Originally posted by abacus:
[B]I have noticed in other posts where people have asked how easy it is to play the different arranger keyboards on the fly.
(IE. You have no preset or setup for the song asked for)
B]
I had to do this 2 weekends back for a German/American Fest.
In advance, I had practiced a handful of ethnic standards that I thought would be recognized and liked by the listeners and stored them in registrations on the PSR3000.
They liked the selections TOO well. They wanted more, and more...
Because a good friend of mine put this bash together, I wanted to try and keep the people happy by giving them more of what they wanted. I pulled out a fake-book-styled ethnic book and started playing tunes one after the other, songs I had never played before.
I went for broke and the results went amazingly well...
On the PSR3000, all I did was select the rhythm that fit the song, pressed the OTS (1-touch settings) buttton and used whatever sounds + accompaniment were programmed to the OTS... While in the middle of a song, when I wanted to change the melody/lead instrument to be something other than the 4 OTS selections, I just pressed the 'freeze' button to prevent the rhythm/accompaniment from changing on me, and pressed a different registration button that had a voice/instrument that I wanted to use.
Fast and simple.