User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Important safety instructions
- Further notices
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Welcome!
- Overview
- Front Panel
- Music stand holes
- Speakers
- Joystick lever
- Volume controls
- Mode selection
- Special Mode Buttons
- Accompaniment, Memory, Manual Bass
- Pads
- Selection
- Style Elements
- Style Controls
- Display and Brightness Controls
- Special Function Controls
- STS Section
- Player Controls
- Lyrics, Score
- Data Entry and Navigation
- Tempo Section
- Split
- Ensemble
- Performance Select Section
- Transpose Section
- Power On/Off
- Rear Panel
- Front Panel
- Glossary of Terms
- Interface basics
- Easy Mode
- Quick Guide
- Turning the instrument on
- Connecting and calibrating the Damper pedal
- Playing the Demo
- Playing Sounds
- Selecting and saving Performances
- Selecting and saving the “My Setting” Performance
- Selecting and playing Styles
- Selecting and playing a Style
- Tempo
- Intro, Variation, Fill, Break, Ending
- Single Touch Settings (STS)
- The Pads
- Adjusting the balance between the Style and the keyboard
- Adjusting the volume of the separate tracks
- Turning the Style tracks on/off
- Adding harmony notes to your right-hand melody with the ENSEMBLE function
- Song Play
- The SongBook
- Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)
- Searching files and musical resources
- Reference
- Selecting elements
- Style Play
- Start-up settings
- Styles and Pads
- Master Volume and Balance
- Factory, Favorite and User Styles
- Main page
- STS Name panel
- Volume panel
- Pad panel
- Split panel
- Sub-Scale panel
- Edit menu
- Edit page structure
- Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan
- Mixer/Tuning: FX Send
- Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain
- Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control
- Mixer/Tuning: Tuning
- Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale
- Effects: A/B FX Configuration
- Effects: Master 1, 2
- Track Controls: Mode
- Track Controls: Drum Edit
- Track Controls: Easy Edit
- Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range
- Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble
- Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control
- Pads: Pad
- Style Controls: Drum Map
- Style Controls: Keyboard Range On/Off / Wrap Around
- Page menu
- Write Performance dialog box
- Write Single Touch Setting dialog box
- Write Current Style Settings dialog box
- The Favorite banks
- Song Play
- MIDI Clock
- Tempo Lock
- Master Volume, Balance
- Track parameters
- Standard MIDI Files and Sounds
- Keyboard, Pad and Player tracks
- Main page (Normal view)
- STS Name panel
- Volume panel
- Pad panel
- Split panel
- Sub-Scale panel
- Jukebox panel
- Edit menu
- Edit page structure
- Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan
- Mixer/Tuning: FX Send
- Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain
- Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control
- Mixer/Tuning: Tuning
- Effects: A/B FX Configuration
- Effects: Master 1, 2
- Track Controls: Mode
- Track Controls: Drum Edit
- Track Controls: Easy Edit
- Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range
- Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble
- Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control
- Pads: Pad
- Jukebox Editor
- Page menu
- Sequencer
- Standard MIDI Files and MP3
- Sequencer Play - Main page
- Entering Record mode
- Record mode: Multitrack Sequencer page
- Record mode: Step Record page
- Record mode: Backing Sequence (Quick Record) page
- Record mode: Step Backing Sequence page
- Edit menu
- Edit page structure
- Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan
- Mixer/Tuning: FX Send
- Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain
- Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control
- Mixer/Tuning: Tuning
- Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale
- Effects: A/B FX Configuration
- Effects: Master 1, 2
- Track Controls: Mode
- Track Controls: Drum Edit
- Track Controls: Easy Edit
- Event Edit: Event Edit
- Event Edit: Filter
- Song Edit: Quantize
- Song Edit: Transpose
- Song Edit: Velocity
- Song Edit: Cut/Insert Measures
- Song Edit: Delete
- Song Edit: Copy
- Song Edit: Move
- Song Edit: RX Convert
- Page menu
- Song Select window
- Save Song window
- Global
- Overview on the Global mode
- Main page
- Edit menu
- Edit page structure
- General Controls: Basic
- General Controls: Interface
- General Controls: Lock
- General Controls: Date & Power
- Mode Preferences: Style
- Mode Preferences: Song & Sequencer
- Mode Preferences: Media
- Controllers: Hand Controllers
- Controllers: Foot Controllers
- Tuning: Basic
- Tuning: Transpose Control
- Tuning: Scale
- MIDI: General Controls
- MIDI: MIDI In Controls
- MIDI: MIDI In Channels
- MIDI: MIDI Out Channels
- MIDI: Filters
- Audio & EQ: MP3 / Output
- Audio & EQ: Master EQ
- Touch Panel Calibration
- Page menu
- Write Quarter Tone SC Preset dialog box
- Write Midi Preset dialog box
- Write Master EQ Preset dialog box
- Media
- Storage devices and internal memory
- Supported device
- Selecting and deselecting files
- Searching files
- Preferences
- File types
- Media structure
- Main page
- Page structure
- Navigation tools
- Load
- Merging data
- Loading all the User data
- Loading all data of a specified type
- Loading a single bank
- Loading a single item
- Loading Global data from other Pa-Series instruments
- Loading Pa3X data
- Loading Pa900/Pa600 data
- Loading Pa2X, Pa800, Pa1X, Pa800, Pa588 data
- Loading Pa80/60/50/50SD data
- Loading i-Series data
- Save
- Copy
- Delete
- Format
- Utility
- USB
- Page menu
- Care of mass storage devices
- SongBook
- Lyrics, Score
- Style/Pad Record
- Recording Styles and Pads
- Style/Pad Import/Export
- Entering the Style/Pad Record mode
- Exit by saving or deleting changes
- Listening to the Style while in Edit mode
- List of recorded events
- Main page - Record 1
- Main page - Record 2/Cue
- Main page - Guitar Mode
- Style/Pad Record procedure
- Edit menu
- Edit page structure
- Event Edit: Event Edit
- Event Edit: Filter
- Style/Pad Edit: Quantize
- Style/Pad Edit: Transpose
- Style/Pad Edit: Velocity
- Style/Pad Edit: Cut
- Style/Pad Edit: Delete
- Style/Pad Edit: Delete All
- Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Style
- Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Pad
- Style Element Track Controls: Sound/ Expression
- Style Element Track Controls: Keyboard Range
- Style Element Track Controls: Noise/Guitar
- Pad Track Controls: Sound/Expression
- Style Element/Pad Chord Table: Chord Table
- Style Track Controls: Type/Trigger/Tension
- Import: Import Groove
- Import: Import SMF
- Export SMF
- Page menu
- Write Style/Pad dialog box
- Copy Key/Chord dialog box
- Copy Sounds dialog box
- Copy Expression dialog box
- Copy Key Range dialog box
- Copy Chord Table dialog box
- Overdub Step Recording window
- Sound Edit
- The MIDI channel
- How to select oscillators
- Sounds, Drum Kits
- Main page
- Edit menu
- Edit page structure
- Basic: Sound Basic
- Basic: OSC Basic
- Basic: Vel/Key Zone
- Basic: Damper Mode
- Basic: Damper Trigger
- Basic: EQ
- DrumKit: Sample Setup (Drum Kits)
- DrumKit: EQ (Drum Kits)
- DrumKit: Voice Mixer (Drum Kits)
- Pitch: Pitch Mod
- Pitch: Pitch EG
- Filter: Filter Type
- Filter: Filter Mod
- Filter: Filter LFO
- Filter: Filter EG
- Amp: Amp Level/Pan
- Amp: Amp Mod
- Amp: Amp EG
- LFO: LFO1
- LFO: LFO2
- Effects: “B” FX Config
- Effects: Master 1 / Reverb
- Effects: Master 2 / Chorus
- Page menu
- Write Sound dialog box
- Copy Oscillator dialog box
- Copy Drum Kit dialog box
- AMS (Alternate Modulation Source) list
- MIDI
- Appendix
- Factory data
- Effects
- Effect list
- Dynamic Modulation sources
- Dynamics (Dynamic)
- EQ and Filters (EQ/Filter)
- Overdrive, Amp models, and Mic models (OD Amp Mic)
- Chorus, Flanger, and Phaser (Cho/Fln Phaser)
- Modulation and Pitch Shift (Mod./P.Shift)
- Delay
- Reverb and Early Reflections (Reverb ER)
- Mono-Mono Serial (Mono-Mono)
- Double Size
- Assignable parameters
- Recognized chords
- MIDI Data
- Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver
- Shortcuts
- Troubleshooting
- Technical specifications
- MIDI Implementation Chart
- Index

14
Overview
Front Panel
Lyrics, Score
Use this button to access the Lyrics and Score pages.
LYRICS/SCORE
When a Style is selected, this buttons recalls the Lyrics page, or
exits from it.
When a Song is selected, it cycles through the Lyrics and Score
pages. Press it a first time to see the Lyrics page, a second time to
see the Score page. Press it again to return to the main page.
Data Entry and Navigation
The VALUE DIAL can
be used to assign a dif-
ferent value to the
parameter selected in
the display, or to scroll
a list of files in the
Song Select, Song-
Book, Search and
Media pages.
VALUE DIAL
Turn the dial clockwise to increase the value of the selected
parameter. Turn it counter-clockwise to decrease its value.
When used while pressing the MENU button, this con-
trol always acts as a Display Brightness control.
EXIT
Use this button to perform various actions, leaving from the cur-
rent status:
• exit the edit menu page, without selecting any item
• make the page menu disappear, without selecting any
item
• return to the main page of the current operating mode
• exit the Global or Media edit environment, and return to
the current page of the current operating mode
•exit from the SongBook mode
• exit from the Lyrics and Score pages
• exit from a Style, Pad, Performance or Sound Select win-
dow
MENU
This button opens the edit menu page for the current operating
mode. After opening an edit menu, you can jump to one of the
edit sections by touching the corresponding button in the dis-
play.
Otherwise, press EXIT to return to the main page of the current
operating mode, or the current page of the underlying operating
mode.
Tempo Section
The TEMPO and METRO buttons can be used to control the
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TEMPO +/– buttons
TEMPO– decreases the speed of the Style or Song. TEMPO+
increases it.
Press both buttons together to reset the Tempo to the value
memorized in the Style or Standard MIDI File. With MP3 files,
the original speed of the file is recalled (value reset to “0”).
TEMPO LOCK
This button turns the Tempo Lock function on or off.
On When you select a different Style or Performance,
or select a different Song, the Tempo will not
change. You can still manually change it, by using
the TEMPO +/– buttons, or select the Tempo
value and change it by using the VALUE dial.
Off When you select a different Style, or select a dif-
ferent Song, the memorized Tempo will be auto-
matically selected.
Note: This button does not work with MP3 files.
You can jump to the Global > Lock page by keeping
SHIFT pressed and pressing this button.
METRO
Use this button to turn the Metronome click on or off. The met-
ronome uses the same time signature as the latest selected Style
or Standard MIDI File.
You can jump to the Global > General Controls > Basic
page by keeping SHIFT pressed, and pressing this button.
Split
Splitting the keyboard allows for separating the
chords area from the melody.
SPLIT
In Style Play, Song Play and Sequencer-Backing
Sequence mode, use this button to choose how the four Key-
board tracks are positioned on the keyboard, and how chords are
recognized by the arranger.
Note: The ACCOMP LED must be turned on for the accompani-
ment to play.
On The Lower track plays below the split point, while
the Upper 1, Upper 2 and Upper 3 tracks play
above it. This is called the Split keyboard mode.
By default, turning on the Split mode automati-
cally selects the Lower chord scanning mode. In
this mode, chords are detected below the split
point. The number of notes you should play to
form a chord is defined by the “Chord Recogni-
tion” parameter.
Off The Upper 1, Upper 2 and/or Upper 3 tracks play
over the whole keyboard range. The Lower track
does not play. This is also called the Full key-
board mode.
By default, turning off the Split mode automati-
cally selects the Full chord scanning mode. In this
mode, chords are detected over the full keyboard
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