Hi Richard,
sorry to take up so much of your time, have another question

If I understand correctly,
you have a full 16 tracks to create a major variation, you also have 16 tracks for a minor variation?? can you also create parts for any other chords like 7th's , diminished etc???

Sounds like it shouldn't be all that difficult to put together a style using EMC software. With Universal version, possibly wouldn't even need to go thru the process of converting from one format to another ?
just save as midifile & then put it thru whatever process is required to create a mediastation style & do the necessary tweaking of the sounds volume etc

I'm probably being overly optimistic.

Just wondering is there any literature available ie guidelines on what is allowable in styles, ie
for instance in a variation chord track
if the track has been recorded on cmaj chord can only the notes c e g be used?
can melodic phrases be used in variations?
Basically I'm trying to find out what is permissible.

I still haven't found a perfect replacement for my ex KN7000 as far as style creation process goes, though OMB was getting fairly close to what I wanted, but laptop/soundfont etc has disadvantages too.

thanks again

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by richard_shiflet:
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With the giga sound library already connected as the soundsource all you have to do is make sure that the music data is in the form of std midi files and that the style parts have names that the arranger engine can recognize. Names like intro1.mid, intro2.mid for introductions or like var1_maj.mid, var1_min.mid for variation 1 major chord accompaniment and variation 1 minor chord accompaniment, respectively and so on.