This discourages the keyboard musician from using all the capabilities available from her instrument when playing live, often resulting in a duller performance. Each discrete instrument must be set up individually, either manually or through some external control, in order to call up scenes during a live performance, and this challenge can overwhelm a performer. You cannot easily accomplish this if you need to mix sounds from different synths, especially if some of these are virtual instruments on a computer or tablet. The problem with that is that you can only create scenes within the confines of an integrated instrument. However, in my opinion, these functions are essential in a live performance, allowing you to produce fresh, more complex and greater variety of sounds on each song, to come closer to the sound of your cover songs – if you're in a cover or tribute band – or closer to your original sound if you recorded originals in a studio. This may be enough for you if you play using a small set of sounds like piano, organ and strings on your entire performance. Without these functions you are limited to calling up single patches on each keyboard synth. Once you have programmed and saved a scene that has the mix of sounds you want on your instrument, you can easily call it up using a keypad, a touch screen, or some other means. Common names are "Combination" (combi) or "Scene", so let's use the name "scene" on this post. These types of capabilities have been around since the early days of digital synthesis back in the 1980's, and the modes that allow you to create and save these settings are referred to by different names depending on the instrument manufacturer. As performing keyboardists, we are familiar with the concept of layering multiple sounds (patches) to produce a phatter sound, splitting patches over your keys (keyboard split) to play different sounds on sections of your keyboard, and combinations and variations of these techniques, including velocity layering, transposition and more.
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