Hi Everyone,
an interesting discussion cropped up in our kn7 styles group yesterday in regards to the reason why Alec has gone to all the trouble of putting our kn7 styles into both types of formats
Custom styles & Composer Styles.

Thought I'd share the following

best wishes
Rikki

--- In kn7000styles@yahoogroups.com, "Rikki King"
wrote:
> Thank you
> so much Alec for all the hard work you've put into these styles.
> They are greatly appreciated.


From: "technicsplayer"
Date: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:30 pm
Subject: Re: NEW FREE STYLES FOR TECHNICS USERS

hope the various versions come in useful, Rikki! :-)


From: "Rikki King"
Date: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:54 am
Subject: Re: NEW FREE STYLES FOR TECHNICS USERS

Hi Alec,
the bonus is that you've now apparantly given us access to all the
styles in COMPOSER format as well as in the original CUSTOM Style
format.
( I'm not allowed to download them at the moment because I've used up
my monthly allowance of mb's, and my service provider charges like a
wounded bull when you go over the allowance, so I'm limiting myself
to emails at the moment and the odd file) of all the times not to be
allowed to download ( haahaa)

The benefit that I can see in having them in composer format is that

1. Custom styles apparently only work on the keyboard they were
created for, so I assume if/when the new model kn appears on the
scene , the kn7 customs probably wouldn't work on the new model,
wheras in kn7 composer format,would/should.

2. Having them in composer format is great for the members who share
their songs. I've had a couple of songs play back with rather bizzare
styles. ie the sequence had been created using a custom style.
Problem was, my custom style set was different to the original
players set. He hadn't saved the custom set as part of the song.
Wouldn't have had the problem, if the style had been available in
composer format. It's far easier to save a composer style as part of
the song, than a full custom set.

3.You've done all the hard work converting them from custom to
composer. Now if we want to do any editing or fiddling round with
these styles we can.

thanks again alec

best wishes
Rikki

From: "technicsplayer"
Date: Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:57 am
Subject: Re: NEW FREE STYLES FOR TECHNICS USERS

precisely, Rikki. It's obviously taking a while to sink in widely
because there is complete flexibility in how you want to load and
save in whatever storage medium you prefer now.

the downside is that custom format is more efficient for storage, as
can be seen by the 7000 book total library backup from the CD
fitting on a 32MB card, whereas this total library backup needs a 64
MB card, not really affected by the new styles included here. Also
compare the number of styles that will fit on the 8 MB card.