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Lesson 12: Creating a Style-Based Segment

Now that you have created a style with multiple patterns and variations, you can use it to create a segment. When you play this segment, it will contain the same material as the MIDI file you began with at the beginning of the Quick Start. However, the material is organized differently and will play back with variations.

This lesson uses the DemoStyle from the QuickStart project. This style contains all the patterns you learned how to create in Lesson 10. To prepare the style for use in a segment, you first need to put the patterns in categories by assigning them groove levels and embellishments. You can then create a simple segment that imposes some constraint on the order in which patterns are played.


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