Korg PA300 Users manual

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ENGLISH | OS Ver. 1.5

Important safety instructions

• Read these instructions, and follow them carefully.

• Keep these instructions in a safe place.

• Heed all warnings.

• Do not use this apparatus near water.

• Clean only with dry cloth.

• Do not block any ventilation openings, install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

• Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat.

• Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point where they exit from the apparatus.

• Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer.

• Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long periods of time.

• Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.

• Turning off the power switch does not completely isolate this product from the power line so remove the plug from the socket if not using it for extended periods of time, or before cleaning. Please ensure that the mains plug or appliance couple remains readily accessible.

• Mains powered apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and that no objects filled with liquids, such as vases, shall be placed on the apparatus.

• Install this product near the wall socket and keep the power plug easily accessible.

• Do not install this equipment in a confined space such as a box for the conveyance or similar unit.

• When a cart is used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus combination to avoid injury from tip-over.

THE FCC REGULATION WARNING (FOR USA)

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

If items such as cables are included with this equipment, you must use those included items.

Unauthorized changes or modification to this system can void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY (FOR USA)

Responsible Party: KORG USA INC.

Address: 316 SOUTH SERVICE ROAD, MELVILLE / Telephone: 1-631-390-6500

Equipment Type: Music Arranger / Model: Pa300

This device complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

NOTICE REGARDING DISPOSAL (EU ONLY)

If this symbol is shown on the product, manual, battery, or package, you must dispose of it in the correct manner to avoid harm to human health or damage to the environment. Contact your local administrative body for details on the correct disposal method. If the battery contains heavy metals in excess of the regulated amount, a chemical symbol is displayed below the symbol on the battery or battery package.

PERCHLORATE (CALIFORNIA, USA ONLY)

Perchlorate Material – special handling may apply. See www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/perchlorate.

CE MARK FOR EUROPEAN HARMONIZED STANDARDS

CE mark which is attached to our company’s products of AC mains operated apparatus until December 31, 1996 means it conforms to EMC Directive (89/336/ EEC) and CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC).

And, CE mark which is attached after January 1, 1997 means it conforms to EMC Directive (89/336/EEC), CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC) and Low Voltage Directive (73/23/EEC).

Also, CE mark which is attached to our company’s products of Battery operated apparatus means it conforms to EMC Directive (89/336/EEC) and CE mark Directive (93/68/EEC).

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS

This product has been manufactured according to strict specifications and voltage requirements that are applicable in the country in which it is intended that this product should be used. If you have purchased this product via the internet, through mail order, and/or via a telephone sale, you must verify that this product is intended to be used in the country in which you reside.

WARNING: Use of this product in any country other than that for which it is intended could be dangerous and could invalidate the manufacturer's or distributor's warranty.

Please also retain your receipt as proof of purchase otherwise your product may be disqualified from the manufacturer's or distributor's warranty.

Further notices

Automatic Power-Off

To avoid wasting power, Pa300 will by default automatically enter standby mode after two hours of non-active use (playing, pressing buttons or using the touch-screen). Please save your data (Performances, Styles, Songs, and so on) before taking a prolonged pause.

Data Handling

Data in memory may sometimes be lost due to incorrect user action. Be sure to save important data to the internal memory or to an external USB device. Korg will not be responsible for damages caused by data loss.

Cleaning

If the exterior becomes dirty, wipe it with a clean, dry cloth. Do not use liquid cleaners such as benzene or thinner, or cleaning compounds or flammable polishes.

Use a soft cotton cloth to clean the display. Some materials, such as paper towels, could cause scratches and damage it. Computer wipes are also suggested, provided they are specifically designed for LCD screens.

Do not spray any liquid on the LCD screen directly. Always apply the solution to your cloth first, then clean the screen.

Example screens

Some pages of the manuals show LCD screens along with an explanation of functions and operations. All sound, style, song or parameter names, as well as shown values, are merely examples and may not always match the actual display you are working on.

Trademarks

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Open Source notice

Disclaimer

The information contained in this manual have been carefully revised and checked through. Due to our constant efforts to improve our products, the specifications might differ to those in the manual. Korg is not responsible for any differences found between the specifications and the contents of the instruction manual – all specifications being subject to change without prior notice.

Liability

Korg products are manufactured under strict specifications and voltages required by each country. These products are warranted by the Korg distributor only in each country. Any Korg product not sold with a warranty card or carrying a serial number disqualifies the product sold from the manufacturer's/distributor's warranty and liability. This requirement is for your own protection and safety.

Service and User’s Assistance

For service, please contact your nearest Authorized Korg Service Center. For more information on Korg products, and to find software and accessories for your keyboard, please contact your local Authorized Korg distributor. For up-to-date information, please point your web browser to our web site.

Keep your keyboard up-to-date

Your instrument can be constantly updated as new versions of the operating system are released by Korg. You can download the operating system from our web site. Please, read the instructions supplied with the operating system.

Table of Contents

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Glossary of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Keyboard tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Performance and STS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The LOGO decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Interface basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Color TouchView graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Operative modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Selected, highlighted items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Non-available, grayed-out parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Easy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Style Play page in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Song Play page in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Quick Guide

Turning the instrument on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Turning the instrument on and viewing the main screen . . . 28

Connecting and calibrating the Damper pedal . . . . . . . . 29

Programming the Damper pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Playing the Demo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Starting and stopping the Demo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Playing Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Selecting a Sound and playing it on the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . 33

Playing two or three Sounds at the same time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Playing different Sounds with your left and right hand . . . . . 37

Changing the split point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Raising or lowering the Upper octave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Selecting and saving Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Selecting a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Saving your settings to a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Selecting and saving the “My Setting” Performance . . . 44

Selecting the startup parameters (the “My Setting”

Performance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Saving the startup parameters into the “My Setting”

Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Selecting and playing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Selecting and playing a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Intro, Variation, Fill, Break, Ending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Single Touch Settings (STS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

The Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Adjusting the balance between the Style and the keyboard . . 50

Adjusting the volume of the separate tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Turning the Style tracks on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Adding harmony notes to your right-hand melody with

the ENSEMBLE function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Song Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Selecting a Song to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Playing back a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Changing the tracks’ volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Turning the Song tracks on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Soloing a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

The SongBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Selecting the desired Entry from the Main List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Displaying Artist or Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Sorting Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Searching for Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Adding Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Editing the Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Creating a Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Selecting and using a Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File) . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Preparing the Style and Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Accessing the Backing Sequence (Quick Record) mode . . . . . 72

Setting the Record parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Second-take recording (Overdubbing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Saving a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Searching files and musical resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

How to use the Search function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Notes about searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Reference

Selecting elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Style Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Sound Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Performance Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Pad Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

STS Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Style Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Start-up settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Styles and Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Master Volume and Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Factory, Favorite and User Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

STS Name panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Pad panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Split panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Sub-Scale panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

ToC

Table of Contents

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Pads: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Style Controls: Drum Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Style Controls: Keyboard Range On/Off / Wrap Around . . . 107

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Write Performance dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Write Single Touch Setting dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Write Current Style Settings dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

The Favorite banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Song Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

MIDI Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Tempo Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Master Volume, Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Track parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Standard MIDI Files and Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Keyboard, Pad and Player tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Main page (Normal view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

STS Name panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Pad panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Split panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Sub-Scale panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Jukebox panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Pads: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Jukebox Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Standard MIDI Files and MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Sequencer Play - Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Entering Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Record mode: Multitrack Sequencer page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Record mode: Step Record page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Record mode: Backing Sequence (Quick Record) page . . . . .130

Record mode: Step Backing Sequence page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Song Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Song Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Song Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Song Edit: Cut/Insert Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Song Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Song Edit: Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Song Edit: Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Song Edit: RX Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Save Song window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Overview on the Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

General Controls: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

General Controls: Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

General Controls: Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

General Controls: Date & Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Mode Preferences: Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Mode Preferences: Song & Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Mode Preferences: Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Controllers: Hand Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Controllers: Foot Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Tuning: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Tuning: Transpose Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Tuning: Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

MIDI: General Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

MIDI: MIDI In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

MIDI: MIDI In Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

MIDI: MIDI Out Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

MIDI: Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Audio & EQ: MP3 / Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Audio & EQ: Master EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Touch Panel Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Write Quarter Tone SC Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Write Midi Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Write Master EQ Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Storage devices and internal memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Supported device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Selecting and deselecting files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Searching files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

File types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Media structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Table of Contents

Page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Navigation tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Care of mass storage devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

SongBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

List Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Book Edit 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Book Edit 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Book Edit 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Lyrics, Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Lyrics page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Score page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Style/Pad Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Recording Styles and Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Style/Pad Import/Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Entering the Style/Pad Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Exit by saving or deleting changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Listening to the Style while in Edit mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

List of recorded events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Main page - Record 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Main page - Record 2/Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Main page - Guitar Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Style/Pad Record procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Style/Pad Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Style/Pad Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Style/Pad Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Style/Pad Edit: Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Style/Pad Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Style/Pad Edit: Delete All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Style Element Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . 217

Style Element Track Controls: Keyboard Range . . . . . . . . . . 218

Style Element Track Controls: Noise/Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Pad Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Style Element/Pad Chord Table: Chord Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Style Track Controls: Type/Trigger/Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Import: Import Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Import: Import SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Export SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Write Style/Pad dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Copy Key/Chord dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Copy Sounds dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Copy Expression dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Copy Key Range dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Copy Chord Table dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Overdub Step Recording window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Sound Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

The MIDI channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

How to select oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Sounds, Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Basic: Sound Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Basic: OSC Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Basic: Vel/Key Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Basic: Damper Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Basic: Damper Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Basic: EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

DrumKit: Sample Setup (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

DrumKit: EQ (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

DrumKit: Voice Mixer (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Pitch: Pitch Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Pitch: Pitch EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Filter: Filter Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Filter: Filter Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Filter: Filter LFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Filter: Filter EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Amp: Amp Level/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Amp: Amp Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Amp: Amp EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

LFO: LFO1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

LFO: LFO2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Effects: “B” FX Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Effects: Master 1 / Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Effects: Master 2 / Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Write Sound dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Copy Oscillator dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Copy Drum Kit dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

AMS (Alternate Modulation Source) list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258

What is MIDI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

MIDI and personal computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Standard MIDI Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

The General MIDI standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

The Global channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

The Control channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

MIDI Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Connecting Pa300 to a personal computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Appendix

Factory data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282

Effect list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Dynamic Modulation sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Dynamics (Dynamic) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

EQ and Filters (EQ/Filter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Overdrive, Amp models, and Mic models (OD Amp Mic) . 294

Chorus, Flanger, and Phaser (Cho/Fln Phaser) . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Modulation and Pitch Shift (Mod./P.Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Reverb and Early Reflections (Reverb ER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Mono-Mono Serial (Mono-Mono) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

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Double Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Assignable parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

List of Pedal/Footswitch functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Recognized chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

MIDI Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

MIDI Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .358

Style Element controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Style and Player controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Single Touch Settings (STS) controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

MIDI Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Connecting Pa300 to a personal computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362

KORG USB-MIDI Driver system requirements . . . . . . . . . . .362

Please note before use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362

Windows: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver . . . . . . . .362

Mac OS X: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver . . . . . . . .363

Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Technical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

MIDI Implementation Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Welcome!

Welcome to the world of Korg Pa300 Professional Arranger! Pa300 is a very powerful arranger, suitable both for professional and home entertainment use.

Here are some of the features of your new instrument.

Physical Features and User Experience

• 61 synth-type keys with velocity.

• Slim and compact, lightweight, elegant cabinet design.

• Wide 5" TFT graphic touch screen display. Professional TouchView™ graphic interface for direct access to the onscreen controls and to the musical resources.

• High-quality integrated amplification, and high-quality output audio converters.

• RX (Real eXperience) Technology, the cutting edge engine that drives every aspect of the Pa300 – from the synthesis to the display and how it all works together.

• A joystick and an assignable pedal ensure total control over the sound.

Sounds and Effects

• Powerful sound generation system, for crystal-clear, realistic sounds.

• 128 voices of polyphony.

• General MIDI Level 2 Sound-compatible. Enhanced Sound compatibility for GM Songs.

• More than 950 Sounds, plus 64 Drum Kits.

• 240 Performance locations, plus 4 Single Touch Settings (STS) for each Style and SongBook entry, for fast setting of keyboard sounds and effects.

• Four Stereo Master FX, with 125 effect types. Final 4-band Parametric EQ.

• Edit Sound, to create and edit new Sounds.

Styles and Songs

• Over 300 Factory Styles with 4 Variations and 4 Fill In + Break, plus 8 Favorite and 3 User Style banks for unlimited storage of your custom Styles and settings.

• Style and Pad Record, including the enhanced “Guitar Mode 2” for even more realistic guitar parts.

• Guitar Mode 2 tracks, for more realistic guitar tracks.

• Standard MIDI File player and recorder, and MP3 player.

• Lyrics and Score display. Multilingual extended character set. Enhanced compatibility with Lyrics in graphical format (+G) for Standard MIDI Files and MP3 files.

• Full-featured 16-track sequencer.

• Fully editable SongBook music database, for fast song retrieving.

Other Features

• Search function, for instant retrieving of any musical resource or file.

• Operating System updates, to load new features and enhancements. Don’t let your instrument get old!

• Generous internal memory, to store a great amount of data.

• USB 2.0 High Speed Host port, for connecting external devices like hard disks, CD-ROM drives, USB memory sticks, etc.

• USB 2.0 High Speed Device port, to connect a personal computer to your Pa300. This port can be used for file transfer, and for MIDI connection (without the need of a dedicated MIDI interface).

Welcome!

What’s in the box

After you buy your Pa300, please check that all the following items are included in the package. If any of the following items is missing, please contact your Korg dealer immediately.

• Pa300

•Music stand

•AC power adapter

•Power cable

•Quick Guide

• Accessory Disc (containing the Video Manual, the User Manual, the USB driver)

About this manual

This manual contains all the informations divided in four sections:

•An Introduction, containing an overview of the instru- ment and of basic operations.

•A Quick Guide, containing a series of practical guides.

•A Reference Guide, with each page and parameter described in detail.

•An Appendix, with a list of data and useful information for the advanced user.

In addition, in the Accessory Disc and in our web site you will find a multilingual Video Manual, showing how to use your Pa300 in easy steps.

Contacts

Your preferred Korg dealer not only delivers this keyboard, but also a whole bunch of hardware and software accessories, as well as service information. You should ask them for any help should you eventually need.

Our international web site is www.korg.com. Korg distributors around the world may have their own web page on the internet. A list of all Korg Distributors can be found in our dedicated web site (www.korg.co.jp/English/Distributors/).

Making a safety copy of your data

Making a safety copy

In case you like to customize your Musical Resources (Sounds, Performances and Styles), we suggest you use the Media > Utility > Backup Resources command to make frequent backup copies into compact archives.

Also, you can use the Media > Save All command to save files that you can separately reload one by one.

Restoring a safety copy

To restore a backup, use the Media > Utility > Restore Resources.

If you saved your data with the Media > Save All command, use the Media > Load operations to reload them.

Restoring the original factory data

In case you want to restore the original factory data, use the Media > Utility > Factory Restore command.

Wa r n in g : This operation will overwrite all the Factory, Local, Favorite and User data!

Loading the Operating System

Your Pa300 can be constantly updated as new versions of the operating system are released by Korg. You can download the operating system from our web site is www.korg.com. Please, read the instructions supplied with the operating system on the site.

You can see which version of the operating systems is installed in your Pa300 by going to the Media > Utility page.

Wa r n in g : Do not install an OS other than the official OS supplied by Korg for the Pa300. Trying to install an OS created for different models or downloaded from unofficial web sites may cause data loss and permanent damage to the instrument. Korg is not responsible for any damage caused by improper installation of the OS.

Introduction

Overview

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Music stand holes

A music stand comes standard with your Pa300. Insert its legs into these two dedicated holes.

Speakers

The integrated speakers give a faithful reproduction of the sound of Pa300. They are automatically deactivated when inserting a jack into the PHONES/AUDIO OUT connector.

Joystick lever

The joystick is on the left side of the front panel.

JOYSTICK

This joystick triggers different functions, depending on the direction it is moved towards.

X (+/–) Move the joystick towards the left (–) to lower the

pitch, or towards the right (+) to raise it. This effect is called the Pitch Bend.

Y+ Move the joystick forward to trigger Modulation

Y– Move the joystick backward, to trigger the

assigned function.

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Introduction

Volume controls

Use these knobs to control the master volume, and to balance between the Keyboard and the Style or the Song.

MASTER VOLUME

This knob controls the overall volume of the instrument, both of the integrated speakers and the PHONES/AUDIO OUT connector.

BALANCE

While in Style Play and Song Play mode, this knob usually balances the volume of the Keyboard (KBD) tracks against the Style (ACC, Accompaniment), Song and Pad tracks. This is a relative control, whose effective maximum value is determined by the MASTER VOLUME knob position.

When moved, a magnified version of a virtual slider appears in the display, for more accurate adjustment.

Note: This does not work in the Sequencer mode.

Mode selection

Each of these buttons recalls one of the instrument’s operating modes. When selected, each mode excludes all the others.

STYLE PLAY

Style Play mode, where you can play Styles (eight tracks of automatic accompaniments) and play up to four Keyboard tracks and four Pad tracks. In the main page, Keyboard tracks are shown in the right half of the display.

You can recall the main page by pressing EXIT from any of the Style Play edit pages. If you are in a different operating mode, press STYLE PLAY to recall the Style Play mode. If Keyboard tracks are not shown in the display, press the TRACK SELECT button until you can see them.

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This operating mode is automatically selected when turning the instrument on. The “My Setting” Performance will be automatically selected.

SONG PLAY

Song Play mode, where you can play back Songs in Standard MIDI File (SMF or KAR) or MP3 format. In addition to the Song tracks, you can play up to four Keyboard tracks and four Pads along with the Song. In the main page, Keyboard tracks are shown in the right half of the display.

You can recall the main page of this mode by pressing EXIT from any of the Song Play edit pages. If you are in a different operating mode, press SONG PLAY to recall the Song Play mode. Use the TRACK SELECT button to cycle between the Keyboard and Song tracks.

SEQUENCER

Sequencer mode, where you can play, record or edit Songs (in Standard MIDI File format). The Backing Sequence mode lets you record a new Song based on the Keyboard and Style tracks, and save it as a new Standard MIDI File.

Note: In this mode, you cannot play MP3 files.

DEMO

Press the STYLE PLAY and SONG PLAY buttons together to select the Demo mode. This mode lets you listen to some Demo Songs, to let you experience the sonic power of the Pa300. To exit from this mode, press any of the MODE buttons.

Special Mode Buttons

These buttons are used to recall settings, file management and the Song Record mode.

GLOBAL

This button recalls the Global mode, where you can adjust various global settings. Most Global settings are automatically memorized as soon as you edit them. This mode overlaps any operating mode, that will still remain active in the background. Press EXIT to go back to the underlying operating mode.

MEDIA

This button recalls the Media mode, where you can perform various operations on files and storage devices (Load, Save, Format, etc…). This mode overlaps any operating mode, that still remains active in the background. Press EXIT to go back to the underlying operating mode.

The internal memory contains an area where to save data (“DISK [KORG DISK]”).

Accompaniment, Memory, Manual Bass

These buttons let you turn all Accompaniment tracks on/off, decide what should remain in memory, and how to play the bass.

ACCOMP. (Accompaniment)

In Style Play and Sequencer-Backing Sequence mode, use this button to turn the Accompaniment tracks (ACC1 ~ ACC5) on or off.

On After pressing START/STOP, the full accompani-

ment plays and follows the detected chords.

Off No chords detected. After pressing START/STOP,

only the Drum and Percussion accompaniment tracks can play.

You can jump to the Global > Mode Preferences > Style Play page by keeping SHIFT pressed and pressing the ACCOMP button.

MEMORY

This button allows you to choose whether the Lower notes and/ or chord triggering the accompaniment must remain in memory after raising your hand from the keyboard.

On Depending on the setting of the “Memory Mode”

parameter (in the Global > Mode Preferences > Style Play), the sound on the left of the split point (Lower), and/or the chords for the automatic accompaniment can kept in memory even when you raise your hand from the keyboard.

Off Both the sound and chord are released as soon as

you raise your hand from the keyboard.

You can jump to the Global > Mode Preferences > Style Play page by keeping SHIFT pressed and pressing the MEMORY button.

MAN. BASS (Manual Bass)

This button turns the Manual Bass function on or off.

On The automatic accompaniment stops playing

(except for the Drum and Percussion tracks), and you can manually play the Bass track on the Lower part of the keyboard. You can start the automatic accompaniment again after pressing this button to turn off the Manual Bass function.

Off The bass track is automatically played by the Style.

Note: When you press the MANUAL BASS button, the Bass track volume is automatically set to its maximum value. The volume is automatically set back to the original value when the MANUAL BASS button is deactivated.

RECORD

This button sets the instrument to the Style/Pad Record or Song Record mode (depending on the current operating mode).

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Pads

Here you can play (and stop) the Pads, i.e. single sounds or looping sequences.

PAD 1 -4 STOP

Each Pad button corresponds to a dedicated Pad track. Use these buttons to trigger up to four sounds or sequences at the same time.

• Press a single PAD button to trigger a single sound or sequence.

• Press more PAD buttons to trigger several sounds or sequences.

The sequences will play up to the end. Then, they will stop or continue repeating, depending on the individual settings.

You can stop all sounds or sequences at the same time, or just some of them:

• Press STOP (in the PAD section) to stop all sequences at once.

• Press a single PAD button to stop the corresponding sequence.

About Pad synchronization. In Style Play mode, Pads are synchronized to the Style’s Tempo. In Song Play mode, they are synchronized to the Player.

Note: There is no synchronization with MP3 files. Pads can only be synchronized to the Tempo of the latest selected Standard MIDI Files. Therefore, when an MP3 file is assigned to the Player, Pads will synchronize to the Tempo of the last Standard MIDI File that has been played back.

About Pads and the Player’s Start command. When you press the START/STOP button to start the Player, all Pads will stop playing.

You can jump to the Style Play > Pad page by keeping

SHIFT pressed and pressing one of the PAD buttons.

Selection

Here you can select a Style, Sound, SongBook entry, or Song.

For each type of Styles there are several banks, that can be selected by touching the side tabs. Each Style bank contains various pages, each with up to eight Styles, that can be selected by touching the lower tabs.

Styles of the Factory type are usually write-protected (unless you uncheck the “Factory Style and Pad Protect” option in the Global > Mode Preferences > Media page). You can use User locations to temporarily load new Styles from an external device. Favorite locations, too, can be used to load new Styles from an external device, but in addition you can edit the names of these Style banks, so that you can create a custom set of Styles.

By keeping this button pressed for about one second, the

“Write Current Style Settings” dialog box will appear.

SOUND

Use this button to open the Sound Select window and select a Sound to be assigned to the selected track. This is the same as touching a Sound name in the display. Repeatedly press it to cycle between the Sound bank pages.

For each type of Sounds there are several Sound banks, that can be selected by touching the side tabs. Each Sound bank contains various pages, each with up to eight Sounds, that can be selected by touching the lower tabs.

Sounds of the Factory type are write-protected. Sounds of the Legacy type are standard Factory Sounds allowing greater compatibility with older Pa-Series instruments. Factory Sounds of the GM type allow for compatibility with General MIDI sounds. Sounds of the User type are locations where you can load new Sounds from an external device. The User DK type is where you can load new Drum Kits.

Some models could include Local-type Sounds, that are Factory Sounds customized for a particular Country.

Hint: The page menu of the Sound Select window contains a command to access Sound editing, and customize your Sounds.

SONGBOOK

The SongBook is a database of song titles, that can automatically choose the more appropriate Style, Standard MIDI File or MP3 file for you.

Press this button to open the SongBook (when you are in Style Play or Song Play mode). While the SongBook is shown on the display, you can browse through the music database.

By keeping this button pressed for about one second, a new SongBook Entry with the current settings is added to the database. You will be able to give it a name and save.

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STYLE

Use this button to open the Style Select window and select a Style. This is the same as touching the name of the Style in the display. Repeatedly press it to cycle between the Style bank pages.

You can jump to the SongBook > Custom List page by

keeping SHIFT pressed and pressing the SONGBOOK button.

SONG

Press this button to open the Song Select window and choose a Songs. This is the same as touching the Song name in the display.

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Style Elements

This section contains the separate elements of a Style (Intro, Vari a t io n , e tc . ).

INTRO 1-3 buttons

These buttons turn the corresponding Intro on. Intro 1 plays a sequence including a chord progression, while Intro 2 plays a fixed chord. Intro 3 is usually a one-bar Count In.

After pressing one of these buttons, start the Style, and it will begin with the selected intro. The INTRO LED will automatically go off at the end of the intro.

At the end of the Intro, the Variation whose LED was blinking will be selected.

Press one of the INTRO buttons twice (LED blinking) to let the corresponding Intro play in loop, and select any other Style element (Intro, Variation, Ending) to exit the loop.

VARIATION 1-4 buttons

Each of these buttons selects one of the four Variations of the current Style. The higher the Variation number, the denser the arrangement.

You can jump to the Style Play > Drum Map page by keeping SHIFT pressed and pressing one of the VARIATION buttons.

AUTO FILL

This button allows to turn the Auto Fill function on or off.

On When selecting a different Variation, the Fill hav-

ing the same number of the previous Variation is automatically selected. For example, if going from Variation 2 to Variation 3, Fill 2 is automatically selected.

Off When choosing a Variation, no fill is selected.

BREAK

This button triggers a break. Press it twice (LED blinking) to let it play in loop. Press it again or select any other Style Element (Intro, Variation, Ending) to exit from the loop.

ENDING 1-3 buttons

These buttons trigger the corresponding Ending. Ending 1 plays a sequence including a chord progression, while Ending 2 plays a fixed chord. Ending 3 starts immediately, and is just two measures long.

While the Style is running, these three buttons trigger an Ending, and stop the Style. Press one of them, and the Style will stop running with an Ending.

Press them twice (LED blinking) to let them play in loop, and select any other Style element (Intro, Variation…) to exit the loop.

Style Controls

Use these buttons to start/stop the accompaniment.

START/STOP

Starts or stops the Style.

You can reset all ‘frozen’ notes and controllers on the

Pa300 and any instrument connected to its MIDI OUT or the USB Device port, by using the “Panic” (SHIFT + START/STOP) key combination. Just press SHIFT + START/STOP to stop all notes and reset all controllers.

SYNCHRO START / STOP button

These buttons turn the Synchro Start and Synchro Stop functions on or off. With this feature, you can choose to press the START/STOP button to start and/or stop a Style, or just play the keyboard in the Chord Scan area.

Start On, Stop Off

In this situation, just play a chord in the chord recognition area to automatically start the Style. If you like, turn one of the INTROs on before starting the Style.

Start On, Stop On

When both LEDs are lit, raising your hands from the keyboard will momentarily stop the Style. If you play a chord again, the Style will start again.

Start Off, Stop On

In this case, raising your hands from the keyboard will stop the Style.

Start Off, Stop Off

All Synchro functions are turned off.

You can jump to the Global > MIDI > Setup/General Control by keeping the SHIFT button pressed and pressing the SYNCHRO START/STOP button.

TAP TEMPO/RESET

This is a double-function button, acting in a different way depending on whether the Style is running or not.

Note: This button only works while in Style Play mode.

Tap Temp o : When the Style is not playing, you can “beat” the tempo on this button. Tap as many times as the Time Signature’s numerator (for example, four times with a 4/4 Time Signature, or three times with a 3/4 one). At the end, the accompaniment starts playing, using the “tapped in” tempo.

Reset: If you press this button while the Style is playing back, the Style pattern goes immediately back to the beginning of measure

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Display and Brightness Controls

COLOR TOUCHVIEW™ GRAPHICAL DISPLAY

Use this display to interact with the instrument. To adjust the display brightness, keep the MENU button pressed, and turn the DIAL counter-clockwise to make the display darker, or clockwise to make it brighter.

Special Function Controls

Use the TRACK SELECT, SEARCH and SHIFT buttons to choose special functions.

STS Section

Use the STS (Single Touch Settings) buttons to assign Sounds to

the keyboard.

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STS 1-4 buttons

These buttons allow to select up to four Single Touch Settings

(abbreviated as STS). Each one of the Styles and SongBook

Entries includes four Single Touch Settings (STS), to automati-

cally configure Keyboard tracks and effects at the touch of a fin-

ger.

By keeping one of these buttons pressed for about one sec-

ond, the “Write Single Touch Setting” dialog box will appear.

Note: STS contained inside Factory Styles are usually write-pro-

tected (unless you uncheck the “Factory Style and Pad Protect”

option in the Global > Mode Preferences > Media page)

Player Controls

Pa300 is equipped with a Standard MIDI File and MP3 Player. Its

controls can be used in Song Play and Sequencer mode.

TRACK SELECT

Depending on the operating mode, this button switches between the various track views.

STYLE PLAY MODE

Toggles between Keyboard and Style tracks.

SONG PLAY MODE

Toggles between Keyboard tracks, Song tracks 18, and Song tracks 9-16.

SEQUENCER MODE

Toggles between Song tracks 1-8 and Song tracks 9-16.

Press this button to open the Search window, and look for a specified file or musical resource. The Search window appears slightly different depending on the current context.

SHIFT

With this button held down, pressing certain other buttons gives access to a second function. The list of shortcuts is in the Appendix.

<< and >>

Rewind and Fast Forward commands. If you use them while the

Song is in play, they make it scroll back or forward.

When pressed once, these buttons move the Song to the previous

or following measure (with a Standard MIDI File) or to the previ-

ous or next second (with an MP3 file). When kept pressed, they

make the Song scrolling continuously until released.

In Sequencer mode, if you set a “Start from” measure other than

1, when pressing the << button the Song will rewind up to that

measure instead of the first one (see page 124).

In Jukebox mode, keep the SHIFT button pressed, and press these buttons to scroll to the previous or next Song in the Jukebox list.

(HOME)

Sends the Song Position back to measure 1 (i.e., the beginning of the Song).

In Sequencer mode, if you set a “Start from” measure other than 1, the Song Position will go back to that measure (see page 124).

(START/STOP)

Starts the Song from the current Song Position, or stops it at the current Song Position.

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Lyrics, Score

Use this button to access the Lyrics and Score pages.

LYRICS/SCORE

When a Style is selected, this buttons recalls the Lyrics page, or exits from it.

When a Song is selected, it cycles through the Lyrics and Score pages. Press it a first time to see the Lyrics page, a second time to see the Score page. Press it again to return to the main page.

Data Entry and Navigation

The VALUE DIAL can be used to assign a different value to the parameter selected in the display, or to scroll a list of files in the Song Select, SongBook, Search and Media pages.

VALUE DIAL

Turn the dial clockwise to increase the value of the selected parameter. Turn it counter-clockwise to decrease its value.

When used while pressing the MENU button, this con-

trol always acts as a Display Brightness control.

EXIT

Use this button to perform various actions, leaving from the current status:

• exit the edit menu page, without selecting any item

• make the page menu disappear, without selecting any item

• return to the main page of the current operating mode

• exit the Global or Media edit environment, and return to the current page of the current operating mode

•exit from the SongBook mode

• exit from the Lyrics and Score pages

• exit from a Style, Pad, Performance or Sound Select window

This button opens the edit menu page for the current operating mode. After opening an edit menu, you can jump to one of the edit sections by touching the corresponding button in the display.

Otherwise, press EXIT to return to the main page of the current operating mode, or the current page of the underlying operating mode.

Tempo Section

The TEMPO and METRO buttons can be used to control the Te mp o .

TEMPO +/– buttons

TEMPO– decreases the speed of the Style or Song. TEMPO+ increases it.

Press both buttons together to reset the Tempo to the value memorized in the Style or Standard MIDI File. With MP3 files, the original speed of the file is recalled (value reset to “0”).

TEMPO LOCK

This button turns the Tempo Lock function on or off.

On When you select a different Style or Performance,

or select a different Song, the Tempo will not change. You can still manually change it, by using the TEMPO +/– buttons, or select the Tempo value and change it by using the VALUE dial.

Off When you select a different Style, or select a dif-

ferent Song, the memorized Tempo will be automatically selected.

Note: This button does not work with MP3 files.

You can jump to the Global > Lock page by keeping

SHIFT pressed and pressing this button.

METRO

Use this button to turn the Metronome click on or off. The metronome uses the same time signature as the latest selected Style or Standard MIDI File.

You can jump to the Global > General Controls > Basic

page by keeping SHIFT pressed, and pressing this button.

Split

Splitting the keyboard allows for separating the chords area from the melody.

SPLIT

In Style Play, Song Play and Sequencer-Backing Sequence mode, use this button to choose how the four Keyboard tracks are positioned on the keyboard, and how chords are recognized by the arranger.

Note: The ACCOMP LED must be turned on for the accompaniment to play.

On The Lower track plays below the split point, while

the Upper 1, Upper 2 and Upper 3 tracks play above it. This is called the Split keyboard mode.

By default, turning on the Split mode automatically selects the Lower chord scanning mode. In this mode, chords are detected below the split point. The number of notes you should play to form a chord is defined by the “Chord Recognition” parameter.

Off The Upper 1, Upper 2 and/or Upper 3 tracks play

over the whole keyboard range. The Lower track does not play. This is also called the Full keyboard mode.

By default, turning off the Split mode automatically selects the Full chord scanning mode. In this mode, chords are detected over the full keyboard

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range. You must always play three or more notes to let the arranger recognize a chord.

By keeping this button pressed for about one second, the Split Point window appears. When there, play the new split point on the keyboard.

Ensemble

The Ensemble function automatically harmonizes the melody played with the right hand.

ENSEMBLE

This button turns the Ensemble function on or off. When on, the right-hand melody is harmonized with the lefthand chords.

Note: The Ensemble function only works when the keyboard is in SPLIT mode.

You can jump to the Style Play > Keyboard/Ensemble page by keeping SHIFT pressed and pressing the ENSEMBLE button.

Performance Select Section

Transpose Section

Use these buttons to transpose the Sounds of the single tracks, or the instrument as a whole.

UPPER OCTAVE

Use these buttons to transpose the Upper tracks in steps of one whole octave (12 semitones; max ±3 octaves). The octave transposition value is always shown (in octaves) next to the Sound’s name.

Press both buttons together, to reset the Octave Transpose to the saved value.

– Lowers the selected track by one octave.

+ Raises the selected track by one octave.

You can jump to the Style Play > Tuning page by keeping SHIFT pressed and pressing one of the UPPER OCTAVE buttons. Hint: Go to the Tuning page to separately transpose each

track.

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Use these buttons to select a Performance. Performances memorize all Sounds assigned to the keyboard and most control panel settings.

MY SETTING

This is a special direct-access Performance, that is automatically selected when the instrument is turned on. When pressing this button, the Performance is immediately selected.

Keep this button pressed for about one second to save the

current settings into the My Setting Performance.

PERFORMANCE buttons

Use these buttons to open the Performance Select window, and select a Performance.Each Performance bank contains five pages, each with up to eight Performances. Repeatedly press a PERFORMANCE button to cycle between the available pages.

All Performances can be freely customized, by accessing the edit pages of the Style Play and Song Play modes by pressing the MENU button.

TRANSPOSE

These buttons transpose the whole instrument in steps of one semitone (Master Transpose). The transpose value is usually shown in the page header.

Press both buttons together, to reset the Master Transpose to zero.

Note: You can also transpose MP3 files. Keep in mind, however, that transposition always remains inside the range -5…+6 semitones. This range is enough to cover all keys, but allows to avoid excessive audio degradation. Any further transposing will be reversed to fit the range. So, you might see a +7 transpose value (Just Fifth Up) shown in the display, but the MP3 will actually play 5 semitones lower (Just Fourth Down).

♭ Lowers the Master Transpose in steps of one

semitone.

♯ Raises the Master Transpose in steps of one semi-

tone.

You can jump to the Global > Transpose Control page by keeping SHIFT pressed, and pressing one of the TRANSPOSE buttons.

By keeping one of these buttons pressed for about one sec-

ond, the “Write Performance” dialog box will appear.

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Power On/Off

POWER

Use this button to let the instrument exit (LED off) or enter (LED on) standby.

Press it briefly to let the instrument exit standby.

Keep it pressed for about one second to let it enter standby.

Wa r ni n g : When the instrument is in standby mode, it is still connected to the power line. Accessing the inside of the instrument can be dangerous. To completely disconnect the instrument from the power, unplug the power plug from the power socket on the wall.

Note: To avoid wasting power, Pa300 will by default automatically enter standby mode after two hours of non-active use (playing, pressing buttons or using the touch-screen). Please save your data (Performances, Styles, Songs, and so on) before taking a prolonged pause. You can change the auto power-off timer in Global > General Controls > Date & Power.

Overview

Rear Panel

Introduction

USB-HOST

This is a USB Type A (Master/Host) connector, USB 2.0 compliant (High Speed only – to connect older, slower USB devices, please use an USB hub). Use it to connect to the Pa300 an USB Flash Memory stick, an external CD-ROM drive, an USB hard disk. You can access the connected device in the Media mode.

USB-DEVICE

This is a USB Type B (Slave/Device) connector, USB 2.0 (High Speed). Use it to connect the Pa300 to a personal computer, and transfer data to/from its internal memory (Disk). You can enable USB connection in the “USB” page of the Media mode.

MIDI over USB is supported, so you can use this connector instead of the MIDI ports found on older devices. The drivers for PC and Mac, needed to make full use of this type of connection, are supplied in the Accessory Disc that comes with the instrument, or can be downloaded from our web site.

PEDAL/DAMPER

Use this port to connect a footswitch or Damper pedal, like the (optional) Korg PS1, PS3 or DS1H, or a continuous/expression pedal, like the (optional) Korg EXP2, XVP10. To program and calibrate it, or to change its polarity, go to the Controllers > Foot Controllers page of the Global mode.

When the Headphone option is assigned to the “Level” parameter, you can connect headphones. You can use headphones with an impedance of 16-200 Ohms (50 Ohms suggested).

When the Line Out option is assigned to the “Level” parameter, you can connect a line-level device to this connector. Use a stereo jack to send the final stereo mix to an external device. Connect the other end of the cable to a stereo channel of your mixer, two mono channels, two powered monitors, or the CD, LINE IN or TAPE/AUX input of your audio system. Don’t use the PHONO inputs of your audio system!

Adjust the output level with the MASTER VOLUME knob.

DC IN 15V power adapter connector

Plug the supplied power adapter into this connector. When the cable is connected, the instrument is in standby mode. To let it enter or exit standby, use the POWER switch located on the front panel.

Wa r n in g : When the instrument is in standby mode, it is still connected to the power line. Accessing the inside of the instrument can be dangerous. To completely disconnect the instrument from the power, unplug the power plug from the power socket on the wall.

Cable holder

Fix the power cable to this hook, to avoid cable jamming.

PHONES/AUDIO OUT

Use this connector to connect a pair of headphones, or to send the audio signal (sound) to a mixer, a PA system, a set of powered monitors, or your hi-fi system.

You can select the type of connection by using the “Level” parameter in the Global > Audio & EQ > MP3/Output page (see page 161).

Glossary of Terms

Sound

Glossary of Terms

Before you begin, take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the names and terms we will be using to talk about the various elements of the Pa300.

In this section, you will find a brief description of various key elements of the Pa300. A professional arranger (Pa) keyboard uses different terminology than a traditional synthesizer or workstation. By familiarizing yourself with the names and functions in this section, you will get a better understanding of how all the different parts of the Pa300 work together to create a realistic musical performance. This will also help you to get the most out of the rest of the manual.

Sound

A Sound is the most basic unit of an Arranger Keyboard performance. A Sound is basically a playable instrument timbre (piano, bass, sax, guitar…) that can be edited, saved, recalled and assigned to any track. In the Style Play, Song Play or Sequencer mode, Sounds may be freely assigned to Sequencer tracks, Style tracks, or Keyboard tracks.

Style

The Style is the heart of a professional arranger keyboard. At its basic level, a Style will consist of up to eight parts, or “Tracks”.

Variation

For each Style, there are four Variations, to be used for the Verse, Bridge and Chorus of a song. In general, each Variation is a slightly different version of the others. As you progress from Variation one to Variation four, the arrangements will become more complex, and more parts (Tracks) may be added. This allows your performance to have a more dynamic arrangement, without losing the original “feel” of the Style.

Fill-in & Break

During a performance, a drummer may often perform a “fill” such as when transitioning from a verse to a chorus – adding extra dynamics and keeping the beat from getting too repetitive. The Pa300 offers four Fill-ins specifically programmed for each Style, that may be automatically recalled when choosing the corresponding Variation (Auto Fill). A Fill-in may be drums alone or drums with instrumentation. Then, there is even a silent “break”.

Intro & Ending

Each Style also allows you to complete your performance with a set of musical introductions and endings. A long and short version of the Intro and Ending are usually provided, with the former more harmonically elaborated, and the latter with a fixed chord. A “count-in” Style Intro is also provided, as well as the quick Ending 3.

Drums

The Drum track will provide a repeating rhythmic phrase, played by the standard instruments of a Drum Kit.

Percussion

An additional rhythmic phrase played by various percussion instruments (conga, shaker, cowbell, etc.) is provided by the Percussion track.

Bass & Accompaniment

The Bass track and the (up to) five additional Accompaniment tracks will each play musical phrases that are musically related to and in sync with the Drum and Percussion tracks. However, the notes being played by these tracks will change to follow the chord progression that you play on the keyboard.

Again, any Sound you choose may be assigned to any track in a Style.

Pad

Pads are single sounds or single-track patterns, that can be triggered by using the dedicated PAD buttons. They can be used to play single sounds, as well as short, cycling sequences that play in time with the Style or Standard MIDI File, and are transposed according to the recognized chords.

Keyboard tracks

Up to four parts can be played on the keyboard in real-time. Three of them (Upper) can be layered and played over the full keyboard. They can also be used to created particular sound configurations: each of these Keyboard tracks can be limited to a particular range of keys or velocities, but in general up to three can be assigned to play above the split point (Upper), and one below (Lower). This allows the Upper Sounds to be layered together. The split point can be set to any note on the keyboard. In addition to performing along with a Style, these same Keyboard tracks will allow you to play along with the Player.

Glossary of Terms

Performance and STS

Ensemble

By turning the Ensemble feature on, a single note played on one of the Keyboard tracks will be embellished by additional notes to create a complete chord voicing. The Ensemble knows which notes to add by looking at the chord that you are playing. In addition, the Ensemble parameters allow you to select the type of voicing that will be added – from a simple one-note harmony to a full “Brass” section – even a marimba-style trill!

Performance and STS

The Performance is the most encompassing setting on the Pa300 – a single setting that can remember the Keyboard tracks (with all the appropriate sounds) and all their transposition, effects, etc… A Performance can be stored in one of the Performance bank locations.

Single Touch Settings (STS) are similar to Performances, but are associated to a Style or SongBook Entry.

The LOGO decoder

On the front panel of your Pa300 you have probably noticed a series of logos, and may have even wondered what they stand for. Well, here is a quick explanation of each one.

General MIDI (GM) is a standard that ensures the compatibility of sounds and messages between GM compatible instruments available

from different manufacturers. For example, sequenced songs created on any GM equipped product and saved in the GM format will playback correctly on the Pa300.

General MIDI 2 extends the basic features of the General MIDI, allowing for 256 Sounds and 9 Drum Kits (instead of 128 and 1).

RX Technology is the cutting edge engine that drives every aspect of the Pa300 – from the synthesis to the display and how it all works together.

Introduction

Sequencer

The Sequencer acts as a recorder, so you can capture and playback your performances. The Pa300 sequencer can function in different modes. In the Backing Sequence mode, each Style element and each Keyboard and Pads element can be recorded on a separate track in a single pass. This can be a big help in getting a song recorded quickly. The sequencer can also behave as a traditional 16-track linear sequencer, where each track is recorded individually one at a time.

Player

The Player lets you playback your performances or any Standard MIDI File or MP3 file.

TouchView is the sophisticate technology allowing for touching the objects in the

display, instead of pointing to them through an external device (a mouse, a series of buttons). Go straight to the musical elements, instead of catching keys somewhere on the control panel.

Interface basics

Color TouchView graphical user interface

Interface basics

Color TouchView graphical user interface

Pa300 features our exclusive easy-to-use TouchView graphic interface, based on a touch‐panel LCD screen. By touching items on the LCD screen, you can select pages, tabs, and parameters, and set parameter values via on‐screen menus and buttons. Here are the basic elements of the user interface.

Menus and sections

Pages are grouped in sections, to be selected by touching the corresponding buttons in the Edit menu that opens up when you press the MENU button.

Overlapping windows

Several windows, like the Style Select or Pad Select, the Global, the Media, or the Lyrics, overlap the current window. After you select an item in the window, or press the EXIT button, the window closes, and the underlying page is shown again. (The following example is the Sound Select window).

Pages

Parameters are grouped into separate pages, to be selected by touching the corresponding tabs on the lower area of the display.

Dialog boxes

Similar to selecting windows, dialog boxes overlap the underlaying page. Touch one of the button on the display to give Pa300 an answer, and the dialog box will close.

Page menus

Touch the icon on the upper right corner of each page, and a menu with suitable commands for the current page will appear. Touch one of the available commands to select it. (Or, touch anywhere else on the screen to make it disappear, with no command selected).

Interface basics

Color TouchView graphical user interface

= On

= Off

List

Scrollbar

Pop-up menus

When an arrow appears next to a parameter name, touch it to open a pop-up menu. Select any of the available options (or anywhere else on the screen to make the menu disappear).

Checkboxes

This kind of parameters are on/off switches. Touch them to change their status.

Editable names

When the (Text Edit) button appears next to a name, touch it to open the Text Edit window and edit the name.

Introduction

The virtual keyboard works exactly as a personal computer’s keyboard. Some of the symbols are context-sensitive, and only appear when they can actually be used.

Lists and scrollbars

Numeric fields

When a numeric value can be edited, touch it a second time to open the Numeric Keypad.

The virtual numeric keypad works exactly as the numeric keypad of a personal computer.

As an alternative, touch a numeric field and keep it held. Then move your fingers up (or right) to increase the value, or move it down (or left) to decrease it.

Files on storage media, as well as other kinds of data, are shown as lists. Use the scrollbar to scroll the list content. Also, you can use the VALUE DIAL to scroll.

When the Name label is selected, keep the SHIFT button pressed while touching one of the arrows on the scrollbar, to scroll to the next or previous alphabetic section.

Virtual sliders

To change a virtual slider’s position, select it, then use the VALUE dial to change its position. As an alternative, touch a slider with your fingers and keep it held; then move it up or down to change its position.

This also includes the Tempo numeric field in the main page of the Style Play, Song Play, and Sequencer modes.

Interface basics

Operative modes

Virtual knobs

To change a virtual knob’s position, select it, then use the VALUE dial to change its position. As an alternative, touch a knob with your finger and keep it held; then move your fingers up (or right) to rotate it clockwise, or move it down (or left) to rotate the knob counter-clockwise.

Operative modes

The pages of Pa300 are grouped in various operating modes. Each mode is accessed by pressing the corresponding button in the MODE section on the control panel.

Each operating mode is marked with a different color code, that helps you understand at first sight where you are.

Two special modes (Global and Media) overlap the current operating mode, that remains active in the background.

The Song Record mode can be accessed from the Sequencer mode, and allows for creating new Songs.

Icons

Various icons help identifying the type of a file, a Song, a folder. For example:

Folder

File of Style bank

Standard MIDI File

Selected, highlighted items

Any operation on parameters, data or list entries, is executed on highlighted items. First select the parameter or item, then execute the operation.

Non-available, grayed-out parameters

When a parameter or command is not currently available, it is shown in grey on the display. This means it cannot be selected, but may become available when a different option is selected, or you switch to a different page.

Shortcuts

Some commands or pages can be recalled by keeping the SHIFT button pressed, and pressing other buttons or elements in the display. Some others can be accessed by keeping a button pressed for more than one second. See the “Shortcuts” chapter on page “Shortcuts” on page 364 for a list of available shortcuts.

Easy Mode

The page menu

If you have never used an arranger before, we suggest you to switch to the Easy Mode. Easy Mode allows you to play Styles and Songs with a simple user interface, free from the many advanced parameters that you will want to learn later.

Turning the Easy Mode on

Touch the little rectangle on the top right corner of the display, to open the page menu:

Touch the “Easy Mode” menu item, to make the checkmark appear:

Introduction

At this point, the Easy Mode has been activated, and the elements in the display appear less crowded:

Turning the Easy Mode off

Reverse the above operation when you want to deactivate the Easy Mode.

Easy Mode

The Style Play page in detail

Sound icon and status. If the

icon appears, the Sound is in mute and cannot be heard. If the icon does not appear, the Sound is in play and can be heard. See page 35

Sounds assigned to the right hand (UP1 to UP3) and to the left hand (LOW). Touch the Sound’s name to open the Sound Select window and choose a different Sound.

Style name and info. Touch the Style’s name to

open the Style Select window and choose a

different Style.

Tempo. Use the

TEMPO buttons to

change it.

Length of the accompaniment pat-

tern, and current beat.

Performance or STS. Touch it to open

the Performance Select window and

choose a different Performance.

Sounds on the keyboard will change.

Single Touch Settings (STS). Touch one of them to choose it, or use the dedicated buttons on

the control panel. Sounds on the keyboard will change.

Split Point. Touch here and play a note to set the new split point.

See page 39

Effects. Touch here and choose the effects assigned to the various tracks.

Mixer. Touch here, and mix the track’s

volume and pan.

The Style Play page in detail

To see this page, press the STYLE PLAY button.

Notes:

• There are three Sounds for the right hand (Upper 1, Upper 2, Upper 3), and a single Sound for the left hand (Lower). Their names are abbreviated as UP1, UP2, UP3, LOW, and are shown on the right side of the display.

• Right hand (Upper) and left hand (Lower) Sounds are separated by the Split Point.

• Performances and STSs are collections of Sounds. Just choose one of them to change all the keyboard’s Sounds.

• Choose a Style to change the musical style of the accompaniment patterns.

Easy Mode

The Song Play page in detail

Sound icon and status. If the

icon appears, the Sound is in mute and cannot be heard. If the icon does not appear, the Sound is in play and can be heard. See page 35

Sounds assigned to the right hand (UP1 to UP3) and to the left hand (LOW). Touch the Sound’s name to open the Sound Select window and choose a different Sound.

Song assigned to the Player. Touch it to open the

Song Select window and choose a different Song.

Tempo. Use the

TEMPO buttons to

change it.

Meter (or Time Signature) and

current beat.

Performance or STS. Touch it to open

the Performance Select window and

choose a different Performance.

Sounds on the keyboard will change.

Single Touch Settings (STS). Touch one of them to choose it, or use the dedicated buttons on

the control panel. Sounds on the keyboard will change.

Split Point. Touch here and play a note to set the new split point.

See page 39

Effects. Touch here and choose the effects assigned to the various tracks.

Mixer. Touch here, and mix the track’s

volume and pan.

Current measure.

To see this page, press the SONG PLAY button.

Introduction

Notes:

• As in Style Play mode, there are three Sounds for the right hand (Upper 1, Upper 2, Upper 3), and one Sound for the left hand (Lower). Their names are abbreviated as UP1, UP2, UP3, LOW, and are shown in the right side of the display.

• Right hand (Upper) and left hand (Lower) Sounds are separated by the Split Point.

• Performances and STSs are collections of Sounds. Just choose one of them to change all the keyboard’s Sounds.

• Available STSs depend on the Style or SongBook Entry you last selected.

• Touching a Song name in the display is the same as pressing the SONG button in the SELECTION section of the control panel.

Easy Mode

The Song Play page in detail

Turning the instrument on

Turning the instrument on and viewing the main screen

Power buttonDisplay

Turning the instrument on

First of all, turn the instrument on and familiarize with the main screen. You can also listen to the demos.

Turning the instrument on and viewing the main screen

1 Turn Pa300 on (exit from standby) by pressing the POWER button located in the control

panel.

After you turn the instrument on, a welcome screen is shown for some seconds, then the main display appears.

2 When you want to put Pa300 to standby, keep the POWER button pressed for about

one second, and release it when the screen appears dimmed.

After having pressed the POWER button, the display brightness will be dimmed. At this point, the shutdown procedure will begin and last for a few seconds. Please do not disconnect the power cable during this procedure.

Connecting and calibrating the Damper pedal

Programming the Damper pedal

Connecting and calibrating the Damper pedal

Damper/Assignable pedal connector

Menu of the Global mode

If you want to play Piano, you will want to connect a Damper pedal to sustain notes while playing. You can connect a Korg PS1, PS3 or DS1H to the PEDAL/DAMPER connector on the back of the instrument.

Programming the Damper pedal

Calibrating the Damper pedal will let you use the full run of the pedal, without “dead spots”. Also, this might be the only way to connect a third-party Damper pedal that seems to work in reverse, sustaining the notes when they are not pressed!

1 Connect the Damper pedal to the PEDAL/DAMPER connector on the back of the instru-

ment.

2 Press the GLOBAL button to access the Global mode.

Global mode is where you can set some global parameters, like this one or the Master Tuning. These settings are not tied to any specific operative mode, so they are programmed in these separate pages.

3 Touch the Controllers button to access the Controllers section of the Global mode.

If you have not yet chosen a different page, the “Hand Controller” page will appear (being the first one in the Controllers section).

Quick Guide

Connecting and calibrating the Damper pedal

Programming the Damper pedal

4 Touch the Foot Contr. tab to select the “Foot Controllers” page.

This is the page where you can program the PEDAL/DAMPER connector, by assigning it one of the available functions.

5 Be sure the Damper function is assigned to the “Function” parameter.

6 Touch the “Calibration” button, to make the “Damper & Pedal/Footswitch Calibration”

dialog box appear.

7 Fully press the Damper pedal down, and while continuing to press touch the “Push”

button to confirm the maximum value.

8 When the following dialog box appears, release the pedal.

9 Touch the “Push” button in the display to confirm the minimum value.

Check if the pedal is working properly. In case it isn’t, repeat the procedure.

10 Press the EXIT button to return to the previous operative mode.

Playing the Demo

Starting and stopping the Demo

Playing the Demo

Demo buttons

Listen to the built-in Demo Songs to appreciate the power of Pa300. There are several Demo Songs to choose from.

Starting and stopping the Demo

Here is how to start, choose and stop the Demo Songs.

1 Press the STYLE PLAY and SONG PLAY buttons together.

The LED of the two buttons will start blinking. Pa300 will be set in Demo mode.

At this point, if no other button is pressed, a selection of the best Demo Songs will be played back.

Quick Guide

2 In case you want to listen to a specified Demo Song, select one of the available options

on the display (Full Songs, Solo Instruments, Styles).

Playing the Demo

Starting and stopping the Demo

3 Choose one of the Demo. To stop it, touch the STOP button on the display.

4 Exit from the Demo mode by pressing any one of the MODE buttons.

Playing Sounds

Selecting a Sound and playing it on the keyboard

Playing Sounds

Performance section

Split button

Sound Select button

A selected track is shown with a white background. In this example, the Upper 1 track is selected. If it is not selected, touch it once to

select it.

The fact that there isn’t a icon over the bank icon means that the Upper 1 track is set to play. If it is muted, touch the

bank icon to set it to play.

You can play up to three sounds at the same time on the keyboard. You can also split the keyboard in two parts, to play up to three sounds with your right hand (Upper) and one with your left hand (Lower).

Selecting a Sound and playing it on the keyboard

1 Be sure the Upper 1 track is selected and set to play.

2 If you want to play the Sound on the whole keyboard, be sure the keyboard is in Full

Upper mode (i.e., the SPLIT LED is turned off). If it is split in two parts, press the SPLIT button to turn its LED off.

Note: Be sure tracks Upper 2 and Upper 3 are muted and are not playing. If you hear more than one sound, see also page 35 for how to mute tracks.

Quick Guide

(Full) Upper

Playing Sounds

Selecting a Sound and playing it on the keyboard

The selected Sound is highlighted.

Touch a Sound’s name to select it.

Touch one of the side tabs to select a

different Sound bank.

Touch one of the lower tabs to select

a different Sound page.

A Previous and Next Page pair of button may appear in this area, when more than six pages are available. As an alternative, repeatedly press the SOUND button to cycle between the pages.

The currently selected Sound appears in the page header.

Target track for the selected Sound

Sound bank icon

Sound’s name

Type of Sounds.

The Sound Select win-

dow closes, and the

main screen appears

again, with the selected

Sound assigned to the

Upper 1 track.

3 Touch the Upper 1 track’s area in the display to open the Sound Select window.

Note: You can also open the Sound Select window by first touching the track to which to assign the new Sound, then pressing the SOUND button in the SELECTION section.

4 Select a Sound from the Sound Select window, then press the EXIT button to close the

window.

5 Play the Sound on the keyboard.

Note: Selection windows may automatically close after a selection. To do this, uncheck the “Display Hold” box in the Global > General Controls > Interface page. In this case, press the EXIT button only if you don’t make any selection but want to close the window.

Playing Sounds

Playing two or three Sounds at the same time

Please note how the icon appears in the Upper 2 and Upper 3 status boxes. These tracks will not be heard.

After touching in this area, the icon disappears. The Upper 2 track will be set to play and will be heard.

Note how the ‘Dark Pad’ Sound (assigned to the Upper 2 track) has been layered with the ‘Grand Piano RX’ (assigned to the Upper 1 track).

As above, after touching in this area, the

icon disappears. The Upper 3 track will be set to play and will be heard.

Note how the ‘Strings Ens.2 GM’ Sound (assigned to the Upper 3 track) has been added to the ‘Dark Pad’ (assigned to the Upper 2 track) and the ‘Grand Piano RX’ (assigned to the Upper 1 track).

You can layer all three Upper tracks and play them on the keyboard.

1 Touch the icon in the Upper 2 status box, to set the Upper 2 track to play.

2 Play the keyboard.

3 Touch the icon in the Upper 3 status box, to set the Upper 3 track to play.

4 Play the keyboard.

Quick Guide

5 Touch the bank icon in the Upper 3 status box, to mute the Upper 3 track again.

Playing Sounds

Playing two or three Sounds at the same time

Note how the ‘Strings Ens.2 GM’ Sound (assigned to the Upper 3 track) has been muted again. Only tracks Upper 1 and Upper 2 can be heard at this time.

Note how the ‘Dark Pad’ Sound (assigned to the Upper 2 track) has been muted again. Only track Upper 1 can be heard at this time.

6 Play the keyboard.

7 Touch the bank icon in the Upper 2 status box, to mute the Upper 2 track again.

8 Play the keyboard.

Playing Sounds

Playing different Sounds with your left and right hand

Lower

Upper

If the Lower track is muted, touch its icon to make it disappear from this area.

If the Bass & Lower Backing function is turned on, and the Style is not running, the Lower track will always play.

Note how the keyboard is split in two parts, each playing different sounds.

Lower Upper

You can play a single Sound with your left hand, in addition to playing up to three Sounds with your right hand.

1 Press the SPLIT button to turn its LED on, and split the keyboard in the Lower (left

hand) and Upper (right hand) parts.

2 Be sure the Lower track is set to play.

3 Play the keyboard.

Quick Guide

Playing Sounds

Playing different Sounds with your left and right hand

(Full) Upper

Note how the keyboard once again plays the Upper tracks over the entire length of the keyboard.

Upper

4 Return to the full keyboard playing mode by pressing the SPLIT button to turn its LED

off.

5 Play the keyboard.

Playing Sounds

Changing the split point

If you are not comfortable with the selected split point, you may set the split point to a different key.

1 Touch the Split tab to see the Split Point panel.

2 Touch the keyboard in the display, then play the lowest note of the Upper section on

the keyboard.

Upper

Lower

3 As an alternative, touch the Split Point parameter to select it, and use the VALUE dial to

select the new split point.

Hint: As an alternative, keep the SPLIT button pressed to open the Split Point dialog.

Quick Guide

When you change the split point, the “Global” parameter is automatically unchecked. This is because you are setting a “local” or “temporary” split point, and not the “global” one, used across the whole instrument.

To change the “global” split point, go to the Global > Mode Preferences > Style page, and set the “Split Point” parameter.

You can save the “local” split point into a Performance, as described in the following pages (see “Saving your settings to a Performance” on page 42).

Playing Sounds

Raising or lowering the Upper octave

Each time you press this button, the pitch will be lowered by one octave.

Each time you press this button, the pitch will be raised by one octave.

Raising or lowering the Upper octave

If all Upper tracks sound too high or too low, you can quickly change which octave they are playing in.

1 Use the UPPER OCTAVE buttons on the control panel, to transpose all Upper tracks at

the same time.

2 Press both UPPER OCTAVE buttons together to reset the octave to the value saved in

the current Performance.

Note: The Octave Transpose value for each of the keyboard track is shown under the Sound’s name.

Selecting and saving Performances

Selecting a Performance

Selecting and saving Performances

Performance sectionSingle Touch Settings (STS) section

The selected Performance is high-

lighted. Touch a Performance name

to select it.

Touch one of the side tabs to select a

different Performance bank.

Touch one of the lower tabs to select a different Performance page.

Performances are the musical heart of Pa300. Unlike selecting single Sounds, selecting a Performance will immediately assign several Sounds to the Keyboard tracks, the needed effects and transpositions, plus many more setting parameters. Performance can be considered a snapshot of the current configuration of Sounds.

You can save these settings to a Performance memory location. While many Performances are already supplied with the instrument, you can customize each of them to your own taste, and then save them in their customized version.

Similar to Performances, but optimized for the Style or SongBook Entry they are associated to, you can also save your settings to a Single Touch Setting (STS). Four STSs are supplied with each Style or SongBook Entry, and can be selected with the four dedicated buttons under the display.

Please note that settings saved in the “My Setting” Performance are automatically selected when the instrument is turned on (exit from standby). This means you can save your preferred startup settings to this Performance (see below for more information).

Note: Style tracks are saved to a third object called the Style Settings.

Selecting a Performance

1 Touch the Performance area in the display, to open the Performance Select window.

Hint: You can also open the Performance Select window by pressing one of the buttons in the PERFORMANCE section. This will let you jump directly to the desired Performance bank.

Quick Guide

Selecting and saving Performances

Saving your settings to a Performance

After pressing the EXIT button, the Performance Select window closes, and the

main screen appears again. Sounds, Effects, and other settings, change accord-

ing to the setting memorized in the selected Performance.

Settings memorized in the selected Performance have been selected. Sounds, effects and other settings have been recalled.

2 Select one of the Performances in the Performance Select window, then press the EXIT

button to close the window.

Note that Selection windows may automatically close after a selection. To do this, uncheck the “Display Hold” box in the Global > General Controls > Interface page. In this case, press the EXIT button only if you don’t make any selection but want to close the window.

3 Play the keyboard.

Saving your settings to a Performance

The Sounds and Effects assigned to the Keyboard tracks, together with the parameters you can access by pressing the MENU button while in Style Play and Song Play mode, can be saved into a single Performance, to be quickly recalled at a later time.

1 Keep one of the PERFORMANCE buttons pressed for about one second to open the

Write Performance dialog box.

Hint: To open the Write Performance dialog box, you can also choose the ‘Write Performance’ command you can find in the page menu.

Selecting and saving Performances

Saving your settings to a Performance

2 If you like, you may assign a new name to the Performance.

Touch the (Text Edit) symbol to open the

Text Edit dialog box.

Use the alphabetic characters to enter text.

Use the ‘<–’ and ‘–>’

buttons or the DIAL to

move the cursor.

Touch the Shift key to

switch between capitals

and small characters.

Touch the ‘Backspace’ symbol to delete just a single character, ‘Clear’ to delete the whole string.

When done, touch OK to confirm the new name, or Cancel to abandon all changes.

The selected Performance location is highlighted. Touch a Performance’s name to select it.

Touch one of the side tabs to select a different Performance bank.

Touch one of the lower tabs to select a different Performance page.

3 Select a bank and Performance location in memory, where you would like to save the

Performance.

4 When you have edited the name to the Performance, and selected the target location,

touch OK to save the Performance to memory (or Cancel to stop the operation).

Quick Guide

Warn in g: Saving a Performance to an already used location overwrites any existing data at that location. The old data are lost. Make a backup of all your important data.

Selecting and saving the “My Setting” Performance

Selecting the startup parameters (the “My Setting” Performance)

‘My Setting’ Performance

Selecting and saving the “My Setting” Performance

There is a special Performance, where you can save your preferred settings for things like Keyboard Sounds, Effects, Transposition. It also memorizes a preferred Style (that is only recalled when turning the instrument on). This Performance is automatically selected when the instrument is turned on (exit from standby). It is called the “My Setting” Performance.

Selecting the startup parameters (the “My Setting” Performance)

After having done some changes to the Sounds, transposition, or other parameters, you can return to the startup situation by pressing the MY SETTING button in the control panel.

• Press the MY SETTING button to recall the “startup” settings.

Saving the startup parameters into the “My Setting” Performance

You can save the startup settings (Sounds and other settings, including most of the settings on the control panel and the selected Style) into this special Performance.

• Keep the MY SETTING button pressed for about one second, until the “Write Startup

Settings” dialog box appears, then touch the OK button to confirm saving to memory.

Selecting and playing Styles

Selecting and playing a Style

Selecting and playing Styles

Style Select button

Style Controls

Style Elements

The selected Style is highlighted.

Touch a Style’s name to select it.

Touch one of the side tabs to select a

different Style bank.

Touch one of the lower tabs to select

a different Style page.

Type of Style.

Pa300 is an arranger, i.e. a musical instrument providing automatic accompaniments, or arrangements. Each arrangement style is called, as a consequence, a Style.

A Style is made of several Style Elements (Intro, Variation, Fill, Break, Ending), corresponding to the various sections of a song. By selecting Style Elements, you can make your playing more varied and musical.

When selecting a Style, Sounds, Effects and various configuration parameters for the Style tracks are also selected. These are called the Style Settings. Four STSs are assigned to the STS buttons. Selecting a Style also selects the four Pads it contains. Pads are single sounds or single-track patterns, that can be triggered with the dedicated PAD buttons.

Use the Style controls to start or stop the Style.

Selecting and playing a Style

1 Touch the Style area in the display. The Style Select window appears.

Hint: You can also open the Style Select window by pressing the STYLE button in the SELECTION section of the control panel.

Quick Guide

Selecting and playing Styles

Selecting and playing a Style

After pressing the EXIT button, the Style Select window

closes, and the main screen appears again, with the selected

Style ready to go.

For the accompaniment tracks to play, the LED of this button (meaning “Accompaniment”) must be turned on.

START LED

STOP LED

When the Syncho-Start function is turned on, the Style starts playing as soon as you play a note or chord in the chord scan area. Play chords with your left hand, and the melody with your right hand. The arranger will follow your playing.

2 Select a Style from the Style Select window.

3 Be sure the ACCOMP. LED is turned on.

4 Press the SYNCHRO-START/STOP button to turn the START LED on.

This will turn the Synchro-Start function on, and let the accompaniment start as soon as you play a chord on the keyboard.

5 Play the keyboard.

6 Press START/STOP to stop the Style.

Note: You could simply press START/STOP to start the Style, but the Synchro-Start function allows you to make the Style start in sync with your playing on the keyboard. Therefore, it may be considered a “more musical” way of starting a Style.

Note: The chord scan area depends on the status of the SPLIT LED and the Chord Recognition parameter (see Global > Mode Preferences > Style).

Selecting and playing Styles

Tempo

Te mp o

While a Tempo setting is saved with each Style or Performance, you can change it to be whatever you like. You can use either of the following two methods.

• Use the TEMPO + or – buttons to change the Tempo value.

• Press the TEMPO – and + buttons together to recall the saved Tempo value.

Hint: As an alternative to using the TEMPO buttons, hold the Tempo value in the display, then move your finger up/down or left/right (or change the value with the VALUE dia l).

• As an alternative, keep the SHIFT button pressed, and use the VALUE dial to change the

Tempo. The selected tempo will be shown in a small window.

• If you like to keep the currently selected Tempo value unchanged, turn on the LED of

the TEMPO (LOCK) button.

When the Tempo Lock function is turned on, the Tempo will not change when selecting a different Style (or a different Song in Song Play mode).

Quick Guide

Selecting and playing Styles

Intro, Variation, Fill, Break, Ending

The Style starts with the selected Intro. When the Intro is completed, the basic pattern (selected Variation) starts to play.

When the Fill ends, the selected Variation will start playing.

Intro, Variation, Fill, Break, Ending

When playing Styles, you can select various “Style Elements” to cover the various sections of a song. A Style is made of three Intros (or two Intros and a Count-In), up to four basic patterns (Variations), four Fills, a Break, and three Endings.

1 Make sure the SYNCHRO-START LED is turned on (otherwise, press the button to turn it on).

Activating the Synchro Start function is not mandatory, but it might be handy.

2 Press one of the INTRO buttons to set the corresponding Intro to play.

3 Play the keyboard.

4 Be sure the LED of the AUTO FILL button is turned on.

When the Auto Fill function is turned on, a Fill is automatically performed before switching to a different variation.

5 While playing, press one of the VARIATION buttons, to select a different variation of

the basic pattern.

If you turned the Auto Fill function on in the previous step, a Fill will be performed before the Variation begins.

Selecting and playing Styles

Single Touch Settings (STS)

6 When you like to stop playing, press one of the ENDING buttons to stop the Style with

When the Ending is finished, the Style automatically stops.

Settings memorized in the selected STS have been selected. Sounds, effects and other settings have been recalled.

an Ending.

Single Touch Settings (STS)

Each Style may come with up to four Keyboard track settings, called the STS (short for “Single Touch Settings”). STSs are very similar to Performances, but they are fine-tuned to the Style they are associated to.

1 In case it is not shown, touch the STS Name tab to see the STS Name panel.

2 Press one of the four STS buttons under the display, or touch the name of an STS in the

STS panel in the display.

Note: You can also find four STSs with each of the SongBook Entries. This allows for linking STSs to Songs.

Quick Guide

3 Play the keyboard.

4 Try all the other STSs, and see how settings change with each of them.

Selecting and playing Styles

The Pads

Each Style or SongBook Entry can assign different sounds or patterns to the four PADS. These sounds or patterns can be played along with the Keyboard and Style tracks.

1 If you want to see which sounds or patterns are associated to the four Pads for the cur-

rent Style, touch the Pad tab to see the Pad panel.

2 Press one of the four PADS to play the corresponding Pad.

Hint: You c a n open t h e Pad Select window to assign a different sound or pattern to the Pads, by pressing SHIFT + one of the PADs.

3 If the selected PAD triggers an endless pattern (i.e. a guitar arpeggio), press the same

PAD button again to stop it.

4 Select a different Style, and see how the sounds or patterns assigned to the PADS

change.

5 Press more PAD buttons at once, to play two or more sounds or patterns at the same

time.

6 Press STOP to stop all the Pads at the same time.

Adjusting the balance between the Style and the keyboard

Balancing between the Keyboard and Style tracks may be useful, to gently fade them and adjust their respective volume.

• While the Style is playing, use the BALANCE knob to balance between the Keyboard

(KBD) and Style’s Accompaniment (ACC) volume.

This knob also balances between the Keyboard and the Pad tracks. Also, it balances between the Keyboard and the Song tracks (in Song Play mode).

Selecting and playing Styles

Adjusting the volume of the separate tracks

In Style view, all separate

Style tracks are shown, and

their volume can be

adjusted by dragging the

corresponding sliders.

You can adjust the volume of each of the Style and Keyboard tracks, for example to soften the bass a little, or to make the keyboard solo louder.

1 Touch the Volume tab to see the Volume panel.

2 Hold & drag the Virtual Sliders in the display to adjust each Keyboard track’s volume.

3 To separately adjust each Style track, press the TRACK SELECT button to change the

track’s view.

Quick Guide

Hint: As an alternative, you can change each track’s volume, by touching a track’s area to select it, then using the VALUE dial to change the volume.

4 To return to the Keyboard Tracks view, press the TRACK SELECT button again.

Selecting and playing Styles

Turning the Style tracks on/off

Mute the ACCOMP track. All accompaniment tracks will

go silent (apart from Drum, Percussion and Bass).

Set the ACCOMP track to Play. All accompaniment

tracks will return to their original volumes.

Turning the Style tracks on/off

You may easily turn on or off any Style track while you are playing. For example, try muting all accompaniment tracks, while drums and bass continue to play.

1 Be sure the Volume panel is shown, or touch the Volume tab to show it.

Note: While in the Normal view of the Style Play mode, you can see Style tracks grouped in just three “grouped” tracks. To see each Style track as separate, individual tracks, just press the TRACK SELECT button.

2 While the Style is playing, touch the Play button to set the track to Mute.

3 To set the tracks back to the Play status, touch the Mute icon on the muted track.

4 To mute/unmute each single Style track, first press TRACK SELECT to switch to the Style

Tracks view, then repeat the above procedure.

Hint: To turn all Accompaniment tracks (including the Bass track) off while you are not in the Main page, press the ACCOMP button on the control panel to turn its LED off.

5 Press the TRACK SELECT button again to go back to the Normal view.

Selecting and playing Styles

Adding harmony notes to your right-hand melody with the ENSEMBLE function

Adding harmony notes to your right-hand melody with the

Notice how the right hand is automatically harmonized, according to the chords composed with your left hand.

While the Ensemble parameter is selected, use the VALUE dial to select one of the available harmonization types.

ENSEMBLE function

Chords played with your left hand may be applied to the right-hand melody.

1 Press the SPLIT button to turn its LED on and split the keyboard.

The Ensemble function only works in Split mode.

2 Press the ENSEMBLE button to turn its LED on.

3 Play chords with the left hand and single notes in the right hand.

4 To select a different harmonization style, keep the SHIFT button pressed, and press the

ENSEMBLE button to open the Ensemble page.

This is a fast ‘shortcut’ to recall this page. The longer procedure would have consisted in accessing the Edit mode by pressing the MENU button, touching the Keyboard/Ensemble section, and then going to the Ensemble page.

Quick Guide

Selecting and playing Styles

Adding harmony notes to your right-hand melody with the ENSEMBLE function

While in an Edit page, press EXIT to go back to the Main page of the current operating mode.

5 When the right harmonization type has been selected, press the EXIT button to go

back to the main page.

6 Press the ENSEMBLE button again to turn its LED off. The automatic harmonization will

be turned off.

Song Play

Selecting a Song to play

Song Play

Player controls

The SONG PLAY button

The Song area of the

Style Play main page.

After pressing the SONG PLAY but-

ton, the main page of the Song

Play mode appears.

Pa300 is equipped with an onboard Player that can read Songs in Standard MIDI File (MID), Karaoke™ (KAR) and MP3 format. It may be of great interest to singers and guitar players to know that if a Standard MIDI File or an MP3 file contains lyrics and chords, they can be seen in the display. Lyrics in the graphical “+G” format are also supported.

In addition to lyrics and chords, with Standard MIDI Files and Karaoke files you can also see the score in traditional notation.

Selecting a Song to play

1 Press the SONG PLAY button to switch to the Song Play mode.

Hint: In Style Play mode, you can pre-select the Song to be assigned to the Player. This way, you will be ready to start it, as soon as you switch to Song Play mode.

Quick Guide

Song Play

Selecting a Song to play

The selected Song is high-

lighted. Touch a Song’s

name to select it.

Use the scroll bar or the VALUE DIAL to see all the Songs in the list. Keep SHIFT pressed and touch the Up/ Down arrow to jump to the next/ previous alphabetic section.

Use the Open and Close buttons to browse through the folders.

Use the Device pop-up menu to select

one of the available mass-storage devices.

Use the Locate button to ‘locate’ and go to the folder of the selected Song.

Touch the Select button to select the highlighted Song, and assign it to the Player.

After touching the Select button in the display, the main page of the Song Play mode will appear again.

Selected Song

2 Touch the Player area to open the Song Select window.

This window is very similar to the one you can see when pressing the MEDIA button on the control panel, and touching the Load tab to see the Load page. This page is, however, “filtered” to only show Song files.

3 Scroll through the list and select the Song to play.

Hint: As an alternative, you can open the Song Select window by pressing the SONG button in the SELECTION section of the control panel.

4 When the Song is selected, touch the Select button to confirm your selection; this will

automatically close the Song Select window.

Song Play

Playing back a Song

After pressing the (START/STOP) button, the button’s LED turns on, and the measure counter begins to show the current measure number.

Press the REWIND button once to go

back. Keep it pressed to go back more.

Press the FAST FORWARD button once to go for-

ward. Keep it pressed to go forward more.

Press the START/STOP button to stop the Song at the current position. Press it again to resume playback.

Press the HOME button to move to the beginning of the Song.

When the Song is stopped, the LED on the START/STOP button turns off.

Once a Song has been selected, it may be played back by the Player.

1 Press the (START/STOP) button in the PLAYER section to start playback.

2 Use the PLAYER control section to control the Song’s playback.

3 When you want to stop the song and go back to the beginning, press the (HOME)

button.

Quick Guide

Note: In any case, the Player will automatically stop when the end of the Song is reached.

Song Play

Changing the tracks’ volume

Use the TRACK

SELECT button to

cycle between differ-

ent groups of tracks

Keyboard tracks

Changing the tracks’ volume

While playing back a Standard MIDI File, you may wish to change each track’s volume, to create a mix “on the f l y ”.

1 Be sure the Volume panel is shown, or touch the Volume tab to show it.

2 As seen for the Styles, you can hold & drag the Virtual Sliders on the display to adjust

each track’s volume. Use the TRACK SELECT button to cycle between track groups.

3 In Normal view, you can adjust each Keyboard track’s volume.

Hint: As an alternative, you can change each track’s volume, by touching a track’s area to select it, then using the VALUE dial to change the volume.

Song Play

Changing the tracks’ volume

4 Press the TRACK SELECT button once to see tracks 1-8 (Track 1-8 view).

In Track 1-8 view, the first 8 tracks

of the selected Song are shown.

In Track 9-16 view, the second

group of 8 tracks of the selected

Song are shown.

Keyboard tracks

5 Press TRACK SELECT once again to see tracks 9-16 (Track 9-16 view).

Note: Changes to Song tracks will not be saved, and are reset each time you press

the (Home) button. To save changes, you must edit the Song in Sequencer mode.

6 Press TRACK SELECT again, to return to the Normal view (Keyboard tracks).

7 Press the (START/STOP) button to start the Song.

Quick Guide

8 While listening to the Song, switch from Normal view to Track 1-8 and Track 9-16 view,

to see which tracks are playing.

To see if a track is playing, look at the label with its name, and see if it is changing color.

Song Play

Turning the Song tracks on/off

Selected track Assigned Sound. Touch it to

open the Sound Select window.

Sound bank Program Change

Octave Transpose

Sound bank icons. Touch to open the Sound Select window.

• Touch each track’s channel strip, to see each track’s detail in the Track Info line.

• Also, you can see which type of Sound is assigned to each track in the Sound area of the

Track 1-8 and Track 9-16 views.

Turning the Song tracks on/off

While playing back a Standard MIDI File, you may wish to mute one or more tracks, for example to sing along with the Song, or play an instrumental part live on the keyboard.

To mute/unmute Song tracks you simply touch the Play/Mute icon in the Volume panel.

Song Play

Soloing a track

Opposite to the above, you may want to make a single track of a Standard MIDI File play alone. This is called the Solo function.

1 While the Song is playing, keep the SHIFT button pressed and touch the track you want

to listen to in Solo mode.

2 To set all tracks back to the Play status, keep the SHIFT button pressed again, and

touch the track that is currently in Solo mode.

Please remember that you can also use the Solo function in Style Play and Sequencer mode. The Solo command can also be selected from the page menu.

Quick Guide

The SongBook

Selecting the desired Entry from the Main List

The SONGBOOK button

Tou ch t his c heck box

to turn the view filter

on.

Touch this button to

edit the view filter.

Adds the selected Entry to the Custom List (if activated – see page 69).

Touch this button to select the current Entry to play.

Use the scroll bar or the VALUE DIAL to see all the Songs in the list. Keep SHIFT pressed and touch the Up/ Down arrow to jump to the next/previous alphabetic section.

SongBook Main List

Style, Standard MIDI File(s) or MP3 file(s) currently

assigned to the arranger or player(s)

The SongBook

One of the most powerful features of Pa300 is the onboard music database, that allows you to organize your Styles and Songs for easy retrieving. Each Entry of this database may include the artist, title, genre, number, key, tempo, and meter (time signature) of a specified song. When selecting one of the Entries, the associated Style, Standard MIDI File or MP3 file – as well as the Style Play or Song Play mode – is automatically recalled.

In addition to helping you organize your shows, the SongBook allows you to assign up to four Pads, and up to four STSs to each Entry. Also, you can link a text file to any Entry, to be used as the Lyrics of a song, even if there are no Lyrics events in the associated Standard MIDI File or MP3 file, or if you prefer to play the song live with the backing of the Styles.

You can add your own Entries to the SongBook, as well as edit the existing ones. Korg already supplies some hundred Entries as standard. Furthermore, the SongBook allows you to create various custom lists, that may suit your different types of show.

Selecting the desired Entry from the Main List

A large database is already included with the instrument, and you can later customize it. You may browse through this database in a variety of ways.

1 While you are in Style Play or Song Play mode, press the SONGBOOK button to open

the SongBook window.

The SongBook

Displaying Artist or Genre

2 Browse through the Entries.

Icons in the Type column will help you identify the type of the Entry. The Genre column is shown by default, but you can switch to the Artist column (see “Displaying Artist or Genre” below).

3 When the Entry you are looking for becomes visible in the display, select it and touch

the Select button in the display.

After selecting an Entry, the corresponding Style, MID, KAR or MP3 file will be recalled, together with the relevant operating mode (Style Play or Song Play). Up to four STSs and four Pads will also be recalled. Any TXT file associated with the Entry can be seen in the Lyrics page.

The selected Style, MID, KAR or MP3 file will be shown in the top area of the screen.

Displaying Artist or Genre

For space matters, either the Genre or Artist column can be seen in the display. You cannot see both at the same time.

1 Touch the page menu icon to open the page menu.

Note: The Artist and Key fields of all supplied Entries have been intentionally left empty.

Quick Guide

2 Choose Show Artist (now Genre) to switch from Genre to Artist in the List view. The Art-

ist column will be shown.

3 Open the page menu again, and choose the Show Genre (now Artist) item. The Genre

column will be shown again.

The SongBook

Sorting Entries

Touch the Name label…

…to alphabetically reorder

the names in the list.

Available search criteria. “Genre” and “Artist” are both considered, even though only one of them may be shown in the List

Sorting Entries

You can change the order of the Entries shown in the display.

1 You can change the sorting order by touching one of the labels in a list of names.

You can do the same by touching the Type, Name, Genre, Artist, Key, Number, Tempo or Meter label.

2 Each time you touch the same label again, the order changes between ascending and

descending.

Searching for Entries

The SongBook database may be really huge. You can, however, look for (say) specific artists or song titles, using the filtering functions.

1 Touch the Filter button in the display, to open the Filter dialog box.

The SongBook

Searching for Entries

2 Touch the (Text Edit) button next to the search criteria (even more than one) you

want to enter.

For example, you may want to find all songs containing the word “love” in the title (in any position in the string). If so, select the ‘Name’ criterion, and enter the word ‘love’. Capitals are not relevant for the search.

3 Touch OK in the display, and close the Text Edit dialog box. The entered text is now the

search criteria.

4 Touch OK to close the Filter dialog box and return to the SongBook page.

Once the Filter dialog box has been closed by touching OK, the Filtered check box is automatically checked, and the filter is activated. Only Entries matching the entered criterion are seen in the Main List.

Quick Guide

5 To see the whole SongBook database again, touch the Filtered check box again, to

make the check mark disappear.

The SongBook

Adding Entries

You can add your own Entries to the SongBook database.

1 Go to the Style Play or Song Play mode, depending on the type of Entry you want to

add to the SongBook database.

2 Select the Style, Standard MIDI File or MP3 file to be added to the SongBook.

3 Edit the Keyboard and Style tracks the way you prefer, by selecting different Sounds

and Effects, or editing any other relevant parameter.

Please note that changes to Standard MIDI File tracks will not be saved as SongBook data. Only the data included in the Standard MIDI File will be used.

4 When ready, keep the SONGBOOK button pressed for about one second to create a

new SongBook Entry with the current settings.

5 Touch the (Text Edit) button to assign a name to the Entry, then touch OK to save

the Entry to the SongBook database.

The SongBook

Editing the Entries

Name of the Entry

Name of the Style or Song file linked to the Entry.

If checked, the current Style track settings, or the path of the

Song file (shown on the right), are saved with the Entry. If

unchecked, current settings are left unchanged.

This parameter is automatically checked when touching the

New Song button to create a new Entry.

If checked, you can either save all the current STSs into the

Entry, or choose a single STS where to save the current Key-

board track settings.

Song Selection number (ID number for numeric selection)

Database Entry’s parameters

You can edit any SongBook Entry and customize it according to your taste. When done, you can overwrite the current Entry or save it as a new Entry.

1 Press the SONGBOOK button to access the SongBook pages.

2 Touch the Book Edit 1 tab to see the Book Edit 1 page and see the linked Musical

Resources.

While in the Book Edit 1 page, you will be able to see the name of the selected Style or Song, and choose whether to replace them or not.

3 When done with this page, touch the Book Edit 2 tab to see the Book Edit 2 page and

edit the SongBook database details.

4 Touch the (Text Edit) button next to the field(s) you want to edit. Set all the other

parameters.

You can write the Genre and Artist name. Select the Meter (Time Signature) and Key of the Song. You can specify a Tempo value matching the Song’s Tempo by using the TEMPO controls, and a Master Transpose value by using the TRANSPOSE controls on the control panel.

Note: The Master Transpose might not change, if a Lock is preventing it. See Global > General Controls > Lock s.

Quick Guide

The SongBook

Editing the Entries

Text file linked to the Entry (or loaded in the Lyrics page). This text will be seen in the same way of ordinary Lyrics in the display.

Synchro (for Style) and Memory (for Style

and Songs) On/Off status

Entry’s name. By default it is the same name of the associated Style, Stan-

dard MIDI File of MP3 file. The name can be up to 16 characters long.

Select Rename/Overwrite to replace an

existing Entry. This option is automati-

cally selected when editing an existing

Entry; it cannot be selected when saving

a new Entry. Warning: the older Entry

will be deleted!

Select New Song to add a new Entry to

the SongBook database. This option is

automatically selected when a new Entry

has been created (by touching the New

Song button).

5 When done with this page, touch the Book Edit 3 tab to go to the Book Edit 3 page,

where you can and set the Synchro and Memory parameters, and link a text file to the Entry.

6 After having filled up all the desired fields (be as comprehensive as you can), touch the

Write button in the display to open the Write dialog box.

7 Touch the (Text Edit) button to assign a name to the Entry, then touch OK to save

the Entry to the SongBook database.

The SongBook

Creating a Custom List

After you check the

‘Enable List Edit’ item,

the List Edit page

becomes available.

Touch this checkbox

to turn the view filter

on (if any).

Touch this button to edit the

view filter.

Use the scroll bar or the VALUE DIAL to see all the Songs in the list. Keep SHIFT pressed and touch the Up/Down arrow to jump to the next/previous alphabetic section.

SongBook list

Adds the highlighted Entry to the Custom List.

You can create several Custom Lists in the SongBook, to make a set of Entries suitable for your various shows. Before starting a new Custom List, be sure you have added all needed Entries to the SongBook main database (see “Adding Entries” above).

1 While in SongBook mode, open the page menu and check the ‘Enable List Edit’ item.

2 Select a Custom List to be edited.

To edit an existing list, touch the Custom List tab to open the Custom List page, and select one of the available Custom Lists. To create a new list, touch the List Edit tab to open the List Edit page, and touch the New List button to create a new, blank list.

3 Touch the Book tab to open the Book page and see the full database. Use the various

sorting, searching and filtering options (seen above) to find the Entries you are looking for. Touch the Add to List button when the desired Entry has been selected.

Quick Guide

The SongBook

Creating a Custom List

Use the vertical arrows

to move the selected

Entry up or down in the

list.

Touch Del Song to delete

the selected Entry.

Touch New List to create a new Custom List. Touch Del List to delete the current Custom List. Warning: Del List will delete the current Custom List.

Touch Write to save the current Custom List.

Select an Entry to be edited from the list

List name

Scrollbar

Touch the (Text Edit) symbol to open the

Text Edit dialog box.

Use alphabetic characters to enter text.

Use the arrows or the VALUE DIAL

to move the cursor.

Touch the Shift key to switch

between capitals and small

characters.

Touch Delete to delete just a single character, Clear to delete the whole string.

When done, touch OK to confirm the

new name, or Cancel to abandon all

changes.

4 When finished adding Entries to the Custom List, touch the List Edit tab to go to the List

Edit page, and use the various commands to edit the list.

5 When the Custom List is ready, touch the Write button in the display to save it to mem-

ory. Assign a new name to the Custom List.

6 When finished editing the Custom List, open the page menu and uncheck the ‘Enable

List Edit’ item.

The SongBook

Selecting and using a Custom List

Use the List pop-up menu to select

one of the available Custom Lists.

Touch Next to select the next Entry in the list. (This command can also be assigned to a footswitch).

Touch Select to set the highlighted Entry to play (if different than the one automatically selected).

Entry in play. To select a different one, highlight it and touch the Select button in the display.

After having created one or more Custom Lists, you can select one and use it for your show.

1 Touch the Custom List tab to select the Custom List page.

2 Use the List pop-up menu to select one of the available Custom Lists.

3 Select one of the Entries in the list (it turns blue), then touch the Select button in the

display to confirm selection (the selected Entry turns green). Press the PLAY button to start playing back the selected Song.

Quick Guide

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)

Preparing the Style and Sounds

Style Controls

Style Elements

Player controls

SEQUENCER button

After pressing the

SEQUENCER button, the main

page of the Sequencer mode

appears.

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)

There are several ways to create a Song on the Pa300. The easiest and fastest is to use the Styles to record what you are playing the keyboard, while the arranger gives you the accompaniment tracks.

Preparing the Style and Sounds

Before accessing the Record mode, we suggest you prepare the Style and Sounds with which to record your Song.

1 Select a Style with which you want to record.

2 Select the Sounds by choosing a Performance or STS.

That’s all! You are ready to access Record mode.

Accessing the Backing Sequence (Quick Record) mode

1 Press the SEQUENCER button to switch to the Sequencer mode.

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)

Accessing the Backing Sequence (Quick Record) mode

2 Press the RECORD button to open the Song Record Mode Select dialog box.

Press the RECORD button, to

open the Song Record Mode

Select dialog box

After having chosen the Backing Sequence

(Quick Record) option, the Backing

Sequence Record page appears.

3 Select the Backing Sequence (Quick Record) option and touch OK to enter the Backing

Sequence Record mode.

Quick Guide

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)

Setting the Record parameters

Touch the Style parame-

ter (or the STYLE button)

to open the Style Select

window, and select a dif-

ferent Style.

Track(s) status. ‘Rec’ means they are ready to

record. ‘Play’ means they are recorded and you

can hear them. ‘Mute’ means they cannot be

heard.

Measure counter. The negative number (-1) is the precount, after which you can start recording.

Style’s Tempo. Change it, if you like.

Grouped tracks. During Quick Record, you cannot access each separate Song

track. For ease of use, just two ‘master’ tracks are provided: Kbd/Pad (Key-

board/Pads) and Ch/Acc (Chord/Accompaniment).

Style’s Meter (or Time Signature). It’s just an indicator, you cannot change it.

Touch the Perf/STS parameter to open the Performance Select window, and select a different Performance (as seen on page 41). As an alternative, you use the PERFORMANCE or STS buttons.

Select any of the Variations before starting to record. Select one of the Intros to start with an introduction.

Setting the Record parameters

When you enter Backing Sequence Record, the latest selected Style and Sounds are already selected, and all tracks are ready to record. You could simply start recording as if you were playing with the Styles. However, there are some further settings that you may want to do.

• If you like, adjust any editable parameter in the display.

Recording

1 Select the Style Element you wish to use before starting to play.

2 Start recording, by pressing the START/STOP button.

3 Play as if you were performing live with the Styles.

During recording, select any Style Element (Intro, Variation, Break, Ending…) you like.

Please remember that, while recording in Backing Sequence Record mode, you cannot use the SYNCHRO, TAP TEMPO/RESET, BALANCE controls.

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)

Recording

4 When finished recording your Song, press the (START/STOP) button to exit

After pressing the START/STOP button, the main

page of the Sequencer mode will appear again.

recording, and return to the main page of the Sequencer mode.

5 While in the main page of the Sequencer mode, press the (START/STOP) button in

the PLAYER section to listen to the recorded Song.

The Backing Sequence Song has been converted to an ordinary Song (in Standard MIDI File, or “MID”, format). If you like it, you can save it. You can then read it in Song Play mode, or transfer it to any external sequencer.

6 If you want to edit the Song, press MENU to access Edit mode.

Quick Guide

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)

Second-take recording (Overdubbing)

You may want to record an additional “grouped” track, or replace a previously-recorded track. A good idea may be to record all chords and Style Element changes during the first take, then record Keyboard tracks and Pads during the second take.

1 Press the RECORD button to enter Record mode again. When the Song Record Mode

Select dialog box appears, select Backing Sequence (Quick Record) again.

2 If you are recording just one of the “grouped” tracks, set to Play the track to be pre-

served.

For example, if you only want to record the Keyboard tracks again, set the Kbd/Pad track to Rec, and the Ch/Acc track to Play.

3 Press the START/STOP button to start recording the selected track.

With the above example, chords will play as recorded; you can record what you play on the keyboard (and the Pads).

4 Repeat the recording procedure, and press the (START/STOP) button in the

PLAYER section to stop recording and return to the main page of the Sequencer mode.

5 While in the main page of the Sequencer mode, press the (START/STOP) button in

the PLAYER section to listen to the recorded Song.

Again, the Backing Sequence Song has been converted to an ordinary Song.

Saving a Song

After having recorded a Song that you like, it is a good idea to save it, to avoid losing it when the instrument is turned off (or put in standby).

1 While in the main page of the Sequencer mode, touch the page menu icon to open the

page menu.

Recording a new Song (Standard MIDI File)

Saving a Song

2 Select the Save Song command to open the Save Song window.

After you select the Save song

command, the Save Song page

appears.

If a Song is selected (highlighted) it

will be overwritten. If no Song is

selected, a new Song file will be cre-

ated on the target device.

To deselect a Song, select the same

storage device again.

Use the scroll bar to see all Songs in the list. Keep SHIFT pressed and touch the Up/Down arrow to scroll to the next/previous alphabetic section. As an alternative, you can use the VALUE DIAL.

Use the Open and Close buttons to browse through the folders.

Use the Device pop-up menu to select one of

the available storage devices

Touch the Save button to save the Song to the current folder.

In case you prefer to exit this page without saving the Song, press the EXIT button.

Tou ch t he Tex t Edi t

icon to edit the Song’s

name.

This window is very similar to the one you can see when pressing the MEDIA button on the control panel, and touch the Save tab to see the Save page. This page is, however, “filtered” to only see Song files.

3 Select a device and folder where you want to save your Song.

4 Touch the Save button in the display to open the Save Song dialog box.

Quick Guide

5 Touch OK in the display to save the Song, or Cancel to stop the Save operation.

Searching files and musical resources

How to use the Search function

Searching files and musical resources

With Pa300, you can press the SEARCH button to search for files or musical resources.

How to use the Search function

Depending on the page you are in, you can search for different types of data. For example, while in Media mode you can only search for files, while in Style Play or Song Play mode you can search for several different types of data (Styles, Songs, Lyrics…).

There are some pages where the Search function is not available, since there are no relevant data to search for that page (for example, the pages of the Global mode).

Here is the general procedure.

1 Press the SEARCH button to open the Search window.

2 If needed, touch the “Type” pop-up menu, and choose the type of item you are looking

for.

When choosing Files, Songs or Lyrics, the “Browse” button will be activated, to allow for searching files in the storage devices.

Searching files and musical resources

How to use the Search function

3 In case you are searching for a file in a storage device, touch the “Browse” button to

Use the Open and Close

buttons to browse

through the folders

Use the Device pop-up

menu to select one of the

available storage devices

In case you are lost among the directories, touch the “Root” button to go to the root of the selected device

When you see the folder containing the file you are looking for, touch it, then touch the Select button to close the Media window. The name of the selected folder will be shown in the title bar of the Search window.

open the Media window.

4 Type the name of the file to be searched.

There is no difference between upper and lower cases (“LOVE” is the same as “Love” or “love”).

5 When finished entering the name, touch the “Search” button.

After a while, the list of files found begins to appear in the display.

Note: Only one search at a time can be carried on. Please wait for the current search to be completed, or touch the Stop button in the display to stop the current search and do a new one.

Quick Guide

After you have touched the “Search” button, its name changes to “Stop”. If needed, touch this button to stop the ongoing search. The name of the button reverts to “Search”. Any file found will remain in the display, until you do a new search.

The time needed to complete a search depends on the size of the device(s) and the number of files.

Hint: You can touch the Cancel button in the display, or press the EXIT button in the control panel, to exit from this window and carry on other operations. The search will continue in the background.

Searching files and musical resources

Notes about searching

6 You can touch one of the found items to select it, and then touch the “Info” button to

see information on it.

Touch OK to close the Info dialog box.

7 If you want to return to the main Search page and type a search string again, touch the

icon. Otherwise,

8 If you have found what you were looking for, touch its name and then touch the

“Select” or “Locate” command.

9 You can exit from the Search window at any time, by pressing the EXIT or SEARCH but-

ton.

Notes about searching

Wildcards

During search, the string entered will be search as a whole word or as part of a word. For example, if you entered “love”, Pa300 will find “Love” and “LoveSong”, or any other word containing the string “love”.

You can use the wildcards “?” (any single character) and “*” (any sequence of characters) to search exactly that string. For example, “*love” will find “MyLove”, but not “LoveSong”. “??love” will find “MyLove” but not “TrueLove”.

Also, if you are looking for words that can be spelled in a slightly different way, you can use the “?” wildcard to find all occurrences; “gr?y” will find out both “gray” and “grey”.

Selecting elements

Style Select window

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages)

Style sets

Styles

Selecting elements

The following windows are shown in the various operating modes, whenever you try to select a Sound, Performance, Style or Song.

Style Select window

To open the Style Select window, touch the Style area whereas it appears in the display, or the STYLE button in the SELECTION section on the control panel.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous page without selecting any Style.

Style Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu without selecting a command.

Copy and Paste

Use this command to copy the selected Style to a different selection,

1. Select the Style to be copied. To select more items, keep the

SHIFT button pressed and touch all the item to be selected for copying. Hint: You can deselect one of the selected items

by touching it while still keeping the SHIFT button pressed. You can deselect all by touching a single item.

2. Choose the Copy and Paste command.

3. Select the target location. In case you are copying more

than a single item, all subsequent items will sequentially follow the first one. If there aren’t enough locations available, the procedure will be cancelled. Wa r ni n g : If you con-

firm, any Style already existing at the target location will be overwritten!

Note: Depending on the status of the “Auto Select” parameter (see page 149), a Style may be immediately selected when touching one of the side tabs. The latest selected Style for that bank will be selected.

Style sets

Selected set of Styles. Factory Styles are Styles supplied as stan- dard. Fav/User are Favorite Styles (locations for custom-made Styles with editable names) and User Styles (locations for cus- tom-made Styles with fixed names).

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Styles. Favorite tabs can be renamed (see “Renaming the Favorite banks” on page 110).

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected bank.

Styles

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Style. Unless the “Display Hold” parameter (see page 148) is turned on, the window automatically closes shortly after you select a Style.

After selecting a Style from this window, and another Style is playing, the name of the new Style begins to flash, meaning it is ready to start playing at the beginning of the next measure.

Rename

Use this command to edit the name of the selected item. Please keep in mind that you can only rename non-protected items.

1. Select the Style to be renamed,

2. Choose the Rename command, and use the virtual key-

board to edit the name.

3. When done, touch OK to confirm.

Delete

Choose this command to delete the selected item. Please keep in mind that you can only delete non-protected items.

1. Select the Style to be deleted. To select more items, keep the

SHIFT button pressed and touch all the item to be selected for deleting. Hint: You can deselect one of the selected items

by touching it while still keeping the SHIFT button pressed. You can deselect all by touching a single item.

2. Choose the Delete command, and confirm deletion. Wa r n-

ing: Unless you have a copy of it, the deleted item will be gone

forever!

Selecting elements

Sound Select window

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages)

Sound sets

Sounds

If more than five pages are available, the Previous/Next tabs are shown in this area

Rename Favorite

Choose this command to edit the name of the Favorite Style banks.

The assigned name can be spanned over two lines, by separating them with the paragraph character (¶). For example, to write “World Music” on two lines, enter “World¶Music”.

Be careful not to write words exceeding the width of the side tabs of the Style Select window.

1. Choose the Rename Favorite command.

2. Touch the (Text Edit) symbol next to the bank to be

renamed.

3. Use the virtual keyboard to edit the name.

4. When done, touch OK to confirm.

Select All (Bank)

Choose this command to select all items in the current bank.

You can deselect one of the selected items by touching it while keeping the SHIFT button pressed. You can delete all by touching any single item.

Sound Select window

Sound sets

Selected set of Sounds. Factory Sounds are the Sounds supplied as standard. Legacy Sounds are Sounds compatible with older Pa-Series models. GM are Drum Kits mapped according to the General MIDI 2 or XG standards. User Sounds are custom-created or edited Sounds.

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Sounds.

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected bank.

Previous/Next tabs

Scroll the lower tabs to the left or the right, when additional tabs are available but cannot be seen in the display.

Sounds

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Sound. Unless the “Display Hold” parameter (see page 148) is turned on, the window automatically closes shortly after you select a Sound.

Program Change

Program Change number. Shown only when the “Show” parameter is turned on in Global mode. (See page 149).

Sound Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu without selecting a command.

To open the Sound Select window, touch the Sound area whereas it appears in the display, or the SOUND button in the SELECTION section of the control panel.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous page without choosing any Sound.

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The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s page menu, apart for a difference with the Delete command and the “Edit Sound” command.

Delete

Choose this command to delete the selected Sound.

1. Select the Sound to be deleted. To select more items, keep

the SHIFT button pressed and touch all the item to be selected for deleting. Hint: You can deselect one of the

selected items by touching it while still keeping the SHIFT button pressed. You can deselect all by touching a single item.

2. Choose the Delete command, and confirm deletion. Wa r n-

ing: Unless you have a copy of it, the deleted item will be gone

forever!

Edit Sound

Choose this command to edit the selected Sound (see detailed information in the “Sound Edit” chapter).

Selecting elements

Performance Select window

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages) Performances

1. Select the Sound to be edited. Edited Sounds can only be

saved to User Sound locations.

2. Choose the Edit Sound command to access editing.

Performance Select window

To open the Performance Select window, touch the Performance area whereas it appears in the display, or one of the PERFORMANCE buttons on the control panel. Use the PERFORMANCE buttons to go directly to the selected bank.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous page without selecting any Performance.

Note: Depending on the status of the “Auto Select” parameter (see page 149), a Performance may be immediately selected when pressing one of the PERFORMANCE buttons. The latest selected Performance for that bank will be selected.

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Performance. Each tab corresponds to one of the PERFORMANCE buttons on the control panel.

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected bank.

If you press again the same PERFORMANCE button on the control panel, the next page in the same bank is selected. This way, you do not need to touch one of the corresponding tabs in the display in order to select a different page.

Performances

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Performance. Unless the “Display Hold” parameter (see page 148) is turned on, the window automatically closes shortly after you select a Performance.

Selecting elements

Pad Select window

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages)

Pad sets

Pads

Song path

Performance Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu without selecting a command.

The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s page menu.

Pad Select window

Touch the Pad area whereas it appears in the display, to open the Pad Select window.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the previous page without selecting any Pad.

Pad Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu without selecting a command.

The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s page menu.

STS Select

To select one of the four STS associated with the current Style or the selected SongBook Entry, use the four STS buttons on the control panel.

As an alternative, touch the STS name tab in the main page of the Style Play or Song Play mode, where you can see the name of the available STSs.

Pad sets

Selected set of Pads. Hit are single-note, pre-programmed factory Pads. Sequence are sequence-based, pre-programmed factory Pads. Local are like Factory Pads, but contain Pads customized for the music of your Country. User can be either single-note or sequence-based Pads, and can be user-created or modified.

Side tabs (banks)

Use these tabs to select a bank of Pads.

Lower tabs (pages)

Use these tabs to select one of the available pages in the selected bank.

The STS’s name can also be seen in the Lyrics page:

Song Select window

This page appears when you touch the Song name in the display, or press the SONG button in the SELECTION sections on the control panel.

Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the main page of the Song Play operating mode without selecting a Song.

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Pad

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Pad. Unless the “Display Hold” parameter (see page page 148) is turned on, the window automatically closes short after you select a Pad.

While in this page, you can select a Standard MIDI File, Karaoke, MP3 or Jukebox file.

Selecting elements

Song Select window

Type of the file

or folder

File status

File or folder

name

Selecting a Song by its ID number

Each Song in a folder on a device (up to 9,999) has a progressive ID number assigned. When the “Show Song Number” option is selected in the Song Select page menu (see below), you can see this number before the Song’s name in the Song Select window. You can use this number to select the Song by composing the corresponding number, speeding up the Song retrieval when you are using an hard disk filled with Standard MIDI Files.

Selecting elements

Song Select window

While in the Song Select window, press the SONG button in the SELECTION section to open the keypad, and enter the number corresponding to the Song to be selected.

While in any page of the Song Play mode, press the SONG button in the SELECTION section twice to open the keypad.

Note: If no Song corresponds to the dialed number, the “Song not available” message will appear.

Note: While the directory may contain more than 9999 files, you can’t select Songs outside the 0001-9999 range when using the numeric keypad.

Song Select page menu

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. Touch a command to select it. Touch anywhere in the display to close the menu without selecting a command.

Show Song Number

Check this option to make the Song’s progressive ID number appear in the list, next to each Song.

Show Song Extension

Check this option to make the file extension (“*.mid”, “*.kar”, “*.jbx”, “*.mp3”) appear in the list, at the end of each Song’s name.

Create New Folder

This command will let you create a new generic folder in the root of any device, or inside any other generic folder. You can’t create a “.SET” folder with this command, since this type of folder is reserved to the Save operations (and can be created with the New SET button in any Save page).

Export Song List

Select this command to save the current list as a text file. This way, you will be able to print a list of Songs, to see which number matches each Song.

1. While in the Song Select window, select the folder whose

Song list you wish to save as a text file.

2. Select the Export Song List command from the page menu.

3. A dialog box will appear, asking you to select one of the

available storage devices.

4. Select one of the options, and touch OK to confirm.

Note: The text file will contain a list of “*.mid”, “*.kar”, “.mp3” and “*.jbx” files only. Folders and other types of files will not be included.

When saved, the text file will be named after the selected folder. For example, a folder named “Dummy” will generate a “Dummy.txt” file. If a file with the same name already exists in the target, it will be overwritten without waiting for any confirmation. A file containing the list of all valid files contained into the root of the disk will generate a “Root.txt” file.

The list will include the progressive number assigned to each Song, the file names, the total number of files in the list.

To correctly display and print the list on a personal computer, use a fixed size (i.e., non-proportional) character in your text editor.

By touching the (Text Edit) button you can open the Text Edit window. Enter the name, then touch OK to confirm and

close the Text Edit window.

Rename

(Only available when an item is selected in a list) Use this function to change the name of an existing file or folder. You cannot change the 3-character extension of files and “.SET” folders, since they are used to identify the type of file or folder.

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Touch the (Text Edit) button to open the Text Edit window. Enter the new name, then touch OK to confirm and close the

Text Edit window.

Delete

(Only available when an item is selected in a list) Use this com mand to delete the selected file or folder.

Style Play

Start-up settings

Overall instrument’s

volume

Balance of Style and Pad tracks against the Keyboard tracks

Style Play

The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in this mode, you can play along with the Styles (i.e. automatic accompaniments), using up to four tracks (Upper 1-3 and Lower) to play on the keyboard. You can choose different Sounds and Effects by selecting Performances and STSs. Four Pads will provide single-shot sounds or repeating patterns in sync with the Style. You can also use the SongBook to automatically select Styles suited for a particular song.

Start-up settings

Since the “My Setting” Performance is automatically selected when turning the instrument on, you can save your preferred start-up settings to it.

Select the Sounds, Effects, and other settings you would like to see automatically selected when turning the instrument on. Then keep the MY SETTING button pressed for about one second. When the Write Startup Settings window appears, confirm by touching OK.

Note: If you like some settings to be preserved even when choosing different Performances, STSs and Styles, turn on the desired “locks” to avoid changes to the selected parameters (see “General Controls: Lock” on page 149).

Styles and Pads

Each Style includes four Pads. Each time you select a Style, the four Pads it contains are assigned to the four PAD buttons. The Style and the Pads will play using the same Tempo value.

Master Volume and Balance

While the MASTER VOLUME knob controls the general volume of the instrument, you can use the BALANCE knob to balance the Style’s Accompaniment and Pad tracks against the Keyboard tracks.

Factory, Favorite and User Styles

There are three different types of Style locations:

• Factory Style banks are the preloaded Styles, that you can’t usually edit (unless you want to do so by turning off the protection, see “Factory Style and Pad Protect” on page 154).

• Favorite Style banks are Styles that can be loaded from an external device. You can rename the tabs in the Style Select window to create places for custom banks, or for additional music genres that are not already included among the supplied banks. See “The Favorite banks” on page 110 for information on how to manage these Styles.

• User Style banks are, like the Favorite banks, Styles loaded from an external device. These are banks conceived as a ‘workbench’ – a place where to manage Styles and banks before saving them to a final location.

Style Play

Main page

Style area Page header Page menu icon

Song

area

Perfor-

mance/

STS area

Keyboard tracks area

Panel s

Operating mode Master Transpose (in

semitones)

Recognized chord

Style name

Style Element meter

Style bank

Measure length/number

Current Tem po

Current beat

This is the page you see when you turn the instrument on.

To access this page from another operating mode, press the STYLE PLAY button.

To return to this page from one of the Style Play edit pages, press the EXIT button.

Recognized chord

Displays the recognized chord, when you play a chord on the keyboard. If no chord abbreviation is shown, check if the ACCOMP LED is turned on.

You can choose how chords are recognized by using the “Chord Recognition” parameter in the Global > Style page (see page 152).

Page menu icon

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. See “Page menu” on page 108 for more information.

Style area

This is where the Style name is shown, together with its Tempo and Meter (Time Signature) parameters.

Details on individual tracks can be seen by pressing the Volume tab. Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch between Normal view (Keyboard tracks, grouped Style tracks) and Style view (individual Style tracks). (See “Volume panel” starting from

page 91).

Page header

This line shows the current operating mode, transposition and recognized chord.

Operating mode name

Name of the current operating mode.

Master transpose

Master transpose value in semitones. This value can be changed by using the TRANSPOSE buttons on the control panel.

Note: Transpose may automatically change when selecting a different Performance or Style. It may also change when loading a Standard MIDI File generated with an instrument of the Korg PaSeries.

To avoid transposition, the Master Transpose is “locked” by default. If you want to unlock it, change the Master Transpose Lock parameter’s status (see “General Controls: Lock” on page 149).

Style name

Currently selected Style. Touch the Style name (or press the STYLE button in the SELECTION section) to open the Style Select window.

Style bank

Bank the current Style belongs to.

Style Element meter

Meter (time signature) of the current Style Element.

Measure length/number

While the Style is playing, an ‘M’ appears, to show the current measure number of the current Style Element playing. While it is in stop, an ‘L’ appears, to show the length (total number of measures) of the current Style Element.

Current beat

Beat number currently playing.

Current Tempo

Metronome Tempo (from 30 to 250). Use the TEMPO buttons to change the Tempo value.

As an alternative, keep the SHIFT button pressed and use the VALUE DIAL to change the Tempo. Also, you can touch the Tempo field and drag it with your finger, or change it with the VAL U E D IA L.

To recall the Tempo stored in the current Style, press the TEMPO buttons together.

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Style Play

Main page

Song name

Selected Performance

or STS

Sound

name

Track name

Track’s octave transpose

Sound bank’s icon

Track status

Volume panel

Tab s

You ca n p r ev ent Te m po fr o m c ha n g i ng by t ur ni ng t h e TE MP O LOCK LED on.

Note: Since Style Elements may contain Tempo Change data, Tempo may change while a Style Element is playing.

Songs area

This is where the Song assigned to the onboard Player is shown.

Song name

Name of the Song assigned to the Player. You can select Songs while playing Styles, to have them ready when switching to Song Play mode.

Performance/STS area

This is where the latest selected Performance or STS name is shown.

• If the track is already selected (white background), touch the

Sound name to open the Sound Select window.

• If the track is not selected (dark background), first select it,

then touch the Sound name to open the Sound Select window.

You can also open the Sound Select window by pressing the SOUND button in the SELECTION section on the control panel.

For more information about the Sound Select window, see “Sound Select window” on page 83.

Keyboard track octave transpose

Non editable. Octave transpose of the corresponding track. To individually edit the octave transpose for each track, go to the “Mixer/Tuning: Tuning” edit page (see page 98).

You can also transpose all Upper tracks by using the UPPER OCTAVE buttons on the control panel.

Bass & Lower Backing icon

When the Bass & Lower Backing function is active, the Backing icon appears in the Lower track Sound area (see “Bass & Lower Backing” on page 153).

Keyboard track name

Non editable. Name of the corresponding track:

Selected Performance or STS

This is the latest selected Performance (Perf) or Single Touch Setting (STS#).

Touch the name to open the Performance Select window (see “Performance Select window” on page 84). As an alternative, use the PERFORMANCE section to select a different Performance.

To select a different STS, use the four STS buttons under the display, or the STS panel in the display.

Keyboard tracks area

This is where Keyboard tracks are shown.

Abbreviation Track Hand

UP1 Upper 1 Right hand (or both

UP2 Upper 2

UP3 Upper 3

LOW Lower Left hand

when in Full Keyboard mode)

Sound bank’s icon

This picture illustrates the bank the current Sound belongs to.

Keyboard track status

Play/mute status of the current track. Select the track, then touch this area to change the track status.

No icon Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Panels

The lower half of the main page contains the various panels, you can select by touching the corresponding tabs. See more information in the relevant sections, starting from page 91.

Sound name

Name of the Sound assigned to the corresponding Keyboard track.

Style Play

STS Name panel

Sliders

Track status icons

STS Name panel

Touch the STS Name tab to select this panel. Single Touch Settings (STS) are memory locations intended for quickly choosing Keyboard Sounds, contained in each Style or SongBook Entry. While in this panel, you can see the name of the four STSs belonging to the latest selected Style or SongBook Entry. Touch one of the names to select the corresponding STS.

Note: You cannot edit the STS names in this panel. To edit a name, select the STS to be renamed, then select the Write Single Touch Setting command from the page menu (see “Write Single Touch Setting dialog box” on page 109).

Volume panel

Touch the Volume tab to select this panel. This is where you can set the volume of each track, and mute/unmute them.

Changing the tracks’ volume

You can change the volume of each track by dragging the sliders in the display. You can also change the volume by touching a track’s slider, then using the VALUE DIAL.

Changing the Play/Mute status

Play/mute status of the current track. Select the track, then touch this area to change its status.

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Saving the track’s volume and play/mute status

Each set of tracks can be saved into a different memory. This allows for a great flexibility when mixing Keyboard and Accompaniment tracks through the use of Performances, STSs and Styles.

• The volume and play/mute status of the Keyboard tracks can be saved to a Performance or STS (see “Write Performance” on page 108 and “Write Single Touch Setting” on page 108).

• The volume and play/mute status of the separate Style tracks can be saved to the current Style Settings (see “Write Current Style Settings” on page 108).

• The offset volume of the grouped Style tracks is automatically saved to the Global.

Reference

Style Play

Volume panel

Grouped Style tracks

Keyboard tracks

Grouped Style Tracks

Selected

track

info area

Sounds

area

Style tracks Volume

Track name

Sound name

Sound bank

Program Change sequence

Track names

Under the sliders, a label for each track is shown. Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch between the Normal (grouped Style tracks, Keyboard tracks) and the Style Tracks view (separate Style tracks).

Track Description

Normal View

(*)

DR/PERC

(*)

ACCOMP

(*)

BASS

LOWER Lowe r track.

UPPER1…3 Upper tracks.

Style Tracks View

DRUM Drum Style track.

PERC Percussion Style track.

BASS Bass Style track.

ACC1…5 Accompaniment Style tracks.

(*).Volume for these grouped tracks is a global offset, that can be adjusted in the Global > Mode Preferences > Style page.

Grouped Drum and Percussion tracks.

Grouped Accompaniment tracks (Acc1-5).

Grouped Bass Style track.

Normal view

In Normal view you can see the grouped Style tracks (Play/Mute only), and the separate controls for the Keyboard tracks:

Grouped Style tracks

In the Normal view, Style tracks are grouped together (Dr/Perc, Accomp, Bass groups), to allow for instant play/mute of several tracks at the same time.

Style Tracks view

Press the TRACK SELECT button to switch from the Normal view to the Style Tracks view. In this view, individual Style tracks are shown in the lower half of the display, while the upper half of the main page changes to show parameters for the selected Style track.

Press TRACK SELECT again to return to the Normal view (Keyboard tracks, grouped Style tracks, Mic/In controls).

Style tracks Volume

Here you can change the volume and play/mute status of each one of the individual Style tracks.

Original Style Sounds

This parameter lets you decide if the Style has to play the Sounds saved in the Performance or Style Settings, or the ones saved in each Style Element.

Note: When assigning a Sound to a Style track, the “Original Style Sounds” parameter is automatically turned off to allow its use.

Note: This parameter can be saved with the Performance or Style Settings.

On Style tracks always use the original Sounds

recorded inside each Style Element. If you assign a different Sound to a Style track, this parameter is automatically set to Off.

Off You can assign different Sounds to each Style

track, and save them in a Performance or Style Settings. The selected Sounds remain the same for all Style Elements. These Sounds can be saved into a Performance or Style Settings with the “Write Performance” or “Write Current Style Settings” commands (see page 108). Assigned Sounds are shown in the Sounds area of this page.

Changing the volume of the grouped Style tracks can be done (as a general control) in the Global mode > Mode Preferences > Style page (see “Style Tracks Global Volume” on page 153).

Keyboard tracks

Here you can separately control the volume and play/mute status of each Keyboard track.

Selected Track Info area

This line lets you see the Sound assigned to the selected track. It appears both in the main page, and in several edit pages.

Style Play

Pad panel

Track name

Style track’s octave transpose icon

Sound bank’s icon

Name of the selected track.

Pad panel

Sound name

Sound assigned to the selected track. Touch anywhere in this area to open the Sound Select window, and select a different Sound.

Sound bank

Bank of the selected Sound.

Program Change

Program Change number sequence (Bank Select MSB, Bank Select LSB, Program Change).

Sounds area

This area lets you see the Sound bank’s icon and octave transposition for the eight Style tracks.

Touch the Pad tab to select this panel. This is where you can assign a different Hit or Sequence Pad to each of the four pads, and see at a glance how pads are programmed. For more options, go to the “Pads: Pad” page (see page 106).

Pad assignment

Name of the Hit or Sequence assigned to each Pad. Touch the box to make the Pad Select window appear (see “Pad Select window” on page 85).

When the lock is open, Pads could automatically change when choosing a Style or SongBook Entry.

Pads lock icon ( )

Close this lock to prevent Pads from changing when choosing a different Style or SongBook Entry.

Style track’s octave transpose icon

Non editable. Octave transpose of the corresponding track. To change the octave transpose, use the UPPER OCTAVE buttons, or go to the “Mixer/Tuning: Tuning” edit page (see page 98).

Sound bank’s icon

This picture illustrates the bank the current Sound belongs to. Touch an icon a first time to select the corresponding track (detailed information are shown on the Selected Track Info area, see above). Touch it a second time to open the Sound Select window.

Reference

Style Play

Split panel

Touch the Split tab to select this panel. This is where you can set the split point and activate the Bass Inversion.

Split Point

Use this parameter to select a different split point. A full-range piano keyboard is shown in the display, divided at the selected split point. Upper tracks play on the right of this point, while the Lower track plays on the left.

Keyboard diagram

Touch anywhere on the keyboard diagram. A message will appear, asking you to press the new split point on the keyboard of your Pa300 (or to press the EXIT button to close the message with no changes).

Global

There is a global split point, and a “local” one, that can be memorized into the Performances and STSs.

On You are editing the global split point. The global

split point is considered when selecting a Performance or STS that does not contain a “local” split point.

Off You are editing the “local” split point memorized

in the current Performance or STS.

Sub-Scale panel

Touch the Sub-Scale tab to select this panel. This panel replicates the “Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale” edit page (see page 98). .

With the “Quarter Tone” button not pressed

With the “Quarter Tone” button pressed

Bass Inversion

Use this parameter to turn the Bass Inversion function on or off.

On The lowest note of a chord played in inverted

form will always be detected as the root note of the chord. Thus, you can specify to the arranger composite chords such as “Am7/G” or “F/C”.

Off The lowest note is scanned together with the

other chord notes, and is not always considered as the root note.

Style Play

Edit menu

Operating mode Edit section

Selected track info

Page menu icon

Parameters area

Tab s

From any page, press the MENU button to open the Style Play edit menu. This menu gives access to the various Style Play edit sections.

When in the menu, select an edit section, or press EXIT or STYLE PLAY to exit the menu and return to the main page. To return to the main page, you can also select the Main Page menu item.

When in an edit page, press EXIT or the STYLE PLAY button to return to the main page of the Style Play operating mode.

Page menu icon

Touch this icon to open the page menu (see “Page menu” on page 108).

Parameters area

Each page contains various parameters. Use the tabs to select one of the available pages. For detailed information on the various types of parameters, see sections starting below.

Ta bs

Use tabs to select one of the edit pages of the current edit section.

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan

This page lets you set the volume and pan for each of the Keyboard or Style tracks. Volume settings are the same as in the Volume panel of the main page.

Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch from the Keyboard to the Style tracks, and vice versa.

Each item in this menu corresponds to an edit section. Each edit section groups various edit pages, that may be selected by touching the corresponding tab on the lower part of the display.

Edit page structure

All edit pages share some basic elements.

Upper Volume Link

With this parameter, you define if changing the volume of one of the Upper tracks proportionally changes the volume of the other Upper tracks.

On When changing the volume of one of the Upper

tracks, volume for the other Upper tracks changes proportionally.

Off When changing the volume of one of the Upper

tracks, only that track’s volume is changed. The other Upper tracks are left unchanged.

Reference

Operating mode

This indicates that the instrument is in Style Play mode.

Edit section

This identifies the current edit section, corresponding to one of the items of the edit menu (see “Edit menu” on page 95).

Style Play

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send

Track L/R Out

Master FX

Track L/R Out

Master FX

Dry

Use this checkbox to turn the dry (direct) track signal on or off from the outputs.

On When checked, the direct signal coming from the

track is sent to the output, mixed with the Master FXs.

Off When unchecked, the direct signal coming from

the track is removed from the audio output, and only sent to the Master FXs. The effected signal will still be panned (in stereo FXs only) according to the Pan value.

Pan

Track position in the stereo field.

L-64…L-1 Left stereo channel.

C 00 Center.

R+1…R+63 Right stereo channel.

Volum e

Track’s volume. This is the volume of each track, as saved in the Style (Style Settings), Performance or STS. It may change when choosing a different Style, Performance or STS.

0…127 MIDI value of the track’s volume.

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send

Pa300 includes two groups of effects (FX A and FX B). While in Style Play mode, the A group is reserved to the Style and Pad tracks, the B group to the Keyboard tracks.

Choosing and editing the effects is done in the dedicated Effect section (see “Effects: A/B FX Configuration” on page 100).

This page lets you set the level of the track’s signal going to the Master FX processors. The Master FX processors are connected in parallel with the dry/direct signal, so you can decide the amount of direct signal that will be sent to the Master FX processors.

In case you do not want to hear the direct signal, just set the Dry parameter to Off (see “Dry” above).

You can assign to the Master FXs any kind of available effects, but we found it convenient to arrange them in the following way, for most of the Styles, STS and Performances included with the Pa300:

A-Master 1 Reverb processor for the Style and Pad tracks.

A-Master 2 Modulating FX processor for the Style and Pad

tracks.

B-Master 1 Reverb processor for the Keyboard tracks.

B-Master 2 Modulating FX processor for the Keyboard

tracks.

Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch from Keyboard to Style tracks, and vice-versa.

Play/Mute icon

Track’s play/mute status.

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

FX Group

This indicates the FX group (A or B) assigned to the group of tracks shown.

Send level (Master 1, Master 2)

0…127 Level of the track (direct) signal sent to the corre-

sponding Master FX effect processor.

Play/Mute icon

Track’s play/mute status.

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Korg PA300 Users manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Important safety instructions

Further notices

Automatic Power-Off

Data Handling

Cleaning

Example screens

Trademarks

Open Source notice

Disclaimer

Liability

Service and User’s Assistance

Keep your keyboard up-to-date

Table of Contents

Welcome!

Physical Features and User Experience

Sounds and Effects

Styles and Songs

Other Features

What’s in the box

About this manual

Contacts

Making a safety copy of your data

Making a safety copy

Restoring a safety copy

Restoring the original factory data

Loading the Operating System

Overview

Front Panel

Music stand holes

Speakers

Joystick lever

Volume controls

Mode selection

Special Mode Buttons

Accompaniment, Memory, Manual Bass

Pads

Selection

Style Elements

Style Controls

Display and Brightness Controls

Special Function Controls

STS Section

Player Controls

Lyrics, Score

Data Entry and Navigation

Tempo Section

Split

Ensemble

Performance Select Section

Transpose Section

Power On/Off

Rear Panel

Glossary of Terms

Sound

Style

Variation

Fill-in & Break

Intro & Ending

Drums

Percussion

Bass & Accompaniment

Keyboard tracks

Performance and STS

Ensemble

The LOGO decoder

Sequencer

Player

Interface basics

Color TouchView graphical user interface

Menus and sections

Overlapping windows

Pages

Dialog boxes

Page menus

Pop-up menus

Checkboxes