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Chapter 7 Using Other Functions

Changing the Settings for Each Part

1.At the Style Composer screen, touch <Options>.

The following screen will appear.

2.Press Part <> and <> to choose the Part that contains the settings you want to change.

■Creating a Style from a Song You Composed Yourself (Style

Converter)

You can take a song you’ve composed yourself and extract the portions you need to create your own original Style. Note that when you’re composing a song, there’s no need to specify all the chords. You can specify just some of the chords, and working on that, the KF-90 automatically extrapolates the other chords, and arranges the style.

The Style Converter has an “Auto Mode” for creating Music Styles simply from a song with a single chord, and a “Manual Mode” for creating a Music Style from a song of three chords (major, minor, and diminished seventh). When you’re creating a song for User Style, think about the structure of the style.

The Part number and the tone name is displayed at the

top of the screen.

3.Touch the corresponding to change the settings for each item.

Display Description

Volume Adjusts the volume level.

Reverb Adjusts the depth of the reverb effect.

Chorus Adjusts the amount of chorus.

Panpot Shifts the direction the sound is heard from to the

left or right. Touch to shift the sound to the

right, or touch to shift it to the left.

You can change the Tone for the selected Part by pressing the Tone Select button.

The Makeup of a Style

A Music Style is made up of five performance parts: “Rhythm,” “Bass,” “Accompaniment 1,” “Accompaniment 2,” and “Accompaniment 3.”

Also, a song progresses in a sequence, such as intro, melody A, melody B, bridge, and ending.

With the KF-90, such changes in songs are allocated to the following six performance states. The six performance states are called “Divisions” for Style.

Division	Performance division
Intro	The intro is played at the start of a song.
Ending	This is played at the end of a song.
Original	This is a basic accompaniment pattern.
Variation	This is a developmental
	accompaniment pattern.

4.When you’re done changing the settings, touch <Exit>.

The Style Composer screen appears.

Fill In To Variation This is a one-measure phrase inserted at a juncture where the mood changes. It is used to make a song more lively.

Fill In To Original This is a one-measure phrase inserted at a juncture where the mood changes. It is used to make a song more sedate.

You can make a song more lively or more restrained by increasing or reducing performance parts by Divisions. You can also modify a song by changing the tone of the performance parts by Divisions.

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