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Professional Styles for the Pa2x/ Pa800/ Pa5xx
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:42 pm
by Rob Sherratt
Chris Whitehead and a friend of his called Darren are intending to make professional styles for the Pa2x/ Pa800/ Pa500/ Pa588 series of keyboards. The drum beats will be played live on Yamaha V-Drums by Darren, and captured on a Pa800 via MIDI. The backing tracks will be played live on the Pa800 by Chris. Guitar mode will be used for guitar accompaniment tracks.
The styles will use factory sounds and factory drumkits to avoid the present fault in the korg OS where the linkages between styles and user sounds become broken (and then play garbage) after loading multiple .SET files.
For those who do not know him, Chris is "the star" on the Arranger Secrets DVD's. Chris has Korg and Technics professional experience, and he and Darren are gigging musicians in the Maidenhead/ Windsor area of the UK. Both Chris and Darren will respond to user feedback about content and pricing, so suggestions on this thread will be taken into account.
Please use this thread to post your suggestions of the type of styles and drum beats you would most like Chris and Darren to develop for the Pa2x/ Pa800/ Pa5xx etc. Also please make suggestions on what you think would be a reasonable price to pay for the styles you want.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:22 pm
by thomasteele
Hi Rob
An excellent idea
so to start off
I like a reaistic CHa Cha ,a slow Rumba that are not repetative and sound machined as on most keyboards sixteens ,triplets in Rock
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:28 pm
by Rob Sherratt
I need some styles for accompanying contemporary ballads, for example:
12/8 ballad style (eg for Whitney Houston - Saving all Your Love for Me)
Slow 4/4 ballad (eg for Whitney Houston - Hold Me)
9/8 celtic ballad style (eg for contemporary worship songs)
Styles for Fleetwood Mac classics
Styles for Elton John classics eg Rocket Man
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:19 pm
by miden
Rob, I reckon you could add styles for Billy Joel as well...
Plus some realistic rock styles, and many more "song-specific" styles, there are too many generic styles already!!
Dennis
PS If I could get styles for even just BJ and EJ I would be a happy man!!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:20 pm
by Rob Sherratt
I think the suggestion for artist/ album specific styles is a very good one, and as Dennis says it would be more useful than more "generic" styles. So post your favourite artists/ albums that you want to play here ....
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:17 am
by kbrkr
How about a decent Blues Rock style ala Mustang Sally?
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:39 am
by Kauser
What a wonderful idea.
May I plead for you to please include a few modern Indian beats and styles also. I am talking about modern Bollywood music, not necessarily traditional instruments. I will be happy to supply the actual music to you guys if you wish.
Muchas Gracias;
Kauser
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:46 am
by AudioProCT
The Latin and rock styles of the Ketron boards are very good, if some of those ideas where made for Korg board
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:11 am
by marlo74
I would love to have some Gypsy Kings/Spanish Styles.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:02 am
by PraiseTheLord
Worship Styles like the Yamaha varieties.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:12 am
by greenkidd
I'd like to see reggae, trance, funk, alt country, and cajun styles
Thank you for your requests.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:10 am
by Musician2000
Hi All,
Its Chris Whitehead here, Thank you for your input on new styles needed.. We are currently working on this project of new styles and have taken all of your requests on board. Please if you have any more request for new styles please post them on here...
I will be touch shortly on how the first batch of styles is going.
Best Regards
Chris Whitehead
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:40 pm
by JerryT
I sure would like to have some Louis Prima-like shuffle styles and a hard driven' style like Ketron's JAMSESSN.
Ciao,
Jerry
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:17 pm
by stephenm52
PraiseTheLord wrote:Worship Styles like the Yamaha varieties.
Ditto
Miden wrote:Rob, I reckon you could add styles for Billy Joel as well...
Plus some realistic rock styles, and many more "song-specific" styles, there are too many generic styles already!!
Ditto
Yea, also Blues Rock, Louis Prima styles would also be very welcome.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:25 pm
by Lee
YES, super idea song specific styles (of course they can usually be used for a variety of other songs too)
I will work on a list...
This is very exciting as the only real thing I miss on the T2 is the song specific styles and some of slower styles for 'Standards'
I think most Yamaha factory styles originate from specific songs or sets of songs.
We have a lot of general styles now on PA, so song specific is a great addition.
Chris, I bet we can keep you busy!
Chris...where are you located?
Thanks,
Lee