62| Playing the Styles
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 Havian 30
you get five pitched instrument players (for example: guitar, piano, strings,
synthesizers), 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 patters for each song section, and they are col-
lected under the Style Element buttons (INTRO, VARIATION, AUTOFILL,
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 arrange-
ment becomes denser the higher the element numbers go.
Autofill
Havian 30 automatically matches each Variation with a Fill having the
same number. When the AUTOFILL indicator is on, going from a Variation
to a different one means that the Fill having the same number of the
first Variation is automatically selected. For example, when going from
Variation 2 to Variation 3, Fill 2 is automatically selected.
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