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Everything
is Set Just the Way You Want It --
Now Save Those Settings!
One of the chief advantages of an arranger
keyboard is that it allows you to arrange your songs.
For any particular song you want to play, you select the appropriate
style, the right tempo, the right main, layer, and left voices
to use. You may also want to adjust the overall sound
volume of one or more voice parts. You can decide where
you want the split point on your keyboard, whether to put
the left-hold option on or not or even whether you want the
left hand voice on or off. You can decide to use the
harmony/echo features. You can even specify exactly
what those harmony/echo features are. You can apply
DSP effects and make your keyboard sound like you are playing
in a large hall.
Of course,
actually making all these settings takes quite a bit of time.
Tweaking the setup of your keyboard until it is about where
you want it to be may require a lot of trial and error.
But, eventually, you'll get just the sound you want.
But, since you obviously won't want to repeat this whole process
every time you decide to play this song, you need a way to
SAVE the entire set up of your keyboard so that all the options
you have set for this song will be instantly available the
next time you want to play the song. You can do that
by saving your setup up in one of the 8 registration buttons
available on you keyboard.
Registration Memory
 The
PSR-2100/2000 have 8 registration memory buttons available
and these are conveniently located on the right-hand side
of the keyboard right above the keys. To configure your
entire keyboard, just press one of those registration buttons.
Don't try it right now, after you have just turned on the
keyboard, because there is nothing stored in any of those
registration buttons -- you'll notice the little light above
each button is off. Before you can utilize a registration
memory button, something has to be stored in that button.
Saving a Setup to Registration
Memory
Select a style
you like and some voices. Set the tempo and volume where
you want. It doesn't matter what you pick, we'll just
experiment right now. After you have made your settings,
suppose you now want to save that setup. You can save
it by putting that setup into the 1st Registration Memory
location. To do that, press the MEMORY button just to
the right of all those registration buttons and then press
the #1 Registration Memory button. When you do, you
will see the light above that memory button go on. That
means there is something stored in that location. Now
pick another one of your favorite styles and set things up.
You can, of course, do a quick set up by pressing one of those
ONE TOUCH SETTING buttons (#1 -- #4). These settings
are built into the style you chose and are designed to give
you solo instruments that would go along with the style you
selected. When you are ready to save your second setup,
press the MEMORY button again and then press the #2 Registration
Memory button. Now the light above that button goes
on. With two buttons configured, you can now test your
setup. Press registration button #1 and see if your
arranger isn't set up to do your first song. Press registration
button #2 and everything should change to your second setup.
You can stop here, or go on and save 6 other registration
setups.
Saving the Registration
Memory Settings
When you load a style and
select voices, think of the PSR as making a copy of that style
and those voices and putting them on an arranger scratch
pad . You can now modify all kinds of things
about that style and those voices. You are making all
those changes in the scratch pad area -- you aren't impacting
the permanently stored style or voices at all. The same
is true of those registration setups you just saved; they
are in that scratch pad area as well. When you power
off your keyboard, everything in the scratch pad area disappears;
it will not be there the next time you turn on the keyboard.
To permanently save any of the setups you are making, you
have to move that setup to a permanent memory location, i.e.
to the USER area or to a Floppy Disk. So, if you have
saved settings in the registration memory buttons, that set
of 8 registration memory settings constitute a single registration
memory file and you need to SAVE that file if you intend to
ever use it again.
Look at your
MAIN screen. Next to the [J] button is a box labeled
REGISTRATION BANK and the name of the bank is NewBank.
Whenever you turn your machine on, it always says NewBank,
i.e. an empty registration bank. But since those 8 registration
button settings are stored in a single FILE, pressing the
[J] button will bring up a standard File/Folder screen showing
all the available registration files.
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2000
vs 2100
This is one area where there is
a difference between the 2000 and the 2100. As
the text describes, the 2000 always starts with
an empty NewBank. However, the 2100, when you
turn it on, has a registration bank set at whatever
it was set at when you turned the keyboard off,
although the "name" still says NewBank
-- it does not save the registration bank name,
but it does keep the contents.
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Notice there
are no PRESET registration banks. The only thing visible
is one NewBank in the USER area. To save your registration
bank, select the SAVE file option (press the button below
the #6 at the bottom of the screen.) This will bring
up the small SAVE menu where you can give this registration
file a unique name. After you have renamed it, press the upper
#8 button (for OK) and your new registration file is saved.
The next time you turn on your keyboard, the registration
banks will, as usual, all be empty. But now you can
press that [J] button to bring up the REGISTRATION BANK screen
and the registration file you had saved will be shown there.
Press the appropriate lettered button to load it and there
you have all your personalized registration settings loaded.
Registration
Edit
Notice that EDIT button
in the lower right corner of the REGISTRATION BANK screen.
Select the registration bank you created and then press that
EDIT button. This will bring up the REGISTRATION EDIT
display. From this screen you can select, name, or delete
any of the individual 8 registrations you set up. If
you have set up these for different songs, you could name
each registration memory preset with the name of the song
you set it up for. That way, if you go to this edit
screen, you can see the song names and pressing the corresponding
button by any of the song names sets up your whole keyboard
for that song and you can just begin playing.
If you wish
to DELETE a particular registration button contents, you can
do so from this screen. That will set it back to an
empty registration button. A more convenient way to
get a new set of empty buttons would be to save your initial
set as a registration file called EMPTY. When you turn
your PSR-2000 on, go to the Registration Bank [J] and SAVE
the current -empty- set of registration buttons. Name
the file EMPTY. Now, whenever you have a registration
set loaded and you want to go back to a new, clean, set with
no entries, simply load up the EMPTY file and all the buttons
are cleared. With the 2100 this is a little harder and the
EMPTY registration file becomes even more important. When
you turn the keyboard on the registration may not be empty.
You need to go to the edit screen and delete all the entries
in the current registration. When they are all gone, then
save your registration file as EMPTY and you will always have
it handy when you want to start with a blank registration
set of buttons.
Loading External Registration
Files
Trying
out some of the sample registration files provided here requires
that you get them from this site to your PSR-2000. For
those who are new to this, follow these steps.
- Download
the file from the Internet. (See our downloading
lesson if you need help.)
- Save
the file on your computer. (I always do this so the
files on my computer can serve as a backup to what is moved
to the floppy disk.)
- If
the file is Zipped, you need to unzip it. Richard's
registration bank files will be named something like BANKx.S917.REG.
When you save a registration file to floppy, the PSR appends
.S917.REG onto whatever you chose to name the registration
file. That "S917" is the "name" used
for the icon that appears next to this registration file
name. When you are "naming" a file, one of the
options is to give it a unique icon from the list of available
icons. If you do, when you save the file and look at it
in a PC, you'll see the code for that particular icon as
part of the name. See the lesson on File
Naming for more information on these icons.
- Copy
the file to a floppy disk.
- Put the floppy disk
into your PSR-2000.
- From the MAIN screen,
press [J] to go to the Registration Bank screen.
- Press
[NEXT] button to move from the USER tab to the FLOPPY DISK
tab.
- The
screen will now show all the files on your floppy disk with
a file type of .REG. (If you have style files or MIDI
files on this disk they would not show up in this screen
although the would show up if you looked at the floppy disk
contents from the Style screen or the MIDI screens.
- Select
the bank you want to load by pressing the corresponding
lettered button.
- If this is a registration
setup you want to use a lot, you may want to copy it over
to your USER area
The next lesson
will give you even more detailed, complete step-by-step
instructions on loading and saving registration files.
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