STS (Single Touch Setting) and Performance store several settings for easy recall.

The following diagrams explain the data structure:

Now let's see how they work.

In Style Play Mode

STS (Single Touch Setting)

Each Style contains 4 STS each one containing different settings for the four Real Time Tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3 and Lower) including Sounds, Effects, Volume, Pan Pot, Send, Keyboard Range, Split, Voice Processor Presets, etc. Each time a Style is selected it load also its 4 STSs that can be selected or not depending on the status of the Single Touch button.

How to recall an STS: after a style has been loaded press on the STS 1, 2, 3 or 4 button on the control panel or use the Touch Screen with the STS Name tab activated in the Main Page.

How to save an STS: choose the Page Menu -> Write Single Touch Setting option or use the Shift + STS 1, 2, 3, 4 short-cut (the STS button to be pressed depends on the desired target location). This will open a dialog box allowing naming/renaming and choosing an STS location in memory. STSs are always saved in the current selected style.

Single Touch (Button)

This button has three possible options:

- Steadily On: When a Style is selected it also load its STSs and select the first one (STS 1);
- Flashing: when a Style is selected it also load its STSs and select one of the four STS according to the current selected Variation. If the Variation 1 button is lit or flashing the STS 1 is selected, if the Variation 2 button is lit or flashing the STS 2 is selected and so on. This option always select (even during normal playback) the STS number corresponding to the currently selected Variation number;
- Off: When a Style is selected it also load its STSs but none of them is selected. A STS can be manually selected later, but the STS of the current selected Styles are selected in this case. In other words it is not intended that this function keep the STSs of the previous selected Style.

At start-up, the LED of the Single Touch button is steadily on and its status cannot be saved.

Style Performance

The Style Performance stores all available Style Play Mode settings for the Style Tracks, including Volume, Pan, Fx, Wrap-Around, EQ, Tempo, Track Mute, etc. All settings available in Style Record Mode (notes, NTT settings, key, keyboard range, etc.) are not saved in the Style Performance but in the Style Pattern Style Record itself, making those two ambients environments separate as for the kind of parameters and saving procedures.

How to recall a Style Performance: A Style Performance is recalled togheter with the Style itself.

How to save a Style Performance: There is only one a single Style Performance for each Style and can be saved, only overwriting the old one in the same Style location in memory, by using the Page Menu -> Write Current Style Performance command or the shortcut Shift + any of the Style Select buttons (you do not need to press the button corresponding to the target location).

Performance

The Performance stores:

- one full Real Time Tracks setting (Upper 1, 2, 3 and Lower - see above) + Voice Processor Preset: in practice, it's the equivalent of a single STS,
- one full Style Performance (but not including the Style Record data),
- the "link" to a particular Style location, so that when the Style Change function is on, the selected Performance also recalls, togheter with the Real Time Tracks settings, a Style. This Style will not play with the original Style Performance, but with the one saved along with the Performance itself.

Let's see an example of a possible application of this concept. You have a Cool Bossa style in the Pa800 Latin style bank (location 3). Now you would like to use the same style with two different sounds: an Octave Piano and a Glide Piano (but it could also be a Flute, a Sax or whatever you like).
Now turn the Style Change and the Performance Select functions on (if any) and:

- select the "Octave Piano" Performance (Piano Bank - Page 1 - Location 3): this Performance will select an Octave Piano sound for the Real Time Tracks, the Cool Bossa style with a Style Performance at 147 BPM starting with CountIn to Variation 2, (among others).
- now select the "Glide Piano" Performance (Piano Bank - Page 2 - Location 13): this Performance will select a Glide Piano sound for the Real Time Tracks, the Cool Bossa style with a Style Performance at 156 BPM starting with Variation 3 (among others). This means that a lot of settings can be changed, including Send Fx, Fx Type, Fx Settings, Track Mute, Sounds, etc.

So we get two completely different combinations of Real Time and Backing Tracks at the touch of a button, but it's important to underline that the original Cool Bossa style remains untouched: by selecting the original style just using the style selection buttons, we can see that it's still at 148 BPM starting with Variation 1. This feature highlight the flexibility of having a style that doesn't need to be physically duplicated to be used in two or more different situations - something that is further expanded by the SongBook feature.

How to recall a Performance: turn the Performance Select button on and use the row of buttons under it, or use the "PS" area of the Main Page to open the Performance Selection Form.

How to save a Performance: using the Page Menu -> Write Performance option or the shortcut Shift + any of the Performance/Sound Select buttons. This will open a dialog box allowing naming/renaming, and a way to select a Performance location.

In Song Play Mode

STS (Single Touch Setting)

In Song Play Mode STSs can be handled by using the SongBook. Please see the SongBook section below.

Performance

In Song Play mode, the Performance recalls the Real Time Track settings only + a Vocal Processor Preset.

Recalling and saving procedures are the same as in Style Play mode.

How to recall a Performance: turn the Performance Select button on and use the row of buttons under it or use the "PS" (meaning Performance/STS) area of the Main Page display to open the Performance Selection Form.

How to save a Performance: using the Page Menu -> Write Performance option or the shortcut Shift + any of the Performance/Sound Select buttons. This will open a dialog box allowing naming/renaming and choosing a Performance location.

In SongBook

This is the most complete and flexible way to store your settings and it is based on a simple principle: here you can save everything that is necessary to play a particular song. It's not the usually concept of selecting a style or a midifile, then selecting 2, 3 or 4 different sounds or performance to play on top of it, maybe adding also a text to sing along: with a single operation you immediately get all of them. This feature is over any concept of mode (Style Play or Song Play) and it doesn't matter if you play using a style, a midifile or an Mp3: the right resource is selected along with the correct Mode to play it and adding any other useful setting like text, transpose, genre, artist name, Voice Processore preset, etc. you may have programmed before.

The following diagrams explain the SongBook data structure:

It is important to remark also that the SongBook recalls resources without making any modification to the resource itself, giving you the flexibility to share the same resource, whatever it is, for different contexts. For example, you can use the very same style to make different songs just changing the BPM, muting Tracks, changing Sounds, FX, FX Send, Eq, Volume, Pan, STS, Pads, Mic settings, Split Point, Tuning, Assignable Switch, etc. but leaving the original one untouched.

STS (Single Touch Setting)

Each song entry has its own STSs. If the entry is based on a style, these can be different from the ones in the original style, that are left untouched.

How to recall an STS: after a SongBook entry has been loaded, select STS 1, 2, 3 or 4 or use the Touch Screen display with the STS Name tab activated in the Main Page.

How to save an STS: with the SongBook open, select the "Book Edit 1" tab, check the "Write STS" box, choose to save one (the current selected sound) or all (the current selected style STS), then push the "Write" button in the lower-right side of the screen to save the settings.

Single Touch (Button)

This button works in a different way depending on the type of resource selected (Style or Standard Midi File/Mp3).

Using Styles: it works the same as in Style Mode (see above).

Using Standard Midi Files/Mp3:

- Steadily On or Flashing: 1) if none of the two Sequencers is playing, the Song is loaded into Sequencer 1 along with the STS, and STS1 is selected; 2) if one of the Sequencers is playing the Song is loaded into the other one, and the current STSs of the playing Sequencer are kept to avoid interference. When the new song starts (just using the Play button) then the STSs are loaded and STS1 is selected.
- Off: 1) if none of the two Sequencers is playing the Song is loaded into Sequencer 1 along with the STSs, but none of them is selected; 2) if one of the Sequencers is playing, the Song is loaded into the other one and the current STSs of the playing Sequencer are kept to avoid interference. When the new song starts (just using the play button) then the STSs are loaded but none of them is selected.

Performance

The Performance is not saved/recalled anywhere in the SongBook (you use the STSs instead) but can be accessed anyway when the four STS are not enough or for any other particular reason. It looks logical anyway to program at the best the four STS for any SongBook entry that in most cases fit the job.

Recalling and saving procedures are the same as in the Style Play and Song Play modes.

How to recall a Performance: turn the Performance Select button on and use the row of buttons under it or use the "PS" (meaning "Performance/STS") area of the Main Page display to open the Performance Selection Form.

How to save a Performance: using the Page Menu -> Write Performance option or the shortcut Shift + any of the Performance/Sound Select buttons. This will open a dialog box allowing naming/renaming and choosing a Performance location.