I have experienced the same phenomena on a 905 with a PR-300. When the expression shoes start controlling the volume level on sequences, I would power-down and then power-up the organ to affect a reset. I cannot remember an instance where that did not take care of the problem. And yes, I agree with Jay...the expression shoes should NOT affect the playback of a sequence. Hope this helps, Bob Leety Monroe, CT -----Original Message----- From: rodgersorgan-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rodgersorgan-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jaybrooks1@xxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:05 PM To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: Expression shoe and MIDI playback with PR 300-S In a message dated 7/17/02 9:29:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, noel.heinze@xxxxxxx writes: > Jay Brooks says, "The expression shoe should NOT affect the volume of PR300 > voices under normal circumstances." Why not? Seems to me that if you're > going to have some balance/control over volume of organ voices vs volume of > PR300, you would want everything under expression, otherwise you have an > "unenclosed" PR300 doing its thing regardless of whether the organ is pp or > ff. > > Maybe I should clarify this. If you are playing PR-300 voices in real time along with organ voices, then the PR-300 is certainly under expression along with the organ voices. However, when you are playing along with an orchestral sequence the dynamic levels for the PR-300 voices are already programmed into the sequence. Therefore, when playing along with a sequence the organ's expression should effect organ stops only and not the PR-300. The volume level on the PR-300 should be set at an appropriate level to balance the organ. But since changes in dynamics are already programmed into the sequence the dynamics of the PR-300 voices are greatly exaggerated if they also respond to the expression shoe. It actually causes the balance between the organ and PR-300 to get out of whack. Hope my rambling is making sense here. Jay Brooks Wilmington, NC