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

• Read these instructions, and follow them carefully.
• Keep these instructions in a safe place.
• Heed all warnings.
• Do not use this apparatus near water.
• Clean only with dry cloth.
• Do not block any ventilation openings, install in accordance with the manu-
facturer’s instructions.
• Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or
other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat.
• Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs,
convenience receptacles, and the point where they exit from the apparatus.
• Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer.
• Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long peri-
ods of time.
• Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. Servicing is required when
the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as power-supply cord or
plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the appara-
tus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate nor-
mally, or has been dropped.
• Turning off the power switch does not completely isolate this product from
the power line so remove the plug from the socket if not using it for extended
periods of time, or before cleaning. Please ensure that the mains plug or appli-
ance couple remains readily accessible.
• Mains powered apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and that
no objects filled with liquids, such as vases, shall be placed on the apparatus.
• Install this product near the wall socket and keep the power plug easily acces-
sible.
• Do not install this equipment in a confined space such as a box for the convey-
ance or similar unit.
• When a cart is used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus combina-
tion to avoid injury from tip-over.
Important safety instructions
NOTICE REGARDING DISPOSAL (EU ONLY)
If this symbol is shown on the product, manual, battery, or package, you
must dispose of it in the correct manner to avoid harm to human health
or damage to the environment. Contact your local administrative body
for details on the correct disposal method. If the battery contains heavy
metals in excess of the regulated amount, a chemical symbol is displayed
below the symbol on the battery or battery package.
PERCHLORATE (CALIFORNIA, USA ONLY)
Perchlorate Material – special handling may apply.
See www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/perchlorate.
THE FCC REGULATION WARNING (FOR USA)
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B
digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential
installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy
and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause
harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that
interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause
harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by
turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the
interference by one or more of the following measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the
receiver is connected.
• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
If items such as cables are included with this equipment, you must use those
included items.
Unauthorized changes or modification to this system can void the user’s authority to
operate this equipment.
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY (FOR USA)
Responsible Party: KORG USA INC.
Address: 316 SOUTH SERVICE ROAD, MELVILLE / Telephone: 1-631-390-6500
Equipment Type: Music Arranger / Model: Pa300
This device complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may
cause undesired operation.
CE MARK FOR EUROPEAN HARMONIZED STANDARDS
CE mark which is attached to our company’s products of AC mains operated
apparatus until December 31, 1996 means it conforms to EMC Directive (89/336/
EEC) and CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC).
And, CE mark which is attached after January 1, 1997 means it conforms to EMC
Directive (89/336/EEC), CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC) and Low Voltage Directive
(73/23/EEC).
Also, CE mark which is attached to our company’s products of Battery operated
apparatus means it conforms to EMC Directive (89/336/EEC) and CE mark
Directive (93/68/EEC).
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS
This product has been manufactured according to strict specifications and voltage
requirements that are applicable in the country in which it is intended that this
product should be used. If you have purchased this product via the internet, through
mail order, and/or via a telephone sale, you must verify that this product is intended
to be used in the country in which you reside.
WARNING: Use of this product in any country other than that for which it is
intended could be dangerous and could invalidate the manufacturer's or distributor's
warranty.
Please also retain your receipt as proof of purchase otherwise your product may be
disqualified from the manufacturer's or distributor's warranty.
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