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USER'S
MANUAL
ENGLISH
Ver. 1.0
E
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Instructions pertaining to a risk of fire, electric shock, or injury to persons IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING — When using electrical products, basic pre- THE FCC REGULATION WARNING (FOR THE cautions should be followed, including the following: U.S.A. AND CANADA ONLY) Location. Using the unit in the following locations can This equipment has been tested and found to comply result in a malfunction. with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to • In direct sunlight Part 15 of th
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and the contents of the instruction manual - the specifica- DATA HANDLING tions being subject to change without prior notice Data in memory may sometimes be lost due to incorrect user action. Be sure to save important data to floppy disk. KORG LIABILITY will not be responsible for damages caused by data loss. KORG products are manufactured under strict specifica- tions and voltages required by each country. These prod- LCD DISPLAY ucts are warranted by the KORG distributor only in each Some pages o
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THE BALANCE SLIDER When turning the instrument on, please be assured the BALANCE slider is set to the center. This sets both Sequencer 1 (SEQ1) and Sequencer 2 (SEQ2) to their maximum level. This will avoid you start a Song without hearing anything.
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3 HOW TO… Keyboard Song Play mode …select a Sound Program 26 …play a Song (Standard MIDI File) 27 …select a Performance 25 …see the Lyrics 74 …play a Sound Program across the …see the Song tracks 73 whole keyboard, as with a piano 24 …start both Sequencers at the same time 18, 79 …split the keyboard in two 24 …add sounds to the right hand 24 Backing Sequence mode …mute/unmute sounds 24 …record a new Backing Sequence (Song) 82 Style Play mode Song mode …select a Style 26 …record a new Song 91 …st
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4 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Chord 1 and Chord 2 channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Introduction The Control channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Welcome! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 MIDI Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Live Performing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Connecting Pa50 to a Master keyboard . . . .
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5 Step Record page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Load Song page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84 Style Record procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Save Song page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84 Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Realtime Recording page . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6 Page 3 - Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Page 4 - Erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 Page 4 - Pitch LFO1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Page 5 - Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 Page 5 - Pitch LFO2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Page 6 - New Dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INTRODUCTION
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Welcome! 8 Live Performing 1. WELCOME! Welcome to the world of KORG Pa50 Professional Arranger! Telephone: 01908 857100 Pa50 is one of the most powerful arranger available today, UK Technical Support Tel: 01908 857122, Fax: both for professional and home entertainment use. 01908 857199 Here are some of the features of your new instrument: E-mail: info@korg.co.uk • Powerful HI (Hyper Integrated) KORG sound genera- Many KORG distributors also have their own web page on tion system, as seen in our
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Welcome! 9 Loading the operating system 2. Turn the instrument off, and insert the operating system LOADING THE OPERATING SYSTEM disk into the disk drive. Your Pa50 can be constantly updated as new versions of the 3. Turn the instrument on. A message appears in the dis- operating system are released by KORG. You can download play, asking if you want to load the operating system. the operating system from www.korgpa.com. Please, read the 4. Press ENTER to load, or EXIT to cancel the loading pro-
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Start up 10 Connecting the AC power adapter 2. START UP • Move it fully right to set Sequencer 1 to zero and CONNECTING THE AC POWER ADAPTER Sequencer 2 to the maximum level. Connect the supplied AC • Move it to the center to set both Sequencer at the same power adapter to the dedi- level. cated socket on the rear of the Note: When turning the instrument on, move this slider to the instrument. Then, plug it into center, to avoid starting a Song at the minimum level. a wall socket. Warning: Use o
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Start up 11 Damper Pedal 3. On the Pa50, select the MIDI Setup that best fit your 1. Press the STYLE PLAY and SONG PLAY buttons controllers type (see “Page 4 - MIDI Setup” on together. Their LEDs start blinking. page 126). At this point, if you don’t press any other button, all the Demo Songs will be played back. 2. Choose a page using the PAGE buttons. There are two DAMPER PEDAL different pages in the Demo mode. Connect a Damper (Sustain) pedal to the DAMPER connec- 3. Select a Demo Song by pre
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Front panel 12 3. FRONT PANEL Q P 123 4 56 S T U 78 90ABC D g h K EF GHI J W R \] S X [ V `a b YZ U c g h KL M NO d e f
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Front panel 13 B.SEQ Backing Sequence mode, where you can record 1 MASTER VOLUME a new Song based on the Realtime and Style This slider controls the overall volume of the instrument, tracks, and save it as a new Standard MIDI File. both of the internal speakers, the L/MONO and RIGHT out- SONG Song mode, where you can play, record, or edit puts, and the HEADPHONES output. a Song. Warning: At the maximum level, with rich-sounding Songs, PROGRAM Program mode, to play single Sound Programs Styles or
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Front panel 14 ON The automatic accompaniment stops playing A word about Style banks and names. Styles from “8/16 (apart for the Drum and Percussion tracks), BEAT” to “WORLD 3”, and from “LATIN1” to “TRADI- and you can manually play the Bass track on TIONAL” are standard Styles, the user can’t normally over- the Lower part of the keyboard. You can start write with a Load operation (unless you remove the the automatic accompaniment again by press- protection; see “Factory Style Protect” on page 1
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Front panel 15 Press them twice (LED blinking) to let them play in loop, and Tap Tempo: When the Style is not playing, you can “beat” the select any other Style element (Fill, Intro, Variation…) to exit tempo on this button. At the end, the accompaniment starts the loop. playing, using the “tapped in” tempo. Reset: When you press this button while the Style is in play, ENDING1 also doubles as a DOT function, and ENDING2 the Style pattern goes back to the previous strong beat. doubles as a TRIPL
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Front panel 16 S VOLUME/VALUE (MUTE) A-H buttons SOLO While in the Style Play, Song Play and Song modes, you can solo one of the tracks. Just keep the SHIFT button pressed, and press Within this user’s manual, each button pair is marked with both VOLUME/VALUE buttons corresponding an alphabetic letter (A-H). See “Display and User Interface” to the track you wish to solo. on page 19 for more details. To exit the solo mode, keep the SHIFT button pressed again, and press both VOLUME/ VALUE butto
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Front panel 17 DOWN/- and UP/+ OFF No chords detected. After pressing START/ DOWN/- decreases the value or tempo; UP/+ STOP, only the Drum and Percussion accom- increases the value or tempo. paniment tracks can play. Keep the SHIFT button pressed down, ] KEYBOARD MODE section and press either the DOWN/- or These buttons define how the four Keyboard (or Realtime) UP/+ button to reset the Tempo to the value tracks are positioned on the keyboard. memorized onto the selected Style. SPLIT The Lower
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Front panel 18 Programs “USER1” and “USER2” are locations where you Press both buttons together, to reset the Octave Transpose to can load new Programs from disk. zero. “USER DK” is where you can load new drum kits. Note: The Octave Transpose has no effect on tracks set to Drum mode (and, even if set in a different status, on the Drum and Each Program bank contains various pages, each with up to 8 Percussion tracks). Programs. You can browse them using the PAGE buttons. Shortcut to see the origi
