Korg Pa 600 qt User manual

Reference Guide

ENGLISH | OS Ver. 1.0 1E

• Read these instructions.

• Keep these instructions.

• Heed all warnings.

• Follow all instructions.

• Do not use this apparatus near water.

• Clean only with dry cloth.

• Do not block any ventilation openings, install in accordance with the manu-

facturer’s instructions.

• Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or

other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat.

• Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly 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 peri-

ods of time.

• 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 appara-

tus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate nor-

mally, or has been dropped.

• 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 appli-

ance couple remains readily accessible.

• 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.

• Install this product near the wall socket and keep the power plug easily acces-

sible.

• Do not install this equipment on the far position from wall outlet and/or con-

venience receptacle.

• WARNING – Date/time Lithium button cell battery inside. Danger of explo-

sion if battery is incorrectly replaced. Replace only with the same or equiva-

lent type. The internal date/time Lithium button cell battery is user

replaceable.

• Do not expose batteries to excessive heat, such as direct sunshine, fire or the like.

• Dispose of used batteries according to the battery manufacturer’s instructions.

• Do not install this equipment in a confined space such as a box for the convey-

ance or similar unit.

• When a cart is used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus combina-

tion to avoid injury from tip-over.

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equi-

lateral 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 constitute a risk

of electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is

intended to alert the user to the presence of important oper-

ating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the litera-

ture accompanying the product.

Important safety instructions

Notice regarding disposal (EU only)

If this symbol is shown on the product, manual, battery, or package, you

must dispose of it in the correct manner to avoid harm to human health

or damage to the environment. Contact your local administrative body

for details on the correct disposal method. If the battery contains heavy

metals in excess of the regulated amount, a chemical symbol is displayed

below the symbol on the battery or battery package.

Perchlorate (California, USA only)

Perchlorate Material – special handling may apply.

See www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/perchlorate.

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.

Automatic Power-Off

To avoid wasting power, Pa600 will by default automatically turn

off after two hours of non-active use (playing, pressing buttons

or using the touch-screen). Please save your data (Performances,

Styles, Songs, and so on) before taking a prolonged pause.

Data Handling

Data in memory may sometimes be lost due to incorrect user

action. Be sure to save important data to the internal memory or

to an external USB device. Korg will not be responsible for dam-

ages caused by data loss.

Example screens

Some pages of the manuals show LCD screens along with an

explanation of functions and operations. All sound, style, song

or parameter names, as well as shown values, are merely exam-

ples and may not always match the actual display you are work-

ing 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 liquid on the LCD screen directly. Always

apply the solution to your cloth first, then clean the screen.

Trademarks

Acrobat and PDF are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems

Incorporated. Mac is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc.

MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft

Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are

the property of their respective holders.

Open Source notice

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 – all 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 our web site.

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 our web site. Please, read the instruc-

tions supplied with the operating system.

Further notices

Table of Contents

Introduction

Reference

Selecting elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Style Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Sound Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Performance Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Pad Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

STS Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Style Play operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Start-up settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

How Styles, Variations, Performances and STSs are

linked together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Styles and Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Master Volume and Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Factory, Favorite and User Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

STS Name panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Pad panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Split panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Sub-Scale panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Pad/Switch: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Pad/Switch: Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Style Controls: Drum/Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Style Controls: Keyboard Range On/Off / Wrap Around . . . . 32

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Write Performance dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Write Single Touch Setting dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Write Style Settings dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

The Favorite banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Style/Pad Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Recording Styles and Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Style/Pad Import/Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Entering the Style/Pad Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Exit by saving or deleting changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Listening to the Style while in Edit mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

List of recorded events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Main page - Record 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Main page - Record 2/Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Main page - Guitar Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Style/Pad Record procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Style/Pad Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Style/Pad Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Style/Pad Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Style/Pad Edit: Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Style/Pad Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Style/Pad Edit: Delete All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Style Element Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . . 59

Style Element Track Controls: Keyboard Range . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Style Element Track Controls: Noise/Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Pad Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Style Element/Pad Chord Table: Chord Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Style Track Controls: Type/Trigger/Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Import: Import Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Import: Import SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Export SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Write Style/Pad dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Copy Key/Chord dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Sounds dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Expression dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Key Range dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Chord Table dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Overdub Step Recording window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Song Play operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

MIDI Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Tempo Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Master Volume, Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Track parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Standard MIDI Files and Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Keyboard, Pad and Player tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Main page (Normal view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

STS Name panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Pad panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Split panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Sub-Scale panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Jukebox panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Pad/Switch: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Pad/Switch: Assignable Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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Jukebox Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Sequencer operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Standard MIDI Files and MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Sequencer Play - Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Entering Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Record mode: Multitrack Sequencer page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Record mode: Step Record page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Record mode: Backing Sequence (Quick Record) page . . . . . . 91

Record mode: Step Backing Sequence page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Song Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Song Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Song Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Song Edit: Cut/Insert Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Song Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Song Edit: Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Song Edit: Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Song Edit: RX Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Save Song window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Sound Edit operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

The MIDI channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

How to select oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Sounds, Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Basic: Sound Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Basic: OSC Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Basic: Vel/Key Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Basic: Damper Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Basic: Damper Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Basic: EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

DrumKit: Sample Setup (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

DrumKit: EQ (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

DrumKit: Voice Mixer (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Pitch: Pitch Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Pitch: Pitch EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Filter: Filter Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Filter: Filter Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Filter: Filter LFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Filter: Filter EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Amp: Amp Level/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Amp: Amp Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Amp: Amp EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

LFO: LFO1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

LFO: LFO2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Effects: “B” FX Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Effects: Master 1 / Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Effects: Master 2 / Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

User PCM Samples: User Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Write Sound dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Copy Oscillator dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Copy Drum Kit dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

AMS (Alternate Modulation Source) list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Overview on the Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

General Controls: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

General Controls: Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

General Controls: Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

General Controls: Clock & Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Mode Preferences: Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Mode Preferences: Song & Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Mode Preferences: Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Controllers: Hand Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Controllers: Foot Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Tuning: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Tuning: Transpose Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Tuning: Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

MIDI: General Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

MIDI: MIDI In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

MIDI: MIDI In Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

MIDI: MIDI Out Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

MIDI: Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Audio & EQ: MP3 / Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Audio & EQ: Limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Audio & EQ: Master EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Touch Panel Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Write Quarter Tone SC Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Write Midi Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Write Limiter Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Write Master EQ Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Media mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Storage devices and internal memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Supported device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Selecting and deselecting files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Searching files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

File types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Media structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Navigation tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Care of mass storage devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Merging PCM Samples from various sources . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Table of Contents

Introduction

SongBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

List Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Book Edit 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Book Edit 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Book Edit 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Lyrics, Score, Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Lyrics page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Score page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Markers page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

What is MIDI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

What is MIDI Over USB? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Standard MIDI Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The General MIDI standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The Global channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The Chord 1 and Chord 2 channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The Control channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

MIDI Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Connecting Pa600 to a Master keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Connecting Pa600 to a MIDI accordion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Connecting Pa600 to an external sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Playing another instrument with Pa600 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Appendix

Factory data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Style Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Style and Player controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Single Touch Settings (STS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Sounds (Bank order) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Sounds (Program Change order) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Multisamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Drum Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

MIDI Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Assignable parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240

List of Pedal/Footswitch functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

List of Assignable Switches functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

Dynamic Modulation sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Dynamics (Dynamic) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

EQ and Filters (EQ/Filter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Overdrive, Amp models, and Mic models (OD Amp Mic) . 254

Chorus, Flanger, and Phaser (Cho/Fln Phaser) . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Modulation and Pitch Shift (Mod./P.Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Reverb and Early Reflections (Reverb ER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Mono-Mono Serial (Mono-Mono) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Double Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314

Connecting Pa600 to a personal computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

KORG USB-MIDI Driver system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Please note before use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Windows: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver . . . . . . . . 314

Mac OS X: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver . . . . . . . 314

MIDI Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316

MIDI Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Recognized chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317

Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

Table of Contents

Selecting elements

Style Select window

The following windows are shown in the various operating

modes, whenever you try to select a Sound, Performance, Style

or Song.

Style Select window

To open the Style Select window, touch the Style area whereas it

appears in the display, or the STYLE button in the SELECTION

section on the control panel.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous

page without selecting any Style.

Note: Depending on the status of the “Auto Select” parameter (see

page 140), a Style may be immediately selected when pressing one

of the STYLE SELECT buttons. The latest selected Style for that

bank will be selected.

Style sets

Selected set of Styles. Factory Styles are Styles supplied as stan-

dard. Fav/User are Favorite Styles (locations for custom-made

Styles with editable names) and User Styles (locations for cus-

tom-made Styles with fixed names).

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Styles. Favorite tabs can be

renamed (see “Renaming the Favorite banks” on page 35).

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected

bank.

Styles

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Style. Unless

the “Display Hold” parameter (see page 140) is turned on, the

window automatically closes shortly after you select a Style.

After selecting a Style from this window, and another Style is

playing, the name of the new Style name begins to flash, mean-

ing it is ready to start playing at the beginning of the next mea-

sure.

Style Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command

to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu

without selecting a command.

Copy and Paste

Use this command to copy the selected Style to a different selec-

tion,

1. Select the Style to be copied. To select more items, keep the

SHIFT button and touch all the item to be selected for

copying. Hint: You can deselect one of the selected items by

touching it while still keeping the SHIFT button pressed.

2. Choose the Copy and Paste command.

3. Select the target location. In case you are copying more

than a single item, all subsequent items will sequentially

follow the first one. Warni ng : Any Style already existing at

the target location will be overwritten!

Delete

Choose this command from the page menu, and delete the

selected item. Please keep in mind that you can only delete non-

protected items.

1. Select the Style to be deleted,

2. Choose the Delete command, and confirm deletion. War n-

ing: Unless you have a copy of it, the deleted item will be gone

forever!

Rename

Choose this command from the page menu, and edit the name

of the selected item. Please keep in mind that you can only

rename non-protected items.

1. Select the Style to be renamed,

2. Choose the Rename command, and use the virtual key-

board to edit the name.

3. When done, touch OK to confirm.

Selecting elements

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages)

Style sets

Styles

Selecting elements

Sound Select window

Reference

Rename Favorite

Choose this command from the page menu, and edit the name

of the Favorite Style banks.

The assigned name can be spanned over two lines, by separating

them with the paragraph character (¶). For example, to write

“World Music” on two lines, enter “World¶Music”.

In any case, the Pa600 will try to automatically put on two lines

two words separated by two spaces.

Be careful not to write words exceeding the width of the side tabs

of the Style Select window.

1. Choose the Rename Favorites command.

2. Touch the (Text Edit) symbol next to the bank to be

renamed.

3. Use the virtual keyboard to edit the name.

4. When done, touch OK to confirm.e

Sound Select window

To open the Sound Select window, touch the Sound area whereas

it appears in the display, or the SOUND button in the SELEC-

TION section of the control panel.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous

page without choosing any Sound.

Sound sets

Selected set of Sounds. Factory Sounds are the Sounds supplied

as standard. Legacy Sounds are Sounds compatible with older

Pa-Series models. GM are Drum Kits mapped according to the

General MIDI 2 or XG standards. User Sounds are custom-cre-

ated or edited Sounds.

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Sounds.

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected

bank.

Previous/Next tabs

Scroll the lower tabs to the left or the right, when additional tabs

are available but cannot be seen in the display.

Sounds

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Sound.

Unless the “Display Hold” parameter (see page 140) is turned

on, the window automatically closes shortly after you select a

Sound.

Program Change

Program Change number. Shown only when the “Show” param-

eter is turned on in Global mode. (See page 140).

Sound Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command

to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu

without selecting a command.

The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s

page menu, apart for a difference with the Delete command.

Delete

When deleting a Sound based on User PCM Samples, you are

asked if you want to delete the Samples and Multisamples. Con-

firm deletion only if you don’t plan to reuse the same Samples

and Multisamples for some other new User Sounds. Choosing to

delete them frees PCM Sample memory for other data.

Hint: In case you need more free PCM Sample memory, and you

know there are unused Samples and Multisamples in memory, use

the “Delete Non-assigned User PCM Samples” command in the

Sound > User PCM Sample page to clean memory (see page 133).

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages)

Sound sets

Sounds

If more than five pages are

available, the Previous/Next

tabs are shown in this area

Selecting elements

Performance Select window

To open the Performance Select window, touch the Performance

area whereas it appears in the display, or one of the PERFOR-

MANCE buttons on the control panel,. Use the PERFOR-

MANCE buttons to go directly to the selected bank.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous

page without selecting any Performance.

Note: Depending on the status of the “Auto Select” parameter (see

page 140), a Performance may be immediately selected when

pressing one of the PERFORMANCE buttons. The latest selected

Performance for that bank will be selected.

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Performance. Each tab corresponds

to one of the PERFORMANCE buttons on the control panel.

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected bank.

If you press again the same PERFORMANCE button on the con-

trol panel, the next page in the same bank is selected. This way,

you do not need to touch one of the corresponding tabs in the

display in order to select a different page.

Performances

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Perfor-

mance. Unless the “Display Hold” parameter (see page 140) is

turned on, the window automatically closes shortly after you

select a Performance.

Performance Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command

to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu

without selecting a command.

The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s

page menu.

Pad Select window

Touch the Pad area whereas it appears in the display, to open the

Pad Select window.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous

page without selecting any Pad.

Pad sets

Selected set of Pads. Hit are single-note, pre-programmed fac-

tory Pads. Sequence are sequence-based, pre-programmed fac-

tory Pads. Locale are like Factory Pads, but contain Pads

customized for the music of your Country. User can be either

single-note or sequence-based Pads, and can be user-recorded or

modified.

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Pads.

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected

bank.

Pad

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Pad. Unless

the “Display Hold” parameter (see page page 140) is turned on,

the window automatically closes short after you select a Pad.

Sound Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command

to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu

without selecting a command.

The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s

page menu.

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages) Performances

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages)

Pad sets

Pads

Selecting elements

STS Select

Reference

STS Select

To select one of the four STS associated with the current Style or

the selected SongBook entry, use the four STS buttons on the

control panel.

As an alternative, touch the STS name tab in the main page of

the Style Play or Song Play mode, where you can see the name of

the available STSs.

The STS’s name can also be seen in the Lyrics and Markers page:

Song Select window

This page appears when you touch the Song name in the display,

or press the SONG buttons in the SELECTION section on the

control panel.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the main page

of the Song Play operating mode without selecting a Song.

While in this page, you can select a Standard MIDI File, Kara-

oke, MP3 or Jukebox file.

Directory

Storage device

Page menu

Type icon File/folder type

Standard MIDI File (MID)

Karaoke file (KAR)

MPEG Layer 3 (MP3)

Jukebox file (JBX)

Folder

Status icon File/folder status

Protected

– Unprotected

Type of the file

or folder

File status

File or folder

name

Selecting elements

Song Select window

Storage device

Use this menu to select one of the available storage devices.

The actual name (label) of the device appears within square

brackets ([]).

Song path

This line shows the current device path.

Open

Opens the selected folder (item whose icon looks like this one:

Closes the current folder, returning to the parent (“upper”)

folder.

Locate

Touch this button to go back to the folder containing the selected

Song. This is useful to quickly locate it, after you have browsed

through long directories and “dug” into different folders.

Select

Selects the highlighted item in the display. If a Song is already

playing, it stops, and the new Song is ready to play. You will

return to the main page.

Play All

When you touch this button, all Standard MIDI Files and MP3

files contained in the current directory are added to a new Juke-

box list, that is automatically assigned to the Player. The order in

which they are played depends on the current sorting method,

i.e., how the files are shown in the display.

You can use this Jukebox list as any other list of this type (i.e.,

start the playback with PLAY/STOP, jump to the next Song in

the list with SHIFT + >>, edit it in the Jukebox page…).

Note: A Jukebox list can include up to 127 Songs. If your folder

contains more items, only the first 127 will be considered.

Hint: If you don’t want the list to be deleted when turning the

instrument off, go to the Jukebox page and save it as a “.JBX” file.

Selecting a Song by its ID number

Each Song in a folder on a device (up to 9,999) has a progressive

ID number assigned. When the “Show Song Number” option is

selected in the Song Select page menu (see below), you can see

this number before the Song’s name in the Song Select window.

You can use this number to select the Song by composing the

corresponding number, speeding up the Song retrieval when you

are using an hard disk filled with midifiles.

While in the Song Select window, press the SONG button in the

SELECTION section to open the keypad, and enter the number

corresponding to the Song to be selected.

While in any page of the Song Play mode, press the SONG but-

ton in the SELECTION section twice to open the keypad.

Note: If no Song corresponds to the dialed number, the “Song not

available” message will appear.

Warning: While the directory may contain more than 9999 files,

you can’t select Songs outside the 0001-9999 range when using the

numeric keypad.

Song Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command

to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu

without selecting a command.

Export Song List

Select this command to save the current list as a text file. This

way, you will be able to print a list of Songs, to see which number

matches each Song.

1. While in the Song Select window, select the folder whose

Song list you wish to save as a text file.

2. Select the Export Song List command from the page menu.

3. A dialog box will appear, asking you to select either the

internal storage memory or the HOST USB ports.

4. Select one of the options, and touch OK to confirm.

Note: The text file will contain a list of “*.mid”, “*.kar”, “.mp3”

and “*.jbx” files only. Folders and other types of files will not be

included.

When saved, the text file will be named after the selected folder.

For example, a folder named “Dummy” will generate a

“Dummy.txt” file. If a file with the same name already exists in the

target, it will be overwritten without waiting for any confirmation.

A file containing the list of all valid files contained into the root of

the disk will generate a “Root.txt” file.

The list will include the progressive number assigned to each Song,

the file names, the total number of files in the list.

To correctly display and print the list on a personal computer, use a

fixed size (i.e., non-proportional) character in your text editor.

Device Type

DISK Internal memory

USB Device connected to the rear USB Host port

Selecting elements

Song Select window

Reference

Show Song Number

Check this option to make the Song’s progressive ID number

appear in the list, next to each Song.

Show Song Extension

Check this option to make the file extension (“*.mid”, “*.kar”,

“*.jbx”, “*.mp3”) appear in the list, at the end of each Song’s

name.

Create New Folder

This command will let you create a new generic folder in the

root of any device, or inside any other generic folder. You can’t

create a “.SET” folder with this command, since this type of

folder is reserved to the Save operations (and can be created with

the New SET button in any Save page).

By touching the (Text Edit) button you can open the Text

Edit window. Enter the name, then touch OK to confirm and

close the Text Edit window.

Rename

Available only when an item is selected in a list.

Use this function to change the name of an existing file or folder.

You cannot change the 3-character extension of files and “.SET”

folders, since they are used to identify the type of file or folder.

Touch the (Text Edit) button to open the Text Edit window.

Enter the new name, then touch OK to confirm and close the

Text Edit window.

Delete

Use this command to delete the selected file or folder.

Style Play operating mode

Start-up settings

The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in

this mode, you can play with Styles (i.e. automatic accompani-

ments), while playing with one to four tracks (Upper 1-3 and

Lower) on the keyboard. You can choose different Sounds and

Effects by selecting Performances and STSs. Four Pads will pro-

vide single-shot sounds or repeating patterns in sync with the

Style. You can also use the SongBook to automatically select

Styles suited for a particular song.

Start-up settings

Since the “My Setting” Performance is automatically selected

when turning the instrument on, you can save to it your pre-

ferred start-up settings.

Select the Sounds, Effects, and other settings you would like to

see automatically selected when turning the instrument on.

Then keep the MY SETTING button pressed for about one sec-

ond. When the Write Startup Settings window appears, confirm

by touching OK.

Note: If you like some settings to be preserved even when choosing

different Performances, STSs and Styles, turn on the desired

“locks” to avoid changes to the selected parameters (see “General

Controls: Lock” on page 141).

How Styles, Variations, Performances and

STSs are linked together

Styles, Variations, Performances and STSs are linked in many

ways.

• When the STS MODE LED is steadily on or blinking, selecting

a Style also changes the Keyboard tracks (STS 1 is automatically

selected). Performance settings are overridden.

• When the STS MODE LED is blinking, selecting a Variation

also select the corresponding STS.

• When the STYLE CHANGE LED is on, selecting a Perfor-

mance also selects a Style (the one memorized with the Perfor-

mance).

• Current track settings can be saved either to a Performance, an

STS, or the Style Settings, depending on the page menu com-

mand you select.

Styles and Pads

Each Style includes four Pads. Each time you select a Style, the

four Pads are assigned to the four PAD buttons. The Style and

the Pads will play using the same Tempo value.

Master Volume and Balance

While the MASTER VOLUME knob controls the general vol-

ume of the instrument, you can use the BALANCE knob to bal-

ance the Style Accompaniment and Pad tracks against the

Keyboard tracks.

Note: As an alternative, the BALANCE knob can also work as a

volume control. See “Balance Slider” on page 146.

Factory, Favorite and User Styles

There are three different types of Style locations:

• Factory Style banks are the preloaded Styles, that you can’t

usually edit (unless you don’t want to do so, by turning the

protection off, see “Factory Style and Pad Protect” on

page 145).

• Favorite Style banks are Styles loaded from an external

device, created or edited by yourself. You can rename the

tabs in the Style Select window to create places for custom

banks, or for additional music genres that are not already

included among the supplied banks. See “The Favorite

banks” on page 35 for information on how to manage these

Styles.

• User Style banks are, like the Favorite banks, Styles loaded

from an external device, created or edited by yourself (the

User). These are banks conceived as a ‘workbench’ – a place

where to manage Styles and banks before saving them to a

final location. See the “Style/Pad Record mode” chapter for

information on how to edit or create Styles.

Style Play operating mode

Overall instrument’s

volume

Balance of Style and

Pad tracks against the

Keyboard tracks

Style Play operating mode

Main page

Reference

Main page

This is the page you see after you turn the instrument on.

To access this page from another operating mode, press the

STYLE PLAY button.

To return to this page from one of the Style Play edit pages, press

the EXIT button.

Details on individual tracks can be seen by pressing the Vol-

ume tab. Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch between

Normal view (Keyboard tracks, grouped Style tracks) and

Style view (individual Style tracks). (See “Volume panel”

starting from page 15).

Page header

This line shows the current operating mode, transposition and

recognized chord.

Operating mode name

Name of the current operating mode.

Master transpose

Master transpose value in semitones. This value can be changed

using the TRANSPOSE buttons on the control panel.

Note: Transpose may be automatically changed when selecting a

different Performance or Style. It may also be changed when load-

ing a Standard MIDI File generated with an instrument of the

Korg Pa series.

To avoid transposition, the Master Transpose is “locked” by

default. If you want to lock or unlock it, change the Master Trans-

pose Lock parameter’s status (see “General Controls: Lock” on

page 141).

Recognized chord

Displays the recognized chord, when you play a chord on the

keyboard. If no chord abbreviation is shown, check if the

ACCOMP LED is turned on.

You can choose how chords are recognized by using the “Chord

Recognition” parameter in the Global > Style page (see

page 143).

Page menu icon

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. See “Page menu”

on page 32 for more information.

Style area

This is where the Style name is shown, together with its Tempo

and Meter (Time Signature) parameters.

Style name

Currently selected Style. Touch the Style name (or press the

STYLE button in the SELECTION section) to open the Style

Select window.

Style bank

Bank the current Style belongs to.

Style Element meter

Meter (time signature) of the current Style Element.

Measure length/number

While the Style is playing, an ‘M’ appears, to show the current

measure number of the current Style Element playing. While it is

in stop, an ‘L’ appears, to show the length (total number of mea-

sures) of the current Style Element.

Current beat

Beat number currently playing.

Current Tempo

Metronome Tempo (from 30 to 250). Use the TEMPO buttons to

change the Tempo.

As an alternative, keep the SHIFT button pressed and use the

VALUE DIAL to change the Tempo. Also, you can touch the

Tempo field and drag it with your finger, or change it with the

VA LU E D IA L .

To recall the Tempo stored in the current Style, press the

TEMPO– and + buttons together.

Style area Page header Page menu icon

Song

area

Perfor-

mance/

STS area

Keyboard

tracks area

Panels

Operating mode Master Transpose (in

semitones)

Recognized chord

Style name

Style Element meter

Style bank

Measure length/number

Current

Tempo

Current beat

Style Play operating mode

Main page

You can prevent the Tempo from changing by turning the

TEMPO LOCK LED on.

Note: Tempo may change while a Style Element is playing. Each

Style Element may contain Tempo Change data.

Song area

This is where the Song assigned to the onboard Player is shown.

Song name

Name of Song assigned to the Player. You can select Songs while

playing Styles, to have them ready when switching to Song Play

mode.

Performance/STS area

This is where the latest selected Performance or STS name is

shown.

Selected Performance or STS

This is the latest selected Performance (Perf) or Single Touch

Setting (STS#).

Touch the name to open the Performance Select window (see

“Performance Select window” on page 8). As an alternative, use

the PERFORMANCE section to select a different Performance.

To select a different STS, use the four STS buttons under the dis-

play, or the STS panel.

Keyboard tracks area

This is where Keyboard tracks are shown.

Sound name

Name of the Sound assigned to the corresponding Keyboard

track.

• If the track is already selected (white background), touch the

Sound name to open the Sound Select window.

• If the track is not selected (dark background), first select it,

then touch the Sound name to open the Sound Select window.

You can also open the Sound Select window by using the

SOUND button in the SELECTION section of the control panel.

For more information about the Sound Select window, see

“Sound Select window” on page 7.

Keyboard track octave transpose

Non editable. Octave transpose of the corresponding track. To

individually edit the octave transpose for each track, go to the

“Mixer/Tuning: Tuning” edit page (see page 22).

You can also transpose all Upper tracks by using the UPPER

OCTAVE buttons on the control panel.

Bass & Lower Backing icon

When the Bass & Lower Backing function is

active, the Backing icon appears in the Lower

track Sound area (see “Bass & Lower Backing” on page 144).

Keyboard track name

Non editable. Name of the corresponding track:

Sound bank’s icon

This picture illustrates the bank the current Sound belongs to.

Keyboard track status

Play/mute status of the current track. Select the track, then touch

this area to change the track status.

No icon Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Panels

The lower half of the main page contains the various panels, you

can select by touching the corresponding tabs. See more infor-

mation in the relevant sections, starting from page 15.

Song name

Selected Performance

or STS

Sound

name Track name

Track’s octave transpose

Sound bank’s

icon

Track status

Abbreviation Track Hand

UP1 Upper 1 Right hand

UP2 Upper 2

UP3 Upper 3

LOW Lower Left hand

Volume panel

Tabs

Style Play operating mode

STS Name panel

Reference

STS Name panel

Touch the STS Name tab to select this panel. Single Touch Set-

tings (STS) are memory locations intended for quickly choosing

Keyboard Sounds, contained in each Style or SongBook entry.

While in this panel, you can see the name of the four STSs

belonging to the latest selected Style or SongBook entry. Touch

one of the names to select the corresponding STS.

Note: You cannot edit the STS names in this panel. To edit a name,

select the STS to be renamed, then select the Write Single Touch

Setting command from the page menu (see “Write Single Touch

Setting dialog box” on page 34).

Volume panel

Touch the Volume tab to select this panel. This is where you can

set the volume of each track, and mute/unmute them.

Note: The volume of the Keyboard tracks may be saved to a Perfor-

mance or STS. The volume of the separate Style tracks (Style

Tracks view) can be memorized to the current Style Settings.

Changing the tracks’ volume

You can change the volume of each track by dragging the sliders

in the display. You can also change the volume by touching a

track’s slider, then using the VALUE DIAL.

Changing the Play/Mute status

Play/mute status of the current track. Select the track, then touch

this area to change its status.

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Saving the track’s volume and play/mute

status

Each set of tracks can be saved into a different structure. This

allows for a great flexibility when mixing Keyboard and Accom-

paniment tracks through the use of Performances, STSs and

Styles.

• The volume and play/mute status of the Keyboard tracks can

be saved to a Performance or STS (see “Write Performance” on

page 32 and “Write Single Touch Setting” on page 32).

• The volume and play/mute status of the separate Style tracks

can be saved to the current Style Settings (see “Write Current

Style Settings” on page 32).

• The offset volume of the grouped Style tracks is automatically

saved to the Global.

Sliders

Track status icons

Style Play operating mode

Volume panel

Track names

Under the sliders, a label for each track is shown. Use

the TRACK SELECT button to switch between the Nor-

mal (grouped Style tracks, Keyboard tracks) and the

Style Tracks view (separate Style tracks).

Normal view

In Normal view you can see the grouped Style tracks (Play/Mute

only), and the separate controls for the Keyboard tracks:

Grouped Style tracks

In the Normal view, Style tracks are grouped together (Dr/Perc,

Accomp, Bass groups), to allow for instant play/mute of several

tracks at the same time.

Changing the volume of the grouped Style tracks can be done (as

a general control) in the Global mode > Mode Preferences >

Style page (see “Style Tracks Global Volume” on page 144).

Keyboard tracks

Here you can separately control the volume and play/mute status

of each Keyboard track.

Style Tracks view

Press the TRACK SELECT button to switch from the Normal

view to the Style Tracks view. In this view, individual Style tracks

are shown in the lower half of the display, while the upper half of

the main page changes to show parameters for the selected Style

track.

Press TRACK SELECT again to return to the Normal view (Key-

board tracks, grouped Style tracks, Mic/In controls).

Style tracks Volume

Here you can change the volume and play/mute status of each of

the individual Style tracks.

Original Style Sounds

This parameter lets you choose if the Style has to play the

Sounds saved in the Performance or Style Settings, or the ones

saved in each Style Element.

Note: When assigning a Sound to a Style track, the “Original Style

Sounds” parameter is automatically turned off.

Note: This parameter can be saved with the Performance or Style

Settings.

On Style tracks always use the original Sounds

recorded in each Style Element. If you assign a

different Sound to a Style track, this parameter is

automatically set to Off.

Off You can assign different Sounds to each Style

track, and save them in a Performance or Style

Settings. The selected Sounds are the same for all

Style Elements (there are no different Sounds for

each Style element).These Sounds can be saved

into a Performance or Style Settings with the

“Write Performance” or “Write Current Style Set-

tings” commands (see page 32). Assigned Sounds

are shown in the Sounds area of this page.

Selected Track Info area

This line lets you see the Sound assigned to the selected track. It

appears both in the main page, and in several edit pages.

Track Description

Normal View

DR/PERC (*)

(*).Volume for these grouped tracks is a global offset, that can be adjusted in

the Global > Mode Preferences > Style page.

Grouped Drum and Percussion tracks.

ACCOMP (*) Grouped Accompaniment tracks (Acc1-5).

BASS (*) Grouped Bass Style track.

LOWER Lower track.

UPPER1…3 Upper tracks.

Style Tracks View

DRUM Drum Style track.

PERC Percussion Style track.

BASS Bass Style track.

ACC1…5 Accompaniment Style tracks.

Grouped Style tracks Keyboard tracks

Grouped Style Tracks

Selected

track

info area

Sounds

area

Style tracks Volume

Track name

Sound name

Sound bank

Program Change sequence

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