Boo,

You are very right about Korg I30's 48 user styles. However, if your I30 has an internal hard disk installed, then you can easily resolve the limitation of 48 user styles. The trick is to do a global save of all of the following data:
.ARR: Arrangement data
.PRG: Program data
.BSQ: Backing sequence data (this is one of I30's speical strength and for you this is why I30 is the best because you can sequence the chords (your left hand portion) in advance so you can free up your hands to play sax when needed, much easier than sequence a whole song minus sax)
.ARG: Arrangement global data
.GBL: Global data
.SNG: Song data
.ARK: Arrangement keyboard data
.STY: Style data (All: for all user styles in bank C, C11-C64)
as a particular set, say, Jazz_1.set. This method is mentioned on I30's Parameter Guide in the "Disk Mode" chapter, P. 73. Make sure you make a directory/folder named "set" to store all these different sets in a managable fashion.

Then you can load another 48 user styles in bank C and fine tune each instrument and arrangement and repeat the process and save another set for these and you can repeat it for however many sets you need for all your future performances. Every time you need a particular set, you just load the set and you are all done with your preferred arrangement and style settings. If you want something else other than the current 48 user styles, you can load a second set and you will have 48 extra ones within a few minutes. So Dave is also right that you have unlimited styles available to you in the sense of skillfully making use of memory swapping with disk space plus some patience while the set loading is in progress. Newer keyboards has more flash or user style space but this trick also applies to most of them. Some of the new ones can read directly off floppy/hard disk for immediate style loading, adding convenience to real time playing.

Paul Ip
from Texas

[This message has been edited by Paul Ip (edited 01-12-2001).]