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Chapter 5: MultiStyles 23
The following styles sets are the first ones with MultiStyles. They have 4 MultiStyles per style, except Techno,
which uses up to 20 substyles per style.
- Styles Set #69: Techno MultiStyles
- Styles Set #71: Urban Pop MultiStyles
- Styles Set #74: Nashville Rock MultiStyles
- Styles Set #75: Country MultiStyles
Making your own MultiStyles in Styles
You can make a style that is a MultiStyle. For example:
- Open the StyleMaker, press [Misc].
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In the MultiStyles group box, type the name of a style that you would like to use for the c/d section.
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If you’d like more substyles, add more styles separated by semicolons (e.g. “zzjazz;z5bossa;c_george”).
Then you’d have 8 substyles from “a” to “h”.
Note that each of these styles can have a specific RealDrums style, either stored in the style itself (Misc. Style
Settings “RealDrums Settings”), or substituted via MIDI substitutions in RealDrums settings.
MultiStyles in Songs
If you have a song, you can also use more than 2 substyles for that song. For example, let’s say we have a song
that is a Bossa Nova and you want to have a Jazz Swing section. Rather than finding a MultiStyle that has this
exact combination, we can make one, in the song, for this song only as follows:
Load a song like c:\bb\styles0\zzbossa.mg4
Right click on a bar number, and choose “Define c/d.”
Then choose ZZJAZZ.STY from the StylePicker.
You will then see that there are 4 substyles now, a, b, c, d. You can use the “d” substyle for Jazz Swing
walking bass, since it is the same as the “b” substyle from ZZJAZZ.
Load the song c:\bb\Tutorial BB 2008\ “Demo of MultiStyle in song only Bossa 2 Jazz.MG4” and you can see
the finished result. This song switches styles using part markers.
Note: The RealDrums will play for all of the styles if you have enabled RealDrums and “Substitute RealDrums for \ MIDI drums” in the RealDrums
Settings dialog.