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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Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Pads: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Style Controls: Drum Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Style Controls: Keyboard Range On/Off / Wrap Around . . . 107
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Write Performance dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Write Single Touch Setting dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Write Current Style Settings dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
The Favorite banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Song Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
MIDI Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Tempo Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Master Volume, Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Track parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Standard MIDI Files and Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Keyboard, Pad and Player tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Main page (Normal view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
STS Name panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Pad panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Split panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Sub-Scale panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Jukebox panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Pads: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Jukebox Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Standard MIDI Files and MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Sequencer Play - Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Entering Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Record mode: Multitrack Sequencer page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Record mode: Step Record page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Record mode: Backing Sequence (Quick Record) page . . . . . 130
Record mode: Step Backing Sequence page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Song Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Song Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Song Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Song Edit: Cut/Insert Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Song Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Song Edit: Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Song Edit: Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Song Edit: RX Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Save Song window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Overview on the Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
General Controls: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
General Controls: Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
General Controls: Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
General Controls: Date & Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Mode Preferences: Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
Mode Preferences: Song & Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Mode Preferences: Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Controllers: Hand Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Controllers: Foot Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Tuning: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Tuning: Transpose Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Tuning: Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
MIDI: General Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
MIDI: MIDI In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
MIDI: MIDI In Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
MIDI: MIDI Out Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
MIDI: Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Audio & EQ: MP3 / Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Audio & EQ: Master EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Touch Panel Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Write Quarter Tone SC Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Write Midi Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Write Master EQ Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Storage devices and internal memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Supported device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Selecting and deselecting files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Searching files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
File types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Media structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
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