Best working practice - need advice

[ScottLannie]

Hi Guys,

My Pa3 x came yesterday, and I'm loving it (a lot to learn though)!

I will be teaching music students on the keyboard and they each need to have their setups (performance presets etc) for the songs they play, also each song they learn could have say 7 different registrations, and those registrations need to be able to be changed via a foot switch etc.

I'm lost at how I can best setup / use the Pa3x to do this.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

[Thoraldus]

Hi Guys,

My Pa3 x came yesterday, and I'm loving it (a lot to learn though)!

I will be teaching music students on the keyboard and they each need to have their setups (performance presets etc) for the songs they play, also each song they learn could have say 7 different registrations, and those registrations need to be able to be changed via a foot switch etc.

I'm lost at how I can best setup / use the Pa3x to do this.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

Some hints ...

Songbook is your friend. Set up a custom Songbook for each student. Go to Global Controllers and set your foot switch to 'SONGBOOK NEXT'

See pages 160-168 of your PA3X user manual.

[ScottLannie]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for that info. The Custom song book seems the way to go, but they will need the foot switch to change sounds (performances) throughout the song, say for verse, chorus, verse2, bridge etc, and not for switching songs etc.

So if I write to a user performance for each part of the song or overwrite a performance? then assign a footswitch to skip through in order the various custom performances?

sorry if I didn't explain it very well.

Thanks Scott

[Reuben]

The 4 Single Touch Settings available for each Songbook entry should be sufficient. You really don't need a pedal for these and if they are going to learn to play an arranger keyboard they should in my opinion learn the skill of momentarily being able to press a button during a song.
Hope you enjoy your Pa3x - its a great instrument.

[ScottLannie]

I'm trying so hard to get my head around the OS. Yes the 4 STS sounds/settings for a songbook entry is a good thing (although advanced users doing higher grades would need more than 4) but how do you change those 4 STS sounds? Do you have to duplicate a style to be able to change those programmed 4 STS sounds? Still very confused.

Reading through the manual hasn't helped, just more confused!!

Thanks,
Scott

[Mudi2000]

In order to create custom STS entries, you must create a songbook entry. Then, you can create individual STS settings for this songbook entry.
Copying the style also works, but I wouldn't recommend it.

[Reuben]

Here is an extract from an earlier thread:
With the Songbook all this confusion disappears and your settings are uniquely saved for each song (don't be put off by the word "song" as a song can be a style, midi file or just some sound settings).
First set up what you want as your "base" (style, mp3, midi or sound setting).

Select your style, adjust tempo and maybe your first Upper 1 sound.
Hit Songbook button, Book Edit 1, Tick what you want to save (Style and possibly your first STS, if you want to rename the first STS touch the "T", OK, Write, Touch the"T" and call it something meaningful to you (eg Song name or a new Style name),OK, touch Book Edit 2 Tab touch the "T" for artist name and put in your initials (this will make it easy to find your songs later). OK, Write.
Now hit the Book Tab then the Filter button and touch the Artist "T" and type in your initials again. You are now filtering the Songbook by your initials so only your songs show in the list. To add other STS's reselect your song, set up your sound and Book Edit 1 and write STS2 etc.
You can adjust transpose or tempo later under Book Edit 2.
Setting up a midi or mp3 works much the same - just start in Song Play Mode, find your midi by touching Player 1 and navigating to it just like on a computer.
Hope this gets you underway.

[ScottLannie]

Thanks! If I want to adjust volumes and style variations for the STS do I have to write those changes in the relevant performance, cause when I save the songbook STS these settings aren't being saved?

Thanks, for all your help, I'm getting there

[ScottLannie]

Brilliant I've sorted it out in my head and on the keyboard!! Yes!!!

One Problem exists though...

When I created a custom list and add my song book preset that I have made to that custom list, if I then choose to view or write/create another custom list and save / view that list then when I return to the first custom list my song book entries are no longer there, don't no why it's not saving the custom lists?

Any ideas why it could be not working?

Thanks again.

[ScottLannie]

Ok me being stupid! Working now.