I want to stop a performance of a song completely (with silence for effect) and then continue. An example would be Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up", where he suspends the song beautifully, and then continues.
I expected that pressing the Stop button could achieve that, but it does not seem to stop it cleanly. I then tried placing the Stop in a new Registration, followed by a Start in a 3rd Registration. But I cannot seem to perfect it.
What do you recommend? Could I move to a Registration with Stop and with all volumes set to zero? And then proceed to a Registration with a Start in it and volumes back to normal?...
Hi Jim,
You can of course use a registration to set the volumes of all desired Parts to zero, and swtch back to the normal volumes with another registration. This works well if at least one Part is NOT muted (e.g. bass and or drums). When all Parts are muted,, you have to count the bar very precisely during the break and then activate the second registration exactly "on the beat" because the style continues to run silently in the background.
In the case at hand (if you want to temporarily stop the accompaniment entirely), I would use one of the folliwing two methods:
1. It's easiest if you don't use the "Stop" button to stop the accompaniment, but press "Sync Start". This will stop the style (and activating "Sync Start" again), and as soon as you play the next chord with your left hand, the style will start again perfectly.
OR
2. Turn on "Sync Start" and "Sync Stop" at the same time and define a suitable "Synchro Stop Window" in the Style Settings. If you then hit a chord very shortly, the style will stop (but not if you hold the chords a little longer). If the function is not needed (anymore), you simply switch "Sync Stop" off again.
By the way, the "Synchro Stop Window" setting is automatically memorized with the "Style" checkbox in Registrations.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Chris