Glad to hear it Ron.

To get rid of some of that echo or reverb...here's what I do. While in the performance mode, let's say I'm using the " Groove Ballad " style from the " Ballad " bank This is the default style that my board boots up with, but I have rewritten and changed the global settings, icluding the boot up defaults so it may or may not be the one yours opens up with.

STS3 ( f3 ) from that style is a layered guitar sound with a ton of echo / reverb. I press f3, then go to and press the menu button on the top left of the "screen panel" . From there I press " effects " just to see what effects are loaded in. The main voices will always use effects C and D, so scroll one page to the right ( default takes you to A and B ). Now I see that I have Reverb for effect C and BPM ( delay ) for effect D. I want to get rid of all of effect D and some of effect C. I can change effect D to any effect including no effect or I can just scroll to page 3 of the menu section and adjust the amount of reverb for effect C and the delay for effect D. ( The little keyboard icon will tell you which voices are active for this STS, and you'll want to adjust the effect send levels for each active voice ) There is also advanced editing for each effect starting with screen 10.

Once I get the sound I like, I can simply save it to the same STS ( or a new one if I choose ) by pressing the " write - disk in use " button, pressing the button next to STS N3 to choose to save ( I could also overwrite STS 1, 2 or 4 and keep 3 as it is if I wanted by scrolling with the wheel to the right of the screen ). Then I simply press the ": Enter / Yes " button, A screen will ask " Are you sure ? " If I press Enter / Yes again, my new STS is saved, but If I get cold feet or change my mind, I can press " Exit / No " and nothing is saved.

If you do join the Yamaha groups, look for Terry ( TRT something or other ) and his tutorials ( They might even be saved in the files archive for access and download ). Terry explained nearly every function of the board so that a new owner could easily understand what is going on. He did a great job too I might add.
" Korg " AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 01-26-2002).]