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You can also try transposing from the touch screen by touching the "Transpose" on the screen and using the no/yes buttons or the wheel just to the right of the screen.

I've been using an EV-5 for several years now with no problems.

Well since no one else has weighed in, I'll offer my 2 cents... I've been using a Mackie SRM-150 for several years now, and it works well for me- in certain situations. I really like the small form factor. The caveat is that I typically only use it when I have a monitor provided for me, am familiar with the sound people, and I know that they're competent enough to do their job at least as well as I am trying to do mine. The key is, I start with a good mix from the board, usually just my keys plus whatever vocals are around, and I use the Mackie as sort of a reference to balance out whatever else is going on around me on stage at the time. The Mackie works well for me because I might have a good monitor mix when the band starts playing, but if/when things suddenly get louder as they can, and do, I can quickly and easily get back to where I can hear myself until I can let the sound guy know I need some more keys in my mix. There are Z-stand attachments for microphones, so you could theoretically mount one to your stand which, now that I think about it, I might have to try... I also have a QSC 10.2 that I like to use on bigger gigs, when time and convenience allows for a larger set up. But I also rely on it when I don't know who's running sound, or when I do know and I don't trust them. It's about 3x the price and 4x the schlep, but it also sounds about 10x better, and I don't usually end up needing to bother the sound person with things like trying to get more keys in my mix.

I love this video. It's one of many from Mike that really persuaded me to buy the 560. "By the way, you've got to make faces when you play with the wah-wah...."

If you mean "not working" as in it does nothing, no sustain either way, I would suggest trying a different pedal, if you have one available. If you mean "not working" as in it behaves as if the polarity is reversed again, I would suggest trying the pedal with another board, and also trying a different pedal. Either way I'd want to isolate whether the problem is in the pedal itself or is somewhere within the keyboard.

I might be wrong, but I don't think there is. I think the 560 calibrates according to the pedal when you turn it on, as long as it's compatible. That said, if you turn the board on before you plug in the pedal, you might have the problem where it seems like the polarity is reversed.

I just checked mine and it says the output is 1.5 A, center positive. I don't know if I'd be comfortable trying another adapter, but I suppose as long as you have 12 V and at least 1.5 A you might get away with it.

It sounds more like an attempt at Wurli to me. I'd recommend you check out some of the 60s EP, or 60s E.Piano tones.

For Supertramp, chorus will be your friend. Lots of chorus. I think I started with a hex-layer 5-velowhirly, then add lots of chorus, and season with vibrato to taste.

The "volume" knob is a master volume for the entire keyboard. The volume of upper 1, or 2, or the lower 1 or 2, can be controlled with any of the assignable knobs, or an expression pedal.

Thank you for this, Bramley. I just had to restore my board to factory and was a little nervous about losing my Registrations. I am pleasantly surprised at how simple it was. This place Rocks!

I must be daft, but how does one perform a backup? I'm going thru the video tutorials in the sticky thread, but I can't seem to find a step-by-step procedure for this. eta: I should have looked further down the first page, my bad.

I just hit upon this and am getting ready to install the firmware update. Will I lose registrations/patches that I have programed? Do I need to store them on something before I do this?

I'm definitely no expert, but I would say probably not very easily. I only poked around the the Balance, System Setting and Mixer menus. Nothing stands out as an obvious way to route anything to the headphone that isn't also going to go to the line outs. However, under the Mixer menu you can pan individual tones L and R. I suppose you could use a simple drum pattern instead of the metronome, maybe just a bass drum, and pan that to the L, then pan whichever tone you want to use with the arpeggiator to the R and send that to your mixer.

That makes sense to me now. Thanks again for the help.