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4. THE AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENT SECTION
4.1. DESCRIPTION
VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA are able to generate in real
time, while you are playing, a complete and enjoyable accompaniment, featuring high
quality arrangements, made of five sections: drums / percussions, bass and up to three
instruments, changing after the accompaniment style you have chosen. The
accompaniment is able to follow the harmonic progression you are playing, through a
complex technique of chords recognition. This may work even on all the keyboard, or, if
the keyboard is in the split mode, it can be forced to recognize only the notes below the
split point.
The level of the five accompaniment parts can be regulated separately (see
Chapter 5), or you can even cut them off one by one, pressing the button underneath
the related volume slider.
You can set and control the accompaniment using the buttons group called
STYLE CONTROL KEYS, displayed below.
4.2. THE ACCOMPANIMENT STYLES
The instrument has 48 different accompaniment styles, divided into 12 families;
you can find a table at the end of this chapter, with the complete list of the styles. You
can select the style pressing the button of the desired family, and then using the cursor
buttons to highlight the style: pressing the ENTER key you will finish the procedure.
Otherwise, you can use the F1 to F4 function buttons.
Each style has three playing variations: BASIC, ADVANCED 1 and ADVANCED
2, and you can switch from one to another with a fill measure, using the TO BASIC and
TO ADVANCED fills; the SIMPLE fill performs a fill measure, and then goes back to the
current selected variation. The BREAK MUTE button mutes the accompaniment up to
the end of the current musical measure.
