Hello out there,

Can some tell me what is the difference between single and block registrations aside that block is faster in loading.

Also how does it work with midifiles/sounds with the same names. Does anyone out there use this function. Can someone give me some examples.

Thanks !
Ben

Benjamino ,

Personally I do not use registration's at all with the SD1 . The Sd1's ability to save pattern edit's and lead voices is pretty handy .

What are you trying to do ?

Let's say you are doing a gig . you are about to play 4 country songs in a row while using patterns . The Block registration allows you to save that "country" set and load at one time . It's ment to be a positive feature my SD1 brother .

What made you purchase you SD1 ? dano

Beniamino.
The BLOCK registrations are a group of registers on board the keyboard (in memory) at any given time (eg 198 for X-series). You can access/select these using the REGISTRATION button on the keyboard. The advantage here is you do have quick access to your settings (sounds, styles, keyboard layout etc).
The SINGLE registrations are individual registers that reside on DISK (FD/HD) rather than in memory. You can have fixed number of these per folder(HD)/FD. Because these have to be read/loaded from disk, a little more 'access' time is required.
In the SD_ & XD_ series, the BLOCK registration feature is greatly enhanced via use of the HD. Eg. If you assign a REGISTRATION with a name (Test), and you have a style that resides in the HD style folder (test.pat) and this style requires some sounds you have which reside in the sound folder also called (test.snd/test.wav/test.ini), upon selecting this RESISTER, all associated files with the same name as the registration will be called up. When using SINGLE registers, you can also access text and midifiles that have the same name as the register.
With the X-series, the files that are managed by the BLOCK Registeration are those that reside in memory.

Hope this helps.

AJ

Dano,

I purchased the SD1 for the following reasons:

My gigs are in duets and the Vocalizer is a big plus.

The drums on the SD1 are fantastic, so are 95 % of the voices such as pianos, organs, brass, strings, etc.

The onboard sequencer is a plus. I presently use a laptop/cakewalk software. Eventually once I organize my midifiles on the SD1 I will use the laptop only as backup in the event of a malfuntion on the SD1.

I used to have 2 keyboards to do my gigs but I believe that with the SD1 alone I can do the job.

My gigs consist of 70% midifiles and 30% live using registrations setups. For the registrations I'm trying to figure out if I should be using/organizing these as single or block registrations. I will need to experiment with this a little more.

I will and need to explore the patterns functions as you mentioned.

Thanks for your feedback.

Ben

Ben,

Style and settings for that registration.

AJ