Originally Posted By: rikkisbears
Originally Posted By: MOMBOC
Are you using EMC Music Software's "Styles to the Box" program to do the conversion or are you transferring the styles manually?

http://www.emc-musicsoftware.com/epages/...ucts/sttbx_0001


Hi,
No, I prefer to do my various style type conversions manually from midi files

Even though I have EMC ( first got it when it came out in the early 90's ) and I have band in a box conversion add on, I prefer to have more control over what gets converted.

There are some style phrases in the band in a box styles, that don't lend themselves for use in keyboard styles. Biab dumbs them down, doesn't alway work.

I actually decided to try something different this time round, the jazz ballad style I'm testing I actually edited the the biab style first ie stopped unsuitable phrases being generated.

The good part about biab styles when generated for a song, it's not repetitive like a keyboard ie loops every 2, 4, 8bars
so for my cocktail piano type style I did 32 bar variations.
Pressing a fill will move you on to next variation.
Unfortunately the midi drum track is a bit repetitive ( it's actually a style that uses audio drums, but they include a simple midi pattern too)
but works ok.

Sort of doing it as a test style using Bewitched to check it against.

If it works might try some others.

You can slice the audio drum and generate midi from that in the PA4x, that way you have the orriginal drum track..
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