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Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 165

along with the default instrument volumes. Remember to always use General

MIDI Instrument numbers, not the Patch numbers of your synth, unless you

have a General MIDI synth. If you don't require a specific instrument for the

style, type a 0 for no patch change. The patch changes take effect immediately

in the style, so that when you are recording Bass parts for example, you will

hear the bass patch that you have selected.

Thru Patch

If you set the Thru Patch to other than 0, the instrument that the user plays along

with, using your style, will be the Thru patch that you set. If you're making a

“heavy rock” style, you might want to set the thru patch to be Rock guitar if you

expected that the user would want to always play along on Rock guitar.

Melody Patch

If set to other than 0 all melodies will be played on the specified instrument. If

you're making a “Grover Washington” style for example, you might want any

melodies to be automatically set to Saxophone.

Volumes

You can set a default volume for each instrument in your style. The default

volume is 90. The volume range is 0 - 127.

Importing Patterns into a Style

Importing a pattern into a style is a powerful feature that greatly speeds up the

making of new styles. In the interests of not “re-inventing the wheel” with each

new style, this allows you to import a pattern from another style.

How to Import a Pattern into a Style

A pattern can be copied from one style to another by copying and pasting. The

Miami Pop style has a nice Strings part, in this example we’ll import the Strings

from Miami Pop style into the Light Rock style, ZZLITROK.STY.

Let's import the “Miami Pop” strings into the Light Rock style.

- Choose the [LOAD] button.

- Select the ZZMIAMI.STY style from the file dialog.

- Select the [Strings] button to display the String patterns for this style.

- Select an 8-beat String pattern to copy and press the [COPY] button.

- Choose the [LOAD] button.

- Select the ZZLITROK.STY style.

- Press the OPEN button to open this style.

- Choose an empty 8-beat “b” String pattern (because that is where the String

pattern was recorded in) and press the [PASTE] button.

- Press the [SAVE] button to save the Lite Rock style with Strings.

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