GEM WK6 User Manual

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User Guide 2•23
9 • The Styles
Styles are a collection of musical patterns repre-
senting many types of music, ranging from rock
and pop to traditional, Latin and Oriental music
The automatic accompaniments of the Styles are
triggered by the chord information received from
the SK760/880 keyboard; the accompaniment
patterns change to suit the current chord.
ABOUT THE SK760/880 STYLES
The SK760/880 has 192 auto accompaniment
Styles arranged in 12 Style Groups, each con-
taining 2 banks of 8 Styles each. Your instru-
ment may also contain a set of Flash User Styles.
See page 2. 27 for more details. Each Style has
4 Variations, 4 Intros, 4 Fills and 4 Endings. A
Style, therefore, provides a complete range of
musical structures with which you can create an
entire song.
The Styles are rendered more versatile by their
Performances, 8 for each Style. In fact, once
you select a Style, you can assign up to 8 differ-
ent Performances to the Style while you play, giv-
ing you endless sound combination possibilities.
Each Style consists of 16 tracks: the first 8 are
engaged by the sequencer for the auto accom-
paniments, and the remaining 8 belong to the real
time keyboard sections (Upper 1 & 2, Lower 1 &
2 in Upp/Low mode, tracks 1 … 8 in Multimode).
The 8 accompaniment tracks are divided as fol-
lows: DRUMS (drum sets), BASS, ACC. 1/2/3 and
ACC. 4/5/6 (accompaniments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and
6).
The accompaniment tracks and the keyboard
tracks can be changed in the same manner and
saved in the Performance (Style-Performance or
Performance).
In Style/RealTime mode, press the right TRACK
SCROLL button to bring the 8 automatic accom-
paniment tracks into view.
TRACK
SCROLL
The arrangement patterns of the ROM Styles are
fixed and cannot be modified. It is, however,
possible to program your own Style patterns to
create up to 32 User-programmable Styles and
store them in the 4 USER GROUPS. You can
also program User Styles using copies (whole or
partial) of the ROM Styles.
Up to 32 disk based user-programmable Styles
of your choice can be loaded into the 4 USER
Groups available.
Press the left TRACK SCROLL button to restore
the Style/RealTime display.
Accompaniment
tracks
Sounds assigned to the
accompaniment tracks

GEM WK6 Specifications

General

Brand	GEM
Model	WK6
Category	Electronic Keyboard
Language	English