Greetings, everyone!

Thank you for your suggestions, your thoughts and the way you have your KN7000 set up. I will try to respond to all statements that I have not already responded to.

John C, you state: “Work as the keyboard was designed to work, add your ideas to the system. If you invent a way contrary to the keyboard’s design you will have problems that can not be solved.” I think I pretty much keep to the keyboard’s design. Keep in mind that one of the defaults in saving is not ALL PANEL MEMORY but only PANEL MEMORY 3 BANKS. Since you don’t have a KN7000 to know this, you have to select ALL PANEL MEMORY to save it. I only save the default setting, PANEL MEMORY 3 BANKS because that is all that I need on a sequenced song since the song was done in PANEL MEMORY A. I do not want to save ALL PANEL MEMORY because that would also be a problem as is SOUND MEMORY changing. When I have my 10 banks of panel memories set up, I do not want any changes down the line unless I purposefully make changes, either from adding new sounds or outright adjustments to the panel settings. I want to always rely on their being as I have set them. Saving them each time I do a new sequenced song has the strong possibility of the panel memories being changed. If I make any changes in the 10 banks of panel memories, with a permanent setting in mind, I save them to ALL PANEL MEMORY on the SD card. The same goes with SOUND MEMORY. Even though one of the defaults in saving includes SOUND MEMORY, I still can’t see how this wouldn’t be a problem bringing up another sequenced song done much later with added sounds used in SOUND MEMORY. I mention this by the possibility of playing live right after playing a sequenced song.

Everyone keeps saying that the SD card loads fast. I am quite aware of this. You tell me how to play live with the LATEST SOUNDS I have created and are supposed to be in my LATEST Panel Memories when I have just played a sequenced song done say, a year ago with old Sound Memory settings that were saved on the sequenced song? I would have to immediately go to my SD card and load a file with ALL PANEL MEMORY, SOUND MEMORY and everything else in that file. Had I not done this, I would not have the latest created sounds – I would have only the old sounds when I did the sequenced number. Yes, the sequenced song would play correctly from the old sound memories that were saved but what about my new additional sounds that I have created? The only way to get them is to load them up from the SD card. Though this may take a few seconds to load, I have to find the file to load it. Anxiously wanting to play live, I CAN’T because I have to be concerned about whether or not the sounds and panel memories are set correctly. It becomes a never-ending battle with having to use the SD card. One could get very paranoid unless they downloaded continually. I’ll discuss FAVORITES later.

John, I do not have a problem with CUSTOM STYLES. The custom styles that I mainly keep in the keyboard are very select and cover most of the music styles that I play so I am not loading CUSTOM STYLES.

I have not had a problem with Panel Memories changing until I tried this CUSTOM PANEL SETTING. From my understanding how this works, I still don’t know why it changed all the Panel Memories in RIGHT2 only. How come it didn’t change RIGHT1 and why were all the changes made to BIG BAND BRASS, which I had not used when I made the setting? No one has addressed this when it was the original question.

Bob H, we have discussed putting styles in COMPOSER and doing a sequenced song from there. There are valid points to doing this and they are: One has a choice of 12 variations versus only 4 variations by using a style from CUSTOM STYLE. What I don’t like about using COMPOSER in this way is because, as we know, it is a temporary file. I personally feel more comfortable with getting my style from a permanent setting in the keyboard, which is CUSTOM STYLE. The keyboard has COMPOSER set up as a default and anything you have put in it is lost as soon as the keyboard is turned off. Yes, when you save the sequenced song, COMPOSER should also be saved but what happens if you don’t save that file – you have nothing but the default playing back to your sequenced song. As many of you know, I am not fond of the styles in the keyboard. I personally can not use them. They are not professionally done to my standards. I work a great deal in COMPOSER and soon as I have done what I set out to do, the work goes into a CUSTOM STYLE file. To me, depending on a temporary file as COMPOSER for a later source in a sequenced song is scary. It certainly is ideal in sending a file to someone because the styles are in COMPOSER and don’t interfere with someone’s CUSTOM STYLES. There are pros and cons in the various ways we use the instrument.

Audrey, you are an old pro at using FAVORITES. I remember your speaking of this in the past. I have never taken the time to figure out how to use this feature. It really sounds ideal. If I remember correctly, the manual doesn't really give an easy step by step on using it.

Rmepstead, I only use SD SONG MEDLEY for listening to a file of songs that I have sequenced. You have lost me on this: “Incidentally I move custom styles as quickly as possible to Memory bank 'A' as Custom Style is liable to be altered by adding other custom styles!!!” I am unsure what you mean by doing this or how to do it.

I think I have responded to all that have responded to this posting. I thank each for your comments. I may be asking some dumb questions so prepare yourselves. I have always been more into playing and composing than learning some of the fine features the keyboard offers. One of the things I don’t have to be concerned with is that I never take music on a job. It’s all in my head and I might add, I have a large repertoire.

All the best,

Scott