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15. Programming Styles (Style Composer)
Concept
New Styles can be created in two ways:
• By creating new accompaniments from scratch
(page 180).
• By editing existing Styles, which requires that you
copy them and then alter the settings or notes you
do not like (page 186).
Patterns
User Styles and internal Styles are short sequences or
patterns (of four or eight measures) you can select in
realtime. If you have ever worked with a drum machine
or groove box, the pattern concept may sound familiar.
Pattern-based accompaniments usually consist of the
following elements:
• The basic groove, i.e. the rhythm that is the backbone
of the song.
• Several alternatives for the basic groove that keep
the accompaniment interesting and suggest some
kind of “evolution” or “variation”.
• Fill-Ins to announce the beginning of new parts.
• The beginning and ending of a song.
Programming four to eight patterns for a three-
minute song is usually enough. Just use them in the
right order to make them suitable for your song.
The G-70 allows you to program 54 different pat-
terns per Style, some of which can be selected via
dedicated buttons (MAIN [1]~[4], etc.). Others are
selected on the basis of the chords you play in the
chord recognition area of the keyboard (major,
minor, seventh).
Tracks
Unlike a drum machine, a Style not only contains the
rhythm part (drums & percussion) but also a melodic
accompaniment, such as piano, guitar, bass, and strings
lines. That is why the Style divisions work with tracks –
eight to be precise. See also “Arranger parts” on p. 74.
The part-to-track assignment is fixed. You cannot
assign the ADrums part to track 6, for example.
The reason why the ADrums part is assigned to the first
track, and the ABass part to the second is that most
programmers and recording artists start by laying down
the rhythm section of a song.
There are exceptions to this rule, however, so feel free
to start with any other part if that is easier for the Style
you are programming.
Note: Though there are six ACC parts, most Styles only contain
two or three melodic accompaniment lines. In most cases, less
means more, i.e. do not program six melodic accompaniments
just because the G-70 provides that facility. If you listen very
carefully to a CD, you will discover that it is not the number of
instruments you use that makes a song sound “big” but rather the
right notes at the right time.
Looped vs. one-shot
The G-70 uses two kinds of patterns: looped divisions
and one-shot divisions.
■Looped divisions
Looped divisions are accompaniments that are
repeated until you select another division or press
[START÷STOP] to stop Arranger playback. The G-70
provides four programmable looped divisions (MAIN
[1]~[4]).
Looped divisions do not select other divisions when
they are finished: they keep playing until you select
another division by hand (or by foot).
■One-shot divisions
One-shot divisions are only played once and then
select a looped division or stop the Arranger. The
G-70 uses the following one-shot divisions: INTRO
[1]~4, FILL UP [1]~[3], FILL DOWN [1]~[3], and ENDING
[1]~[4].
The division type affects the way in which the respec-
tive tracks are played back. Any track of a looped pat-
tern that is shorter than the longest track is repeated
until the longest track is finished.
Here’s how you can take advantage of that: if the
drums play the same notes during four measures
(while the rhythm guitar or piano needs four mea-
sures to complete a cycle), recording only one drum
measure is enough, because it is automatically
repeated until the longest track is finished.