I also agree that quality, and not quantity is the most important factor for me. There is a glut of poor quality conversions now available for the yamaha keyboards, most of which are harmonically incorrect and will not give proper results when playing anything other than a simple major or minor chord. However I also have to criticise many of the preset styles as being too fussy and too indicative of particular songs. Remember the old days when all we had was a rock, swing, march, pops and bossa? It was easy to play almost anything to those simply bass/chord and drum patterns. Nowadays you sit daydreaming after the intro has played, totally lost for what to play with some of these styles! They sound fantastic, expertly musically programmed by the yamaha musicians but quite often it leaves you having to think so carefully about what to play. Its a good idea to experiment with turning off parts of the style, i often like to mute the pads, phrases and separate chord sections and just use a simpler backing.
Perhaps thats what we need, more simpler styles!

Simon


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Simon G.K. Williams
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Creative Music & Multimedia
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