Hi Audrey:

You said, "...all I do is make sure I am in the Expand Mode, go to page 3 and save "ALL". I can't say I've noticed much difference in the original to the updated recordings, but then I am definitely not a professional..."

Say you have a KN2000, and you use the stored rhythm pattern "Piano Pop". You set the panel memory to "point" to the stored location where Piano Pop is normally located on the KN2000. You record the song, then you save it, using ALL.

Doing it this way the panel memory saved the information of pointing to the KN2000's stored Piano Pop pattern. You did use the "ALL" when saved which did indeed saved the composer, but not Piano Pop. Just the default prebuilt patterns that resides there. Your using Piano Pop in the KN2000's stored location, no need to save the composer since Piano Pop wasn't copied there.

For example: Lets take that same song, and load it on a KN3000. Guess what, the KN3000 does not have Piano Pop, what will the KN3000 use? The panel memory will be pointing to the best match pattern it can find on one of the stored rhythm patterns on KN3000, and may use 16btballadpop. The song will be played, but not using the KN2000 Piano Pop rhythm.

Lets take that same KN2000 song, and load it on a KN5000. Which does have a Piano Pop, but it is totally different then the one on the KN2000, totally!

You said, "Have I been missing something all these years? I think not."

I guess it just depends on the expectations of the original arranger of the music. One may not notice a difference in rhythm patterns and if there is, so what. But the other person has got to have that same pattern because it was the original, and without it, well it wouldn't be an original.

Anthony