Diki,
thanks for info, sorry to be away here for 2-3 days. I don't use songs at all, so Richard's program no help to me. I also don't see the advantage for me to sequence so I can play 2-handed. I always play 2-handed, because i use piano/rhodes/organ/guitar/vibes about 90% of the time and only use other sounds as "spices"-using a split w/gtr in LH. I use full keyboard mode, even for the occasions i want to pump my own lh bass, so I don't feel my left hand is just boringly repeating chord patterns that I want to be released from. I'm varying what i do with it. any anomolies that may appear in the chord recognition here and there are mitigated by the fact i mostly use just bass/drum,..i think Roland does a great job w/bass lines.
Anytime i have tried what many arranger players do..have the LH not sound, but just voice chords in shorthand, or even in full- i have felt totally disoriented. some good players have sat in on my setups and they feel exactly the opposite, they can't stand to have the LH sound if that's what is controlling the changes. they say, hey, can you take this out please? for whatever reason, i like and need to hear it sound..it's a different thing I'm doing, I guess, and it fits my musical expression, and sounds good in that context, even though some musicians hearing it find it puzzling because it's not what they are used to hearing.

unlike most, i don't consider myself OMB..even when i'm solo. I think of myself as jazz player/singer who happens to have a nice "little" rhythm section helping him out. To have to play against any preset background sequence, other than the arranger bass/drum loops themselves, is not what i would most enjoy--which is why I'd rather not play any sax when solo except brief interludes against a repeating pattern on the same chord..again as a "spice'-i'm not interested in showcasing my act as a sax act with keyboard omb behind me. hence "keysvocalssax", not the reverse..I stopped taking leader dates on sax when i started on keys in y2k, and only use it in full on rare sideman calls, jam sessions, or when another kb player sits in on my kb rig, or on guitar. this should help explain why it is so critical for me to have as much on-the-fly control as i can, getting controls into song format or user saves won't cut it the same way for me. and using a controller w/ a module means a Midjay..could be great but
big step for me plus I don't know if I would like midjay.
that's why i just wish there were some way Roland or Roland users could offer OS improvements.

I realize my concept is not the majority concept and is liniting-- and certainly self-indulgent, since I'm pretty much out of the loop of commercial dates.
on the other hand, my musical satisfaction is at a higher
level when i do work, and they like what i do, because i know they are enjoying the creative aspect of it, as I am, and not just hearing their favorite tunes done in a competent fashion.

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Miami Mo