User Guide

Chapter 14: User Programmable Functions
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Piano, Guitar, and Strings Voicings determine how the Piano patterns will
be voiced. The choices are Auto, Include Full Voicings, Tritones only
(3rd/7ths), Power Chords (Root/5th), Chord Mask Half Octave, and
Chord Mask Full Octave.
The auto-setting usually uses the “Include full voicings.” If the part uses
2-note chords, you should over-ride this setting to “use tritones” so that
the most important notes of the chord (the tritone)
will get included. You can also use chord masks so that specific patterns over chords will get added to your style,
and they will play exactly as in your MIDI file (just transposed). Set the voicings to use “ChordMask Full Octave”
or “ChordMask Half Octave.”
You wouldn’t make a Style Wizard style from scratch using chord masks,
because there need to be generic patterns in the style. So you do it as a
2-stage process. First time, make the style using generic patterns (e.g. Voicing type “Auto”) and then change
voicings to Chord Mask, and add those to the style. As with other Style Wizard features, it is important that the
chords and part markers on the chordsheet be very accurate. So if they aren’t, you should fix them before generating
a style.
The Emb. (embellish) checkbox determines if the patterns for Piano, Guitar, and Strings will be
embellished. If embellished on a chord like D7 (in the key of C) 13ths, 9ths, and #11 notes might be added to
embellish the chord. A Jazz piano style would likely use this.
The “Include Empty patterns Threshold” setting defaults to None. Possible settings are None / 2
beat / 1 bar / 2 bars. If set to none, the instrument will always play in the style, if set to “1 bar”
there will be “spaces of silence” u
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to 1 bar long (perhaps longer if chained together) in the style for
that instrument. So if an instrument is used sparsely in a style, set this setting to something higher
than none.
The Velocity Adjust will make an instrument louder or softer in the style.
Preferences
Preferences affect the style itself.
Save settings with songs
The song will be saved as an MGX file, since the Melody track type is Multichannel and contains the MIDI file. If
you select this, the Style Wizard settings are all saved with the MGX file.
Leave StyleMaker open after creating style
If set, after generating the style, the StyleMaker is left open for you to examine/edit the style directly.