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Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation106
us to create some of those requested styles which might not warrant a full styles
disk of their own.
You'll find many of those styles in Styles Disk #19 - including Brazilian Canção,
Contemporary Celtic, African, Soca (Caribbean Soul Calypso), a great new Jazz
Ballad style, Reggae, and we even answered a request for a Peanuts style. The
sound of groups like - TijuanaBr, SergioM, B-Gees, Blondy, Elvis, BennyG
quintet, BMarley and more are all represented.
Speaking of more, you told us how much you liked Styles Disk #15 - Country,
so once again, we enlisted the assistance of Nashville guitarist and producer
Mike Harrison. Styles Disk #19 has 8 great new Country styles in the mode of
groups like GarthB, VinceG, DwightY, MerleH, RickyS, -including all new,
Contemporary Country Ballads, Country Honkytonk, Train beat, Cowboy,
Drivin', Country Piano Ballad, and Classic Country.
You can learn more about the new styles by pressing the Memo button on the
Demo tune or by reading the descriptions below. Many of these Demo tunes
were saved with some added reverb, chorus and panning - mainly on the guitars.
The Demo songs for these styles follow the same naming convention as the
styles themselves. So, for example, the DEMO song for BGEE_BAL.STY is
BGEE_BAL.MGU. Many of the demos feature a Solo in the middle chorus
which was created by one of the Band-in-a-Box Soloists. The memo usually
references which one was used.
Our style name convention uses the '~' character to indicate brushes. One of
these styles (J~LIONEL.STY) uses the brushes drum kit (GS #41). For
SoundBlaster users, only SB with Sound Fonts will have brushes, and the SB
defaults to "no brushes". SB users need to launch the AWE Control panel (the
top SB BB button will do that), and then you need to load in the GS Sound Font.
SB 16 users will not brushes available. The SB AWE32, AWE64, SB Live! and
better will have a GS SoundFont (and hence brushes) available. If you do not
have brushes available, you should use the alternate style (J_LIONEL.STY)
which uses the standard drum kit (GS #1).
Once again, remember,
at PG Music we take requests!
Thank you for your
suggestions and keep them coming!