Jay's Cool Tip #5

Registrations (More)

There are so many things you can save as registrations that you can really speed up your performances.

I really hate going to see a group or duo or single who really play well, yet every song and virtually every note is the same volume. Every note has four and only four attributes. Pitch, duration, timbre and loudness. Why in the world do people leave 25% of their music by having everything the same volume. Well, to answer my own question, the main reason is convenience. It is difficult to change settings on PAs and the like when you are in the middle of a performance.

The Ketron registrations can help restore the missing 25% and make it easy to change.
For instance, you can change the drum mix, let us say and save it as a part of your registration. You could save 3 registrations of the same style with various dynamics and then call them up during your performance without any gap in your playing, but restoring some dynamic power. This is one more use for registrations.

In any of the Ketron instruments with a hard drive, it is possible to store hundreds of registrations. You have a choice between block registrations and single registrations. The performers who use registrations the most, tend to use the block registrations for live performance and use single registrations for special sounds and recording setups, etc. This ability to put the entire power of the Ketron instruments at your fingertips with just a couple of keystrokes (or button pushes) is a feature so powerful that it is difficult to even describe. There are literally hundreds of functions that can be saved as registrations.

For example imagine saving a jazz combo rhythm with a Jimmy Smith B3 organ sound and assigning the Rotor effect to the modulation wheel and wha wha to the pitch bend wheel. You can do it! And you can get to it quickly. Wow.

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