Thank you Donny and John for your advice. It seems the time element is the only downside to starting from scratch.OTOH,all my 970 reg banks play,and sound better due to the new effects,and,or samples. I thought that new models play older regs using the nearest that engine has to the same. If that's so,what is the point of duplicating? Couldn't I simply bring in the old banks and edit the 1-8 regs? I am excluding new styles and sounds of the SX. I will treat those separately. In other words,both of you use old and new. What determines if you use the old,except that it is already there to use?

I don't want to take the easy way out and use 970 banks if it is not going to sound as good.