Hi Ian,
I'd stopped visiting SVP world quite a while back so hadn't come across your term.

Sorry to hear about your laptop, such a pain having to load everything back in to a new one.
Nowadays I just load my programs in & all my files are saved to sd card & backed up on usb sticks. I've got an old desktop, an old laptop, ( either could die any minute) & a netbook which I use constantly.

I save my edited intro's/endings as a style.
Some of the korgs waffle on for 10/12 bars, so I cut endings down to approx 2 bars, means I can reuse them. Cutting sometimes works with Intro's also.

I'm still considering saving interesting phrases, drumtracks, guitar strums, piano arpeggio's as multipads.
Possibly easier in the korg than psr. Just a case of copying the style track to a pad ( & vice versa).
This way I can audition the style, mute one of the tracks , & play the pad instead of the track I want to replace.. If it works, I can copy the pad across to the style.
Should work if I ever get around to it.
Keeping track of them , may be the problem. haahaa

best wishes
Rikki

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Originally posted by ianmcnll:
Hi Rikki,

I have done styles with as many as seven variations, using all three intros for expansion.

I think you're right about the reasoning behind the different variations in factory styles. You'll probably agree that it's such a waste to use only one or two parts of a four part style, so away we go with the editing.

I keep a bunch of styles, that have the characteristic parts I like, in a folder...perhaps one that has a great strings pad, or another with interesting phrase parts.

I'm almost back at square one having lost everything when my laptop died a few weeks ago, but I'm slowly getting things back again, and I had some things saved on a few flash drives, so all is not lost.

Certainly you can use the term "Frankenstyles"...I coined it quite a while ago, back on SVP World, I believe.

Some days, all I do is edit/assemble styles, and then the next day, test drive them, and find tunes I like to use them in.

I rarely use song specific styles and intros, having more interest in putting my own stamp on tunes.

Ian





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