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I am afraid the sequencer (?

) in the E433 is just not quite sophisticated enough to


do what you are trying to do. I put the question mark after sequencer because of its
lack of editing capabilities. Its not really a sequencer at all, but more of a MIDI
recorder/player that operates in a straight-forward (linear), non-looping, non-pattern
fashion. The LOOP A-B function on the E433 operates in playback only and can not
be saved. That is, your loop setting will be lost and have to be reset if you power off
the keyboard or if you switch to a different song and then come back to your looped
song. I don't think this is quite what you are looking for. The lowest priced unit I can
think of that does this type of sequencing is the Casio CTK-7000, but then it lacks
the DJ features of the E433. You might do better to explore connecting the E433 to
PC based DAW software and do your loop sequencing there. The E433 is a great unit
for what it is, but its just not quite up to what you are trying to do.

Registrations are a means of saving keyboard setups (voices, styles, tempos, splits,
layers, etc.) for quick call-up at a later time at the press of just one or two buttons.
The E433 allows 8 BANKS of 4 REGISTRATIONS each for a total or 32
REGISTRATIONS. Let's say you have a song of verse-1/chorus/verse-2/chorus and
you want a grand piano voice for verse-1, a grand piano layered with strings for the
first pass of the chorus, an e-piano for verse-2, and an e-piano layered with a synth
pad for the second pass of the chorus. There is just not enough time during a live
performance to do all that voice switching. So, you set up the keyboard just the way
you want it for verse-1 and save it to a registration - say - Bank-2/ Reg-1 - OR for
short - REG-21. Then you set up the keyboard the way you want it for the first pass
of the chorus and save it to REG-22, and then the same for verse-2 and the second
pass of the chorus and save them to REG-23 and REG-24. Now, when you are ready
to play your song, you start by selecting BANK-2. You will not need to press the
BANK button for the rest of the song. It will stay on BANK-2 unless you change it.
Just press the REG-1 button and you are ready for verse-1. At the end of verse-1,
press the REG-2 button and you immediately have your voices for the first pass of
the chorus, and so on for the rest of the song. So,basically, registrations allow you
to immediately call-up several minutes worth of setup at the mere touch of a
button. If 32 registrations are not enough for you, you can save each 8-by-4 set to a
USB flash drive for any number of sets.
you do it with registrations. Set up the entire keyboard with the first voice you want
along with ALL other parameters and save that as a registration. Using that reg as a
template, change ONLY the voice to the one you want for the second part of the
song and save that as a NEW registration. If you want a third voice change, repeat
the process. It is best to save your regs into consecutive slots in the same bank so
you don't have to switch banks on the fly as well as the individual regs themselves.

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