Posted by: hindimidi
Software/Hardware combination Accompaniment Styles - 10/29/05 02:55 PM
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While the jury is still out on which Keyboard arranger is the best I want to find out which one is the best for creating custom styles. What if I created them in my MIDI sequencer (on PC) and then converted them using one of those programs (MidiToStyle) and then loaded it to the Keyboard (Floppy/USB). I can also use same instrument definitions while I create the styles so that I do not have to re-assign patches when I take the MIDIStyle on the board. This way style should work as if it was created using on-board style creator.
The most important question that I have is I want to use audio sample (LOOP) along with this style. (So that I can create custom LOOP using sounds that do not exist on the keyboard. I can keep the same KEY and Tempo between the MIDI style and the Audio LOOP). So the keyboard should play both(MIDI styles and the audio sample wav/mp3) in Sync. I can do something like this on Ableton Live. (But Ableton can not play the styles (Changing the progression, when I change the chord on my MIDI controller.) I can still use a MIDI controller to trigger the LOOP though.)
Maybe there are software programs like BIB or One Man Band that I am not aware of. Do they exist?
I googled but could not find a keyboard that can play an internal style with an internal audio LOOP. (Though it does not sound too hard achieve technically. You just need to add the Audio player of the Keyboard to play the LOOP with the style player. Just another track. They should also be able to time-stretch the LOOP if I want to adjust the Tempo on the fly. If the audio sounds too ugly then maybe I can turn off the audio track.)
Any ideas?
(Sorry for the cross-post. I had posted this in general forum but was direct to this forum)
While the jury is still out on which Keyboard arranger is the best I want to find out which one is the best for creating custom styles. What if I created them in my MIDI sequencer (on PC) and then converted them using one of those programs (MidiToStyle) and then loaded it to the Keyboard (Floppy/USB). I can also use same instrument definitions while I create the styles so that I do not have to re-assign patches when I take the MIDIStyle on the board. This way style should work as if it was created using on-board style creator.
The most important question that I have is I want to use audio sample (LOOP) along with this style. (So that I can create custom LOOP using sounds that do not exist on the keyboard. I can keep the same KEY and Tempo between the MIDI style and the Audio LOOP). So the keyboard should play both(MIDI styles and the audio sample wav/mp3) in Sync. I can do something like this on Ableton Live. (But Ableton can not play the styles (Changing the progression, when I change the chord on my MIDI controller.) I can still use a MIDI controller to trigger the LOOP though.)
Maybe there are software programs like BIB or One Man Band that I am not aware of. Do they exist?
I googled but could not find a keyboard that can play an internal style with an internal audio LOOP. (Though it does not sound too hard achieve technically. You just need to add the Audio player of the Keyboard to play the LOOP with the style player. Just another track. They should also be able to time-stretch the LOOP if I want to adjust the Tempo on the fly. If the audio sounds too ugly then maybe I can turn off the audio track.)
Any ideas?
(Sorry for the cross-post. I had posted this in general forum but was direct to this forum)