I keep reading the KN6500 manual over and over and I think I know why I'm having difficulty understanding. I'm confused about the memories on the keyboard. One area talks about copy from sequencer to composer (which to me has to be some type of memory, and another area talks about the panel memories and I can see where the panel memory keys are on the keyboard, then another area talks about the ABC 1-10 memories, and then there is a flash memory. Whew!!! Now that's a lot of memory to keep straight. Would someone please set me straight?

Don't be confused, the memory is there to help you, and so are the
"SynthZone Gang"

The panel memories is a kind of "bookmarks" who will recall any of
the settings you make on your keyboard when push the button.
This of course if you have done and saved any personal settings, or
else the settings stored in a factorysetting or loaded style or
song will appear when use the buttons.
The ABC banks is the same memories, but added in "banks" to give
you ten rows of panelmemories in each, so instead of "only" the
ten in the buttonrow, you have ten more using the same buttons in
the next "bank" and so on. This give you 100 panelmemories to store
settings.

The copy from sequenser to composer is quite different, because now
we're speaking about recorded musicpieces or parts from a song being
copied to use in the composer, who usually is the place where the
style/pattern for autocomp is stored.

The "flash" memory, are where the downloaded updates for the keyboard
operative system is stored, but now we see that the new KN7000 will
be able to use "FlashCards" as well.
Flashcards is electronic storage medium, who instead of use the "old
fachion" way to write the data into a diskette or harddisk by use of
a "rotating plate", now write the data into a kind of "chip".

I'm very limited to explain myself due to language skills, but I'm
sure someone will fill in the gaps here.....

Kind regards
GJ

Btw,

Alec\'s book , a extended manual for KN6000/6500 is a very good tool
to help KN users to get the most out of the keyboards.

Thank you for your response. I do have Alex's book and it has helped a lot. Explaining the panel memories as bookmarks made sense to me. I will just need to continue experimenting until I get it engrained in my brain.

2 types of memory, flash and ram.

flash stays in after you switch off.

ram will fade away after you switch off.

you load from disk to replenish the ram, or change the flash.

the performance/backup split on the save page 2 refer to these distinctions.

you can load and save all sections or some sections. Some sections can be split into even smaller loads - single composer, single sound, single song, single panel memory, single custom style. Also 3 bank or all banks panel memory.

Why?

mainly cut down on load time.

if you easy record from preset sounds and styles you don't need to save composers or pads or sound memories.

if you just want new pads, it is a waste of time overwriting composers, sounds, panel memories and effects.

If you load new styles you need composers or custom loads.

etc etc.

the flexibility this gives means you can move and combine information from different files and saves, and plan a playlist load with the maximum of information to play a large number of songs with the minimum of disk loading downtime by selectively loading only the information required for the next batch of playing.

if you don't want to bother with all this, just do performance saves each time....
(see pages 18 and 19 among others )

Thanks for your reply. I have printed your answer, along with many others, and will add this to my studying material.