Korg EASYSTART D1600MKII, D1600 EASY START Easy Start

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• Intuitive TouchView Interface

• No Audio Compression

• 24 channel, 8 buss digital mixer

• 16 track recorder, with a total of 128 virtual tracks

• Hi, Lo and adjustable mid frequency EQ for every channel

• Up to 11 simultaneous effects per song: 8 inserts, 2 masters and a final effect. Includes REMS mic, amp

and cabinet effects plus 98 effect chains and hundreds of programs

• Internal/External Mix Automation with 100 Scenes per song

• Extensive digital editing of songs and tracks

• Up to 99 levels of UNDO

• Built-in tuner, metronome and hundreds of PCM rhythm patterns

• Internal 40 GB IDE hard disk

• USB Connectivity for file transfer

• Internal CDRW 16X CD burner for mastering and backup

• New Disk At Once feature lets you arrange your songs and burn them to CD in a single pass

D1600mkII Main Features

A quick overview of modes 2

Creating a new song 3

Assigning inputs and recording audio tracks 3

Listening to recorded tracks 3

Working with EQ 4

Using the Insert effects 4

Using the Master effects 4

Applying a Final effect 5

Working with Scenes 5

Editing tracks 5

Writing/Burning to CDR/CDRW 5

Additional D1600mkII Resources 5

EasyStart CONTENTS

D1600mkII EasyStart

A quick overview of modes

SONG/CDCD – This mode allows you to select songs, create a new song, rename a song, perform song editing functions (copy

song, move song, protect song, etc.), use the Program Play function, listen to audio CD’s and burn a CDR/RW of your final mix.

RECORD – Here you can select the Recording mode (“Input” or “Bounce”). The default setting to record tracks is “Input”.

INPUT/TUNER – This mode allows you to assign the 8 analog and S/PDIFdigital inputs of the D1600mkII to different tracks,

access the input EQ, use the Sub In function, and by pressing the “Tuner” tab you can also access the D1600mkII’s tuner function.

EQ/PHASE – In this mode you can change the EQ setting for each of the D1600mkII’s 16 tracks. Press the “Eq1-4” tab to access
the EQ settings for tracks 1-4, “Eq5-8” for tracks 5-8, etc. To change the settings, touch any EQ “knob” icon in the display and
rotate the DIAL. The upper-left of the display will indicate which parameter you are adjusting.

METER/TRACK VIEW – This mode enables you to see level meters for all of the tracks, effect sends, Monitor and Master outputs.
You can select two different types of meter view, Pre-Fader (before the fader) and Post-Fader (after the fader), and three types of
track views, which enable you to see which tracks contain recorded audio. To change the display mode, press the “” button at
the top left-hand side of the display.

INSERT EFFECT – In this mode you can set insert effect assignments on input or on track playback, and assign the effect type.
By pressing one of the Insert effect tabs (InsEff1, etc.) you can select an Insert effect. You can edit the parameters by pressing the
effect name button and then press any of the effect icons in the display.

MASTER EFFECT/AUX – In this mode you select an effect for both Master effect 1 and 2 from one of 32 available Master effects
and set the return levels and balance. You can also edit the effect parameters by pressing the effect name button. By pressing the
“EffSnd1” and “EffSnd2” tabs, you can set individual send levels for each of the 16 tracks. You can also access the external Aux
send (“AuxSend” tab) amount and Final effects (“FinalEff” tab) in this mode.

SOLO/MONITOR – In this mode you can isolate and listen to specific tracks, effect send 1 and 2 levels, aux level and return levels
for the Master effects. Press the number button of the track or tracks you wish to listen to. You can also route the isolated source
to the Monitor L/R outs or MASTER L/R and HEADPHONE outs. By pressing the “Monitor” tab and then pressing the “Level”
button, you can create a mix that is different from the mix routed to the Master outs, to be sent to the cue outputs.

[STORE, IN/LOC1, OUT/LOC2, TO/LOC3, END/LOC4] – These keys are used for all track editing, “AUTO PUNCH” recording
and “LOOP” recording functions. To assign any locate point (or IN/OUT/TO/END point), press the [STORE] key at the desired
point in time, and then the appropriate [LOC] key, while playback is on or off.

[SCRUB] – When playback is stopped and this key is pressed, you can view track waveform data (which you can select by
pressing the “” button next to “1Tr”), and use the “ZOOM” buttons (, etc.) to resize the waveform. Once you have selected
a track, turn the DIAL to scrub the audio. Pressing the [] FF key while in the scrub mode will play the audio back at half speed,
one octave lower than the original pitch.

TEMPO/RHYTHM – Here you can set song tempo, create a tempo map, record your own tempo track, set time signature and
select rhythm patterns from any of the 96 metronome and 215 PCM-based drum patterns.

TRACK - In this mode you can access the Virtual Tracks settings, perform track-editing functions (copy, reverse, normalize, etc.)
and also import and export audio data from the clipboard.

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