User Guide

Chapter 14: User Programmable Functions
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.MID to Drum Kit the instruments that are found in a MIDI file. A quick way of building up a kit. For
example, if you are making a Latin style called “mambo” you could load in a Mambo
MIDI file that you made, and then the StyleMaker’s “Style | Import notes from .MID to
Drum Grid…” menu command would extract the drum notes from the MIDI file, and put
them on the drum grid.
Define a Custom Drum
Kit
Since the Drum Grid Editor uses 19 instruments, this allows you to define which
instruments will be used, and create a custom drum kit.
Copy all “a” substyle
patterns to “b”
Copies all “a” substyle patterns to “b” slots. This feature is handy when only a volume
increase tweaking is required for the “b” substyle.
Copy Current Row to
Row ___
Copies an entire row of patterns to the new row specified.
Delete all Patterns in
this Row
Deletes all of the patterns in the selected row.
Style Checker Analogous to a “Spell Checker,” this function analyzes your style-in-progress and
identifies possible problems.
The Style Checker results are output to a text window, allowing you to examine the patterns and fix them if
required. It identifies patterns that might be “too busy” or incorrect macro notes etc. in a text report about the style,
listing possible problems with the style. Here is a sample printout.
-----Start of style checking ------JAZQUINT.STY
Drums: Row 1, Column 1 First pattern of instrument shouldn't contain masks in it. It should be generic.
Bass: Row 1, Column 1 First pattern of instrument shouldn't contain masks in it. It should be generic.
Piano: Row 1, Column 3 Non Chord tones found (other than C, E, G, Bb) and pattern is not set to a chord mask, riff
based or MACRO
…etc., etc.
-----end of style checking ------
Style Summary This displays a text window summary of the style, including lots of information about the
style such as # patterns, # patterns for each substyle, patches, pushes, volume changes, guitar
patterns, and more.
Add required 8 beat
and blank patterns
Styles must have some 8-beat patterns and at least one “a” substyle pattern if “b” substyle
patterns are present. This will create them by duplicating lower rows.
Flip current
instrument
Swaps the “a” substyle and “b” substyle patterns for the current instrument.
Flip entire style Swaps the “a” substyle and “b” substyle patterns for the entire style.
Set embellish …
current instrument
Opens options for embellishing the currently selected instrument part. Embellish does not
apply to bass and drums.
Set embellish …all
Piano/Guitar/Strings
Opens options for embellishing all Piano, Guitar, and Strings parts. Embellish does not
apply to bass and drums.
Reduce style (to 16
th
notes)
For styles that you want to reduce from 8th notes to 16th notes, e.g., an 8
th
note style at a
tempo of 260 to a 16
th
note style at a tempo of 130.
Expand style (to 8
th
notes)
To expand a 16
th
note style to 8
th
notes, e.g., a 16
th
note style at a tempo of 130 into an 8
th
note style at a a tempo of 260.