with true 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.  Just by your styles.


If you have imported a YAMAHA® style and 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. This preserves the characteristic sound of your accompaniment.

When creating a style, you should directly access the sound module in 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 for your keyboard in nimbu in order to conveniently select from the large number of voices. YAMAHA® keyboards have many great voices that you naturally want to use.

Your settings in Style Export are applied directly to nimbu for playing. nimbu plays all YAMAHA® transposition types. This allows you to play and listen to the style at any time without first having to load it into a YAMAHA® arranger keyboard. This unique interactivity allows you to quickly learn how style creation works.

The universal YAMAHA® styles only transpose chord tones. Since in nimbu the events of the accompanying instruments are always separated from the chords of the harmony and their chord tones are differentiated by colour from the tension tones, you can see immediately for each instrument whether it plays primarily chords and so reinforces the harmony or whether it provides even more tension. This way you know which settings need to be made for each 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.

• The YAMAHA® SFF1 and SFF2 styles are only played with one single time signature. For this reason, it is best to start with an accompaniment without time signature changes.
  For songs that change the time signature, which often occurs with a transition for only one bar, the bars with the other time signature must be converted into the time signature of the style. nimbu provides a powerful function for this very complex conversion, which affects all bars after the time signature change.


• The YAMAHA® styles do not know the required chord scales.
  
  
  Either the tension tones of individual accompanying instruments must be reduced to chord tones. Unfortunately, this further intensifies the harmony, which you should be aware of.
  
  Or, if you cannot do without the tensions, you choose, for example, a phrase as style instrument (target channel) whose tones are only shifted in relation to their root tone when played.


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

More is not necessary, because the accompaniment is musically completely available and processed in nimbu. The reduction to chord tones as well as the conversion of the style to other high key values are done with one click.

Now you can export this song-related style and load it into your YAMAHA® keyboard and play with the chords that nimbu has 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, Intro 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 additional preparation steps. These transpositions must be set in the transpose group of the Setup tab. nimbu supports all YAMAHA® transposition types.


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