Oh, and I have an A1, but I believe the programs and performances are implemented equally in lead 4.
Performances:
- To prepare songs for a gig, or in general to have a set of sounds that I often use together.
- To construct more complex sounds, existing of multiple synths. In such performances, I often use the morph wheel as cross fader between slots.
Programs:
- To "engineer" new synths (often to be saved into a performance later on)
- To play around while jamming (either alone or with my band)
Organizing, Categorizing:
- In Programs I store the created synth sounds that I might be using again. Until now, I categorize them only as bass or not bass sounds in two separate main banks, but I would be interested in other ways of categorizing sounds and thus using the bank-numbers more effectively. The programs are the "ingredients" that cook performances from.
- In performances, I have just a bunch of performances stored. I found them difficult to categorize, so I just put them all in D (I wonder whether more people find themselves working in D all the time so not to overwrite the factory presents. My live would have been easier were A left blank Yes I know this is ridiculous.)