Programming your own STYLE
Posted: 08 Jun 2018 17:30
We all use STYLES to accompany what we play, but have any of you created your own Style for something you want to play? You would obviously have to have in your head what you wanted to hear from a STYLE (Rhythm, Bass, Chord 1 etc.). Now I often 'adjust' an existing 'default' STYLE to suit a tune I am playing, but doing a completely new style from scratch?
I have come across this YouTube video explaining how to set up a Style 'from scratch'. This is with the Yamaha PSR-S950, but I'm sure the basic principles are the same whatever keyboard or organ you have. Watching this, the one thing that has got through to me, which I hadn't realised, is that these PARTS are in 'loops', and until you SAVE them you can keep adding bits in. So with the Rhythm, he puts in the bass drum first. Then he adds the next 'drum' from the 'drum kit' and has the two running together. Then a third .. and so on until the Rhythm track is complete. He then uses the Quantize function, which sets what you have played 'to the beat' (in case you were a little 'off the beat' when you recorded it).
Worth watching, and then read the above again.
Hugh
I have come across this YouTube video explaining how to set up a Style 'from scratch'. This is with the Yamaha PSR-S950, but I'm sure the basic principles are the same whatever keyboard or organ you have. Watching this, the one thing that has got through to me, which I hadn't realised, is that these PARTS are in 'loops', and until you SAVE them you can keep adding bits in. So with the Rhythm, he puts in the bass drum first. Then he adds the next 'drum' from the 'drum kit' and has the two running together. Then a third .. and so on until the Rhythm track is complete. He then uses the Quantize function, which sets what you have played 'to the beat' (in case you were a little 'off the beat' when you recorded it).
Worth watching, and then read the above again.
Hugh