Even after all these years, you can still learn something new!

I use several Performances per song if doing something quite complex, or playing with a live band and need different setups for different parts of the song, if it’s just two, the normal DEC/- and INC/+ buttons toggle between them quite well. But increase that to three or more and it gets tricky, plus if going from say 1 to 4 for example, you have to step through 2 & 3 to get there, which if there’s any MFX changes or layout or volume changes can sometimes give you little glitches.

But if, while in the Performance List display you press the Favorites button, the 1-8 buttons directly select the current 8 Performances in the display.

Neat..!

There’s one catch though. The Performance List scrolls up or down in increments of eight, and this seems hard wired into the selection buttons, so if a group of three or four Performances go from the bottom of one page of the List to the top of another, the Favorites can’t be set so they are all on one page. You can still use the DEC/INC buttons to change pages (and if still in Favorites mode, that next eight are now directly accessible), but short of rearranging your Perf. List you can’t get them all to display at the same time.

Plus, of course, every time you add a Performane to the middle or top of the List, it’s going to shuffle all the subsequent entries down one (I like to keep my song list in alphabetical order). But if this is a function you REALLY need, I guess you could get round this by always adding songs using only either four (or eight) Performances per song even if unused, and that should keep all for each song always grouped where the buttons can access them (plus give you room to grow if you find yourself wanting to add something later). With 999 entries, that’s still 250 songs, more than enough for any occasion or band’s complete song list..!

I’ve just started playing with a live band again, this technique will be a lifesaver trying to cop a lot of sounds per song with just the one keyboard!

So, apparently you CAN teach an old dog new tricks!