Hi SemiLiveMusic

I happened to see you Q&A session here and have been reading this all with great interest. We certainly have some great ideas here from all that are pitching in.

Now that I see all that went on in this thread I'd like to give you my ideas on how I would do what you're wanting to do.

The main thing I strive for is to keep things as simple as possible, both in creating your setups and also in how you're going to be doing it live.

If I were to do what you want to do now, I would put the songs you do using onboard styles into the MusicFinder. For now using the 30 songs you want to get ready, I'd put some simple title in the keywords so you can bring up that group in search.

To me the easiest way is to use only one letter that signifies what it is you're working with.

You might want to call your 30 tunes your "A" list for example.

Then I'd put your user styles on a floppy, and as Gary suggests, have a back up disk. You can put the song title in place of the style name.

Then, if you are like most of us, unless you tell me different, I suppose you are using the same basic sounds (voices) in most of your work. This could be 10 sounds or 30. Doesn't make any difference.

I would set up your main sounds in the user voices so they are in a specific group always on a specific page. BTW user voices take up zilch as far as memory storage. If you can let go of one or two insignificant things to make room, you will find this a very easy way to have YOUR sounds ready and not have to do OTS for every song.

I would only use Reg Mem for your absolute main voices and mostly for sounds that you layer.

This will be, it seems to me, the least amount of time setting up this method and also using user voices repitisiously in the same location over and over will be very easy to get used to.

Once you're set up this way, make sure the OTS button that makes your voice change with the change of a style variation is turned off. Otherwise, you will set up your user voice, press a variation button and the kb will go to the Yamaha OTS factory setting for that style.

Now, pick the style either from MFD or your gig disk, press the "F" button , then press the MAIN button, then press USER VOICE button, then pick the page with your desired sounds, pick your first sound and off you go. If want to change voices during the song, just look in the screen and press the one you want.

I hope this gives you a little more food for thought.

I remember that 2000 drove me crazy until I found simple methods that worked good for me.

Good Luck

Scott Langholff