Hi

The implementation of the described features must require a change in the style format. Something must trigger the right changes in accompaniment.

In an earlier of my posts I suggested that sending a SysEx event could trigger the hardware operating system to create variations according to music/style type.

This triggering could also be achieved by changes in the CASM format - or by introducing a new chunk (section) in the style file. Anyway the features require some changes somewhere.

A major problem for style creators and for style software programmers (like myself) will be how we can utilize these features.

Until now Yamaha have never revealed the internal formats and functions of the operating systems. This has done it very hard to write software, as all formats and functions have had to be revealed be reverse-engineering. Which means a lot of try and error. And no guarantee for finding all features; and for the correctness of your findings.

Maybe this is an attempt to make it imposible for anybody else - than Yamaha - to create styles. Who knows? And what about backwards compatibility?

Jørgen

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