Korg M3 Tips user manual

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KARMA LEVEL 2
INTRODUCTORY TOUR


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Welcome to KARMA Second Generation technology!

KARMA is an intelligent, interactive pattern generating technology that responds to your playing, providing endless
inspiration, capturing musical gestures of every family of instrument. The purpose of this document is to familiarize

you with KARMA’S possibilities so that you can take possession of this powerful technology and sculpt it to your own

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M3 KARMA LEVEL 2 TOUR Working with KARMA on the M3 KARMA in Program Mode: Select this Program to begin: I-A-116, Hard House Kit E Eiig gh ht t S Sc ce en ne es s p po os ss siib blle e p pe er r K KA AR RM MA A G GE E 1. Play any note on the keyboard or one of the eight pads: the KARMA ON/OFF switch “wakes up” ON (lit) when you select Hard House Kit, and the GE pattern starts playing immediately > The LATCH switch also wakes up ON: you need not hold a key down for the patte

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M3 KARMA LEVEL 2 TOUR The point is that KARMA is meant to be an interactive process: Feel free to experiment, as the settings of one fader, or the entire KARMA section, can be restored at the touch of a switch. (Note: RESET CONTROLS works in similar fashion for all the other modes of the Control Surface) 3. FADER 4 is labeled “Rnd/Imp”: this stands for “Randomize/Improvise” > Slowly move FADER 4 upwards, stopping somewhere in the 80s: At each value change, the KARMA ‘drummer’ is making s

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M3 KARMA LEVEL 2 TOUR nd Modules: KARMA 2 Gen keeps track of, and lets you change, 48 independent parameters, on these screens alone, plus 16 additional ‘global’ parameters. 6. Press the PAGE SELECT switch and touch “P7-1” in the display > Touch the “Scene Matrix” tab: The eight scene boxes along rows M, A, B, C, and D are all ‘live’: Touching any one of them works the same as if you press the ‘hardware MODULE CONTROL and SCENE switches. 7. Touch the boxes in row M, the Master layer: Not