KORG Professional Engineer PA3 - Manual (Page 5)

3 Style Record mode
The Style structure
Advanced
By entering the Style Record mode, you can create your own
Styles, or edit an existing Style.
The Style structure
The term “Style” relates with music sequences automatically
played by the arranger of the Pa3X. A Style consists of a pre-
defined number of Style Elements (E) (Pa3X features fifteen dif-
ferent Style Elements: Variation 1-4, Intro 1-3, Fill 1-4, Break,
Ending 1-3). When playing, these Style Elements can be selected
directly from the control panel, using the corresponding buttons.
To explain the Style structure, we can use a tree-structure, as
shown in the following diagram:
Each Style Element is made up of smaller units, called Chord
Variations (CV),
but not all of them have the same number of
CVs. Variations 1-4 have up to 6 CVs each, while the other Style
Elements have only up to 2 CVs.
When you play on the chord recognition area (Lower, Upper or
Full, depending on the Chord Scanning section on the control
panel), the arranger scans the keyboard and determines which
chord you are playing. Then, depending on the selected Style
Element, it determines which Chord Variation (CV) should be
played for the scanned chord. Which Chord Variation corre-
sponds to each scanned chord is a setting of the Style: the Chord
Variation Table
. Each Style Element contains a Chord Variation
Table, whose prototype is the following:
After deciding what CV to play, the arranger triggers the right
sequence for each track. Since each sequence is written in a par-
ticular key (for example, CMajor, GMajor or Emin), the arranger
transposes it according to the scanned chord. Notes in the
sequence are carefully transposed, to make them work fine with
all recognized chords.
Going deeper into the Style structure, we can see that each
Chord Variation is made up of Track Sequences, and the Pa3X
supports 8 different tracks. DRUM and PERC are used for drum
and percussion sequences, BASS for bass and ACC1-5 are for
accompaniment sequences (string, guitar, piano or other accom-
paniment instruments).
Style Record mode
P op Balla d
Va ri ation 1
CV1
Dr um
P erc
Bass
Acc1
Acc2
Acc3
Acc4
Acc5
CV2
CV3
CV4
CV5
CV6
Va ri ation 2
Va ri ation 3
Va ri ation 4
Intro1
CV1
CV2
Intro 2
Intro 3/C.In
Fill 1
Fill 2
Break
Fill 3
Fill 4
Ending 1
Ending 2
Ending 3
Chord Chord Variations (CVs)
Variation 1-4 Intro 1-3, Fill 1-4, Break, Ending 1-3
Maj
CV1 – CV6 CV1 – CV2
6
M7
M7b5
Sus4
Sus2
M7sus4
min
m6
m7
m7b5
mM7
7
7b5
7sus4
dim
dimM7
aug
aug7
augM7
no 3rd
no 3rd, no 5th
b5
dim7