But, to a large extent, the drum part IS the groove. It lays down the foundation, the 'pocket' of the entire style. Change that, and you have changed the entire style. Leave it alone, and you can only make superficial differences to the style (nice though they might be).

I understand (although, at this point, it is difficult to tell whether the Audya's OS is ready for this use or not) how easy it is to change the MIDI data (bet it isn't anywhere NEAR as easy as my G70 makes it, though!) in a style. But when the drums, percussion and guitar Parts (and maybe the bass part, too) are all done in audio, well, that's a pretty significant amount of the foundation of the style that you can't do a damn thing to other than change it wholesale for something else.

One of the things I like is to take a style for a song that is fairly high energy, and merely by substituting brush drums for rock, upright for electric bass, jazz or nylon for electric guitar, you can still perform the same piece with the same kind of groove, but all of a sudden, you can perform it for a cocktail audience, or early evening before the energy sets in. In fact, the Roland Cover Tools makes this an almost one button task for the entire style.

Substituting one sticks groove for another doesn't really accomplish the same thing, IMO.

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 10-07-2009).]