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Arranger Mode
Ultimately Styles go hand in hand with the sound engine so there was a certain expectation for me when I accessed this mode and I wasn't disappointed one bit. One of the first things I wanted to check out were the Acoustic / Unplugged Styles. The level of realism of the guitars is simply breathtaking. I've spend countless hours in the past sequencing and trying to emulate guitars so I've got to admit, I really appreciate the level of work gone into the styles. The sound so freaking real. The style programmers were obviously influenced by the likes of Eric Clapton. There's even a style for playing “Tears in Heaven” and it's so good...!!!

Trying the other style categories and the standard is truly impressive. Seems to me that a lot of work has gone into the Country section in particular. For the market here in Ireland and the UK for example, the PA3X would by far have one of the most appropriate range of styles of any keyboard. Normally Ketron are popular here on the country and irish scene, but the Pa3X offers so much more now that all the rest.

There's a very diverse range of styles that will appeal to all markets, and the options to create your own are professional. The style editing mode offers pretty much anything you can think of including the ability to import from the Sequencer which is great for people like me who prefer to work that way and assemble a style in blocks of measures under a single song. I also used EMC Style Converter to flatten a midi file, and to test the import to Style functions into the Pa3X Style Mode. Worked effortlessly and the results were impressive as the sound driving them were so good. .........