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• 7 Song Styles
A Song Style is an 8-track Song created by recording a Style (Rom or User) with the keyboard tracks (Upper 1,
Upper 2, Lower). Song Styles capture the chords that trigger the Style accompaniment patterns on a “Chords
track” and you can choose to record one or more keyboard tracks according to your requirements. During the
recording, you can exploit the Intro, Fill and Ending patterns and change Style at will. In practice, what you
normally do in real time with a Style is captured by the sequencer in Song Style Record mode to create a Song
Style.
Up to 8 tracks are engaged by the Sequencer to record a Song Style: 5 associated to the accompaniment
patterns (Drum, Bass, Acc3, Acc2, Acc1) and 3 to the keyboard tracks (Upper 1, Upper 2, Lower).
Disk-based Song Styles in PK format only can be loaded to the PK7 RAM using the Load All procedure.
PK5 can transmit and receive RAM data (Song Styles and Performances) to and from external MIDI device via
a MIDI Dump (see MIDI/GENERAL chapter).
In many other respects, Song Styles are similar to Song, except that they do not contain a Lyrics track.
SONG STYLE PERFORMANCES
A Song Style is governed by a single associated Song Style Performance, which determines how the Song
Style plays. This simplifies Song Style recording, because all the information necessary to record and play-
back are housed in the Song Style Performance without having to set parameters while recording. When you
record a Song Style, it is best to programme the associated Song Style Performance beforehand.
A Song Style cannot be saved as a MIDI file.
To select and playback a Song Style
PK7 can memorize up to 7 Song Styles to the locations numbered from 104 - 110 (USER section). PK5 can
memorize up to 4 Song Styles (96 - 99).
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SELECT A SONG STYLE
Refer to the DISK chapter for explanations regarding how to load Song Styles to PK7 memory from disk.
1. Specify the number corresponding to the desired Song Style on the Song / Style selection keypad.
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