Creating Accompaniment Styles — Style Creator

Style File Format

The Style File Format (SFF) combines all of Yamaha’s auto accompaniment know-how into a single unified format. By using the edit functions, you can take full advantage of the SFF format and freely create your own styles. The chart at right indicates the process by which the accompaniment is played back. (This does not apply to the rhythm tracks.)The basic or “source” pattern in the chart is the original style data. This source pattern is recorded using accompaniment style recording (see below).

As shown in the chart at right, the actual output of the accompaniment is determined by various parameter settings and chord changes (played in Auto Accompaniment section of the keyboard) entered to this source pattern.

Source Pattern

1Source Root (root note of basic chord)

2 Source Chord (type of basic chord)

Chord changes (in Auto Accompaniment section of the keyboard)

Pitch Conversion

3NTR (Note Transposition Rule)

4 NTT (Note Transposition Table)

Other Settings

5High Key (threshold of the pitch conversion)

6Note Limit (soundable range)

7RTR (Retrigger Rule; how the pitches of the chord change)

Output

These are the patterns recorded to the accompaniment styles (page 116).

This data is created by chords played in the Auto Accompaniment section of the keyboard (page 62).

These settings are edited from the PARAMETER display. These parameters determine how the pitch of the source pattern is converted when you play chords in the Auto Accompaniment section of the keyboard.

Operation

1

Select the desired accompaniment style

3

for editing. To record a new

 

accompaniment style from scratch, call

A

 

up the BASIC page in the Style Creator

 

B

 

display and select “New Style” by

 

 

 

pressing the [C] button.

C

 

 

 

 

 

D

 

2

 

E

 

DIGITAL

 

 

STUDIO

 

 

SOUND CREATOR

 

 

 

DIGITAL RECORDING

 

 

 

MIXING CONSOLE

 

 

 

PART

 

4

Record and edit the accompaniment style. For details on the

operations for each display, refer to the explanations starting

on the next page.

BACK NEXT

Use the [BACK]/

F [NEXT] buttons to

5

Call up the Style display

by pressing the [I]

(SAVE) button (in Assembly page: [J] button), then save the recorded / edited data to the USER or FLOPPY DISK page.

G

H

I

J

select the various pages.

END

Press the [EXIT]

button to close

the STYLE

 

CREATOR

 

display.

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