Factory Styles • Re: Korg PA4/PA5X style conversions

Curious as to why the recording would have the order all scrambled where the INTRO is after the MAIN and the BREAK is at the end.

Hi Rich --

Yamaha factory styles usually have the layout:

[Set-up measure] MAIN A, MAIN B, MAIN C, MAIN D, Fill In AA, Fill In BB, Fill In CC, Fill In DD, Intro A, Ending A, Intro B, Ending B, Intro C, Ending C, Fill In BA.

The beginning of each section has a MIDI marker, e.g., "MAIN A".

INTROs and ENDINGs can be any length. Putting the BREAK, "Fill In BA", at the end marks the end of the style MIDI data because the BREAK is one measure long.

Yamaha's auto-accompaniment sequencer has quirks. It doesn't always stop at the end (!) if it doesn't see the fixed-length BREAK. Weird, probably a bug. Who knows since Yamaha have never definitively published the style format.

It's easier to create a style which is laid out in the "factory" order. Swizzling sections in a DAW is a real pain in the &^%^% and is extra, avoidable work.

Hope this helps and might aid a Pa5x person lay down the MIDI.

All the best -- pj

Statistics: Posted by pjd — Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:13 pm

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