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sagar ahuja · Joined: 01 May 2012 Posts: 34 Location: Mumbai, India

Yesterday i have loaded all my pa4x data, and all the favorite and user banks(including keyboard sets and Styles)are loaded with alphabetical order not in the order which i have saved in pa4x, is there any option to load all the data in the same order in pa4x?

davekalbach · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:35 pm Post subject:

No loading options that I saw.

I believe Korg's direction here was to implement the Set List for this purpose.

In this way you can combine any variation of Songs, Styles, MP3s, MIDIs that you want and create a setlist or many setlist for what you are trying to accomplish. A bit of a paradigm shift for everyone used to working from Songbook, but it makes perfect sense to me.
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sagar ahuja · Joined: 01 May 2012 Posts: 34 Location: Mumbai, India

Niki_Keyz · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:03 am Post subject:

This is one of my biggest complaints.

Someone wrote that there is a workaround this. Name your file “A_whatever” so it can fill in the slot you want. But…..a huge but…..what if you add another sound later down the road. All your sound, pads, styles, shift down. It’s a huge mess. If I’m used to selecting a certain sound on page 4 on user 1, it should always be there. I’m a live performer as well. My sets are normally over an hour long. I don’t have time to look through where things are. It’s complete non-sense.

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Niki_Keyz · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:11 am Post subject:

On my Pa4x…..I have my style located at User 1, Page 1, first slot named “zebra”

On the Pa5x…. It would be on User 1, on page 6, if you have every slot filled. If not, it will keep moving towards the end with every new style you add. Meaning at one gig, the style will be at page 4, then the next it becomes 5. It’s extremely confusing when you’re performing live and remember where everything is at.

Niki_Keyz · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:13 am Post subject:

Meaning you can’t pick the location within the user or favorite of where you want to save it. This means, user sounds, drum kits, pads, styles, everything.

I have pads that I put near each other on my user folder. They are now 6 pages away from each other because of the name.

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sagar ahuja · Joined: 01 May 2012 Posts: 34 Location: Mumbai, India

For example, in pa4x i renamed favorite 1 bank as "beta" favorite 2 as "Charlie" and favorite 3 as "Alpha" but after loading in pa5x the order is Alpha, beta, Charlie and so on...

Same is with the Keyboard sets, example in pa4x user bank page 1, my 1st Keyboard set is "Zurna" 2nd is "Guitar" 3rd is "Alto sax" but after loading in pa5x it will be loaded in alphabetical order like 1st Alto sax, 2nd Guitar, 3rd zurna..
That is very messy

dimitris · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:16 pm Post subject:

I think this is easy to be fixed or have the choice to enable alfabetical order in a future update.
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davekalbach · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:40 pm Post subject:

Is this not the reason for the creation of Setlist?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the use. But to me it seems simple, styles are alphabetically arranged by Style Category (create your own and add more if you wish)

Setlist links to whatever file, song, style, mp3 you want to play. If you want data to manipulate and organize, Setlist is where you would to it.
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