Companies like MidiSpot make third party styles for the Yamaha arrangers and they use mega voices, so either they have the same program licensed from Yamaha, or they have designed one of their own.

I asked Yamaha if I could buy the program, or at least be allowed to use it under their watchful eye, but I was refused...this was many years ago, even before mega voice technology was introduced. I was not given a reason.

The very thing that gives mega voices their incredibly expressive capabilities, is also their biggest disadvantage.

You can play them in, but it is a tedious job to get them right...corrections can be made afterwards using style dynamics, but it is still tedious. Finding and setting note limits can also be tiresome.

However, being able to use SA/SA2 voices in styles has been a very, very nice addition.

But due to the potential tediousness involved in recording the mega voices, I use Assembly, as the expensiveness is already in the part (and I can always edit to taste if I wish), and note limits and other data has already been worked out.

A style created from scratch on any of the major arrangers is never going to be as good as the factory styles...unless it's an extremely simple style or unless you have access to what the company's programmers used to make them.

Some companies have style parts that were played in using a midi instrument, like a midi guitar or an EWI ( Electronic Wind Instrument) so you would need one of them to make the parts in your scratch built style have equal quality.

I really enjoy making styles the way I do (Assembly) but it would be nice to have one of those style programs nonetheless.

Happy style making, guys!

Please post your efforts if you make one from scratch the equal of the built-in ones on your Yamaha, Roland or Korg.

Ian

PS...there's lots of info about certain aspects/features of our arrangers that Roland, Yamaha, or Korg will never release for public use. I see complaints here on the forum by several members frustrated by not having access to certain data. Most companies don't want to run the risk of their special programs being given, lost, or sold to a competitor.