Korg PA800 User manual

User’s Manual
ENGLISH
OS Ver. 1.6
MAN00010002
10E

• Read these instructions.
• Keep these instructions.
• Heed all warnings.
• Follow all instructions.
• Do not use this apparatus near water.
• Mains powered apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or
splashing and that no objects filled with liquids, such as vases, shall
be placed on the apparatus.
• Clean only with dry cloth.
• Do not block any ventilation openings, install in accordance with
the manufacturer’s instructions.
• Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat regis-
ters, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce
heat.
• Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-
type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than
the other. A grounding type plug has two blades and a third
grounding prong. The wide blade or the third prong are provided
for your safety. If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet,
consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet. (for
U.S.A. and Canada)
• Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particu-
larly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point where they
exit from the apparatus.
• Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer.
• Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for
long periods of time.
• Turning off the power switch does not completely isolate this
product from the power line so remove the plug from the socket if
not using it for extended periods of time, or before cleaning.
Please ensure that the mains plug or appliance couple remains
readily accessible.
• Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. Servicing is
required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such
as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled
or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been
exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has
been dropped.
• Do not install this equipment on the far position from wall outlet
and/or convenience receptacle.
• Do not install this equipment in a confined space such as a box for
the conveyance or similar unit.
• When a cart is used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus
combination to avoid injury from tip-over.
The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol
within an equilateral triangle, is intended to
alert the user to the presence of uninsulated
“dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclo-
sure that may be of sufficient magnitude to con-
stitute a risk of electric shock to persons.
The exclamation point within an equilateral tri-
angle is intended to alert the user to the pres-
ence of important operating and maintenance
(servicing) instructions in the literature accompa-
nying the product.
Important safety instructions
THE FCC REGULATION WARNING (for U.S.A.)
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits
for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These
limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful
interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates,
uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and
used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee
that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this
equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television
reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and
on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or
more of the following measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that
to which the receiver is connected.
• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
Unauthorized changes or modification to this system can void the
user’s authority to operate this equipment.
CE mark for European Harmonized Standards
CE mark which is attached to our company’s products of AC mains
operated apparatus until December 31, 1996 means it conforms to
EMC Directive (89/336/EEC) and CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC).
And, CE mark which is attached after January 1, 1997 means it
conforms to EMC Directive (89/336/EEC), CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC)
and Low Voltage Directive (73/23/EEC).
Also, CE mark which is attached to our company’s products of Battery
operated apparatus means it conforms to EMC Directive (89/336/EEC)
and CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC).
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS
This product has been manufactured according to strict specifications
and voltage requirements that are applicable in the country in which it
is intended that this product should be used. If you have purchased this
product via the internet, through mail order, and/or via a telephone
sale, you must verify that this product is intended to be used in the
country in which you reside.
WARNING: Use of this product in any country other than that for which
it is intended could be dangerous and could invalidate the
manufacturer's or distributor's warranty.
Please also retain your receipt as proof of purchase otherwise your
product may be disqualified from the manufacturer's or distributor's
warranty.

Data Handling
Data in memory may sometimes be lost due to incorrect user
action. Be sure to save important data to the (optional) internal
hard disk or to an external USB device. Korg will not be responsible
for damages caused by data loss.
Example screens
Some pages of the manuals show LCD screens along with an
explanation of functions and operations. All sound names,
parameter names, and values are merely examples and may not
always match the actual display you are working on.
Cleaning the display
Use a soft cotton cloth to clean the screen. Some materials, such
as paper towels, could cause scratches and damage it. Computer
wipes are also suggested, provided they are specifically designed
for LCD screens.
Do not spray any liquids on the LCD screen directly. Always
apply the solution to your cloth first, then clean the screen.
Trademarks
Akai is a registered trademark of Akai Professional Corporation.
Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation. TC-Helicon is a registered trademark of TC Elec-
tronic, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the
property of their respective holders.
Disclaimer
The information contained in this manual have been carefully
revised and checked through. Due to our constant efforts to
improve our products, the specifications might differ to those in
the manual. Korg is not responsible for any eventual differences
found between the specifications and the contents of the instruc-
tion manual – the specifications being subject to change without
prior notice.
Liability
Korg products are manufactured under strict specifications and
voltages required by each country. These products are warranted
by the Korg distributor only in each country. Any Korg product
not sold with a warranty card or carrying a serial number dis-
qualifies the product sold from the manufacturer's/distributor's
warranty and liability. This requirement is for your own protec-
tion and safety.
Service and User’s Assistance
For service, please contact your nearest Authorized Korg Service
Center. For more information on Korg products, and to find
software and accessories for your keyboard, please contact your
local Authorized Korg distributor. For up-to-date information,
please point your web browser to www.korgpa.com.
Copyright © 2008 KORG Italy Spa. Printed in Italy.
Notice regarding disposal (for EU only)
If this “crossed-out wheeled bin” symbol is shown on the product or in the operating manual, you must dispose of the product in an
appropriate way. Do not dispose of this product along with your household trash. By disposing of this product correctly, you can avoid
environmental harm or health risk. The correct method of disposal will depend on your locality, so please contact the appropriate local
authorities for details.

Keep your keyboard up-to-date
Your instrument can be constantly updated as new versions of the operating system are
released by Korg. You can download the operating system from www.korgpa.com. Please,
read the instructions supplied with the operating system.
The BALANCE slider
When turning the instrument on, please be assured the BALANCE slider is set to the cen-
ter. This sets both Sequencer 1 and Sequencer 2 to their maximum level. This will avoid
you start a Song without hearing anything.

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Easy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Style Play page in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Song Play page in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Lyrics page in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Welcome! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Live Performing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Easy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Useful links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Making a backup of the original data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Loading the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Loading the Musical Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Start up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting the AC power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Turning the instrument on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Controlling the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The Sequencer’s BALANCE slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Audio Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Audio Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
MIDI connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Damper Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Demo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The music stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Glossary of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Keyboard tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The LOGO decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Interface basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The Color TouchView™ graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . 27
Operative modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Selected, highlighted items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Non-available, grayed-out parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Quick Guide
Turning the instrument on and listening to
the demos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Turning the instrument on, and viewing the main screen . . . 32
Playing the demos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playing Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Selecting a Sound and playing it on the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing two or three Sounds at the same time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Playing different Sounds with your left and right hand . . . . . 37
Changing the split point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Raising or lowering the Upper octave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Selecting and saving Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Selecting a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Saving your settings to a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Selecting and playing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Selecting and playing a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Intro, Fill, Variation, Ending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Single Touch Settings (STS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
The Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Adjusting balance between the Style and the keyboard . . . . . . 49
Adjusting volume of each single track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Turning Style tracks on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Adding harmony notes to your right-hand melody with
the ENSEMBLE function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Song Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Selecting a Song to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Playing back a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Changing tracks volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Turning Song tracks on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Soloing a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Mixing two Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The SongBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Selecting the desired entry from the Main List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Displaying Artist or Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Sorting entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Searching entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Adding entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Creating a Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Selecting and using a Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Selecting a SongBook STS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Singing with a connected microphone . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Connecting a microphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Applying harmony to your voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Soloing your voice (TalkBack) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Locking Voice Processor settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Recording a new Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Entering Backing Sequence (Quick Record) mode . . . . . . . . . 74
Preparing to record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Second-take recording (Overdubbing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Saving a Song to disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Reference
Selecting elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Sound Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Performance Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Style Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Pad Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
STS Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Style Play operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Start-up settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
How Styles, Performances and STSs are linked together . . . . . 85
Main page (Normal view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Style Tracks view page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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