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Thanks for this nice forum. I am mainly playing with my Nord Grand today. It has no arranger or metronome. But the sound and touch easily makes up for the lack of an arranger.
I also had time to fix the chipped keys on my trusty Roland E96 arranger that had been covering dust. Now it has a brand new GOTEK USB drive instead of the ole floppy. This upgrade made the keyboard so much fun to use. I am now creating a separate floppy image for every 8 songs. The nice thing is that it is easy to download the user styles as a set for all 8 user styles available. You can also store a separate small set of 3 times 8 songs in the performance memory.
The reason why I still use the Roland E96 is that I am writing music for computer games for retro computers. Here the important thing is that you need to repeat patterns to save space. Playing around with the arranger is perfect for reaching this goal.
The problem is that almost all basic rhythms are "taken". Beethoven took the ...- (di di di dah, di di di dah). Mozart got (di dah). And so on.
For my upcoming game I decided on a complex rhythm that I hope is unique. It is (dah di dah di, dah dah di daa). Right now I have it in a funk version which is great for upbeat action. Today I have been working on the same rhythm in a minor chord sequence for "coffee shop" Bossanova style. It turned out really nice.
Here is a snapshot of my game entry for Atari Lynx:
I also have a small image of the action:
I also had time to fix the chipped keys on my trusty Roland E96 arranger that had been covering dust. Now it has a brand new GOTEK USB drive instead of the ole floppy. This upgrade made the keyboard so much fun to use. I am now creating a separate floppy image for every 8 songs. The nice thing is that it is easy to download the user styles as a set for all 8 user styles available. You can also store a separate small set of 3 times 8 songs in the performance memory.
The reason why I still use the Roland E96 is that I am writing music for computer games for retro computers. Here the important thing is that you need to repeat patterns to save space. Playing around with the arranger is perfect for reaching this goal.
The problem is that almost all basic rhythms are "taken". Beethoven took the ...- (di di di dah, di di di dah). Mozart got (di dah). And so on.
For my upcoming game I decided on a complex rhythm that I hope is unique. It is (dah di dah di, dah dah di daa). Right now I have it in a funk version which is great for upbeat action. Today I have been working on the same rhythm in a minor chord sequence for "coffee shop" Bossanova style. It turned out really nice.
Here is a snapshot of my game entry for Atari Lynx:
I also have a small image of the action: