The song to style conversion disk is designed for midi files and is made by Taiyo and available from Technote in the UK, and I assume in the States too?
The magazine is Techplus magazine, and I was asked to explain the difference between midi files and technics format in a basic way.

you describe switching off the sequencer to use the programmed registrations, which may or may not involve existing preset patterns or composer patterns, in any event they are all already technics format.

Jean is talking about being able to use the backing patterns from midi files, which is an entirely different format that needs converting to technics composer format first.

You do not need this disk to make patterns from midi files, it can be done using features on the machine, the disk just cuts down a more complicated procedure of transposing measures to C major, or at least a constant chord and then doing a sequencer to composer copy operation for the tracks you are interested in. This would need to be repeated for each variation, fill, intro and ending you wished to use from any midi file. The disk automates the procedure for you in a similar way to the style conversion disk.

[This message has been edited by technicsplayer (edited 07-02-2002).]