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It’s so easy with our arranger keyboards to get into an endless tweaking cycle, be it for styles, sounds, effects etc etc.
How often have you got something sounding great and then coming back the next day or a few days later and you think it just doesn’t sound right and go back and tweak some more.
How do you know when to stop tweaking and comit by saving?
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(This post was last modified: 06-03-2026, 02:18 PM by Chello.)
I experience this all the time, but with a good number of exceptions:
The styles that have OK tweaks are always good, even many years later with other equipment connected.
The styles that have bad tweaks will give varying experiences, and most often negative, and guaranteed if the connected equipment changes.
The reason for bad tweaks is usually (in my cases) that the tweak has been made unnecessarily complex.
It is always the simple tweaks that win.
It is strange to note that my earliest tweaks are almost exclusively among my best, and they were all simple in their form.
So my rule has become:
Make tweaks as simple as possible.
What ⚅Graham says is also important to note.
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I don't know if others find this, but I find that when I have got something set up perfectly for one particular song .. using the same setup in another song just doesn't sound right, so its back to the drawing board and I end up tweaking it differently.
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