About

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What is Stylizer:

Stylizer is a vst plug in that works as a keyboard arranger, with sounds and styles.The user can change parts, chords, and sounds in the same manner as playing arranger keyboard.

What can i use it for:

Stylizer can be used for recording , rehearsals, live performance, and DJ.It can be used also to design sounds and play them along the 16 channels simultaneously depending on the computer's CPU and memory.

What will be developed:

32 bit vst plug in Installer package for Win XP/Vista/2000

32 bit vst plug in Installer package for Win 7/8

Sampled sound fonts banks.

The first two generic style's banks.

a possibility of making 64 bit version of the plug in.

a possibility of making a Mac version of the plug in

What sound format does it read:

Stylizer reads sound fonts "sf2" format only.

What are the minimum system requirements:

Intel or AMD Processor with at least of 2 GHz .

At least 2GB of ram memory.

Windows Operating System (Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8).

At least 2GB of free disk space.

1024x768 or higher screen with 16 bits or more colors.

VST 2 compatible host.

Is there a MAC or 64 bit version of the vst:

We are working on that currently, but no promises.

Is there an AU/RTAS version of the vst:

NO, as that requires re-coding everything from scratch and a huge budget.

What are generic banks:

Generic banks are the first two styles banks that will be distributed with the software.As we all know arranging styles and sampling sounds is a time consuming issue, so stylizer will start with these two banks where each consists of 128 randomly selected styles. Depending on contribution, some of these styles will be named after contributors themselves. In future we will concentrate on making specific styles banks, like a bank for hip hop, and a bank for jazz, etc.

Is there a stand alone version of the vst:

No, there isn't.

Is Stylizer synced to host tempo:

Yes, it is

Is the software made by synthedit:

Yes, it is.

Can i contribute to your project by making sounds or styles:

Yes, Please do contact me.

Software Features:

Full midi automated interface.

16 audio channels with volume, pan, filter, re-verb, and delay sends for each, with the ability to change track options to control; scale tuning, volume envelope, poly and mono mode, Portamento time, transpose, and bend range for each independently.

Peak meter, overload led, and master VU meters.

6 styles recall buttons.

6 sound recall button. " This feature will be added very soon "

" Status bar to show start, duration, and ending of each part.

Parts leds to show which part is playing.

Scale select to assign scales to styles.

Chord select to assign programmed chords to scale parts, or play them freely on midi keyboard.

Transpose whole style to a key.

Enabling part for looping and auto fill in capability.

Part and chord hold option.

Masters section to control, master volume, re-verb, and delay.

Panic midi button to stop midi stuck notes.

Save, load, rename styles and sound banks.

Two generic banks that includes 128 styles each.

Realistic sampled sound fonts banks.

Work Phases:

The deadline to achieve and finalize all phases is July 2014; as some of those phases might be done before that date. All rewards will be delivered by or before that date.

1- Designing and programming:

This phase is 60% done. The maximum time span for this phase is 4 months as it might finish before July 2014.The steps will be taken to fulfill this phase are:

Making solo, mute buttons on interface.

Adding master panning knob.

Adding master delay tempo sync function.

Adding sound recall buttons.

Making installer for all supported platforms.

Testing for all supported platforms.

Fixing some bugs.

Improving the GUI design of the interface.

Making a 64 bit, and a Mac version of the plug in.

2- Sampling:

The main reason for sampling, is to have high quality sounds and instruments to play as realistic as possible along with styles, or in live mode. A list of professional engineers are already contacted and ready to implement that portion of work. Sampling a general midi bank will take a very long time, that's why we will be using ,editing, and re-sampling some public domain general midi banks and add them to our own sampled library "mostly solo instruments" to have the outcome of a better sounding banks. This phase is 10% done, and it won't take more than 2 months, simply because sampling process won't overcome all general midi instruments; yet it will add some realistic velocity switched samples to our provided sound banks for the first two style's generic banks only.

3- Composing and arranging styles:

The work already started for this phase with a list of enthusiastic musicians for the first 2 banks, but still we need more professional music arrangers to have a variety of styles for the mentioned banks.The time needed to fulfill this step is 5 months where musicians will provide 256 styles, once provided styles will be added, edited, and mixed in stylizer, this phase is 45% done. Keyboards styles such as Yamaha and Korg are not public domain or creative commons even though some are, we will do our best to have our own banks of styles with our list of producers.

Rewards:

All Rewards will be delivered by if not before the dead line which is July 2014. Contributors will be informed by Email, if reward is the product and/or banks, Contributors will be informed via Email with their accounts info and links to download.

The following videos explain main product features:

The interface

Channels

Scales and Chords

Keyboard Zones, Banks, and patches

Live mode and solos

Stylizer demo

Credits:

Jeff McClintock, Dave Haupt, Chriss Kerry, Emad Batayeh,Yozart, Nawras Nader, thepiz.org, Kelly Lynch, Joël Langlois, Faycal Chibbi, Amie Slavin, 'Daz' Disley, Ralph.A.Cronin, Butch Kratzer, Ahmad abdel Motaleb, Eugeny Danchenko"ToneBytes", Cherry Beach Studio - Toronto.