Playing in a Band environment

[FrankJaco]

Hi all,

I occasionally use my SX700 in a band environment. This has proven to be more challenging to me than it should. Over the years for my solo playing I have set up hundreds of banks of registrations and use a pedal to advance thru each to change styles and instruments like most folks do on this forum. I do also occasional use the OTS buttons as well. My issue when playing in the band environment is that I have not found a great way to simply kill the styles from playing. The most successful way to kill the Style appears to be to turn off the channels and hit the Freeze button. But that has the effect of freezing the left hand voice as well which I do not want.

I am sure many of the people on this forum do occasionally play with others.  I am curious to the various methods you use to eliminate the style so that you don't inadvertently turn it on during a band gig.

fj

[KurtAgain]

... eliminate the style so that you don't inadvertently turn it on during a band gig.

Maybe an empty style would be a solution?
(Style Creator > New Style > Save)

Kurt

[DrakeM]

If I understand your question correctly.

To kill the sound of the style ... move the style VOLUME from 100 to zero. Then the style is silent and you still will have your OTS volume settings.

If you are using registrations, you might have them set up to override the style Volume setting and it will turn the volume back up on you. If that is the case then you would need to rework all your registrations.

This is why I make custom song styles and only use registrations on rare occasions.

[Robert van Weersch]

I've played in a few bands, but I never used styles (already had drums, bass, guitar etc). And I made dedicated registrations for each song with each band.

[pjd]

To kill the sound of the style ... move the style VOLUME from 100 to zero. Then the style is silent and you still will have your OTS volume settings.

I agree with Drake -- this does the trick.

I also define the lowest possible split point/chord recognition area, but don't believe this is really necessary. I think when I first started out, I had thoughts of never starting the style even though STYLE volume was set to zero. I can be weird... This keeps everything out of the way as I usually play/practice against audio backing tracks.

All the best -- pj

[FrankJaco]

Thank you all for your ideas!

It would seem what I trying now might be the best solution... Which is to go through any registrations that I might want to use in the band environment, reduce the Style volume to 0 and then save it as a new registration.  I use the same name but add a minus " - " sign at the end so I know it is styleless. This does seem to work although I find I need to increase the left hand voice a little in many cases.

It just seems like Yamaha could/should provide a style "kill switch" for this.


Again, thanks all. And if anyone else has a creative way they handle this that hasn't been mentioned yet, please chime in.

fj

[mikf]

In a band environment you really only need to use registrations for voices. Consider limiting this to 8 favorite voice/voice combination and leave that bank up all the time. This removes any danger of selecting a registration with a style by mistake.
Mike