Any sneaky way of displaying "comments" on Display?

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Any sneaky way of displaying "comments" on Display?

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Coming from a Mainstage setup, I typically use a text field to give myself a few performance notes for songs. I typically use drawbars in Live mode, but it's nice to sometimes shorthand a registration, or the first few notes of an intro melody that I keep blanking on! (happens to all of us).

Has anyone figured out some method of displaying a line or so of text, per Song? Otherwise I can just print an 8.5x11 cheat sheet. I have an iPad which I've used while first learning songs for a new band quickly, but at this point I'm pretty solid and that's overkill.
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The only way I know of to encode information is in the name of the song, program or preset. Example would "IsShe C#m AT MW" would be "Is She Going Out With Him" that starts in C#m and the program uses both aftertouch and mod wheel. Space is extremely limited.
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Yeah, I'm putting the starting Key in the Song Name too, but I'd have to really truncate to get anything more.

I guess I could theoretically create a bunch of dummy Synth patches with notes on them, but that gets excessive. Maybe this will just force me to improve my memory that last little smidge!
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# might no be available as character... there is no + since years... so good luck ;-) (I am far from my Nord now to check)
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I have to admit, I was pretty shocked at the complete lack of special characters for naming. I’ll probably use “s” for sharp. Or use the flat enharmonic equivalent.
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Eric, you play all the song just from head? lol
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You'd be surprised how many of us play everything from memory, usually remembering most of it :)
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I have occasionally saved some chords in the display of a keyboard, though not too many that I remember lately. Back in the '00s I was in a 10-piece wedding band that did a ton of very wide-ranging material from jazz sets to funk, R&B, disco, modern, etc. and I somehow committed almost all of it to memory. Except the bridge for Saving All My Love For You - I could not remember that darn thing for whatever reason...so I took a small part of an index card and wrote the chords on it, then taped it pretty much permanently on my keyboard. LOL.
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Post by WannitBBBad »

ericL wrote:...so I took a small part of an index card and wrote the chords on it, then taped it pretty much permanently on my keyboard. LOL.
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Re: Any sneaky way of displaying "comments" on Display?

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You can double the "information text" by using Song mode title AND program name !
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