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Originally posted by rikkisbears:
Thank you Ensnareyou,
tweaking styles is actually something I enjoy doing, so for me personally, it would suit.
Todate I've only gone down the omb/laptop/soundfont path , a fairly inexpensive option to try before getting involved in a more expensive option like the mediastation.
With OMB software I haven't really progressed beyond using soundfonts for the styles themselves. From what I gather ( my knowledge is rather limited) some of the sample players aren't really designed for instantaneous program & bank changes required by my psr styles, loading times can be a problem etc etc , hence I've stuck with loading a soundfont bank as the sounds are available immediately if there are program changes within the various style parts.

Can the Mediastation styles use a variety of sounds throughout a style ie
variation 1 style track 3 48 strings
variation 2 style track 3 51 synth strings
variation 3 style track 3 53 choir
does it accept these sort of program changes in realtime or do you have to use
style track 3 48 strings throughout that style??

Thank you
best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ensnareyou:
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Rikki,

Being used to the OMB/Soundfont, should make converting style on a Mediastation very easy and intuitive for you. There will be not need to search for soundfonts as the sound source is already provided. No need for Vst Hosts or midi yoke virtual connections, its all handled for you in the OS. Just remap the style by choosing which instruments you like the best.

As to your question about having individual tracks change voices within a style.
Quote:
Originally posted by rikkisbears:

Can the Mediastation styles use a variety of sounds throughout a style ie
variation 1 style track 3 48 strings
variation 2 style track 3 51 synth strings
variation 3 style track 3 53 choir
does it accept these sort of program changes in realtime or do you have to use
style track 3 48 strings throughout that style??

I don't think that this is an option currently supported, Domenik can correct me if I'm wrong. However there seems to be an easy workaround.

As the Mediastation can handle 16 individual tracks, in the example above using 3 variations with different instrument sets, you could try the following: lets say we wanted to use audio drum loops for the percussion, a different audio wave file for each variation. Let's also assume that we have chosen a very good quality Giga Bass that will be the same on all tracks. Then with the remaining 15 tracks we could use 3 different sets of instruments for accompaniment on the 3 variations. Each containing 5 instruments unique to one variation. 3 sets of 5 different instruments in addition to the audio drums and giga bass, that's 7 instruments at a time. You probably wouldn't need more and if you did you still have access to the other 10 instrument not already in use in a particular variation.

But you would probably not want to change that many instruments at a time between variations anyway. I think the variations may began to sound too unrelated if more than a couple of instruments change.

Let me know if this doesn't answer your question.

Richard

[This message has been edited by richard_shiflet (edited 11-11-2006).]