As far as the + button once you load a patch map you get from here to match your synth, Whoever wrote the patch map put in the MSB/LSB and it's description. This allows you to play the 'Golden Trumpet' or Screamin MeME, see. So you assign that patch via the patch map as the melody instrument and voila, the keyboard barks.

This isn't an arranger keyboard, way more possibilities. I also suggest you take a look around the internet, try Band in a Box and Allanah in Google, she has an archive of tunes available for download. In fact a lot. There are others kicking around too.

I spent ages trying to get my keyboard to work with band in a box, and now I use it's sounds, and let band in a box do the work of drumming, bass playing etc, (well I did get a Ketron SD2 (Listen to that on this website), and I just use my system to mix each part. I can either play the sounds in my keyboard, or play on the thru channel to the Ketron if I wish.

Now that RealTracks have got so good I often find myself just using the realtracks and adding in organ or piano myself. Or Accordion, or horns, or Wind Instrument. (I'm getting there, need more wind..but that's another story)

John Conley
Musica est vita