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madirv:
Hi everyone,
I've been encouraged by responses from my previous, and first post, to ask any questions however simple ---so here goes!!
When I set up a song/tune I decide the style, voice, volume  etc and then save it to the registration memory under say no.1.  Then i select a variation of either/both the style and the voices and then save that to no.2 and so on.  So when I play I am always changing the sounds with my right hand via these buttons.
I have watched numerous youtube videos and the performers always seem to be pressing buttons on the left which seems to me to be the variation buttons only but this only produces the slight change in the rhythm style.  Am I doing something wrong?
I realise if the OTS is on that would change the voices but the result seems usually horrific to me but then Im not keen on the built in OTS settings.
Hope I am making sense here.
Thank you in advance for any responses
Irene

XeeniX:
Hi Irene,

If you press only that memory button which you use to store your registrations with you should get the registrations memory contents screen. You can choose which data should be saved. For example you can enable or disable things like voice or multipads etc. which would allow you to choose to store any voice setting you prefer in that registration. When you later on press that registratin button it will pick the voices etc you have chosen no matter if you have OTS on or off.

There is a nice lesson/workshop on this website by Joe Waters that explains how to use and create registrations as well. You can find it at this link: https://psrtutorial.com/lessons/playing/regist/index.html

Not entirely sure if this is what you were asking but people who are more specialised in this matter will probably chip in too :)
Peter

madirv:
Thanks Peter.  I think I know the screen you mean---long list of things--I always press "save all" or something but not quite what i meant.  It seems to me as though when experienced players play they do a lot of swopping about and button pressing on the left side of the keyboard which seems to me that it is mostly the variations they are pressing and not the memory buttons which made me wonder if I'm doing this all wrong and what is it that they are pressing  ????;D ;D
Ill have another look at the page you mention ---I think I read this when I first started---may not have understood it then but time brings experience :D :D :D :D

BogdanH:

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I have watched numerous youtube videos and the performers always seem to be pressing buttons on the left which seems to me to be the variation buttons only but this only produces the slight change in the rhythm style.
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The amount of changes that variation buttons make, is defined in the style itself. For each style variation you can define what instruments (voices) will be used, how loud they should be, etc. Everything you see in Mixer/Style screen, can be saved into style itself. Additionally, you can also define which voices (L, R1, R2) you wish to be used in particular style variation. That is, whatever you see in Mixer/Panel screen can be saved into OTS, which again, is saved into style. In short: everything what we hear when playing music, can be (and should be, in my opinion) defined inside style -registrations are not needed for that.

I can see, that many are using registrations even for relative "simple" songs. The reason for that is, in my opinion, because that's the "easy way" to change style behavior -but that's not the purpose of registrations. To put it simple: style describes the music, and registration describes the state (settings) of the whole keyboard.

Ok, but if registration does change the style the way I like, why not using it? I can imagine at least one reason why registration should be avoided. Example: you're using built-in style, made changes to your liking and saved each change registration. Next year you buy new keyboard, load the registrations and realize they became useless (because registrations are keyboard specific).  Means, if we use registrations, then we also need to make sure that we save the style that's used in registration. If sound/voice parameters are saved into style itself, then we only need to load the style in new keyboard and it will work.

Of course there are good reasons to use registrations... for example, to define pedal behavior... or if more that four variations are needed (which is quite rare in popular music).

I hope this was of some help -and if there is some specific question, don't hesitate to ask.

Bogdan

mikf:
There is no “right or wrong”, there are nearly always multiple ways to do things on these arrangers, and you can decide which works best for you. Don’t be too much influenced by what you might see on videos posted, you just have to experiment to find the best way for you.
Many people love registrations, and use these almost exclusively to control keyboard settings, while some like to use style adjustment, and or OTS. Then again some may use previously made midis to provide accompaniment and not be playing fully live. And there are also many good players who make pretty minimal changes as they go through a song, few ‘button’ presses, relying on their playing skills to make the song interesting rather than making a lot of keyboard setting changes.
And don’t assume that just because someone posts a fancy video they are very experienced or good players, they might have made 75 attempts at the song before they got a good enough version to post. ;D
There is no set way, and your best bet is to learn all the different ways to skin the cat.
I suspect you think there are ‘secrets’ that other people know and you don’t, that would make you much better, which is why you keep searching for a book that might have the answers. In fact it’s mostly about just honing your skills. Just like golf!
Mike

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