Hi Stephen,
as far as I'm aware the PA800 & PA2x have the same styles, sounds etc
I don't think you should have any problems swapping from one to the other.
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What I was reffering to, was, people trying to load complete .sets from earlier models especially if global data was involved.
They seem to be trying to do some pretty weird stuff. I'm not familiar enough with the korg range & the compatibily with prior models, to really comment, but I'm always careful with what I load.

I've done a fair bit of experimentation in my keyboard, including splitting audio loops ( grooves), editing drum kits,
I've played around with most of the style editing functions, including copying from styles,copying from pads, importing & exporting style parts as midifiles, the note trasposition tables etc etc & the PA800 has performed flawlessly.

I've loaded a couple of corrupted styles from the Korg site ( which have apparently now been fixed), they caused the keyboard to lock up, I removed them, it worked beautifully again.
Now if I load someone else's user styles, I load them in individually, rather than as a set of styles, just in case one of them is faulty. I keep the one's I want the rest I delete.
Once the styles are in the keyboard & everything is functioning normally , I save them as a .set & would have no hesitation in loading them as a style .set once I know they're ok.

I think where it gets a bit confusing is
.set can be anything from just a .set of style data right thru to a .set including files for global data, songbook data, pcm data, style data etc

So for instance if I didn't quite know what I was doing & I decided to share a single style with someone & saved the style as a .set which included globaldata , songbook data pcm data etc, and the other person didn't know what they were doing & loaded as a whole .set they could overwrite their own global data, songbook data etc

That's why when sharing one of my user styles I only ever put the one style in the .set folder ( I never put in any other data like global or songbook etc)
and I usually put in a note to say when loading keep opening up the folders
( starting will "All" ) till you get to the individual style then load it to an empty slot.

I always do a complete "ALL" save if I've added a heap of new stuff.

For anyone who's new to a korg, the system is different to the yammies, I personally luv all the stuff that can be done on this keyboard .

best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stephenm52:
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Rikki each time I make any major changes or additions to my Songbook or STS I back up the data to a .set file. When I get my new board can I just load those .set files without risk of causing a problem? Those .set files do not include any files outside of the what is built into the PA800.