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Originally posted by Diki:
[B]Let me get this straight... You are attempting to make styles with over 128 bar long variations ? When could you ever use something like this? Doesn't playing a fill reset to the beginning of the loop? So to utilize this, you would have to play for WELL over an entire song (a lot of songs have 16 bar verses or thereabouts) and THEN some, without a single fill....

Why would you want to do this? I would have thought that 16 bars is the absolute limit to how long you are willing to go without a fill (unless you are doing hiphop!). Eight bars then a fill is pretty normal. Filling the style data with countless bars you will never get to seems pointless.

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Hi Diki

Another point I had been considering. Yes, it appears that regardless of how long you make the variation, if you use a fill you're right back at the start again. Unless, you put the fills in the variation. But then again, things happen when we perform, like some kind of interuption of some type, so if we we use a variation with fills built in, if you don't start at exactly the right time, the fills will all be wrong.

I guess it really boils down to the fact that arrangers are great as far as they go, but after playing in live band's for year's, there is no substitute for live musician's.

I think this is where some of the public has a problem relating to what an arranger keyboardist is doing. It is also the reason it seems the majority of arranger keyboardists seem's to never be satisfied with what they have and are either always trying to find that one right style, or keep changing keyboards, sometimes for very short periods of time and wonder why they are never totally pleased.

The funny part is, all I or most would need, I would think would be maybe 20 REALLY AUTHENTIC styles and you could play all night long night after night and be ok with it.