with matching tensions and riffs, melodic lines and bass lines, with time signature changes and everything that makes good music,

then you've come to the right place.  You'll recognise the songs without melody.  Solely by your styles.


We would recommend that every owner of a YAMAHA® arranger keyboard play directly on the keyboard using nimbu, as this allows everything to be played down to the finest detail just like a real band. Even the matching tensions and much more. This is the ultimate access to music, complete with all editing possibilities. At the very least, this should always be the first step.


The YAMAHA® Style Export described here goes one step further by creating styles that can be played directly on a YAMAHA keyboard, i.e., without nimbu.

If you have imported a YAMAHA® style and only edited the events, you can usually export this style immediately, as all of the style settings are already saved in nimbu.

The situation is different if you have created an accompaniment from a MIDI file, because then additional information for the so-called CASM section of the style must be created. We describe the procedure for this case here. Arranger keyboards are designed for universal styles that are suitable for many songs. This is a different concept to which you must adapt your music, thereby preserving the characteristic sound of your accompaniment.

When creating styles in nimbu, you should directly control the sound module of your YAMAHA® arranger keyboard to set the instrument voices and other settings in nimbu and automatically apply them to the style. You can load so-called YAMAHA® Voice Lists into nimbu to comfortably choose from the wide variety of voices. YAMAHA® keyboards feature many great voices that you will certainly want to use.

Your style export settings are applied directly to playback within nimbu, which supports all YAMAHA® transposition types. This interactive functionality allows you to play and audition styles immediately, without needing to load them into a YAMAHA® arranger keyboard first. Through this unique interactivity, you will learn very quickly how style creation works.

Universal YAMAHA® styles musically transpose only chord tones. Since the events of the accompaniment instruments in nimbu are fundamentally separated from the chords of the harmony, and their chord tones are visually distinguished from the tensions by color, you can see instantly for every instrument whether it primarily plays only chords -thereby reinforcing the harmony - or whether it creates even more tension with additional tensions. This lets you know exactly which settings need to be applied per YAMAHA® style instrument (target channel). The simple rules can be found in the nimbu manual. The concept of chord scales is an unbeatable advantage.

Following preparations are required for the YAMAHA® Style Export.

• Most YAMAHA® arranger keyboards do not support time signature changes. Especially not within a section, which would be important for transitional bars. For this reason, it is best to start with an accompaniment that has no time signature changes.
  For songs that do change the time signature - which often happens during a transition for just a single bar - the bars with the different time signature must be converted into the style's time signature within nimbu. nimbu provides a powerful function for this highly complex conversion, which affects all bars following the time signature change.


• YAMAHA® styles are not aware of the required chord scales.
  
  
  Therefore, the tensions of individual accompaniment instruments must either be reduced to chord tones. Unfortunately, this further reinforces the harmony, which is something you should be aware of.
  
  Or, if you cannot do without the tensions or tension, you can select a style instrument (target channel) such as a "Phrase," whose notes are only shifted relative to their root note during playback, with the third also being adjusted if possible.


• The nimbu instruments must be assigned to the YAMAHA® style instruments SubRhythm, Rhythm, Bass, Chord 1, Chord 2, Pad, Phrase 1, and Phrase 2 using the so-called High Key, NTT, and NTR settings, and at least Intro A and Main A must be set.

Nothing more is required, as the accompaniment is musically complete and fully edited within nimbu. Reducing to chord tones as well as converting the style to other High Key values can be done with a single click.

Now, you can export this song-specific style, load it into your YAMAHA® keyboard, and play it using the chords that nimbu calculated from the MIDI file.

With a little practice, the entire process from MIDI file to a truly authentic style takes less than 15 minutes.

• Marker Ranges
  All, Intros and Endings, Mains and Fill-ins
• Style Instrument (Target Channel)
  Rythm, SubRythm, Bass, Chord 1, Chord 2, Pad, Phrase 1, Phrase 2
• NTR
  Root Fixed, Root Trans
• NTT
  Bypass, Melody, Bass, Chord, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor and Original Scale
• HighKey

Additional YAMAHA® transpositions usually require further preparatory steps. These transpositions must be configured in the Setup tab. nimbu supports all YAMAHA® transposition types, including NTR Guitar.


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