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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Page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Navigation tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Care of mass storage devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
SongBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
List Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Book Edit 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Book Edit 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Book Edit 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Lyrics, Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Lyrics page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Score page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Style/Pad Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Recording Styles and Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Style/Pad Import/Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Entering the Style/Pad Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Exit by saving or deleting changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Listening to the Style while in Edit mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
List of recorded events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Main page - Record 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Main page - Record 2/Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Main page - Guitar Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Style/Pad Record procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Style/Pad Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Style/Pad Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Style/Pad Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Style/Pad Edit: Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Style/Pad Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Style/Pad Edit: Delete All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Style Element Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . 217
Style Element Track Controls: Keyboard Range . . . . . . . . . . 218
Style Element Track Controls: Noise/Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Pad Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Style Element/Pad Chord Table: Chord Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Style Track Controls: Type/Trigger/Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Import: Import Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Import: Import SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Export SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Write Style/Pad dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Copy Key/Chord dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Copy Sounds dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Copy Expression dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Copy Key Range dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Copy Chord Table dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Overdub Step Recording window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Sound Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229
The MIDI channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
How to select oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Sounds, Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Basic: Sound Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Basic: OSC Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Basic: Vel/Key Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Basic: Damper Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Basic: Damper Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Basic: EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
DrumKit: Sample Setup (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
DrumKit: EQ (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
DrumKit: Voice Mixer (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Pitch: Pitch Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Pitch: Pitch EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Filter: Filter Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Filter: Filter Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Filter: Filter LFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Filter: Filter EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Amp: Amp Level/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Amp: Amp Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Amp: Amp EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
LFO: LFO1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
LFO: LFO2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Effects: “B” FX Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Effects: Master 1 / Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Effects: Master 2 / Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Write Sound dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Copy Oscillator dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Copy Drum Kit dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
AMS (Alternate Modulation Source) list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258
What is MIDI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
MIDI and personal computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Standard MIDI Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
The General MIDI standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
The Global channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
The Control channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
MIDI Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Connecting Pa300 to a personal computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Appendix
Factory data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262
Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
Effect list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Dynamic Modulation sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Dynamics (Dynamic) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
EQ and Filters (EQ/Filter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Overdrive, Amp models, and Mic models (OD Amp Mic) . 294
Chorus, Flanger, and Phaser (Cho/Fln Phaser) . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Modulation and Pitch Shift (Mod./P.Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Reverb and Early Reflections (Reverb ER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Mono-Mono Serial (Mono-Mono) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
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