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I use custom styles on my PA500 for live performances. I'm currently using Sonar & Kat2000 building each track & variation individually. This is very labor intensive.... There has got to be a more user friendly and intuitive way. Just wondering what others are doing?

Tenortim wrote:I use custom styles on my PA500 for live performances. I'm currently using Sonar & Kat2000 building each track & variation individually. This is very labor intensive.... There has got to be a more user friendly and intuitive way. Just wondering what others are doing?

I had the PA500 then I bought the PA600 to do just this thing, import/create styles using midi with markers.

Please elaborate on how the 600 makes producing custom styles easier than the 500... Thanks!

Tenortim wrote:Please elaborate on how the 600 makes producing custom styles easier than the 500... Thanks!

The PA600 allows you to import the entire style structure in one file using midi markers to identify the separate style elements. So you can work on your style in a DAW and once you have all the Intros, Variations, Breaks, Fills & Endings defined you can import the whole style in one step via a midi file. Very efficient!

Thoraldus wrote:

Tenortim wrote:Please elaborate on how the 600 makes producing custom styles easier than the 500... Thanks!

The PA600 allows you to import the entire style structure in one file using midi markers to identify the separate style elements. So you can work on your style in a DAW and once you have all the Intros, Variations, Breaks, Fills & Endings defined you can import the whole style in one step via a midi file. Very efficient!

Thanks for the info. So you are able to export directly from a DAW to the PA600? No conversation software like KAT2000 required? I'm currently using Cakewalk Sonar. But have to export the style files into KAT2000 to convert from Midi format 1 to a .sty file.

Tenortim wrote:

Thoraldus wrote:

Tenortim wrote:Please elaborate on how the 600 makes producing custom styles easier than the 500... Thanks!

The PA600 allows you to import the entire style structure in one file using midi markers to identify the separate style elements. So you can work on your style in a DAW and once you have all the Intros, Variations, Breaks, Fills & Endings defined you can import the whole style in one step via a midi file. Very efficient!

Thanks for the info. So you are able to export directly from a DAW to the PA600? No conversation software like KAT2000 required? I'm currently using Cakewalk Sonar. But have to export the style files into KAT2000 to convert from Midi format 1 to a .sty file.

I also use Cakewalk Sonar Artist. No conversion needed just Save As Format 0 midi. Here's a simple example of a midi created with Sonar with markers that can be directly imported into the PA600 Style Editor to create a style.

best way...? press record button on your korg (at start read instruction
"record style").Any computer program or"midi'file"do not do it as if you wanted.

ANDRZEJP wrote:best way...? press record button on your korg (at start read instruction
"record style").Any computer program or"midi'file"do not do it as if you wanted.

Actually, I use an INS file to define ALL the PA600 instruments in my Cakewalk DAW. When I audition the styles elements in the DAW I hear it EXACTLY how it will sound on the PA600.