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Hello people,

Just made this style with the Pa1xPro. It's based on Buddy Guys version of "Mustang Sally".
Can't wait to get my hands on a pa2x! ill make it practically dance by it's self! Laughing

http://stalian.fileave.com/styles/Mustang%20Sally.mp3

Right click the link to save the song to your pc. either just click away.

The snare drums are all sampled into the keyboard. The electric guitar near the end is also sampled into the Pa1xPro. everything else is from the keyboard sounds.

I must say, I am starting to loose patience with the pa1xpro. It keeps playing up while im creating styles!!

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,
Sal

Liked it much Sal...
You mean you made this STYLE?
I'm asking because I would like to know if its for sale?

Great work...keep it up.

Hi Wings,

Yeah i made it from scratch. It's not for sale yet but ill try and get it to sharp asap and let you know when it is on sale.

Glad you liked it!

Thanks,
Sal

That is very good. I always hear the drums first and you did a great job there. Did you create the drum track from scratch or did you start with a midi file and modify it or what?
I'm trying to hear where the different style elements are.
Is the drum fill going into the 4 chord a variation? The part with the organ licks is that another variation.? The guitar solo, did you just play that live for this demo or is it actually part of the style as another variation?
The reason I ask is I have a bunch of tunes that don't lend themselves to fast left hand chord changes because it's moving along too quickly. Setting up the keyboard for both upper and lower chord detection helps but then of course I lose the ability for splitting the keys for different voices. The answer appears to be creating a style just for one song like you just did. I would love to hear how you structure something like this. For example going to the 4 chord change, if that's a variation that means the variation would have to start one bar early to incorporate the drum fill, right? I noticed you have a couple of different drum fills so is that a second variation? That also means a player doing this live would have to hit the variation button during the bar before the drum fill so the Korg has time to play the variation. Is that right or did you do it completely different?
Oh something else, it appears you did this in Bb, is the style hard coded for that key or is it still open to whatever chord someone plays and the same for the 4 chord change, does the variation if it is a variation, go to the 4 chord automatically or could a player change it up?

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thats a lot of questions! lol

Ill try to answer as best as i can.

I done this style all from scratch and yes the style is open to any chords you want to play. You can use this style for another song if you like. It's a very popular blues type style.

The guitar was done live. The drum fills for the verses are programmed in as part of the variations. I used variation 1 and 2 to make up the verses and choruses plus all the fills. so all together there are 5 different drum fills. plus i used the intro 2 as a bridge type variation. all the tracks were done from scratch.

Hope this helps.

Sal

Thanks for replying, I appreciate it. I've done a lot of sequencing and audio recording and I know all too well how much work goes into creating a tight arrangement and I admire what you do. That's interesting that you used one of the intro's as another chorus. I'm one of the beta testers for Band in a Box and that's an often overlooked trick with that program too. An intro doesn't have to be just just a few bars it can be another extended part.
While I use the keyboard in sound mode all the time with a band, I've only used it twice so far as an arranger with two different people as a duo and it worked out great. I still have to make tons of notes on my song list so I know what style and set up to use for each song. I'm preparing for another arranger gig with a third person with yet another different song list. Eventually I will create a Songbook with a few hundred songs in it that are already set up but I haven't gotten that far yet. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to transfer midi files from my computer to the Korg using the USB connection. The book is a bit confusing on that subject.

Bob

jazzmammal wrote: Right now I'm trying to figure out how to transfer midi files from my computer to the Korg using the USB connection. The book is a bit confusing on that subject. Bob

Well, if your EQ works the same way as mine, you just install the driver, plug in the cable, and then your keyboard will show up the same way as an extra hard-drive. So it is quite easy to transfer files back and forth.

Hi Wings, please see my new post about this. I did move some files to the PA hard drive but the sequencer doesn't see them.

Bob

Left instructions in the other thread.