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134 Style/Pad Record
Recording Styles and Pads
By entering the Style/Pad Record mode, you can create your own
Styles or Pads, or edit an existing Style or Pad.
Recording Styles and Pads
Styles and Pads share most of the same structure and recording/
editing operations. Here is how they are made.
The Style’s structure
The term “Style” relates with music sequences automatically
played by the arranger of the Pa3XLe. A Style consists of a pre-
defined number of
Style Elements (E) (Pa3XLe features fifteen
different Style Elements: Variation 1-4, Intro 1-3, Fill 1-4, Break,
Ending 1-3). When playing, most of these Style Elements can be
directly selected by using the corresponding buttons on the con-
trol panel.
To explain the Style structure, we can use a tree structure, as
shown in the following diagram:
Each Style Element is made up of smaller units, called Chord
Variations (CV), but not all of them have the same number of
CVs. Variations 1-4 have up to 6 CVs each, while the other Style
Elements have only up to 2 CVs.
When you play in the chord recognition area (Lower, Upper or
Full, depending on the On or Off status of the SPLIT button), the
arranger scans the keyboard and determines which chord you
are playing. Then, depending on the selected Style Element, it
determines which Chord Variation (CV) should be played for
the scanned chord. Which Chord Variation corresponds to each
scanned chord is a setting of the Style: the
Chord Variation
Table . Each Style Element contains a Chord Variation Table,
whose prototype is the following:
After deciding what CV to play, the arranger triggers the right
sequence for each track. Since each sequence is written in a par-
ticular key (for example, CMajor, GMajor or Emin), the arranger
transposes it according to the scanned chord. Notes in the
sequence are carefully transposed, to make them work fine with
all recognized chords.
Going deeper into the Style structure, we can see that each
Chord Variation is made up of
Track Sequences, and the
Pa3XLe supports 8 different tracks. DRUM and PERC are used
for drum and percussion sequences, BASS for bass and ACC1-5
Style/Pad Record
P op Balla d
Va ri ation 1
CV1
Dr um
P erc
Bass
Acc1
Acc2
Acc3
Acc4
Acc5
CV2
CV3
CV4
CV5
CV6
Va ri ation 2
Va ri ation 3
Va ri ation 4
Intro1
CV1
CV2
Intro 2
Intro 3/C.In
Fill 1
Fill 2
Break
Fill 3
Fill 4
Ending 1
Ending 2
Ending 3
Chord Chord Variations (CVs)
Variation 1-4
Intro 1-2, Count-In, Fill 1-4, Break,
Ending 1-3
Major
CV1 – CV6 CV1 – CV2
6
M7
M7
(b5)
sus
sus2
M7sus
m
m6
m7
m7
(b5)
m(
(M7)
7
7
(b5)
7sus4
dim
dim
(M7)
#5
7
(#5)
M7
(#5)
1+5
1+8
b5
dim7
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