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KingKORG Owner’s manual

Adding variety to the sound

In addition to its keyboard, the KingKORG provides numerous

controllers such as the joystick, knobs, and buttons. You can vary the

sound by using these controllers to control the filter, LFO, and EG in

real time while you play.

1. Using the controllers

Joystick (JS)

You can control various parameters and effects by moving the

joystick in four directions (up/down/left/right). The result will be

different for each program; try each controller to hear what it

does for the program you’ve selected.

TIP:

“Joystick” is abbreviated as JS.

-X +X

-Y

Pitch down, etc. Pitch up, etc.

Vary the vibrato depth or the speed

of the rotary speaker, etc.

Wah, effect depth, etc.

TIP:

When you release the joystick, it will automatically return

to the center position. However if you want to hold the

joystick eect so that it will continue even aer you take

your hand o the joystick, you can assign the joystick lock

function to a foot switch. (PG: “8. Foot parameters”)

TIP:

You can use the joystick as a virtual patch source. This

lets you obtain even richer and more complex eects than

those listed above. (PG: “1. Timbre parameters”)

2. Playing the keyboard

The KingKORG’s keyboard lets you control the sound in the

following ways.

Velocity

This allows the force (speed or velocity) of how you play a key

to affect the sound. Normally, key velocity is used to control the

tone or volume.

The KingKORG’s keyboard does not support aftertouch.

Some sounds will produce little or no tonal variation in

response to key velocity, or are set not to detect velocity.

Keyboard tracking

This allows the sound to be affected by the note’s position on the

keyboard. Normally, keyboard tracking is used to make the tone

become brighter as you play higher on the keyboard, or to create

a difference in volume between low and high regions of the

keyboard.

TIP:

Velocity and keyboard tracking can be used as a virtual

patch source. (PG: “1. Timbre parameters”)

Switching octaves

You can use the OCTAVE UP/DOWN buttons to shift the region

of pitches assigned to the keyboard in one‐octave steps over a

range of +/‐2 octaves.

Keyboard range Button LED

C4 – C9 UP button blinking

C3 – C8 UP button lit

C2 – C7 UP/DOWN buttons unlit

C1 – C6 DOWN button lit

C0 – C5 DOWN button blinking

Octave +2

Octave +１

Octave ±0

Octave -１

Octave -2

Numbers in parentheses ( ) are MIDI note numbers.

3. Playing arpeggios

The arpeggiator is a function that automatically plays a broken

chord (arpeggio) when you hold down a chord on the keyboard. The

KingKORG’s arpeggiator provides six arpeggio types, and allows

you to change various aspects of the arpeggio, such as the duration

(gate time) of the notes. It also provides a “step arpeggiator” that lets

you specify the on/off status for up to eight steps, giving you a wide

range of performance possibilities.

1. Select a program. (OM: p.13 “Selecting a program”)

As an example, let’s select a piano sound to try out this function.

2. Press the ARP (TEMPO) button to make it light up.

The arpeggiator will turn on.

3. Hold down a chord on the keyboard; an arpeggio will start

playing.

If you hold down the chord shown in the illustration below, the

notes will be sounded as depicted by the notation at the right.

(Arpeggio type: UP)

To change the tempo, hold down the SHIFT/EXIT button and

press the ARP (TEMPO) button to access the PROGRAM “a02:

Arp” page. Use the value dial to adjust the tempo.

TIP:

The KingKORG provides a tap tempo function. Hold down

the SHIFT/EXIT buon and repeatedly press the ARP (TEM‐

PO) buon at the desired timing interval to set the tempo.

4. The arpeggio will stop sounding when you take your hand off

the keys.

TIP:

If desired, you can make the arpeggio continue sounding

even aer you release the keys. (PG: “3. Arpeggio param‐

eters”)

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