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Creating Accompaniment Styles — Style Creator
This powerful feature lets you create your own original styles, which can then be used for auto accompaniment — just
as with the preset styles.

About Creating Accompaniment Styles

The chart at right shows the basic parts (or “channels”) that make up each section
of an accompaniment style. To create an accompaniment style, record patterns to
the various channels one by one, for each of the sections you want to create.

■Realtime Recording (page 111)

You can record accompaniment styles by simply playing the parts from the
keyboard in real time. However, you don’t have to record every part yourself
— you can choose an existing preset accompaniment style that is close to the
style you want, then add or replace parts in that style as needed to create your
own custom style.
Realtime Recording Characteristics
• Loop recording
Since auto accompaniment playback repeats the accompaniment patterns of several measures in a “loop,” you can
also record patterns in a loop. For example, if you start recording with a two-measure Main section, the two
measures are repeatedly recorded. Notes that you record will play back from the next loop (repetition), letting you
record new material while hearing the parts you previously recorded.
• Overdub recording
This feature lets you record new material to a track already containing recorded data, without deleting the original
data. In style recording, the recorded data remains intact, unless you specifically delete it yourself. For example, if
you start recording with a two-measure Main section, the two measures are repeated. As you record notes to each
pass of the loop (repetition), those notes play back from the next loop, letting you overdub new material while
hearing the previous parts.

■Step Recording (page 112)

This method is like writing music notation on paper, since it allows you to enter each note or individually, and
specify its length. This is ideal for making precise recordings, or for recording parts that are difficult to play.

■Assembling an Accompaniment Style (page 113)

This convenient feature lets you create composite styles by combining
various patterns from the internal preset accompaniment styles. For
example, if you want to create your own original 8-beat style, you
could take rhythm patterns from the “8 Beat 1” style, use the bass
pattern from “8 Beat 2,” and import the chord patterns from the “60’s 8
Beat” style — combining the various elements to create one
accompaniment style.

■Editing the created Accompaniment Style (page 114)

With the editing features, you can custom edit the styles you’ve
created by real time recording, step recording, and assembling from
other styles.
MIN
STYLE
ACMP
MAX
AUTO FILLIN
POWER
ON OFF
MASTER VOLUME
FADE IN / OUT
METRONOME
STARTSTOP
OTS LINK
BREAK INTRO
SONG
EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE)
TRACK 2
(L)
TRACK 1
(R)
REC TOP START / STOPREW FF REPEAT GUIDE
NEW SONG
TEMPO
SYNC.START
RESET
MAIN
TAP TEMPO
TRANSPOSE
RESET
ENDING / rit.SYNC.STOPSYNC.START START / STOP
ABCD
DIRECT ACCESS
MENU
DEMO
HELP
FUNCTION
DIGITAL
STUDIO
SOUND
CREATOR
DIGITAL
RECORDING
MIXING
CONSOLE
A
B
C
D
E
BALANCE
PART
PART
CHANNEL
ON / OFF
12345678 EXIT
BACK NEXT
F
G
H
I
J
VOICE PART
ON / OFF
LAYER
LEFT
LCD
CONTRAST
ENTER
DATA
ENTRY
VOICE EFFECT
REVERB
VOICE
PIANO & HARPSI.
BRASS
MUSIC FINDER
PIANO
DSP VARIATIONHARMONY / ECHO MONO LEFT HOLD
E.PIANO ORGAN & ACCORDIONPERCUSSION GUITAR BASS
WOODWIND STRINGS CHOIR & PAD SYNTH. XG USER
ONE TOUCH SETTING
REGISTRATION MEMORY
FREEZE MEMORY
12345678
1234
STYLE
ACMP AUTO FILLIN
OTS LINK
BREAK INTRO MAIN ENDING / rit. SYNC.STOP SYNC.START START / STOP
ABCD
DIGITAL
RECORDING
Section Channel
INTRO A - DRHYTHM 1, RHYTHM 2, BASS, CHORD 1, CHORD 2, PAD, PHRASE 1, PHRASE 2MAIN A - DFILL IN A - DBREAKENDING A - D
For information on the part
structure of accompaniment
styles, see page 95.
Rhythm 1
Rhythm 2
Bass
Chord 1
Chord 2
Pad
Phrase 1
Phrase 2
8Beat 1
Rhythm 1
Rhythm 2
Bass
Chord 1
Chord 2
Pad
Phrase 1
Phrase 2
8Beat 2
Rhythm 1
Rhythm 2
Bass
Chord 1
Chord 2
Pad
Phrase 1
Phrase 2
60’s 8 Beat
Rhythm 1
Rhythm 2
Bass
Chord 1
Chord 2
Pad
Phrase 1
Phrase 2