Hello,
looking behind the secrets of Yamahas Ensemble-Voices, you can see it is a well known Harmony-Function, but with 24 key-assign types an presets ready for use without to spend time for settings.
Yamaha use four Voices (Upper1-3 and Lower) for categories Brass, Woodwind, Chor and others with acces to 92 SA-sounds. If you select a preset all four parts are activ. Following parameters are selectable: Assign/Harmony (with key-assign for prior solo-voices), Volume/Pan, Tune/Effekt, Humanize (for indiv. or random pitch and timing of solovoices).
The decision how to use Ensemble-voices depends on chord-recognition, if you play staccato or legato, if you play chords or arpeggios etc. If you select "all parts on retrigger" all parts acts as solovoices, whereas you select "voice incremental" there only one instrument is soloing and you can select "from lowest" or "from highest" for solovoices or non-solo-voices.
Maybe ancient ensemble of Korg is not the same - particulary you have no presets in categories Brass, Woodwind, Chor and Others - but try to use voices that also use oszilator-features (legato, retrigger etc) with your ensemble, try to divide them in solo and chordvoice, select Mono-L, Mono-R and all features you can get with track-assign, ensemble, pan.
Then evaluate how much new "Ensemble Voices" takes off of known technologies and if it could not be possible to improve its own ensemble-voices with existing features. Why not be done years ago - there's also a LOT of hidden potential in even that feature forgotten to be used.
Styles - you can not control them with simple velocity-control of chord recorgnition - but you can do it with footcontrollers.
And dont forget assignable functions like muting each style-track separately, solo-select-track, Baß&Lower-backing, Chord-latch, NoChord in Expert-Mode etc.
The difference with technologies which will be offered as a novelty is much lower, the more one uses the existing, well-known features of Korg - and the end results maybe not be as spectacular as first impressions did!
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Dikikeys wrote: I guarantee, were Korg to find a way to protect styles from being shared, we would see a huge explosion in great third party styles. /quote]
Discussions on the meaning of copyrights be performed controversial and there are no signs of such forecasts. So it is not guaranteed, we would see a huge explosion in great third party styles, if Korg will find a way to protect styles from being shared - a huge explosion in great third party styles is not expectable, if only few are willing to spend money again for additional software, you can not use in your next keyboard.
Found: forum.yamaha-europe.com/showthread.php?41242-Neue-Yamaha-Styles-nicht-wirklich (translated):
However, it is in fact, as life in real business life, primarily about money. Probably not worth the effort to produce good material for the handful of players.
Most of Styles you can buy, also known as third-party, are not much better - so I still play a lot with old Styles from "Styles & music". They were still really ok.
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Activity is necessary in development of keyboards - so activities of Yamaha and Roland are welcome, but what is the matter with Korg: few are interested in equipment with good but ancient technologies in new design - at least for newcomer they SHOULD TRY TO HOLD THE LEVEL OF FUNCTIONS THAT ALREADY WHERE PRESENT - missing features as noticed with Pa3xLe/300/600/900 are no good idea, far away from steps forward in development.
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karmathanever wrote: - this is my personal review (feedback) and not intended to start a "manufacturer war" topic.
This is my personal criticism and also not intended for a "manufacturer war" topic - maybe ideas for making updates but without to forget existing goodies.
), but the truth is, there isn't one. Just like any other software, you are buying the right to USE a style, not the right to share it...