Fran and SOC9, thanks for your helpful insights. I suppose using an arranger (either keyboard or software)that would have
a large enought memory in their style slots,
would be the ideal situation. In this
way, you could put each part of a song in
a slot and trigger them with buttons-where
the current playing part will play continuously until you make the next selection. And those sections in the FILL
slots would play once and then continue
to the next section.
BTW,I think Roland also used to make something called the "Sound Brush" which was a small floppy drive SMF player that was sold along side the first Sound Canvas module. I think it had a footswitch input where you could activate a solo section of the midi file to continously vamp, and a second hit on the footswitch would make it continue to the next section. I guess it was the precursor to RPS, but just for the solo section.