IBM PS1500 - Manual (Page 89)

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Styles 5•1
• 5 The Styles
You can enjoy playing the Pianovelle PS1500
keyboard sounds in real time while PS1500 takes
care of the auto accompaniment, as if you were
playing with a band of musicians. The auto ac-
companiments are provided by the PS1500
Styles.
This chapter describes the Style auto accompa-
niments, how to select them and how to modify
the Style Preset which governs each Style.
ABOUT PS1500 STYLES
Styles are a collection of musical patterns repre-
senting many types of music, ranging from rock
and pop to traditional and ethnic music.
Each Style has 4 Variations consisting of various
Intro, Fill-in and Ending patterns. A Style, there-
fore, provides a complete range of musical struc-
tures with which you can create an entire song.
Styles provide automatic accompaniments trig-
gered by chord information received from the
PS1500 keyboard and the patterns change to suit
the current chord.
Styles engage 8 tracks: 3 belonging to the real
time keyboard sections and 5 engaged by the
sequencer for the auto accompaniments. The 5
accompaniment tracks are divided into a Drums
track (drum sets widely used in all types of mu-
sic), a bass track and three accompaniment
tracks (Acc1, Acc2, Acc3 - general accompani-
ment instruments).
PS1500 contains 96 permanent Styles in memory
(flash-ROM) and 16 User-programmable Styles
in RAM. The Styles are contained in 14 Banks of
8 (12 Rom and 2 User).
The Style accompaniment tracks have several
items that can be set, such as the Sound, vol-
ume, pan, effects, tempo, muting, tuning, etc. The
arrangement patterns are fixed for the ROM
Styles while for the User-programmable Styles,
they can be freely modified.
User Styles are discussed in a separate chapter.
THE STYLE DISPLAY
The Style Display activates every time the instru-
ment is turned on. When Styles are disabled
(EASY PLAY LED off), the top line shows
“EasyPlay=Off”.
178 SoulBB EasyPlay=Off Bk1: SLOSTR
GrandP POP Bk1: SLOSTR Bk1: PIANO1
When the Styles are enabled (EASY PLAY LED
on), the display shows a string of asterisks until
a note or chord is pressed on the keyboard area
dedicated to Style chords (below the Split point).
178 SoulBB *********** Bk1: SLOSTR
GPiano POP Bk1: SLOSTR Bk1: PIANO1
178 SoulBB C maj7-9 Bk1: SLOSTR
GrandP pop Bk1: SLOSTR Bk1: PIANO1
All Styles display the currently selected Style
Group directly under the Style name.