This is all well and good, but doesn't seem easily do-able live onstage. I understand well about combining styles to make them more suitable (unfortunately, Roland's don't have multipads, so that option is out), but it seems a non-realtime function.

I was thinking that having a ROM style with a 'simple'/'busy' button might make things a lot more flexible. To get away from the repetitiveness of arrangers is always high on my list of arranger features to improve, and this seems like a possible step. But I guess we just have to do it for ourselves, these days...

I know it's a LOT more work for a style developer (although it wouldn't be TOO difficult to start with the busy style as the basis, and just start simplifying), but the musical results would be (IMO) well worth it.

One of Roland's MANY great features they dropped was Bass & Drums/Small Combo/Full ensemble buttons, that automatically muted certain Parts (sometimes, live, it is hard to find out WHICH Part is which sound to mute by hand) to give you those groups. A combination of this feature with Linked styles of varying 'busyness' could yield some greatly expanded flexibility in making a song 'build' more naturally...

I understand that all this CAN be accomplished 'offline', but it would be nice if the ROM styles had more of this kind of structure for instant use.

JMO, yada yada yada.....