Creating Accompaniment Styles — Style Creator

NTT (Note Transposition Table)

This sets the note transposition table for the source pattern. Six transposition types are available.

Bypass

No transposition.

Melody

Suitable for melody line transposition. Use this for melody channels such as Phrase 1 and Phrase 2.

Chord

Suitable for chord transposition. Use for the Chord 1 and Chord 2 channels, especially when they contain piano or guitar-like chordal parts.

Bass

Suitable for bass line transposition. This table is basically similar to the Melody table above, but recognizes on- bass chords allowed in the FINGERED ON BASS fingering mode. Use this primarily for bass lines.

Melodic Minor

When the played chord changes from a major to a minor chord, this table lowers the third interval in the scale by a semitone. When the chord changes from a minor to a major chord, the minor third interval is raised by a semitone. Other notes are not changed.

Harmonic Minor

When the played chord changes from a major to a minor chord, this table lowers the third and sixth intervals in the scale by a semitone. When the chord changes from a minor to a major chord, the minor third and flatted sixth intervals are raised by a semitone. Other notes are not changed.

High Key/Note Limit

High Key

This sets the highest key (upper octave limit) of the note transposition for the chord root change. Any notes calculated to be higher than the highest key are transposed down to the octave just below the highest key. This setting is effective only when the NTR parameter (page 116) is set to “Root Trans.”

Note Limit

This sets the note range (highest and lowest notes) for voices recorded to the style channels. By judicious setting of this range, you can ensure that the voices sound as realistic as possible — in other words, that no notes outside the natural range are sounded (e.g., high bass sounds or low piccolo sound). The actual notes that sound are automatically shifted to the set range.

Example — When the highest key is F

 

 

 

 

 

Root changes

 

CM

CM

 

FM

FM

 

 

Notes played

 

C3-E3-G3

C3-F3-G3

 

F3-A3-C4

F2-A2-C3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example — When the lowest note is C3 and the highest is D4

Root changes

 

CM

CM

FM

 

Notes played

 

E3-G3-C4

F3-G3-C4

F3-A3-C4

 

High Limit

Low Limit

RTR (Retrigger Rule)

These settings determine whether notes stop sounding or not and how they change pitch in response to chord changes.

Stop

The notes stop sounding.

Pitch Shift

The pitch of the note will bend without a new attack to match the type of the new chord.

Pitch Shift to Root

The pitch of the note will bend without a new attack to match the root of the new chord.

Retrigger

The note is retriggered with a new attack at a new pitch corresponding to the next chord.

Retrigger To Root

The note is retriggered with a new attack at the root note of the next chord. However, the octave of the new note remains the same.

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