Hi Alex & Peter,

Thanks for informing me of the auto-accompaniment to SMF feature built in on both the G1000 and KN6000. I admit that this feature is seriously lacking on the KN5000 but thankfully I had figured out a workaround solution by connecting my keyboard to a computer sequencer to accomplish the conversion task abeit requiring much more work than I cared to deal with. If your music requirements demand that you to convert your auto-accompaniment songs to Standard midi file then the KN5000 may not be a good choice. In my case, I now send the accompaniment tracks as well as vocals to my computer's digital audio sequencer and record it as an audio WAV file as my end music product is now MP3 or WAV file format anyway. I don't find standard midi files as important for my music application because I need to incorporate vocals and midi does not support vocals.

- Scott