KORG PA4X 76 - Manual (Page 65)

Playing the Styles |61
What is a Style?
Styles are collections of musical patterns in a particular music genre – or
‘musical style’ – offering an eight-parts automatic accompaniment, sim-
ilar to an eight-member band playing with you. Chords you play on the
keyboard will be recognized and will adapt the patterns to suit the music.
Different sections can be selected to let you create a complete song in
realtime.
Accompaniment parts
Accompaniment parts are like the members of a band. With Pa4X you get
five pitched instrument players (for example: guitar, piano, strings, synthe-
sizers), a bass player, a percussion player, and a drum player.
Chords and patterns
Accompaniment patterns are repeating musical sequences (like a bass
groove, a guitar riff or a piano chord progression) that are dynamically
adapted to match the recognized chords. They may vary depending on the
type of chord (like C Maj, C min, or 7th).
Sections
Songs are made of different sections (Intro, Verse 1, Bridge, Chorus 1 and
so on). There are different patterns for each song section, and they are col-
lected under the Style Element buttons (INTRO, VARIATION, FILL, BREAK,
ENDING). While the name of the Intro, Fill, Break and Ending are the same
as the name of the corresponding song section, Variations can be used
either for Verse, Bridge, Chorus or Special sections. The arrangement be-
comes denser the higher the element numbers go.
Intro Verse Fill Chorus Break / Verse Fill Chorus Ending
Intro 1 Fill 1 Fill 2 Ending 3 Break
Variation 1 Variation 2 Variation 3 Variation 4
Auto Fill
Pa4X can automatically match each Variation with a Fill. When the AUTO
FILL indicator is on, when going from a Variation to a different one a Fill
is automatically selected, without having to press one of the FILL buttons.