Hi Cristopher_B
I did a few songs with it, itīs a little hard at the beginning but you will get familiar with the workflow as you go forward with the song.
What I do is the following steps:
1. I hear the song many, many times until I have a whole mental scheme of it. Because you will discover firstly a musical picture in B&W, then another textures, your ear will discover the bass, the drums, the melody itself. For this task I recommend you to listen to the song but in Karaoke form, only instrumental, then prepare a paper filling out what instruments you need to cover the song.
2. What do I put first? Depending on the song, there are easy songs with no difficult parts in terms of instruments. For example there are songs with drums with no complicated or straight percussion, one or two electric guitar, the synth part, a predictable bass playing. In this case I start with the drums and little by little the song takes body.
I say a difficult song is the one that has a percussion with many details, like cymbals played on off beats or random bells playing with any order. There are some bass lines that are difficult and has to be set to Fixed Bypass, in other way they wonīt work. There are songs with beautiful harmonies, but a little difficult to build them.
3. Depending on the song, not all the songs are in C, there are songs with modulations, that ends with the modulation and sometimes return to the main verse, there are songs that needs the bass in the Style, or songs that need an special intro part played like a small midi song before the main song starts, there are songs with two or many different tempos.
I prefer to put the song together in its original key, setting the source key correctly in the Style Creator.
Once it is done, you have to mix it, leveling the volume part of each instrument. The DGX 670 has a Style Creator that has to be improved, there are some voids in it like such as the absence of an arpeggiator, the step editor feature, a bigger touch screen. With all this features added the DGX would be a pretty serious instrument. The touch of the keys are good to me, itīs similar to the P 125, and 88 keys are a paradise when they are needed.
Regards
Carlos