Hi Walt and Rikki,

Sorry I don't get on much over the weekends. Being a programmer I sit in front on the Computer too much as it is.

Anyway with BIAB styles there are a couple of things you can do to get style variations the most important being is to pick a style that has a lot of variation to start with. As you know first there are the A and B style variations but each of these can has several variations depending on how complicated the style was put together.

To know this you load the style then use the style editor to look at the A and B parts for each instrument. The more patterns that were recorded the more variation BIAB will produce when the song is "compiled". For example on the Piano A varaition one pattern could be a Staccato and another an Arpeggio.

There are pattern setting for lengths of notes as well. Each pattern has a weight setting from 1 to 9 where 1 is the least often and 9 the most often.

In most cases these will all be set to 5 so in effect when you play the song each pattern has an equal chance of being selected for any given note. By raising the weight on a pattern to 9 you increase the chance that the pattern will be used and lowering the number to 1 decreases the chance.

The same is true for drums and fill-ins.

If you don't like a pattern you can record your own or add patterns. (Thats were I have a problem.)

So in this example, you could create a variation by setting Staccato to 9 and Arpeggio to 1 (Zero might turn it off I don't remember if it accepts 0) in the BAIB A variation. Save the style and create 8 bars of C and save it to midi. Use that to create your first variation in KN/PR. Then reverse the settings and do it again. You could also create 8 bars of C and put Ca at the 4th and 8th bars which would put a fill in at bars 4 and 8.

Then do the same for the BIAB variation B.

The problem comes in finding styles that are created with that much detail. Many of the newer styles are as are the Norton Add-on Styles.

I'll do separate reply for creating a song.

Regards,
Heather