Variation Table, whose prototype is the fol-
lowing:
Chord Chord Variations (CVs)
Variation 1-4
Maj
6
M7
M7b5
Sus4
Sus2
M7sus4
min
m6
m7
m7b5
CV1 – CV6
mM7
7
7b5
7sus4
dim
dimM7
aug
aug7
augM7
no 3rd
no 3rd, no 5th
After deciding what CV to play, the arranger triggers the right
sequence for each track. Since each sequence is written in a
particular key (for example, CMajor, GMajor or Emin), the
arranger transposes it according to the scanned chord. Notes
in the sequence are carefully transposed according to the
Note Transposition Tables (NTT), to make them work fine
with all recognized chords. The NTT allows you to record
just some Chord Variations, and have all the notes play in the
right place, avoiding dissonances and transposing the pattern
notes to the notes of the recognized chord.
Going deeper into the Style structure, we can see that each
Chord Variation is made up of Track Sequences, and the
Pa80 supports 8 different tracks. DRUM and PERC are used
for drum and percussion sequences, BASS for bass and
10-1
The Style's structure
Intro 1-2, Fill 1-2, Ending 1-2
CV1 – CV2