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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Technical specifications
Specifications and appearance are subject to change without notice
for improvement.
Technical specifications
KORG Pa300 Features
Keyboard 61 keys with Velocity
Display 5” 480 x 272 TFT Graphical Color TouchView
Sounds Factory: More than 950 (including Stereo Piano and
GM 2 Sounds), 64 Drum Kits
User: 256 Sounds, 128 Drum Kits
Tone Generator: 128 voices - Filters with Resonance
Full Sounds/Drumkits editing capability
Effects & EQ 4 Stereo Master FX / 125 Effects types
Three band EQ for each track
Master 4 band Parametric EQ
Controllers Joystick
Styles Factory: More than 310 preloaded Styles
User: Up to 1,040 available Style locations including
the Favorite/User banks
Structure: Eight Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings
and one Style Performance per Style, 4 Pads
Style controls: 3 Intros, 4 Variations, Break, 3 Endings,
Autofill (4 Fills), Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset,
Manual Bass, Bass Inversion, Memory, Accompani-
ment On/Off, Snare & Kick Designation
Others: Guitar Mode 2, Parallel and Fixed NTT
Style Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit
functions
Performance/STS 240 Realtime Performance locations
STS: Memorize Realtime tracks
Up to 4 x Styles, up to 4 x SongBook entries
My Setting special Performance
Realtime Tracks Four Keyboard tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3, Lower)
Pads 4 Pad tracks + Stop button
Pad Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit
functions
Song Play Player with Select, Start/Stop, Home, Rewind and Fast
Forward controls
Jukebox function - Compatible with SMF (formats 0
and 1) and MP3 – Lyrics (compatible with CDG), Score
Sequencer Quick Record (Backing Sequence), Multitrack and
Step Record functions
Full featured sequencer - 16 tracks - Up to 100,000
events - SMF format
SongBook Fully programmable music database, based on Styles,
SMF, Karaoke, MP3 with automatic selection of Style
Play and Song Play modes - User-definable custom
lists - Filtering options
Search Style, Song, Performance, SongBook, Sound and
Lyrics TXT
Compatibility i-Series: Style
Pa-Series: Style, Performance, Sound, Song, Song-
Book and Pad
General Controls Master Volume, Real Time-Acc/Seq Balance Volume,
Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose,
Tempo Lock, Quarter Tone Arabic Scale, User Scale
memorized inside Performance/STS, Search, Lyrics,
Score, Dial, Tempo, Metronome, Split
Connections Control Input: Assignable Pedal/Footswitch (Damper)
Headphone/Audio Out: Unbalanced Stereo Jack
USB to MIDI using the USB Device port - 8 user-defin-
able MIDI Presets
USB USB-MIDI Interface
To Device: 1 (Rear)
To Host: 1 (Rear)
2.0 Hi-Speed connections
Mass Storage/Disk USB
Amp/Speaker
System
Amplification: 13W x 2
Speakers: 100 mm x 2 Double Cone Speakers in Bass
Reflex Box
Power Extenral Power Supply: AC 100-240 V
Power Consumption: 18 Watt
Dimensions
(W x D x H) without
music rest
1,030 x 378.3 x 127 mm
40.55 x 14.89 x 5 in
Weight 8.35 kg – 18.41 lbs
Accessories Owner’s Manual, Music Stand, Accessory DVD (includ-
ing Video Manual), External Power Supply Adapter
and Power Cable
Options EXP2, XVP10 Expression Pedal
DS1H Damper Pedal
PS1, PS3 Switch Pedal
KORG Pa300 Features
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