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Question for saving more than one keyboard set to a SB entry

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Hello Korg-folks, now I‘m a happy owner of a PA5x 76. It‘s Not a challenge to use this board instead of the long-term-used Kronos.
Before that I‘ve owned a PA4x.Musikant and I‘m curoius to observe the following error:
I create a Songbook-Entry; it is saved with the modified sound settings on the first keyboard set. Now I want to modify the sounds (e.g. adding strings) and make a long press on the Second KS-button. It appears a saving error. Same ehem trying to edit the SB-entry: the drop-down-menu to select another than the first KS-entry: it‘s greyed out (no function). Has anyone an idea?

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Tim
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Ah, I‘ve got one SB-entry with 2 KB-sets saved. Reading the manual brought me to the hint ‚...After selecting a SB-entry press ‚Exit‘ - then you can choose another KB-Set-location...
But one minute later the same procedure failed...
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(Sorry if this seems to be a self-monologue...)
After experimenting different things I‘ve understood the workflow:
First time a SB-Entry is saved with one specific modified KBD-set (and 3 Sets from the selected style).
If you want to modify a second KBD-set you have to exit the SB-menu on the screen. Then you have to choose another KBD-set. After that you can select another location for saving this sound-combination as a second KBD-set of this SB-entry.
It‘s as powerful as I‘ve expected: You can use 4 KBD-Sets per SB-entry which can be totally different than the 4 KBD-Sets of the selected style...Now the Setlist makes Even more sense. 😊
Happy Weekend and greetings
Tim
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Post by F-Minor »

Great how you figured it out yourself! :-)
The SongBook is a fantastic feature in all PA arrangers.

See the tutorial our dear forum member Qui Robinez made:
https://youtu.be/q78YOUSZ-f0?si=cVC2j-H2a6yeuC-z

You have the 4 KS per SB entry, but you also have your 11 favorites, which can be used as “frozen” KS. Most of us have a favorite piano KS, synth lead KS etcetera. It’s fantastic to have them always available for direct use in any performance.
Musical greetz,

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Thanks you for your confirmation. I‘ve also figured out why the saving error occurred - I tried saving a modified KBD-set in a location of a factory style, after saving this style as User it worked...

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Tim
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kronos_timmmy wrote:Thanks you for your confirmation. I‘ve also figured out why the saving error occurred - I tried saving a modified KBD-set in a location of a factory style, after saving this style as User it worked...

Regards
Tim
No need to edit the KS in the style itself. You can easily store the 4 KS with the style in the SongBook. That also makes it possible to change lots of other different things: FX, volumes, pads etcetera. SongBook is the core of my workflow.
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Post by kronos_timmmy »

...No need to edit the KS in the style itself....
yes, but the long-press on a KBD-set-button leads automatically to a syving procedure...and if a factory style is selscted you get (correctly) an saving-error...
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