A lot of persons still just do not get it.
Creating styles does not mean you want your styles to sound like the manufacturer’s styles. If that were the case wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of making styles?
If I wanted my styles to sound like the manufacturer’s styles, then I would not make styles I would use the manufacturer’s styles.
What a lot of persons think is that their way of using an arranger is the only way of using an arranger and that everyone else uses an arranger like them.
Not everyone uses hundreds of styles, uses all the tracks of a styles or want to sound like the actual recording.
There are a great number of us who want to sound like a 3-4 member band, use more than one style for a number of songs and do not want to sound like the actual recording.
The way most people make styles and the way those of us who have made styles discovered is that we make the styles to complement our live performance. We do not make styles to hide our incompetence’s in playing, nor do we make them to sound like a factory style.
Another secret about style creation is that you use what ever is available to make a style. You may copy tracks from an existing style or midi file.
If you buy an arranger with the mind set of keeping it for 5 or more years, if you made at lease one style a week, in one year you have 52 styles. And remember one style is usually used for 6 or 7 songs.
The problem is that some persons just don’t get it when it comes to using an arranger to its full potential and as such would not get it when it comes to the MS.
REALLY SAD
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