A little trick I used to use was to shorten the number of measures in the style part, especially if it was going to be mostly repetition.

On Style Creator Basic screen, hitting the Exit button once takes you to the # of measures.

You can always extend the number of measures afterwards if there is a part, like a phrase or piano chord part, for example, that you might want to do over 4 or 8 bars.

Shortening the # of measures is also handy when doing some drums parts.

I've been trying to finish up a style set for my friend's Tyros5-76, but perhaps when I'm finished I might try a scratch-built style myself.

You can also store the style, re-open Style Creator to Assembly and copy certain parts you've already done to other style parts.

After I did a few scratch styles, I gained a whole new appreciation for using the Assembly feature to make the style from donor parts.

I even got to the point of taking parts (like Brass phrases) from one genre style, like Swing, and using Groove & Dynamics to make them conform to another genre style, like an 8-Beat.

The more you dig into Style Creator, the more cool things you find you can do to a style, also, you come to appreciate the work done by the original programmers, especially the little details.

Ian