Carol, don't write off SMFs too quickly. Many of the professional backing tracks used by professional musicians are done in SMF and when loaded into the keyboard, sound every bit as good as live musicians. Besides sounding good, SMFs take less disk space and are easier to work with then technics format. When loaded into the keyboard, you have the same full control over all of the instruments and parameters that you would have if you composed the music on the keyboard. If you use music software, I use Digital Orchestrator Pro, you can manipulate the SMF many ways to make it sound the way you want it. I currently have 658 SMFs on the hard drive of my KN6500. Being better at computers than keyboards, I use the computer software to put together my backing tracks. I find it much easier. All of my songs have the melody on track one, and track two is left open incase I want to play the melody with a different instrument later in the song. If you would like to hear one, just let me know what song you would like and I'll see if I have it. If I do, I'll email you a copy. Also, if you have any SMF questions, just post and, if I can help, I'll answer.

Peter