Technical information

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards
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Bass (“voicings”) determine if the bass part will use All notes / Scale tones
only / Root 3rd, 5
th
, 7th / Root, 3
rd
, 5
th
/ Root and 5
th
/ or just the Root. The
default is “Auto-select” which usually allows all 12 semitones.
Piano, Guitar, and Strings Voicings determine how the Piano patterns will
be voiced. The choices are Auto, Include Full Voicings, and Tritones only
(3
rd
/7
ths
). 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 chord notes (the tritone) are included.
The 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.
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” up 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.
(Default = Yes)
When set, the Style Wizard will set the channels, BB Parts, and snapshots for you. Normally this setting should be
left on.
(Default = No)
If this option is set when you create style patterns to add to an existing style, the entire instrument will be erased in
the style for any instrument used in the new style. When you generate a style by adding to an existing style, the
StyleMaker allows you to pick a new name for the style (to preserve the existing style).
(Default = 0)
If set to zero (the default), the Style Wizard can create the biggest style possible – filling up the rows completely
with patterns. But if you set this to a non-zero value it will limit the # of patterns that can be made. Since there are
30 rows in the StyleMaker, you can set this setting from 0 to 29.
The Style Wizard won't insert patterns unless they are unique compared to the ones already entered. At the default
setting of 8, after 8 duplicates of the same pattern, a 2
nd
pattern will be entered that is a duplicate of another pattern.
Setting this to zero would mean that every pattern would be entered (regardless of whether it was unique); setting it
to a high number like 200 would mean that only truly unique patterns are entered.