I know of performers
who will go for many performances without once using a registration
and others who use registrations for everything. Registrations
is an incredibly powerful feature that can make your performing
life much easier.
Most people think of registrations as a way to save the panel
(or desktop) condition to a file to be called up later. That
is true and less than true. You can save functions in registrations
that can be saved no other way. A great example of this is
the assigning of a variable to one of the wheels, like assigning
wha-wha to the pitchbend wheel. The minute you turn the machine
off and back on, the original condition of pitchbend returns,
but you can save many steps by saving the wha-wha condition
on the wheel as a registration and calling it up at need.
This saves a lot of steps in getting the condition back. There
are a lot of internal features that will save as a registration
and sometimes no other way.
Find the features you use the most and set them as registrations.
It's worth learning how to do that.
The first thing to learn is how to save a registration.
First get your setup exactly the way you want it. On most
Ketron products you will then hit "Save/Enter".
On all the newer machines (after the MS series) you will then
press F1 (Regis) and then make your selection.
Use the numeric keypad to select the slot (e.g. "Reg_001")
and then you can use your Value keys and Cursor keys to rename
it to something you would like (e.g. "WhaWha").
Then press F10 "Save" and you are done.
When you turn on the registrations during play and press "001"
or just "1" you should get the exact condition that
you saved.