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Arranger keyboards definitely are not for me. I'm not a keyboardist or performer, I'm a remixer/cover guy; I like to remix or recreate songs I like. That process is, given my lack of keyboard skills, entirely with a mouse and QUERTY keyboard. What I need are synthesizers. They style of music I work in tends to be very masculine, intense, dark, driving, and above all, very electronic-proudly, unapologetically electronic. Having said that, I agree completely, having a comprehensive, DAW-like tool to create my own styles on a per-song basis would be pretty fantastic. Basically, take a Fantom or a Montage and load up arranger keyboard-like styles on to instruments. On the computer end, open them up in this style-creator DAW, and with all of the sound-sculpting tools available in the synths, build up your own styles. Then upload your custom styles either to the synths or to the given manufacturers arranger keyboard equivalents for gigging with. I can also see that, by the nature of the beast, creating your own styles would be unavoidingly complex given all of the accompaniment you would have to program into each style which would indeed require a strong understanding of not just music theory and arranging skills but, the formatting and setup that the synth or arranger requires. My main gig is video post production and motion graphics and animation. Like creating full musical arrangements, creating 2D and 3D art, imbuing them with motion, integrating them into live action footage, editing multiple clips together with the goal of telling a story, by nature is a complex task requiring, not just the understanding of how to turn the knobs, but how to compose imagery and edit them together to tell a story. The tools can be made as user-friendly as is realistically possible in such complex software but, you still need the theory and skills to be able to make effective use of those tools. I see building musical arrangements into styles for an arranger keyboard has a lot in common where needing knowledge, skill and talent is of utmost importance and, by it's inherent complexity, will always be a complex, time-consume task-a fun one to be sure-but, yeah.

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I’m on shrooms can I get this full song or a play list this is next level shit 😂😂

So it has classic arrangements in it Then make your own arrangements Stop crying or get a different keyboard

Levitation at its finest

What a great sound, classic D50 type sound. What a keyboard the D50 was.

Love your t shirt. I want one. Are Korg power supplies interchangeable with many of their keyboards? Does it have straight good pianos? Any good woodwinds brass? Organs?

Amazingly flexible and yet very limited at the same time. These instruments are very expensive for what they are. A bit of a throwback IMO.

So if there is this much difference, do the studio, classic, le, pro x, extreme, and TR have any slight differences? As their components and hardware quality are slightly different?

The step by step helped me get going on this device. Bounced off the mc-101 many times when just using the manual, but this vid worked for me. Thanks!

Hate to have to mention this, regarding the keyboard quality. I have an 88 key Pa5X, the weighted keys that aren’t quite weighted like an actual piano but aren’t far off and it’s very nice to play. After a year one key started making a lot of noise as though something inside the case was coming loose. It went back under warranty and was away over 4 weeks, which was bad enough. No idea what they did to it but they managed to ruin the keyboard action. Keys sticking, the weighting wasn’t correct, all in all worse than the original fault. It’s away again now and I’ve been told it could be two months. The quality at new was great but I’m wondering what I’ve bought now. These things are not cheap and Korg don’t cover themselves in glory with after sales care.

My favorite patch on the CK88 has "drums" like that, made from the Vox organ thru 2 instances of the slicer fx. It's a 3 timbre keyboard, so you get 2 more sounds to layer or split, and play on top of the "drums". For that, I usually use Hawaiian guitar and nylon guitar layered and distorted, but that's my own fault. It's nice to know I've got 40 years of Yamaha tradition to justify my patch depravity.

One of those movie-tension sounds on there. Love that patch!

Hello You are amazing. Why Pa5x and not Ketron for example? I would like you to compare them sometime... Great channel, always thumbs up.. Greets Rafal 🤝

These keyboards needs more open/scratch personnal styles creator : - a piano roll editing in the style creator would help lot of us to create style - or a better integration with computer/DAW (MIDI to Style from Yamaha is a good step in this way) - more in box modern style POP/Rock/FusionJazz and less "exotic style", in extension why not

I wish i could play without sheet music like you can. 😢

High end arrangers have always been kind of a mixed bag IMO. I agree that they are excellent song writing tools, but there certainly are a lot of song specific styles as well. Obviously editing a current style to suit your composition is the way to go, but again as Woody states, you’re still stuck with song specific parts of that style. I think the biggest issue that people don’t really talk about (that Woody did bring up) is the difficulty and TREMENDOUS task involved on any arranger when writing custom styles. Even if you have a professional arranger, and you build that style from bottom up, you’re going to be hard pressed trying to create a custom style to either match or exceed a preset style. You as the consumer will not have access to the tools the manufacturers used to create those styles, which are obviously not created using the keyboards internal style sequencer. Try as you might.., but you’ll never create guitar, bass, and drum tracks that match the presets because you don’t have access to the creation tools and software the manufacturers use. Those amazing styles are created and programmed externally. Also.., writing good FILLS that line up accurately is extremely difficult too. It can be done, but holy hell the amount of work involved in creating a complete style from start to finish is no easy task. I always tell people if you’re creating your own styles.., take advantage of some preset parts of a style., especially the guitar and drums. A lot of the guitar and drum parts in styles (even song specific styles) can easily work well in a user style and the finished style won’t sound song specific. Just be prepared to dive in and do some micro editing. I’ve been playing for over 40 years. I have arrangers, synth workstations, and a full computer set up with DAW’s and VST’s ranging from affordable to expensive.., and I have never seen anyone create a user style on any arranger (from scratch) that equaled or rivaled a manufacturers preset style. Not because they lacked the skill to do it, but because they don’t have access to the recording tools and software used by the manufacturers. I’m always creating my own styles on my arrangers, but I accept that regardless of my playing skills, I’m not going to be putting out a manufactures level of styles using the onboard style recorders. I simply take advantage of the incredible programming already done by the manufacturer for some style parts.

Great machine had 1 but really hard to program but when done properly the results are amazing’ Jean Michel Jarre used it for part of his Revolutions album he knew how to deal with the D50 ❤

Is there a smooth transition when selection one sound to the next?.....ie..the previous sound still rings on the keys pressed

Surely a man of your experience Woody can edit or even create your own styles. These styles are to encourage newbies to part with their money.

We have to remember that arranger keyboards were designed exactly for entertainers working in clubs, restaurants, ships etc. to be able to play a bunch of popular songs. Some kind one-man-show. So if you need inspiring stuff you need to look at side of Avenger 2, Nexus 4 and similar VSTi. Also no one prevents you from creating your own original style.

Most arrangers do offer user programmable styles. If you want to play your own song, make your own style! Much personalized than making 'hybrid' styles as mentioned. The learning curve may seem steep till you become proficient - but once you master it, style creation is easy. Or use the style creation bot found in Korg.

That was awesome. Pity I didn’t catch you live. 🎉

You nailed it. To create a personal new style with these arrangers is a pain in the bu**. Using a midi files are not ideal too. An external DAW is pointless but it's better. 🎉❤

So what's a good midi keyboard woody? I was thinking about going backwards and checking out its younger brother the keylab Mk2

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Stream is ok. So are you Woody. ( good to see you now and then 😅 ) Happy hour and continuations 🤸‍♀️👍

I really enjoyed this Woody! Some alt-Hornsby, reinterpreted classics…. Yeah, my wife would be happier if my keyboard practice sounded more like THIS and less of me spending 15minutes trying to find the perfect voicing for a phrase of some obscure 60s tune she doesn’t know anyway. 👍

The legendary preset 11 of the dx7

What are you playing it on

Is that the dgx 670

❤ Qui écoute encore ça ? Hé les jeunes, sachez que vos grand-mères ont sûrement danser sur cette musique.... 😅

If you just want to make a backing track and play over it, my Juno DS can do that. I’m pretty sure the Kross makes that easy as well. The styles on my Casio KBs are fun BECAUSE they are minimal. Some basic rhythms and arpeggiator like stuff driven by the “chord hint” from your left hand. I agree with other comments on here about the high end arrangers needing to have and make better use of an external monitor (e.g. support a mouse to quickly sail through options, rather than dozens of “D pad” presses).

what is the song name at 3.30?

I play clawhammer banjo and this was my first banjo. It s ok, you can learn to pay the banjo on it. But you get what you pay for, a cheap banjo. 😉

Was songwriting ever easy with no work required?

Never know that was a patch lol

I think it's because the Culture, Japanese, in which their made is Super-super innovative but also has a super Conformist lean and is less geared toward Independence than Collectivism; as a result there's probably a much higher ratio of highly skilled technically excellent Musicians happy to play Covers 'n' Classicals, in Japan/Korea than there are 'Bedroom Musicians/Producers' & 'Singer/Songers' in the US/Europe, even though both have huge populations. (PLS: Don't call me racist for only suggesting this! - just think through what underpins Culture in the East and West)

That allegedly sllly preset was used on a very nice song by Sheila E: "Love On A Blue Train" .

Liking Blue 3. Where can I buy it?? G-G Audio not functioning..

Lol. I made a similar patch on a dx27 30 years ago by just randomly set values. 😂

I totally agree with you, with the onboard styles you are limited as a music creator. It`s good for people, that like to cover famous songs, but for me it`s more interesting to create my own songs. So I often use multitrack recording, take only parts of the styles and create the rest by myself. One of my keyboards is the Thomann AK-x1100, which make it possible to create own styles, but it is too complicated and time consuming. My ideas for a song come spontaneous and I like to create it in time. I don`t like to work for days only for the accompaniment, then the idea and feeling for the new song is gone.

Great video....but when selecting a different sound in the Deluxe version...does the first sound stop abruptly or is there smooth transition to the next sound? Thanks

Just a clarification for those considering the KORG PA5X🎹: it’s correct that the PA5X “Song Book” feature contains numerous well known popular radio hit “titled Songs STYLES.” However, within each of the “categories of genres of STYLES of global music”there are many Styles that are not “Song Title” based, but are of a particular music style for playing one’s own Improvised (eg. Jazz or Country or Ballad or Rock, or World music, etcetera) instrumental 🎹🎶 or accompanying singing one’s own song. I have enjoyed playing creative improvisational music on the PA5X 🎹 for over a year now, and have never experienced being locked into playing someone else’s song or instrumental. Enjoy playing a PA5X 🎹🎶. Woody’s many keyboards review videos are informative & appreciated and enjoyed too - especially his contagious smile. 👍🤗🎹🎶

So confused? I have SX900 when turning on a style I can only press the lower left chords which just change the styles chord. While playing melody with right hand? No way to play real left hand chords, make chord style change and play melody with the right hand at the same time? If i want real left hand chords I have to turn off the style?

PSR SX900 QUESTION, I can not play real chords because I have to press the left side chord keys for the chords in the style to change. Anyone else thought how to overcome this?

Guess what!? KORG just - finally - in latest 1.3 firmware update - added ability to EDIT chord sequences ( ie in their equivalent to the Yamaha 900/Genos Chord Looper ) :) Now i'm waiting for Yamaha to do same. Am v tempted to go for a PA5x 88 even thogh i think Yamaha styles sound better - why? because only KORG offer an 88 weigthed key version.....

As another commentator suggested, try using just bass and drums and play as though you're in a trio. It's surprising how the cheesiness is much less obvious, and you can better your own playing too.

I dont have some of these plugins, I downloaded my labs like in 2020. maybe they have new sounds? gotta check it out. Loved the synth strings, really old school sound. I dont have that one.

I kind of agree but as I'm sure others have said, the ability of muting certain tracks, remixing parts between styles, changing the groove (time signature), revoicing styles.... I often use styles as the basis of a skeleton for a song. I agree you cannot help but play the songs that the styles were designed to showcase, but often I've reused them on multiple occasions. I guess we could go back to the even cheesier backing accompaniments of the 80s, casios, organs... and all that is possible on these keyboards. I'm a big fan of the built in sequencer, as well as using these keyboards as a master sound source for my DAW. Still the best acoustic and electric guitars 'out the box', strings, just a great user interface and quick way to get to bread and butter sounds. These arrangers ARE open ended, just load up new styles... thousands of them out there. Turn of the styles, use the arpeggios with the left hand ... I rest my case 😊 but still love your videos Woody!