Thanks, Bill. You have made things so much clearer. I wish the keyboard were set up for Sound Memory to be like Custom Memory. I just assumed that the sounds were always there until you either replaced a sound or added new ones up to 40 sounds. I guess I have always been lucky that they are there without having to load them again. You make a sensible and valid point of dropping the volume on parts and keeping the drum roll at 127 velocity, which will make it sound louder in a style. At one time, I did this and the drum roll was loud enough. My problem now is that I set all settings as high as I can but not to the point that I can not give louder emphasis where needed. My doing this caused the acoustic bass to not be loud enough in a mix, even set at 127. When working in Composer, the bass line is usually in the 80 velocity and goes up to over 100 on high notes. I went into Tone Edit and upped the volume and use it in my composed styles. I do this for a very good reason. It makes my signal out much hotter and goes to studio monitors that each have a total of 500 watts of power. These are small professional monitors, about 10 inches by 12 inches and each weigh about 40 pounds. Each has two amplifiers - one, 375 watts in the bass and another, 125 watts for the highs – incredible clean and pure sound. Listening to them, you would swear that they have at least 15-inch bass speakers in them. They can really rattle your walls and ceiling. I might add, they were very expensive when I bought them. With settings set in my keyboard “hot,” I barely have any volume output from the keyboard. This allows me to hear the keyboard but not to the point of interfering with the mic.

Again, thank you for your replies and for going to the trouble of doing a test on my behalf. I also want to thank technicsplayer.

Mark