Hi Paul,
live no.

What Dennis has suggested is basically something I've been doing, except I tried it with a variation.

In sequencer mode, I used the steptime function. Chose the style & put in an 8 bar chord progression. Saved ( as a mmidifile).

Next I chose the style,
pressed record mode
chose Existing
In Edit chose IMPORT function
Chose the style part to replace
( whether it be one of the intro's or one of the variations) made sure initialize was Not checked. Imported it.

Next you have to make sure settings for each tracks are at "No Transpose" ( not fifth or root).

If you've recored your riff in the key it's going to be played in, just leave setting at cmaj. This means when you play c maj key in style play mode, your riff will play back exactly as recorded.

Save user style.

In style play mode when you play chord for that variation or intro, your riff will playback as recorded.

I can go into further detail, for other scenerio's, just depends what you're trying to do.


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best wishes
Rikki

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/PA800_StyleMaking/

Thanks, Donny... Apparently, no-one at Yamaha thinks you need a decent harmonizer either. Time to move on, quit asking for it. Or ANYTHING, for that matter.

For me, at least, the CS allowed you to remain in style mode, fully interactive, and still gain a certain degree of freedom from inputting the chords when you didn't want to. Imagine you are in the middle of a style mode piece (you DO use that still, don't you? ) when the urge to go out front and sing hits you. With a CS, it's doable. Without it, forget it.

And trust me, the fact that YOU didn't use it while you had it is hardly proof of any kind that it isn't usable. Just that you couldn't recognize or use what it CAN do for you. Admittedly, the CS is a feature that rewards the better player. If you don't really NEED your LH for some other task, or play any other instrument well enough to gig with it, I can see the lack of need for it. And if your show revolves around commercial SMF's and karaoke MP3 tracks, well, yes, not much point.

Saying that "I didn't need it, so NO-ONE needs it" is arrogance only you can fail to see. But thanks for chiming once again in on a thread that you have no interest in at all. Other than, of course, to contradict anything I post. I should start a thread that says 'Black is black' just to read how you argue the opposite!

BTW, am I going to have to start quoting everything you post, so you can't snipe away and then remove your posts like over at the Jam thread? A MAN stands by what he writes, for better or worse.