Hi Jamman,
found a number of the styles too complex for what I wanted on my PA800. So I converted, or edited them down ie replaced a style track with a simpler one. Muting doesn't simplify a busy track. One thing that did help me for a couple of the styles, was actually cutting the pattern short ie by the time the pattern got to just say bar 7 & 8 it had changed, and no longer suited the song I was trying to use it for, so I simply cut it back to the 4 bars that did work okay. It was something that was easily done in the PA800, by just changeing the Rec Length & CV Length from 8 to 4 in style record mode & saving it as a user style. It just cut off the last 4 bars of the pattern.
Maybe also doable in the KMA??
[/quote). The problem some times is in bass line in variations (in some cases) and turning off/lowering the volume doesn't help.we need more simple styles (3rd party or well converted ones) support in Korg arrangers in 8/16/ballad/dance /swing catagories and less on hip hop /modern catagories.another examples that I found is (like I said above) dance category(over done/busy bass lines thru variations) which are more apparent when you do chord changes related to that particular styles and they don't go well. Some are very song specific with riff repeating acc track ( 1/8 note simple piano / or bass line backing becames very busy in 2nd and 3rd variations doing extra riffs in 7th and 8th bars.There is also MAny song specific styles -with MJ' Billie jean, Santana's Smooth, Macarena,Lambada, etc, ).what I see with KMA is since it's affordable ,it will follow Psr's path,( many users, more people writing styles ,covering better ones, more 3rd party styles later even though it's the technology from 2001.