Electronic Keyboard User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Main features
- Wide range of sounds
- Performances
- Four zones keyboard
- Touch control
- Pedal effects
- Piano eXperience
- One-hundred eighty-five songs
- SongBook included
- Onboard recorder
- Metronome
- Data transfer via USB
- MIDI capabilities
- MIDI over USB
- Temperaments
- Adjustable pitch
- Effects
- Powerful integrated amplification
- Two sets of headphones
- Main features
- Control panel
- Connections
- Before you begin
- Basic functions
- Using performances
- The metronome
- Playing back a song
- Recording a song
- Quick recording procedure
- Step 1: Entering the Record mode
- Step 2: Selecting sounds
- Step 3: Setting the record options
- Step 4: Setting the time signature and tempo
- Step 5: Recording
- Step 6: Second-pass recording
- Changing sounds to a recorded song
- Changing tempo to a recorded song
- Pedal Punch recording
- Auto Punch recording
- Saving the song
- Editing a song
- Editing sounds and performances
- Accessing the Sound edit mode
- Exit from the Sound edit mode
- Saving a sound
- Saving a performance
- Setting the volume
- Adjusting the panning
- Adjusting the effects
- Setting the reverb effect
- Setting the chorus or modulation effect
- Setting the insert effects
- Setting the octave transposition
- Adjusting the fine tune
- Programming the pedals
- Selecting a scale
- Resetting the current sound and performance
- Global settings
- Accessing Global edit
- Exit from the Global edit mode
- Touch settings
- Turning the internal speakers on or off
- Master tuning
- Brilliance
- Default split point
- Assigning functions to the pedals
- Quarter Tone (SubScale realtime programming)
- Fast Play
- Mute Level
- Turning the keyboard on or off (Local Control)
- MIDI Clock
- MIDI IN Channels
- MIDI OUT Channels
- MIDI Filters
- Data transfer via the USB port
- Erasing songs from the User Song album
- General Reset
- System version number
- MIDI
- Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver
- Assembling the stand
- Appendix
- Sounds
- Performances
- Effects
- Songs
- Error messages
- Write Protect
- Out of Memoy
- Maximum song length reached
- Loading Song Error
- USB Working Wait please
- Memory Full
- Invalid Name
- Song Exists Execute
- Record Mode Not Allowed
- Song Modified Save?
- Sound Modified Save?
- Perf. Modified Save?
- Globals Modified Save?
- Save Global Failure
- Save Preset Failure
- Save Midi Failure
- General Reset Wait Please
- General Reset / nn%
- Troubleshooting
- Polyphony
- Technical specifications
- MIDI Implementation Chart
Global settings > Turning the keyboard on or off (Local Control)
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Turning the keyboard on or off (Local Control)
Local is the parameter that allows you to establish whether the
keyboard has to play the internal sounds and transmit MIDI
data at the same time (Local On), or whether it just has to
transmit MIDI data and not play the internal sound (Local
Off).
Local Off should be chosen when you wish to use the C-720 as
a mute keyboard, to play another instrument via the MIDI
OUT port. It should also be chosen when C-720 is connected
to an external sequencer via its MIDI IN and MIDI OUT con-
nectors. This will avoid the notes to be played twice, by the
keyboard and by the sequencer, producing an annoying
“echo” effect.
Normally, you will choose Local On (automatically selected
when turning the C-720 on), so that playing the keyboard will
produce sound.
Note: When the power is turned on, the Local will be automat-
ically set to On.
1. After having kept the EDIT button pressed, use the
SCROLL
button to show the Local Control page:
2. Use the +/YES and -/NO button to turn the function on or
off.
3. Press the EXIT button to return to the Main or Song Play
page, or the SCROLL
button to go to the next edit page
(see below).
MIDI Clock
MIDI Clock allows for synchronization of two MIDI devices,
for example the internal recorder of the C-720, and an external
sequencer.
Note: When the power is turned on, the MIDI Clock will be au-
tomatically set to Internal.
1. After having kept the EDIT button pressed, use the
SCROLL
button to show the MIDI Clock page:
2. Use the +/YES and -/NO button to choose the source of
the clock message.
3. Press the EXIT button to return to the Main or Song Play
page, or the SCROLL
button to go to the next edit page
(see below).
MIDI IN Channels
When C-720 is controlled from an external MIDI device, it can
work as a 16-part multitimbral tone generator. You can select
a different sound on each of the 16 MIDI channels. These
channels are not accessible from the control panel, and are
separate from the Main, Layer/Left, Recorder Part 1 and Part
2, and Drum tracks. Therefore, you can continue playing with
the piano while MIDI data are received from an external MIDI
device.
Note: MIDI data is received both from the MIDI IN port, and the
USB port at the same time. For more information about MIDI
Over USB, see “What is MIDI Over USB?” on page 56.
1. After having kept the EDIT button pressed, use the
SCROLL
button to show the MIDI IN Channels page:
2. Use the +/YES and -/NO button to choose one of the 16
available channels (Ch) to be programmed.
3. Press the SCROLL
button to move the cursor to the as-
signed track.
Local Control 11
On
MIDI Clock 12
External MIDI
Setting MIDI Clock
Internal The MIDI Clock is generated by the C-720 itself.
The message is also sent to the MIDI OUT and
USB ports.
External MIDI The MIDI Clock is received from an external
MIDI device connected to the C-720’s MIDI IN
port.
External USB The MIDI Clock is received from an external
device connected to the C-720’s USB port.
MIDI IN Ch. 13
Ch:1 Track 1
MIDI IN Ch. 13
Ch:1
Track1
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