I found another anomaly tonight on the job. You all know how much I like to play manual bass .... well, I set up a nice patch with bass, rhodes and drums and saved it to my user memory. I called it up later to find that the bass patch is dedicated to the style selected, and not a separate part of it's own. Bummed me right out. I can get around it by writing a left hand(Lower) sound instead, but I like the dedicated button to just hit the bass on & off as I need it.
Other than that - we(sax & I ) sounded great tonight. I played mostly with that trio sound, and with the added sax ... it was SWEEEEEET.

The styles are so much better when you take OUT a lot of the stuff they program. It's just way too busy. When I first heard it, I liked the fullness, but after playing with it ... I decided that I MUCH prefer Yamaha's treatment of styles and rhythms. For the most versatility, I need solid, simple, swingin' styles. No fluff - that's MY job !

My current mission is to try and find as many of the psr2k styles as I can (in Korg format) and see if my impression of the PA80 changes. If the rhythms were simpler ... it would be so much better.