Hi Diki,
I think you've got a great idea, it's hard converting when you don't know what the style's supposed to sound like in the first place. I always use my psr1500/sd1 as a reference to try & get as close as possible.

I've found though, that even knowing what the style is supposed to sound like, doesn't always help if EMC does a lousy job of the conversion.

For instance in the Intro's & Endings EMC removes tempo changes ( when converting to Korg & PSR). I recently converted the SD1's Slow Orch style to PA800, it's got 30 tempo changes in one of the Intro's. Without them the intro just didn't sound the same. Only reason I managed to put them back in, was because I was able to record them from the sd1 itself.
A lot of the psr styles I like, also have these tempo changes.

Another thing, the drums don't always convert correctly. I've noticed with some of the Roland G70 styles for instance, they must use non standard drum kits. EMC comes up with absolute garbage when one of these kits is converted. Maybe a pro like yourself would be able to reconstruct the drum track by hearing what it's supposed to sound like, but for a hobbyist like me , I don't even bother trying.

My pet project at the moment is putting together a bit of a drum library with drum style tracks that have converted reasonably well & just need a bit of tweaking.
This will hopefully allow me to replace a badly converted track with one that sounds reasonable. Means I don't have to throw the style out altogether.


You may be able to save a bit of space, PA800/PA2X may not be worthwhile as yet.
EMC XT still can't read the PA800 1.51 format. It crashes.

best wishes
Rikki

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I would say for this to be of use, most of the main TOTL and midline arrangers need representing, so my list would probably run;

Tyros2
S900
PA800 (unless they are identical with PA2X)
PA2X
PA1X (that's what most of the converted Korg styles are from, so far)
G70
E80
SD-1 (is SD-5 essentially the same styles?)




[This message has been edited by rikkisbears (edited 04-09-2008).]