I just got my PSR 2000 for Christmas, and am having a great time with it. I'm hoping you can help me with a minor snag.

I'm a jazz musician, who will be using the synthesizer for practice and live gigs. As such, the majority of tunes I'll be playing
will have a 4 or 8 bar intro, then the "head" of x number of bars, then
the 4 or 8 bar ending. As I want to leave extended amounts of time during the head for solos, I want to establish repeats from letter A to letter B indefinitely.

I found in the manual, on page 79 how to mark letters A and B for indefinite repeat, but the machine isn't cooperating with me, or rather I with it. When I follow either the live or step directions, I get 4 beats of annoying metronome interruption, or silence when I reduce the metronome volume.

I also found in the options section a designation for enabling or disabling the repeats function, but can't find a way to access it. I am thinking that I need to establish phrase marks, but the manual is
a bit nebulous regarding how it's done, or most likely I'm just not understanding the nuts and bolts of the process.

To put it simply, here is an example of what I'd like to do with a simple blues progression:

Intro [[: 12 bars :]] ending

I would imagine that this could simply be done on such a sophisticated instrument, but I'm just not getting it. Remember, I `d like to keep the repeated 12 bar phrase playing
indefinitely, so as to accommodate any number of solo verses, then go out after a
final head hopefully by just hitting the "ending" button).

Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Al Dieste
adieste@goldrush.com

This could be possible by recording into the MuliPads. Pad1 Intro. Pads2 Drums. Pad3 Bass. Pad4 Ending. I have recorded 16 bar looped Riff's into the 4 Pads without problems. You can then just trigger any or all of the pads you want the PSR to playback.
If you record a Midi File 12 Bars. Save As .mid.
Change the extension to .pad.
Put this .pad file into a Folder (Name) .usr. (The .usr Extension on the 2000 may be different)
LOAD FROM DISK. Select Individual and place into a Pad Bank of your choice.

Graham UK

Graham,

Thanks for the response and advice. Now I want to really put you on the spot (sorry!)

The example I used for a 12 bar bles was a very simplistic one. Suppose I want to play a 32 bar standard, again having an out-of-the box intro and ending. I'll want to play the head, then open up for solos (1 or more, depending upon my mood and/or other players involved).

Can I somehow place phrase marks in the arrangement, so that the head automatically repeats? I've discovereed repeats, but get a funky metronome-only beat and/or silence before the head repeats.

The manual talks about phrase marks, but I can't figure out how to establish them, or if they are necessary for a specific section to be repeated indefinitely.

I've sent about 40 or 50 emails regarding this problem, which would appear to me (at least theoretically) to be minor, yet nobody seems to know the answer. Inkw there has to be a relatively easy way to get this done.

Thanks again for the time you've taken to respond. Your idea sounds good, but limits me to 16 bars total...great for riff loops, but tough for a long head ("Desafinado" has 68 bars, I think!)

Let's keep in touch.

Regards,

Al