AUTO PHRASE GENERATOR
Using Styles in conjunction with 
the Auto-accompaniment feature 
is one of the easiest ways to 
play music on the Concert 
Performer.  However, Styles by 
their nature are somewhat 
repetitive and may not allow for 
the kind of variations that you 
would like to have in your song.  

The Auto Phrase Generator (APG) 
is a great solution.  This 
function creates accompaniment 
phrases straight from the note 
data that you have played into 
the Recorder yourself!  It's as 
easy as playing a chord 
progression into the Recorder 
and telling the CP what kind of 
musical style you are looking 
for. APG does the rest, 
generating a six-part 
accompaniment phrase in the 
musical style that you 
requested, using the chords that 
you defined.  The phrases will 
actually be MIDI data in the 
CP's Recorder instead of 
patterns and chord sequences.  
This means you can then edit the 
new accompaniment phrase using 
the extensive editing functions 
available.

One of the truly innovative and 
useful features of the APG is 
its ability to extract chord 
progression data from a MIDI 
sequence.  The Concert Performer 
can read your favorite song in 
Standard MIDI File format and 
create a chord sequence based on 
one of the tracks!

Creating a Chord Sequence
Play and record a series of 
chords with the order and 
rhythmic timing of how they 
progress in your song.  This is 
the chord sequence that APG will 
analyze.  If you already have 
chord data, such as from a song 
on disk, you can copy those 
chords into the Recorder for 
this same purpose. 
Once you have data loaded in the 
Recorder, start APG.

The APG program will use 6 
tracks when creating a phrase.  
Before starting the process, you 
will need to have six tracks 
that are either empty or that 
can be written over.


To create a chord sequence by 
yourself:

1) Press the REC button of the 
Recorder.

2) Select the type of Auto-
accompaniment.  If you have 
chosen Fingered or One Finger, 
make sure that the LEFT Part is 
active.

3) Start playing your chords.  
You may record only chords or 
other parts as well.  You may 
also run a Style and play along 
with it.

4) After the recording is 
complete, press the APG button.  
The APG Menu will be displayed.

5) Press the BEGIN (ANALYZE) 
button (L2).  The Analysis menu 
will be displayed.

6) Select Use Existing Chords 
(L2) to copy the chord sequence 
you have recorded.  Use the 
START BAR (L4) and END BAR (L5) 
to select the range in the song 
to analyze.  Use the Dial to 
change bars.

7) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7) to go to the next 
screen.



To create a chord sequence from 
existing song data:

1) After loading the song data 
in the Recorder, activate APG, 
select Begin(Analyze)(L2) to 
enter the Analyze menu, and 
select  "Analyze New Track" 
(R2).

2) Use Start Bar (L4)  and End 
Bar (L5) to select the range in 
the song to analyze.  Use the 
Dial to change bars.

3) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7) to go to the next step.

The APG considers three to five 
notes played at the same time as 
a chord.  It does not recognize 
arpeggio, and cannot generate 
proper chords if told to analyze 
a single note.  Therefore the 
result may depend on how the 
source data is recorded.

If the immediate results need 
some adjusting, you can edit the 
chords.

To use Edit Chords:

1) Press the Edit Chords (L4) 
button in the main APG menu.  
You will be in the Event Edit 
for the Chord track.

2) Look through the data for any 
errors and change if necessary.
Generating a Phrase
To generate a phrase from the 
chord sequence you have created, 
you need to designate the Style 
that you want the new phrase to 
be based on, and the tracks in 
the Recorder where the new data 
is going to be written.

To select the tracks:

1) In the main APG menu, press 
the L3 button to go the Track 
Selection menu.

2) Use the L and R buttons to 
decide which Section will be 
generated to which Track of the 
Recorder.  Use the Dial to 
change track number.  If you 
don't want to generate certain 
parts, select OFF.

3) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7) to go to the next 
screen (Style Select).

To select the Style:

1) In Style Select menu, use the 
CATEGORY buttons (F2, F3) to 
select the category that 
contains Style that you want the 
new phrase to be based on.

2) Use the L and R buttons to 
select the specific Style.  You 
can also use the Dial to go 
through the list.

3) You can listen to the Style 
by pressing the LISTEN button 
(F5) or the START/STOP button.

4) After you've chosen a Style, 
press the CONTINUE button (F6, 
F7) to go to the next step 
(Recording).

Actually Generating the Phrase
There are two methods for 
generating the new phrase.

One is "Paste Parts to 
Track", which automatically 
creates a phrase using the 
selected Variation.  This method 
is the easier of the two, but it 
means that you will not be able 
to incorporate Variation 
changes, or use the Intro, Fill-
ins, or Ending to influence the 
generated phrase. 

The other method is "Real-time 
Recording", which enables you 
to listen to and interact with 
the phrase as it is being 
generated.  With Real-time 
Recording, you can select and 
change the Variation and Fill-
ins at any moment along the way, 
and start with the Intro and 
stop with Ending as well to have 
these incorporated into the new 
phrase.

You have the option of re-
assigning sounds to the new 
phrase.  You can copy the sound 
assignments from the source 
Style, or keep the new phrase 
unassigned (Track Sound).  If 
you are creating a whole new 
phrase, it is better to use 
Style Sound.  If  you plan on 
using the new phrase in the 
middle of a song that you 
already have recorded, it may be 
better not to assign using Style 
Sound so that once in the song 
the new phrase can have its 
sounds automatically assigned to 
it based on the track sounds in 
the song.

The newly recorded phrases are 
in the track and bars that you 
have designated, replacing any 
previously existing data there.

To generate a phrase:

1) In the Recording menu, select 
the method using either the L2 
or R2 button.

2) Use one of the four Variation 
buttons to select the one you 
would like to use to record.

3) Select the sound assignment 
by pressing the F3 or F4 button.  
Pressing the button toggles the 
option between STYLE SOUND and 
TRACK SOUND.

4) To listen to the phrase 
before recording, press the 
LISTEN button (F5).  To finish 
listening, press the F5 button 
again.

5) Press the RECORD button (F7) 
to start recording.
This will complete the recording 
instantly if you have chosen the 
Paste Parts to Track option.
If you have selected Real-time 
Recording, you need to control 
how the music is playing by 
using the START/STOP button, 
INTO/ENDING button, selecting 
any changes in Variations and 
Fill-ins.

6) When the recording is 
complete, press the EXIT button 
to leave the APG.

7) Use the Recorder to play back 
what you have just created.

Use the FILL IN buttons and 
VARIATION buttons to select and 
change Variations and Fill-ins 
when using the Real-time Rec 
option.

Select a Variation that will be 
used to generate a phrase when 
using the Paste Parts to Track 
option.
