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
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Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver
Connecting Pa300 to a personal computer
The USB Device port can be used to transfer MIDI data between
the Pa300 and a personal computer (this is called the MIDI Over
USB function).
Connecting Pa300 to a personal computer
Please install the KORG USB-MIDI Driver, before connecting
Pa300 to a personal computer. Be sure your personal computer
meets the requirement shown on “KORG USB-MIDI Driver sys-
tem requirements” below.
KORG USB-MIDI Driver system
requirements
Windows
Computer: A computer with an USB port, that satisfies the
requirements of Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8.
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition / Pro-
fessional / x64 Edition, Vista, 7, 8.
Mac
Computer: An Apple Mac with an USB port that satisfies the
requirements of Mac OS X.
Operating system: Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later.
Please note before use
Copyright to all software included in this product is the property
of Korg Inc.
The license agreement for this software is provided separately.
You must read this license agreement before you install this soft-
ware. Your installation of this software will be taken to indicate
your acceptance of this agreement.
Windows: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI
Driver
Please connect Pa300 to the computer via an USB cable only
after having installed the KORG USB-MIDI Driver Tools.
1. Insert the included Accessory Disc into the optical drive of
your Windows PC.
2. Open the folder DVD-ROM\USB-MIDI Driver\Win -
KORG USB-MIDI Driver v.n.nn\ and double-click on
“KORG USB-MIDI Driver Tools Setup v.n.nn.exe” to run
the installer (“n.nn” meaning the version number).
3. Follow the instructions appearing on screen. At the end,
the tools will be installed.
4. When installation is completed, connect the DEVICE USB
port of your Pa300 to one of the USB ports of your Win-
dows PC by using a standard USB cable. The Auto Installer
will immediately start.
5. When finished, the USB-MIDI driver will be installed, and
Pa300 will be able to communicate with your computer via
USB.
You can access the tools and manuals from the Start menu.
Driver’s ports
After installation, the following ports will be shown in you MIDI
application (e.g., sequencer) among the other MIDI devices:
Pa300 KEYBOARD: This allows for reception of MIDI messages
from the Pa300 (keyboard and controller’s data) to the MIDI
application running on the computer.
Pa300 SOUND: This allows for transmission of MIDI messages
from the MIDI application running on the computer, to the
internal tone generator of Pa300.
Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver
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