As newbee Here I am not yet familiar with the way things are done with mu keyboard.. I have a friend helping me get started and that means a lot to me... but one thing I would like to know there are some styles on her Pq800 that I don't have... is it possible to copy thosr styles and add them to my kayboard.... would be interested in any help or answer in this area...
Littledoctor66

I am sorry there are a bunch of typos in my previous post it should read

As newbee Here I am not yet familiar with the way things are done with my keyboard.. I have a friend helping me get started and that means a lot to me... but one thing I would like to know there are some styles on her Pa800 that I don't have... is it possible to copy those styles and add them to my keyboard.... would be interested in any help or answer in this area...
Littledoctor66

[This message has been edited by littledoctor66 (edited 06-22-2008).]

Try saving the PA800 styles needed to a USB Thumb Drive....then transfer them to your PA500 & put them in empty style slots. The manual or Instructional Korg Pa DVDs will explain the process further.

good luck

Hi Donny,
I think the PA500 uses SD card not thumb drives??
Principle is similar, Doc, get Paula to save them to a PC then copy them to an sd card .
A lot of newer PC's have sd card slots inbuilt, if not, an inexpensive sd card reader would not go astray.
Also if you do buy an sd card, you don't need one with heaps of memory. Styles don't take up much space.

In my case with the PA800 I use thumb drives, I've got 3. I like to keep plenty of backups of my data, just in case a thumb drive gets faulty.
I used to do the same with my sd cards for my KN7000. A couple of cards at least for backup.

For the PA800 I can transfer styles etc directly to a PC via a USB cable. Same may go for the PA500? I find the portability of a usb thumb drive ( in your case an sd card) far easier.

best wishes
Rikki

Doc...I think we can work this out and Rikki and all are lots of help you just bring that baby blue here, and we will have a ball I love my pa800 thanks Rikki and every one on this forum for your help when posting I follow the forums closley...Paula

Rikki, thinking about PA800/500... I would like to know if are true these specs of them:
1. You can't listen or play styles from usbdrive or card directly (as you may in roland or yamahas). First, you must load external styles into the user area of keyboard, and then you may play them. If so, it is a bad thing if you want to listen a lot of styles to see if you love or not them.
2. You can't load a only style (as you may in rolands or yamahas), but a set of styles(which have commun drums,,,).
Thanks

Hi Arthaher,
you actually have to load either a single style or a .set of styles ( a style .set can have up to 32 styles) into a user area of the keyboard. The PA800 has a "Favourites" as well as User style slots for loading your own styles
The PA500 can load user styles, but I think it only has the "User" slots area , not the Favourites. Double check that yourself as I own a PA800 not a PA500.
best wishes
Rikki

You can also load single styles into the "empty" spaces into the "factory" style section, I have done this since my Pa60 and now \with the PA800-500.
Korg and Ketron, that I know, are the only 2 manufacturers that allow the user to customize their keyboard allowing to change, add or replace styles in the factory style area.
Before you do it to your Korg, you must do:

1.-Press Media
2.-PRESS Preferences
3.- Uncheck the Factory Style & Pad Protect and then you can load the styles.
I suggest the single style instead the entire bank, and you choose the location for each one in the category that you want.
Enjoy it.

Manuel



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mdorantes

Roland's can quite easily replace styles in the ROM area.

Unfortunately, due to a dumb design limitation, you can't rename them... If you are content to remember that StyleX is now StyleY (and just use registrations to call them up) it's not a big deal, but for most of us that would get confusing, to say the least. OTOH, most of the styles are named undescriptive names anyway, so Sunshine Bossa could be ANY Bossa, and no-one would care (unless someone else sits in on your G70!).

BUT.... one thing you CAN do is edit the ROM style to exactly the way you want it, including OTS's. Re-voice it, remix it, change some of the style Parts to different Parts, etc., and then replace the ROM style. Outstanding!

Not quite as good as the Korg's method, true... but not exactly chopped liver, either

Upss....

I forgot to mention that I did that when I ran out of available user memory for the styles....
Is very practical and a way to "extend" your keyboard user memory in the styles.

Why all this User area bull is necessary I have no idea..

Roland's read either off the internal 50MB flashRAM drive or off the card slot (where I have a 4GB card hanging) all instantaneously. No need whatsoever for any 'user area' to load them into before they become available. The Music Finder (Assistant, in Rolandspeak) can address any style in any area of the memory instantly...

Isn't this how all arrangers are SUPPOSED to work?

I realize that styles with custom samples will take time to load. But if they simply use onboard sounds, edited or not, they should come in instantly, IMO.

And everyone keeps calling the G70 'dated' technology

Post-dated, perhaps!

also, is there really a need to change the factory presets?
with so much available storage memory on cards, usb, internal flash, isn't it better to keep factory styles save in their location for future use (you never know) and simply save your own edited, tweaked styles under a different name...? ROM can (and should) be just a fix launching platform for personal creation.

i believe it is better to keep these two things separately. it's safer.

Depends on how good they are, and how much you like to select styles on the fly, I guess.

Personally, I never met a ROM style I couldn't improve. at least mix wise, and don't get me started about the overly loud OTS's (do you all play with feathers? ). So, for me, editing and improving the ROM styles is pretty significant, especially when you consider that to edit it and store it somewhere else firstly isn't as easy to get to in a hurry (I've got 91 pages of styles on my card!) and eats up HD space, while the ROM style sits there uselessly, also taking up space.

If you make UPG's for everything you do, it's not so much the issue, but if you are accompanying someone else, and they need the Sunshine Bossa, I'd rather get it from the ROM section, ready to go (my way!), than have to 'search' for it from the HD or card...

If I ever sell my G70 (perish the thought!) it will be a piece of cake to load back in the factory ROM styles and UPG's for it's next lucky owner (but I'll give him or her my edited ones to compare)...

Hi Manuel,
only problem I think , with loading styles into the factory area of the PA800, I've had 2 os & musical resources upgrades so far , with the 3rd on it's way.

I've been under the impression ( hopefully I'm wrong) , that when we load in a new resources upgrade it wipes out the old styles & then reloads the factory styles again, ( bringing it back to new) in which case we'd lose any user styles in the factory area???
Be a bit a a pain to have to reload a heap of user styles individually, unless of course one needs extra slots.
Fortunately I haven't run out of user & favourites slots, so I haven't tried the factory area.


best wishes
Rikki

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