System information

M3 EasyStart

Wanna edit using that beautiful display? Press the PAGE SELECT switch, and touch either “Sample Edit” or “Loop Edit.” Zoom, cut,

copy, paste, normalize, time slice, time stretch… it’s all there!

Running out of sampling RAM? Add the EXB-M256 RAM upgrade to take your total RAM up to 320MB! But wait! How do you get

that RAM upgrade? Well friends, you go to korgusa.com’s online store – it’s that simple! Order your EXB-M256 upgrade now! Don’t

delay! Order today! Visit www.korgusa.com

and then select “Expansion Options” from the CATEGORIES menu. Scroll down and you’ll

see the EXB-M256 SAMPLE MEMORY EXPANSION. No mess! No fuss! Get it fast, install it easily yourself, and sample to your

heart’s content!

Now to use the sampler to record audio directly into a sequencer track:

1. With any song loaded in SEQ mode, touch the “Sampling/Audio In” tab.

2. Touch the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the display, and then select “Auto Sampling Setup” (you’ll

need to scroll to the right).

3. Touch “In-Track Sampling”, choose an empty MIDI track, and then touch “OK”.

4. Set the Trigger to “Sequencer START SW”.

5. Press the SAMPLING REC switch, followed by pressing the SAMPLING START/STOP switch.

6. Press the SEQUENCER START/STOP switch to start playing and recording your sample.

7. When you’re finished sampling, press the SEQUENCER START/STOP switch to hear the result.

This is a great place to use the built-in effects! In the M3 you can record with effects or just monitor input with effects! You could

run a guitar through an amp model, or pass a microphone through a virtual tube preamp, and so on… up to five effects at once! See

the M3 Owner’s Manual for more on sampling with effects.

Now, let’s use the sampler to capture the entire mix, effects and all, and save it to our USB device as a 2-channel WAV file, ready

to be burned to a CD…

1. Make sure that your USB device is plugged in and recognized using the steps above.

2. In the current song, touch the “Sampling/Audio In” tab.

3. Touch the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the display, and then select “Auto Sampling Setup” (you’ll

need to scroll to the right).

4. Touch “2ch Mix to Media”.

5. Press the SAMPLING REC switch. It will flash for a few seconds while it prepares to record. When it’s finished, press the

SAMPLING START/STOP switch to arm the sampler.

6. Press the SEQUENCER START/STOP switch to play the song back. When it’s finished, press SEQUENCER

START/STOP again. The SAMPLING REC switch will flash. When it’s finished, your WAV file has been created.

From here, you can plug the USB device into a computer and copy the WAV file, or you can plug in a CD burner, press the MEDIA

switch to go to MEDIA mode, touch the “Make Audio CD” tab, and assemble an album right from the display!