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Originally posted by S0C9:
Interestingly enough...
no-one has brought up Korg styles ???
Tracknet... go play 'em ALL !! make your own decision....
Regards,
Steve


Hi Steve,

Believe me, I don't wanna start any debate on "mine is better than yours". And your advice on playing them all is perfectly accurate, which I also did in a previous post.
Korg styles are very good. But just for fun, try this on a Korg PA arranger. Pick a pattern where you'll find a strings pad on one of the APC parts. Play a basic C chord C-E-G. What you'll hear will be the strings playing C-E-G. Now play an F chord F-A-C, and you'll hear the strings playing F-A-C, when in fact, any "orchestra" would go to the closest interval C-F-A, and not "jump" to F-A-C. In most cases, any musician will try to play the closest interval, to allow smooth musical chords transitions. This is what Ketron products do. Even when you play basic chords, the phrasing is what it should be, and this is why I was talking about their styles being natural.
Another example: I tried a PA80 a few weeks ago. Intros and endings are the same whenever you play a major or minor chord. (Of course, the PA recognizes the mode difference). But on a Ketron, the intros and endings are completely different musically, whenever you play a major and minor chord, which adds more variety to the very same pattern.

Regards,

Free Agent