User Guide

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions
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The Timing offset (RealTracks or MIDI) in ticks (120 per beat) setting allows you to
make a song or style with a more laid-back feel for a certain RealTracks.
MultiStyle(s)
Enter the name of a style: zzjazz, or multiple styles separated by semicolons:
zzjazz;zzbossa and these will appear as MultiStyles, substyles c/d/e/f etc.
You can click on the [Style] button to choose the styles for your MultiStyle from the
StylePicker window.
Importing Patterns into a Style
Importing a pattern into a style is a powerful feature that greatly speeds up the making of
new styles. In the interests of not “re-inventing the wheel” with each new style, this
allows you to import a pattern from another style.
How to Import a Pattern into a Style
A pattern can be copied from one style to another by copying and pasting. The Miami
Pop style has a nice Strings part, in this example we’ll import the Strings from Miami
Pop style into the Light Rock style, ZZLITROK.Style.
Let's import the “Miami Pop” strings into the Light Rock style.
- Choose the [LOAD] button.
- Select the ZZMIAMI.Style style from the file dialog.
- Select the [Strings] button to display the String patterns for this style.
- Select an 8-beat String pattern to copy and press the [COPY] button.
- Choose the [LOAD] button.
- Select the ZZLITROK.Style style.
- Press the OPEN button to open this style.
- Choose an empty 8-beat “b” String pattern (because that is where the String pattern
was recorded in) and press the [PASTE] button.
- Press the [SAVE] button to save the Lite Rock style with Strings.
The strings will play in the “b” substyle only, because that's how they were made in the
Miami Pop style.
You could now import the Guitar from the ZZCONTRY.Style for example, using the
steps above. It is quite easy to quickly add instruments to styles by importing instruments
from other styles.