Hi Starkeeper,
Simon I think used a psr 740 to create his early styles, he's a very talented person.
I ended up with quite a collection of his styles because they're quite unique.

I suppose quality of style depends on how good a musician you are and on your ability to compose a style. Might not be the right word for it, but I've always thought of styles as mini compositions.

Me personally, I lack the musical imagination to create a style from scratch. I may know the technical details of how to go about it, ie what type of chord & notes can be used , what buttons to push, how to set up for style recording etc etc but most of my styles were edited conversions from my various keyboards .

I tend to think maybe some of the poor conversions that one sometimes comes across may give the impression that making your own styles, doesn't work. We tend to foget that each manufactures keyboards handle styles differently. eg some Technics styles don't convert very well to other keyboards, because Technics can handle notes within a style that other keyboards can't, so when it gets converted, you can end up with wrong sounding notes.

There's all sorts of ways to make a style, be it a conversion, or from a midifile or from scratch or even use existing style phrases from a keyboard to create new styles.
OK so may not be as good as what's in a new $3000 keyboard, but if you think about it, if you're using phrases from within a keyboard & just mixing em up a bit, why shouldn't it sound quite good.

best wishes
Rikki

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