Hi Jos,
sorry , I meant recording the styles into the kn sequencer, then converting them & saving to midifile would take at least 5 to 15 minutes per style. Then you'd still have to convert them via OMB ( not sure how long that would take) If you're looking at a couple of hundred styles, that's a lot of time spent. I tend to think most of the converted styles for psr's ,would have been converted via the EMC software program, which only takes a couple of minutes to do. The hard part is then tweaking them to make them sound good.
I have to admit I haven't had a chance to try midifile to style with your omb program as yet.
I'm still don't think it will convert accurately, because these a's d's b's are actually "tensions" used within the style by the kn7. Actually having these notes automatically transposed to cegb may not give the correct result ie the midi file part recorded in the c chord already contains the notes ceg as well as a's d's b's.

When I get a chance, I'll give one a try & let you know how I go.

Intro's & endings I don't think would be a problem.

Having fooled round with style creating on at least 4 different brands of keyboards over the years( roland korg technics yamaha ) the one thing I did discover is that they all handle the styles differently. Each machine has it's own unique requirements.

best wishes
Rikki

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jos Maas:

Rikki,

It is true that you need the keyboard to produce the midifiles (you said that you own a kn7). But it surely wouldn't take ages to convert the midifiles into styles. You didn't use this feature in OMB yet. If you paste a part of a midifile into a style part using the "Chord" option, then OMB will automatically transpose the notes to cegb. In intro's and ending you would use the "Melody" option. The melody option is tricky when used with normal midifiles because you need to specify the key it is played in. But that is no problem with midifiles that you made yourself for style conversion. Just record all the intro/endings in C and the rest in Cmaj7. It will never sound off. Do the turorial http://www.1manband.nl/convert.htm