Hi Chony ,
further to my post below.
Decided to extend the variations on one of my psr1500 styles. ( Movie Swing)

The style started out at approx 50kb's, 8 bars per variation.

The maxium amount of bars I managed to reach was 48 for vari 1 & 2,
& 32 for vari 3&4.

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rikkisbears:
[B]Hi Chony,
I played around with it a bit more over the weekend.

I'm getting some rather bizzare results.
I actually used omb's import/export pattern copy function.

I initially created the 128bars from a BIAB style (midifile). then used the import export to put the psr style together.

Discovered I had to copy the intro's /endings into the style first. Then the 128 bar variations. Doing the other way round, I ended up with a "File too large" error message , even at 80kb's.

At 134kb's I couldn't open the style editing functions on the PSR. " memory Full " error. One of the styles even crashed it.

I made the file smaller by deleting some of the drums.
Went into the psr's list event editor & noticed only the first 128 bars of the style " variations " will display ie the drums in variation A, but not in the rest of the variations.

I'm still convinced all 4, 128 bar variations play back, ie I deleted the drums except for the first 8 bars on vari 1. , I deleted the first 8 bars on vari2, deleted all the drums on vari 3 & left vari 4 in tact.

I think trying to use more than the 32 bars per variation could cause you hassles. I think the psr's may be designed for a total of 128 bars for the 4 variations ie 32 bars each.

The instrumentation is really sparse, maybe ok if all you wanted was a jazz trio.

I'll send you the 2 files, just let me know where you'd like them emailed.
rikkisbears@hotmail.com
best wishes
Rikki