If you get into any communication with Korg and Yamaha, I hope you will bring up the continuing lack of standardization of MIDI codes for most common arranger functions.
Nearly 40 after MIDI first came out, and 30 or so years since arrangers became available, it is still unconscionable that the manufacturers have not yet got together and decided on common codes for such standardized functions as Variation selection, fills and breaks/fills, Intros and Endings, Part mutes, Bass inversion and transpose.
What should, in the 21 century, be a simple task of hooking two arrangers together and have them operate as one has been made needlessly complicated by a complete lack of standardization and often, the inability for front panel controls to send any codes at all..!
It’s laziness and inertia on their part. There’s absolutely no technical reason why two arrangers should not work seamlessly as one. Please, if you get their attention, bring this up…
Too much to hope for Diki. I remember this being a pet peeve of yours for years. Would be brilliant to just be able to use the fill , variation buttons on one keyboard and changes it on the other, but probably not in our lifetime. Probably never.
Meanwhile for me, I just need to set up registrations in the sx900 , I used to also user the registration sequencer before I ended up stacking the sx900 and es920, probably the way I’ll go again.
The sx900 stacked on top of es920 was the easier set up, than the the Lshape with the Korg, but it was ridiculous , I still had my p121 piano as well. Wall to wall keyboards. ( basically 3 piano’s eek!) Glad I managed to sell both pianos, I can move again in my little bedroom music room haha.
Korg forum has a wish list, I’ll mention it. I think most owners are just wishing they’d fix the bugs. Haha . Though personally a bug in the songbook is about the only one that has affected me to date, I try and find a workaround where possible.
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