You made some excellent points, John. Most everyone I know has a keyboard setup in SD memory that takes them back to whatever setup they prefer to use for just playing whatever comes to mind, or playing live without sequences or specific song setups. I use SD card location 01-01. I know of others that use 99-01. It doesn't matter where the setup is located, you just need to have a location that is easy to remember. The file needs to have everything in it including a blank sequencer file as well as the sound memory file. As you said, there is no worry about changes in the keyboard or other people inadvertantly changing the setup. All it takes to return to the settings you want, is a SD card load of less than five seconds and you are ready to play live.

Scott is using custom memory styles and edited sounds in sound memory as a part of a song sequence and is not saving the style nor the sound memory with the sequence save. That forces him to be constantly worried about any changes in those areas. It is inevitable that somewhere downstream the sequence will be played and unexpected results will occur because changes have taken place since the sequence was made. His fear that changes will occur is unfounded if he would simply include these things in the sequence save process. That means, as you implied, copying the custom style to the composer and using the composer instead of the custom style with the sequence. Then the composer file and sound file would be saved with the sequence. If these things are done the sequence could be played several years later with no concern about inappropriate settings.

I should clarify that when I said that I avoid custom styles like the plague above I should have emphasized that I was talking about using custom styles in a sequence. They are obviously a great tool for non sequenced playing.