IBM About PS1500 Styles, Style Display, User Styles are discussed in a separate chapter

• 5 The Styles

You can enjoy playing the Pianovelle PS1500 keyboard sounds in real time while PS1500 takes care of the auto accompaniment, as if you were playing with a band of musicians. The auto ac- companiments are provided by the PS1500 Styles.

This chapter describes the Style auto accompa- niments, how to select them and how to modify the Style Preset which governs each Style.

The Style accompaniment tracks have several items that can be set, such as the Sound, vol- ume, pan, effects, tempo, muting, tuning, etc. The arrangement patterns are fixed for the ROM Styles while for the User-programmable Styles, they can be freely modified.

User Styles are discussed in a separate chapter.

ABOUT PS1500 STYLES

Styles are a collection of musical patterns repre- senting many types of music, ranging from rock and pop to traditional and ethnic music.

Each Style has 4 Variations consisting of various Intro, Fill-in and Ending patterns. A Style, there- fore, provides a complete range of musical struc- tures with which you can create an entire song.

Styles provide automatic accompaniments trig- gered by chord information received from the PS1500 keyboard and the patterns change to suit the current chord.

Styles engage 8 tracks: 3 belonging to the real time keyboard sections and 5 engaged by the sequencer for the auto accompaniments. The 5 accompaniment tracks are divided into a Drums track (drum sets widely used in all types of mu- sic), a bass track and three accompaniment tracks (Acc1, Acc2, Acc3 - general accompani- ment instruments).

PS1500 contains 96 permanent Styles in memory (flash-ROM) and 16 User-programmable Styles in RAM. The Styles are contained in 14 Banks of 8 (12 Rom and 2 User).

THE STYLE DISPLAY

The Style Display activates every time the instru- ment is turned on. When Styles are disabled (EASY PLAY LED off), the top line shows “EasyPlay=Off”.

178SoulBB EasyPlay=Off Bk1: SLOSTR GrandP POP Bk1: SLOSTR Bk1: PIANO1

When the Styles are enabled (EASY PLAY LED on), the display shows a string of asterisks until a note or chord is pressed on the keyboard area dedicated to Style chords (below the Split point).

178	SoulBB	***********	Bk1:	SLOSTR
GPiano	POP	Bk1: SLOSTR	Bk1:	PIANO1

178	SoulBB	C maj7-9	Bk1: SLOSTR
GrandP	pop	Bk1: SLOSTR	Bk1: PIANO1

All Styles display the currently selected Style Group directly under the Style name.

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