This is great information! Thank you Jack for asking the question & for all the super responses that have followed.

Among the greatest things about the AWESOME 7K are the quality of the sounds, the many places to store your "stuff", & the many ways to "tweak" the sounds, rhythms, & all the other wonderful things in the 7K....

Reading all the above responses to Jack's question has brought others to mind....about ways to store data in the Panel Memories.

Mostly what I do is tweak sounds to my liking & store favored instruments in the sound memory...sometimes I combine instruments in the 4 spaces that allow this to be done...("Program Menus" > "Sound Edit" > "Tone" > "Tone Select"). example: a couple of piano sounds with a violin, or an organ or two...whatever you want!

There are favored rhythms I select frequently for many tunes....I enjoy trying different rhythms for favored songs... example: "We Three Kings"....works well to my ear with the "Sirtaki"... also I use Boogies & Polkas for "Suzy Snowflake" & other Christmas tunes that sound good to me played in very non-traditional rhythms...

To avoid listening to the same old same old instruments & the same old same old rhythms, I change the registrations & store the results in panel memory & mark my music sheets (in pencil) as to which PM the preferred registration has been stored. With good planning I can move from one registration to another in the same PM while playing the tune more than once....Each change of rhythms in the same PM provides a very different group of sounds....It is much like using the "Music Style Arranger", only the changes are greater....it keeps me awake & my audiences seem to like the results as well!

Another thing I do is punch a lot of buttons during my play....I use the "Performance Pads", the "Techni-chord", & "Solo"... Sometimes I jump up to the Sound Memory to find another instrument to insert....then can jump to a new or the same PM button to change things once again! The fill-in buttons help make a bit of time to do this kind of button pushing....

I think my method may differ somewhat from those described above....

As for using the sequencer... I have not done a lot of that as I usually "screw it up" ....lot's of errors!

Am I having fun??? YES! YES! YES!

ELIZABETH