Hi gang,
I got the questions below in an email from someone who I think ran accross my website. I do not own a PSR2000, and never had, so I cannot even begin to answer the quetions. I will take ur answers and reply to the gentleman who emailed me.

Thanks, Mosiqaar

p.s. I don't know how to change the Subject field but I typed PSR200 rather than 2000.

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I just got my PSR 2000 for Christmas, and am having a great time with it. I'm hoping you can help me with a minor snag.
I'm a jazz musician, who will be using the synthesizer for practice and live gigs. As such, the majority of tunes I'll be playing will have a 4 or 8 bar intro, then the "head" of x number of bars, then the 4 or 8 bar ending. As I want to leave extended amounts of time during the head for solos, I want to establish repeats from letter A to letter B indefinitely.

I found in the manual, on page 79 how to mark letters A and B for indefinite repeat, but the machine isn't cooperating with me, or rather I with it. When I follow either the live or step directions, I get 4 beats of annoying metronome interruption, or silence when I reduce the metronome volume.

I also found in the options section a designation for enabling or disabling the repeats function, but can't find a way to access it. I am thinking that I need to establish phrase marks, but the manual is a bit nebulous regarding how it's done, or most likely I'm just not understanding the nuts and bolts of the process.

To put it simply, here is an example of what I'd like to do with a simple blues progression:

Intro [[: 12 bars :]] ending

I would imagine that this could simply be done on such a sophisticated instrument, but I'm just not getting it. Remember, I `d like to keep the repeated 12 bar phrase playing indefinitely, so as to accommodate any number of solo verses, then go out after a final head (hopefully by just hitting the "ending" button).

Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.


[This message has been edited by Mosiqaar (edited 01-17-2003).]

This question was asked a little while ago by "Al Dieste adieste@goldrush.com" and I replied to that post as follows:

I've not actually played with the A to B facilities, although I've read the manual and it looks like you should be able to do what you want
Alternatively, could you turn the intro, verse and end bits into the intro, Variation A, and Ending parts of a user style? Then the "middle 12" would repeat ad-infinitum until you pressed the "ending" button.

I assume you can effectively turn off the "follow the left hand chord" function by setting an accompaniment split point to somewhere "to the left" of the end of the keyboard.

Hey,
I got that private email also!!!!
Zuki

Mac that is the same person who emailed me the above. If he is a part of the zone, then no need to forward ur message to him right?

Thanks

I didnt get an e-mail!

The original post (assuming you are sorted into "most recent first" date order and showing all postings, well down page 3, posted by "adieste" on the 8th Jan 2003 @ 1.50 am and headlined "PSR2000 Question".

Therefore the questioner is part of the zone - although perhaps has forgotten about the original post - or was that placed here by a third party?

[This message has been edited by MacAllcock (edited 01-21-2003).]

I don't know MAC...I was simply trying to help the guy out . Thanks for the help