Elizabeth, I am not confident that I fully understand what you are looking for when you ask for our “program”. If you are talking about how the panel memories are set up, the answer is that they are different and unique for each song. If you are talking about how a gig is set up, you can’t get that on a floppy disk. In my case it is dependent on use of a SD card because I use SD Favorite Songs as the method of loading the setup for each song. That data is located in the KN7000mn.inf file of the SD card along with other stuff such as the long song names that are used by the keyboard. A floppy disk load cannot interpret that file. And I’m not anxious to go through the hassle of mailing floppy disks, anyway. Let me try this.

Assume that you want to set up panel memories for each section of the song that you want to play. Select the voicing and rhythm that you want to use at the start of the song. Save that into Panel Memory Bank A, memory 1. Then, as you progress through the song you should find a point that you feel a need to change rhythm and/or voicing. Make that change and save it into PM Bank A memory 2. Proceed through the song and as you find the next point that you want a change, make the change and save that in the next panel memory proceeding through PM Bank A from 1 to 8. If you need more changes move to Bank B memory 1 and continue through memory 8. If you still need more changes, move to Bank C memory 1 and continue through memory 8. That gives you 24 possible changes in rhythm and/or voicing for each song. And, you have the option of choosing any of all the rhythms and voices that exist in the entire keyboard for each panel memory. You can also make changes in tempo as well, as you progress through the song. All you have to do is touch the foot switch that increments panel memory at the appropriate time, and the keyboard will be set up the way you want it for the next portion of the song.

When you have the panel memories set up in the way you want for that song, save the song to your SD card in a SD memory location, using a song name appropriate for the song. Let the KN7000 decide what files to save by using the default settings. The SD load and save is so fast that it isn’t worth taking the time to be selective about what files of the keyboard are saved. When you have finished this, you have a keyboard that is set up for a specific song with rhythms and voicing that are unique for that song. It’s like having a room full of KN7000’s, each of which is ready to play a specific song. All you have to do is move to the next keyboard to play the next song. The SD load process is so fast, that you can “create” that next keyboard in less than 5 seconds with the SD load.

When you use this method (And it is not necessarily the best. It is only one method.), you really need to use foot switches. The Panel Memory selection buttons on the KN7000 are not very well ergonomically designed for manually selecting on the fly.

I use all six foot switches that are available for the KN7000. They are used for: (1) Rhythm Start/Stop, (2) Fill-in 1, (3) Fill-in 2, (4) Panel Memory Increment, (5) Panel Memory Decrement, (6) Intro/Ending 1. I put notations on my lead sheet that indicate where I usually want Panel Memory changes, or Fill-in’s, etc.


Edited by Bob Hendershot (03/13/11 11:40 AM)