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Chapter 7 Creating Music Styles

Creating Original Styles (User Styles)

Although the KR-7/5 features a variety of internal Music Styles, you can also create your own. These original Styles are called “User Styles.”

You can use either of the two methods described below to create a User Style.

■Creating New Styles by Combining Internal Music

Styles (Style Composer) (KR-7)

You can create a new style by selecting from among the Rhythm, Bass, Accompaniment 1, Accompaniment 2, and Accompaniment 3 parts in different Styles. This function is called the “Style Composer.”

* You can only combine the KR-7’s built-in Styles.

Chapter 7

Style Composer (KR-7)

With this method, you combine internal Music Styles to create new Styles. You can create a new Style by selecting from among the Rhythm, Bass, Accompaniment 1, Accompaniment 2, and Accompaniment 3 parts in different styles.

Style Converter (p. 136)

Create a new Style by extracting the portions you need from songs composed with the 16-track sequencer.

When you’re composing a song, there’s no need to specify all the chords. You can specify just some of the chords, and the KR-7/5 automatically chooses the other chords and arranges the Style.

Style Converter features an “Auto mode” that allows you to easily create Styles from songs with a single chord, and a “Manual mode,” in which you create Styles from songs with three kinds of chords–major, minor, and seventh chords.

Displaying the Style Composer Screen

1.Press the [Menu] button.

The Menu screen appears.

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Display of

the KR-7

2.Touch <Style Composer>.

* If a User Style has already been recorded, a message like the one shown below appears.

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Touch <Cancel> to return to the Menu screen. Save User Styles to floppy disks, or to user memory (p. 139).

When you touch <OK>, the previously recorded User Style is deleted, and a new User Style is created.

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