Today I spoke with Jon at Roland support, who now has a BK-7m in his hands, and asked if there was any way at all to change the OTS voices and save the change as a user program. The short answer is NO!

His suggestion for a workaround is to use the part button and adjust each of the two voices, UP1 and UP2, as needed then save each change as a user program. This involves using at least 4 user programs for each song if you want 4 or more different voices per song.

I'll give it a try and see how it works. Roland's rational for this is internal memory is cheap and thumb drives can store nearly unlimited user programs.

At least I know to stop wasting time on the impossible and try a different approach.

On another issue - many of the tones on my module do not sound good. I had an E50 and an E80 and those keyboards had pretty good voices. I asked if my Roland A-800 controller could be the problem and he said yes. He suggested for the best tone sounds to try either the FP4F or the RD300NX which are heavier keyboards and provide better control over the tones.

For me this is getting worse and worse - the attraction to the module for me was being able to gig with a lighter setup. If I have to buy a heavier controller to make it work that will not solve my problem. But, I will give an honest try to the multiple user program per song technique and let everyone know how it actually works in practice.

Later,
Deane