What’s the ‘select song" inside "style play’ mode

[unjazz]

What’s the ‘select song" function inside "style play’ mode for - on my pa700? Any loaded song there doesn’t play, so what’s the point of it? It’s not documented in the manual.

Conversely, the "song play" mode has a "style" STY function, which also doesn’t seem to do anything - after all, the midi song has been recorded very precisely so I understand that selecting a style wouldn’t affect the song. So what is the STY function for? Again, it is not documented that I can find - even in the big honking 1042 page pa700 manual.

[karmathanever]

What’s the ‘select song" function inside "style play’ mode for - on my pa700?

This enables you to select (prepare) any song you wish to play in SONG PLAY mode. When performing it is great because you can prepare a song (for SONG PLAY) whilst remaining in STYLE PLAY mode

Conversely, the "song play" mode has a "style" STY function, which also doesn’t seem to do anything - after all, the midi song has been recorded very precisely so I understand that selecting a style wouldn’t affect the song. So what is the STY function for?

This is the reverse of the above really - whilst in SONG PLAY mode you can select (prepare) a style ready to play in STYLE PLAY mode. This will also load the STYLE's KEYBOARD-SET which could be useful.

Personally, I use SONGBOOK & SETLIST for all my song-registrations but if you like to play the keys without getting to SONGBOOK then these are nice features.

Hope this helps

Pete

[unjazz]

Thanks Pete - that's a great relief to know what those were for. So I see, when you switch to SONG PLAY or STYLE PLAY the style or song you selected in the (mysteriously undocumented) area of the mode you just left, will automatically become active/loaded - neat.

I did notice that in SONG PLAY when selecting a style, whilst the 4 keyboard sets of that style are loaded (as you mention) - that won't change your current keyboard set - even if you had "STYLE TO KBD SET" on. The feature of auto activating the first KBD SET of a style (if the "STYLE TO KBD SET" is on) only works in proper STYLE PLAY mode and is entirely disabled in SONG PLAY mode, which is probably a good thing.

P.S. In order to simulate a "STYLE TO KBD SET" feature whilst in SONG PLAY mode, what you could do when playing along with a song is load a style and immediately hit the keyboard set #1 button. This would make the first keyboard set active and change your sound whilst jamming along to the song.

[karmathanever]

P.S. In order to simulate a "STYLE TO KBD SET" feature whilst in SONG PLAY mode, what you could do when playing along with a song is load a style and immediately hit the keyboard set #1 button. This would make the first keyboard set active and change your sound whilst jamming along to the song.

Yes - that's a good tip.....