Hi Fred, thanks fo that.
I've tried a lot saving the tempo and it definitely doesn't save into the registrations on my T5. The only thing I can think of is that I need to update the software. I can't do hat right now as I don't have a memory stick that works and my local computer shop is closed.
Once I've done that, I'll let you know if it begins to accept the command.
Re: the modification of the style - I use the registration banks to record my arrangements of the preset styles to suit particular songs.
An example of this would be 60s Motown. A lot of the early Marvin Gaye / Temptations / Four Tops / Miracles / Isley Brothers songs used the same basic drum rhythm at different tempos, some with an added 2/4 snare pattern in the chorus, others without, so I find setting up the instrument parts and volumes makes the performance sound more authentic.
As an interesting side note, and one that modern producers don't 'get', is that a lot of the early recordings have become absolute evergreens (My Girl, Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay, Sexual Healing etc.) BECAUSE of the sounds created in recording sessions using live musos as opposed to computers. (Try playing 'Sexual Healing' for example – one guy/gal and a keyboard CAN'T do it – or at least I haven't heard one yet???)
I remember a few years back seeing a fascinating program on TV where they interviewed now-elderly soul musos from those heady days.
The Tamla studios used the same session musicians behind their roster of singers from The Supremes to Junior Walker and the All Stars and everybody else. Same guys all the time. All in their late 70s or 80s, as cool a bunch of old dudes as you ever seen, buddy.
They asked the session drummer (same guy on ALL the recordings) which producer (there were a few) had written the drum dots he used, that Classic back beat with a heavy snare, sometimes slow, sometimes uptempo.
He said, "I couldn't read music, so I made that beat up."
The interviewer then asked, "So the producers liked that beat and asked you to play it again?"
He said (roughly, can't remember exactly), "Nope, some of them hated it, but it was the only beat I knew how to play..."
Beat THAT for cool!
Norm.