Hi Sander,
EMC Styleworks is a good software to create styles for Roland Keyboards (not yet the VA7, I think, but styles created for the G 1000 are 100% compatible). Otherwise you can use a good sequencer (like Cubase or Cakewalk) to create the single parts of a style (intro, main, variation, fills, ending).
However, there are so many styles around for Roland arrangers that usually all I do is to use the excellent "Morphing" function of the VA7 to combine parts of existing styles to create a new one. The style I used for the song "Dock of the bay" (found on my website) was a combination of an old G800 style (8 beat 5 R&B) with the bass part of another style. Here are a few links to sites with lots of good Roland styles (even converted from other keyboards, like Ketron X1 and Yamaha PSR 9000): http://www.redrival.com/vonsje/g800.html http://www.daytonamusic.com/rag/download.htm http://users.pandora.be/RKCA/engels.htm http://www.roland.it
Best regards,
Andrea




[This message has been edited by Dreamer (edited 08-19-2001).]