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Korg PA900 Manual

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Welcome! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Making a safety copy of your data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Restoring the original factory data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Loading the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Start up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting the AC power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning the instrument on (or in standby) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Controlling the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The X-Fader slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Loudspeakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Audio Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
MIDI connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Damper pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Assignable pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The music stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Glossary of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Keyboard tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The LOGO decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Interface basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Color TouchView graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Operative modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Selected, highlighted items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Non-available, grayed-out parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Easy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The Style Play page in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Song Play page in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Quick Guide
Turning the instrument on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Turning the instrument on and viewing the main screen . . . 32
Connecting and calibrating the Damper pedal . . . . . . . . 33
Programming the Damper pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing the Demo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Starting and stopping the Demo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Playing Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Selecting a Sound and playing it on the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . 37
Playing two or three Sounds at the same time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Playing different Sounds with your left and right hand . . . . . 41
Changing the split point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Raising or lowering the Upper octave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Selecting and saving Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Selecting a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Saving your settings to a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Selecting and saving the “My Setting” Performance . . . 48
Selecting the startup parameters (the "My Setting"
Performance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Saving the startup parameters into the "My Setting"
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Drawbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Choosing a Drawbars Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Editing the Drawbars Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Selecting and playing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Selecting and playing a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Intro, Variation, Fill, Break, Ending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Single Touch Settings (STS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
The Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Adjusting the balance between the Style and the keyboard . . 58
Adjusting the volume of the separate tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Turning the Style tracks on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Adding harmony notes to your right-hand melody with
the ENSEMBLE function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Chord Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Song Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Selecting a Song to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Playing back a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Changing the tracks’ volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Turning the Song tracks on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Soloing a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Removing the Melody track from a Standard MIDI File
or the Lead Vocal from an MP3 file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Mixing two Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The SongBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Selecting the desired Entry from the Main List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Displaying Artist or Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Sorting Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Searching for Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Adding Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Editing the Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Creating a Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Selecting and using a Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Singing with a microphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Connecting a microphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Setting up your voice tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Choosing a Voice Processor Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Applying harmony to your voice while playing with
the Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Applying harmony to your voice while playing with a Song . 86
Balancing the voice, effects and tracks level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Soloing your voice (Talk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File) . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Preparing the Style and Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Accessing the Backing Sequence (Quick Record) mode . . . . . 88
Setting the Record parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
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