hello charley,
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Question: Does it really matter which style you start with on Genos's StyleCreator?? What i mean is............If you know you are making a rock style should you find a similar style as the starting style? Would there be any difference in the final product whether you start with a similar style or a style of a different genre?
I think that everyone has a little different approach on style creation, which depends on music genre that we play and obviously, it also depends on our skill.
First comes the question: Do you wish the style to sound the same as (or very similar to) original music piece? Or is it enough if it's just close enough so you can play it?
If
close enough is good enough for you, then yes: It can happen there's similar style already built-in and sometimes it's enough to mute some channel (voice in style), or replace the voice with another one -that's the fastest way to do it. Of course, in this case it's important that you find the style that's really close enough to what you wish to get. If you choose the wrong style as starting point, then it will happen that you will change things endlessly and it will never sound the way you wish.
My opinion? No matter how
close enough style you pick, at the end it will never sound the way you wish. The best you can do, is to adapt it so you can at least somehow play your song. The only
right solution is custom style.. a style that is created from scratch for specific song that you wish to play.
Let me give an example... Please look at my
River of tears video (link in my signature). As you can hear, the style is quite simple and you can immediately recognize song as authentic -because style is custom made for that specific song. And even being that simple, such style doesn't exist in keyboard. That shouldn't be surprising though.. it's impossible to expect hat there would be specific built-in style for every song.
Of course, as
Joe H mentioned, you can use specific parts from other styles, if that suits your needs -anything is welcome what makes style creation easier.
Bogdan