To all my knowledgable Forum friends; How about posting all these cool discoveries in one specific thread so we can have an archive of these wonderful 'happenings'? We can narrow the posts to any and all non-manual items only (as we're finding out, that could be quite a lot!) You are all teaching me so much! I'm sure there are other newbies who could benefit from your experiences and, in some cases, discover their own little 'treasures'.

Angelo

Angelo,
Actually Scott Yee just asked me by email for anything that might be helpful. I will paste my response there. I know a lot of it will be common knowledge.
DonM

Scott,
Since you are new to PSRs, I thought of a few little tricks that you may not know.
1. If you are in fingered chord mode, if you press 3 adjacent keys in the chord section, all the accompaniment parts stop except the drums.
2. If you press the tempo + and - buttons together the tempo resets to the default speed. This also works on volume controls throughout the keyboard, and on many other controls, such as Upper Octave Shift and Transpose.
3. You can "get out" of a fill, intro or ending quickly by pressing a variation button.
4. Pressing the Ending button twice automatically ritards the ending.
5. You can easily create a new style by putting a style in record mode and select Groove record and change the timing. You'll have to experiment. I am attaching a style I "converted" from Country Swing 1 to a 4/4 ballad in this manner.
6. If you are selecting a Voice for Main, Layer or Left, - pushing the selected voice style button twice closes the screen and returns to the previous screen.
7. If you want to save a fill to Registration Memory, you much save while the light is on (Woops you know this.)

You may know these already. If I think of any more, I'll let you know.

If anybody else wants the Country 4/4 style, let me know at: dmason43@bellsouth.net

'Bump' for visibility.

#6: returning to the previous screen is the only one I don't understand. I tried it on the 740 and it did not respond.

#6 doesn't work on the 740, but it is a new featue on the 2000.
DonM

Here's what I did:

Set up two registration banks. A different style and a different favorite instrument for each button. I set the freeze button so that when it is used, the style, key, and temp won't change. So when I have the freeze button pressed, I have immediate access to 8 of my favorite instruments. I change registration banks and I have immediate access to my next 8 favorites.
Next, I put a thin strip of paper with tape over it labeling the two instruments dedicated to each button. If you do this, the buttons are 3/4" apart. If you would like, I can send you my Word document where I made the label. I just cut out the line of words, and put scotch tape over it and taped it below the buttons of the keyboard.
Now, without the freeze button pressed, I have 16 registrations. If I don't want to use the instrument associated with the registration, I can always press a One Touch Setting. If I have the freeze button pressed, I have another group of eight one touch settings.
Cool idea, huh?

Larry

GREAT Idea . . . Hats off to Larry!

OK, a 'registration memory bank' consists of 8 registration memorys (buttons 1-8). Can someone tell me the maximum number of 'registsration memory banks' which can be stored in the PSR2000's USER memory area? I see that each screen page will hold 10 'registration memory banks', but how many pages (P1, P2, etc...) of 10 'registration memory banks' will it hold? Is there a limit?

I'm also curious about the capacity of the other PSR2000 memory storage areas as well - USER: Songs, Styles, and Multi-pads. Is the PSR's total storage space SHARED by all of the different file types (Songs, styles, multi pads & reg memory bank), OR is there a specific area & limited amount of storage space allocated for each 'type' of file? In other words, is it possible to use 95% of the 2000's total file storage area for styles, leaving only 5% for multipads, and nothing left for registration Memory banks?

The total memory is 580KB, however, remember that your registration banks, styles, songs can all be stored on floppy disk rather than user banks, therfore allowing you to have an unlimited amount of backup ready to load or play at anytime. If you keep storing banks of registration memories into the user area, yes you will eventually run out of memory but if you copy or cut and paste these to floppy disks, you are only using up the floppy disks memory and not the 580KB. The same thing applies to styles. Don't keep putting them into user. Instead, save them on floppy and play them directly from disk.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

hi George: RIGHT you are! And the great thing about the PSR2000 is that its' floppy disk 'style' loading time is real FAST, only 1 or 2 seconds, which is actually even slightly faster than it takes to load a style from my Technics KN5000's hard drive. Even so, I like having my CHOICE custom USER styles stored in the USER area for INSTANT access, which avoids having to unneccesarily sort thru floppy disks/files, keeping the audience waiting there wondering what's going on.
- Time for a little stage patter - got a good joke to share?

I am going to be storing in the USER area:

1. Styles that don't take up too much memory (Like ones converted from the X1)
2. Styles that I would like to have associated with a registration, perhaps because I play them best transposed.
3. Styles that I want to have one-touch settings linked to.

Here's another tip. If you have a floppy style associated with a specific song, use Casm Edit to permanently change the tempo to that of your favorite song. That way, as soon as you access the style from the floppy, you're ready to go.

Larry Levin

Another tip. Try this during a song. After the intro, press E Intros and Endings, then press D to change the intro to count-in intro. You have a fabulous break that you can put in the song. This is a tip for those who never owned the PSR 740 or PSR 9000 which have instant access to the different intros and endings.

Evidently, the PSR2000 does not store your intro/ending choice in Registration Memory. Too bad. This would be very useful.
DonM

Any vocal harmonizer tips/tricks? I haven't even tried this out yet, believe it or not!

DID YOU KNOW?

While recording a song or style, you can rcord change any parameter in mixer and it will be recorded. Instant automation. Great for those filter sweeps and realtime effects changes.

PSR2000 sequencer amazes me, everytime I use it.