Korg Pa600, Pa600QT Users manual

Reference Guide

ENGLISH | OS Ver. 1.0

Important safety instructions

• Read these instructions.

• Keep these instructions.

• Heed all warnings.

• Follow all instructions.

• 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 on the far position from wall outlet and/or convenience receptacle.

• WARNING – Date/time Lithium button cell battery inside. Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. Replace only with the same or equivalent type. The internal date/time Lithium button cell battery is user replaceable.

• Do not expose batteries to excessive heat, such as direct sunshine, fire or the like.

• Dispose of used batteries according to the battery manufacturer’s instructions.

• 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 lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the product.

THE FCC REGULATION WARNING (for U.S.A.)

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.

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

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).

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.

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, Pa600 will by default automatically turn off 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.

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.

Cleaning the display

Use a soft cotton cloth to clean the screen. 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.

Trademarks

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 eventual 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.

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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

Reference

Selecting elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Style Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Sound Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Performance Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Pad Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

STS Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Style Play operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Start-up settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

How Styles, Variations, Performances and STSs are

linked together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Styles and Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Master Volume and Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Factory, Favorite and User Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

STS Name panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Pad panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Split panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Sub-Scale panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Pad/Switch: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Pad/Switch: Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Style Controls: Drum/Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Style Controls: Keyboard Range On/Off / Wrap Around . . . . 32

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Write Performance dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Write Single Touch Setting dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Write Style Settings dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

The Favorite banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Style/Pad Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Recording Styles and Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Style/Pad Import/Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Entering the Style/Pad Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Exit by saving or deleting changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Listening to the Style while in Edit mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

List of recorded events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Main page - Record 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Main page - Record 2/Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Main page - Guitar Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Style/Pad Record procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Style/Pad Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Style/Pad Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Style/Pad Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Style/Pad Edit: Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Style/Pad Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Style/Pad Edit: Delete All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Style/Pad Edit: Copy from Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Style Element Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . . 59

Style Element Track Controls: Keyboard Range . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Style Element Track Controls: Noise/Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Pad Track Controls: Sound/Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Style Element/Pad Chord Table: Chord Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Style Track Controls: Type/Trigger/Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Import: Import Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Import: Import SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Export SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Write Style/Pad dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Copy Key/Chord dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Sounds dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Expression dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Key Range dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Copy Chord Table dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Overdub Step Recording window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Song Play operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

MIDI Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Tempo Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Master Volume, Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Track parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Standard MIDI Files and Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Keyboard, Pad and Player tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Main page (Normal view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

STS Name panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Volume panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Pad panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Split panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Sub-Scale panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Jukebox panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Keyboard/Ensemble: Key/Velocity Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Keyboard/Ensemble: Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Keyboard/Ensemble: Keyboard Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Pad/Switch: Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Pad/Switch: Assignable Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Introduction

Table of Contents

Jukebox Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Sequencer operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Standard MIDI Files and MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Sequencer Play - Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Entering Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Record mode: Multitrack Sequencer page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Record mode: Step Record page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Record mode: Backing Sequence (Quick Record) page . . . . . . 91

Record mode: Step Backing Sequence page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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

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

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

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

Effects: A/B FX Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Effects: Master 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Track Controls: Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Track Controls: Drum Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Track Controls: Easy Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Event Edit: Event Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Event Edit: Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Song Edit: Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Song Edit: Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Song Edit: Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Song Edit: Cut/Insert Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Song Edit: Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Song Edit: Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Song Edit: Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Song Edit: RX Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Song Select window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Save Song window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Sound Edit operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

The MIDI channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

How to select oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Sounds, Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Basic: Sound Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Basic: OSC Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Basic: Vel/Key Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Basic: Damper Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Basic: Damper Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Basic: EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

DrumKit: Sample Setup (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

DrumKit: EQ (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

DrumKit: Voice Mixer (Drum Kits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Pitch: Pitch Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Pitch: Pitch EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Filter: Filter Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Filter: Filter Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Filter: Filter LFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Filter: Filter EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Amp: Amp Level/Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Amp: Amp Mod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Amp: Amp EG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

LFO: LFO1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

LFO: LFO2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Effects: “B” FX Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Effects: Master 1 / Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Effects: Master 2 / Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

User PCM Samples: User Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Write Sound dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Copy Oscillator dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Copy Drum Kit dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

AMS (Alternate Modulation Source) list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Overview on the Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Edit page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

General Controls: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

General Controls: Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

General Controls: Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

General Controls: Clock & Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Mode Preferences: Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Mode Preferences: Song & Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Mode Preferences: Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Controllers: Hand Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Controllers: Foot Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Tuning: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Tuning: Transpose Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Tuning: Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

MIDI: General Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

MIDI: MIDI In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

MIDI: MIDI In Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

MIDI: MIDI Out Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

MIDI: Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Audio & EQ: MP3 / Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Audio & EQ: Limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Audio & EQ: Master EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Touch Panel Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Write Quarter Tone SC Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Write Midi Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Write Limiter Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Write Master EQ Preset dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Media mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Storage devices and internal memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Supported device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Selecting and deselecting files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Searching files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

File types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Media structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Page structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Navigation tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Care of mass storage devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Merging PCM Samples from various sources . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Table of Contents

SongBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Custom List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

List Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Book Edit 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Book Edit 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Book Edit 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Page menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Lyrics, Score, Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Lyrics page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Score page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Markers page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

What is MIDI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

What is MIDI Over USB? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Standard MIDI Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The General MIDI standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The Global channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The Chord 1 and Chord 2 channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The Control channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

MIDI Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Connecting Pa600 to a Master keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Connecting Pa600 to a MIDI accordion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Connecting Pa600 to an external sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Playing another instrument with Pa600 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Appendix

Factory data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Style Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Style and Player controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Single Touch Settings (STS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Sounds (Bank order) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Sounds (Program Change order) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Multisamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Drum Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

MIDI Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Assignable parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240

List of Pedal/Footswitch functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

List of Assignable Switches functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

Dynamic Modulation sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Dynamics (Dynamic) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

EQ and Filters (EQ/Filter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Overdrive, Amp models, and Mic models (OD Amp Mic) . 254

Chorus, Flanger, and Phaser (Cho/Fln Phaser) . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Modulation and Pitch Shift (Mod./P.Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Reverb and Early Reflections (Reverb ER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Mono-Mono Serial (Mono-Mono) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Double Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314

Connecting Pa600 to a personal computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

KORG USB-MIDI Driver system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Please note before use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Windows: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver . . . . . . . . 314

Mac OS X: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver . . . . . . . 314

MIDI Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316

MIDI Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Recognized chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

Introduction

Table of Contents

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 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.

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. Wa r n in g : Any Style already existing at

the target location will be overwritten!

Note: Depending on the status of the “Auto Select” parameter (see page 140), a Style may be immediately selected when pressing one of the STYLE SELECT buttons. 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 35).

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 140) 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 name begins to flash, meaning it is ready to start playing at the beginning of the next measure.

Delete

Choose this command from the page menu, and delete the selected item. Please keep in mind that you can only delete nonprotected items.

1. Select the Style to be deleted,

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!

Rename

Choose this command from the page menu, and 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.

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 from the page menu, and 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”.

In any case, the Pa600 will try to automatically put on two lines two words separated by two spaces.

Be careful not to write words exceeding the width of the side tabs of the Style Select window.

1. Choose the Rename Favorites 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.e

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 140) 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 140).

Sound Select window

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.

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.

The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s page menu, apart for a difference with the Delete command.

Delete

When deleting a Sound based on User PCM Samples, you are asked if you want to delete the Samples and Multisamples. Confirm deletion only if you don’t plan to reuse the same Samples and Multisamples for some other new User Sounds. Choosing to delete them frees PCM Sample memory for other data.

Hint: In case you need more free PCM Sample memory, and you know there are unused Samples and Multisamples in memory, use the “Delete Non-assigned User PCM Samples” command in the Sound > User PCM Sample page to clean memory (see page 133).

Reference

Selecting elements

Performance Select window

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages) Performances

Side tabs (banks)

Lower tabs (pages)

Pad sets

Pads

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 140), 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 140) is turned on, the window automatically closes shortly after you select a Performance.

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.

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 sets

Selected set of Pads. Hit are single-note, pre-programmed factory Pads. Sequence are sequence-based, pre-programmed fac- tory Pads. Locale 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-recorded 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.

Pad

Touch one of these buttons in the display to select a Pad. Unless the “Display Hold” parameter (see page page 140) is turned on, the window automatically closes short after you select a Pad.

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.

The commands are the same seen for the Style Select window’s page menu.

Selecting elements

STS Select

Song path

Song Select window

This page appears when you touch the Song name in the display, or press the SONG buttons in the SELECTION section 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.

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 midifiles.

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.

Wa r ni n g : 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.

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 either the

internal storage memory or the HOST USB ports.

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.

Selecting elements

Song Select window

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).

Rename

Available only 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.

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

Use this command to delete the selected file or folder.

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.

Reference

Style Play operating mode

Start-up settings

Overall instrument’s

volume

Balance of Style and Pad tracks against the Keyboard tracks

Style Play operating mode

The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in this mode, you can play with Styles (i.e. automatic accompaniments), while playing with one to four tracks (Upper 1-3 and Lower) 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 to it your preferred start-up settings.

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 141).

Styles and Pads

Each Style includes four Pads. Each time you select a Style, the four Pads 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 Accompaniment and Pad tracks against the Keyboard tracks.

Note: As an alternative, the BALANCE knob can also work as a volume control. See “Balance Slider” on page 146.

How Styles, Variations, Performances and STSs are linked together

Styles, Variations, Performances and STSs are linked in many ways.

• When the STS MODE LED is steadily on or blinking, selecting a Style also changes the Keyboard tracks (STS 1 is automatically selected). Performance settings are overridden.

• When the STS MODE LED is blinking, selecting a Variation also select the corresponding STS.

• When the STYLE CHANGE LED is on, selecting a Performance also selects a Style (the one memorized with the Performance).

• Current track settings can be saved either to a Performance, an STS, or the Style Settings, depending on the page menu command you select.

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 don’t want to do so, by turning the protection off, see “Factory Style and Pad Protect” on page 145).

• Favorite Style banks are Styles loaded from an external device, created or edited by yourself. 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 35 for information on how to manage these Styles.

• User Style banks are, like the Favorite banks, Styles loaded from an external device, created or edited by yourself (the User). These are banks conceived as a ‘workbench’ – a place where to manage Styles and banks before saving them to a final location. See the “Style/Pad Record mode” chapter for information on how to edit or create Styles.

Style Play operating mode

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 after 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 143).

Page menu icon

Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. See “Page menu” on page 32 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 15).

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 using the TRANSPOSE buttons on the control panel.

Note: Transpose may be automatically changed when selecting a different Performance or Style. It may also be changed when loading a Standard MIDI File generated with an instrument of the Korg Pa series.

To avoid transposition, the Master Transpose is “locked” by default. If you want to lock or unlock it, change the Master Transpose Lock parameter’s status (see “General Controls: Lock” on page 141).

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.

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 DI A L.

To recall the Tempo stored in the current Style, press the TEMPO– and + buttons together.

Reference

Style Play operating mode

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 can prevent the Tempo from changing by turning the TEMPO LOCK LED on.

Note: Tempo may change while a Style Element is playing. Each Style Element may contain Tempo Change data.

Song area

This is where the Song assigned to the onboard Player is shown.

Song name

Name of 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 using the SOUND button in the SELECTION section of the control panel.

For more information about the Sound Select window, see “Sound Select window” on page 7.

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 22).

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 144).

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 page8). 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.

Keyboard tracks area

This is where Keyboard tracks are shown.

Abbreviation Track Hand

UP1 Upper 1 Right hand

UP2 Upper 2

UP3 Upper 3

LOW Lower Left hand

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 15.

Sound name

Name of the Sound assigned to the corresponding Keyboard track.

Style Play operating mode

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 34).

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.

Note: The volume of the Keyboard tracks may be saved to a Performance or STS. The volume of the separate Style tracks (Style Tracks view) can be memorized to the current Style Settings.

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 structure. 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 32 and “Write Single Touch Setting” on page 32).

• 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 32).

• The offset volume of the grouped Style tracks is automatically saved to the Global.

Reference

Style Play operating mode

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 Nor-

mal (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.

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 144).

Keyboard tracks

Here you can separately control the volume and play/mute status of each Keyboard track.

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 of the individual Style tracks.

Original Style Sounds

This parameter lets you choose 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.

Note: This parameter can be saved with the Performance or Style Settings.

On Style tracks always use the original Sounds

recorded in 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 are the same for all Style Elements (there are no different Sounds for each Style element).These Sounds can be saved into a Performance or Style Settings with the “Write Performance” or “Write Current Style Settings” commands (see page 32). Assigned Sounds are shown in the Sounds area of this page.

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 operating mode

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 “Pad/Switch: Pad” page (see page 30).

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 8).

When the Lock is open, Pads can be changed 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 22).

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 operating mode

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 Pa600 (or to press the EXIT button to close the message with no changes).

Global

There is a global split point, and “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 22). When the Quarter Tone button is pressed, it corresponds to the QUARTER TONE section on the control panel (Pa600 Quarter tone only).

With the “Quarter Tone” button non-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.

Note: This function can be automatically activated by playing the keyboard harder. See “Velocity Control” on page 144.

Style Play operating mode

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 32).

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 also 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 in proportion.

Off When changing the volume of one of the Upper

tracks, only that track’s volume is changed. 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 19).

Style Play operating mode

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

Pa600 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 24).

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 Pa600:

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.

Style Play operating mode

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain

Trac k Reset buttons

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain

In this page you can set the three-band equalization (EQ) for each individual track.

Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch from the Keyboard to the Style tracks, and vice-versa.

Hi (High) Gain

This parameter lets you adjust the high frequencies equalization on each individual track. This is a shelving curve filter. Values are shown in decibels (dB).

-18…+18dB High gain value in decibels.

Mid (Middle) Gain

This parameter lets you adjust the middle frequencies equalization on each individual track. This is a bell curve filter. Values are shown in decibels (dB).

-18…+18dB Middle gain value in decibels.

Low Gain

This parameter lets you adjust the low frequencies equalization on each individual track. This is a shelving curve filter. Values are shown in decibels (dB).

-18…+18dB Low gain value in decibels.

Play/Mute icon

Track’s play/mute status.

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control

This page lets you reset or bypass the track’s equalization, programmed in the previous page.

Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch from the Keyboard to the Style tracks, and vice-versa.

Reset All Tracks button

Touch this button to reset (i.e., “flatten”) equalization for all tracks (both Realtime and Style tracks).

Track Reset buttons

Use these buttons to reset (i.e., “flatten”) equalization for the corresponding track.

Bypass

Check any of these checkboxes to bypass the equalization for the corresponding track. When bypassed, equalization has no effect on the track, but all parameters are preserved. When the box is unchecked, equalization is activated again.

On The bypass function is engaged, so no equaliza-

tion is active on the corresponding track.

Off The bypass function is not engaged, so the equal-

ization is active on the corresponding track.

Input Trim

This knob allows you to limit the level of the signal passing through the equalizer. Extreme equalization values can overload the audio circuits and lead to distortion. This control lets you set equalization as desired, and at the same time avoid overloading.

0…99 Limiting value. The higher, the most effective it is.

Play/Mute icon

Track’s play/mute status.

Reference

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Style Play operating mode

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning

This page is where you can set the octave transpose and fine tuning for each track. Plus, you can program the Pitch Bend range for each track.

Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch from the Keyboard to the Style tracks, and vice-versa.

PB Sensitivity

These parameters show the Pitch Bend range for each track, in semitones.

1…12 Maximum up/down pitch bend range (in semi-

tones). 12 = ±1 octave.

0 No pitch bend allowed.

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale

You can assign a different scale (a sub-scale) to the Keyboard tracks, the Upper tracks or all tracks. This will allow, for example, to play a solo with a particular Quarter Tone tuning, while the backing tracks play in the Equal tuning.

This page is where you can program the sub-scale for the selected tracks; a different sub-scale can be associated to each Performance or STS. Track selection is general, and can be done with the “Scale Mode” parameter of the Global > Mode Preferences > Style page (see page 144).

The remaining tracks will use the basic scale set in the Global > Tuning > Scale page (see “Main Scale” on page 148). This is the “standard” scale of the instrument.

With the “Quarter Tone” button non-pressed

Octave Transpose

This is the octave transpose value.

-3 Lowest octave.

0 Standard tuning.

+3 Highest octave.

Detune

This is the fine tuning value.

-64 Lowest pitch.

00 Standard tuning.

+63 Highest pitch.

Play/Mute icon

Track’s play/mute status.

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

With the “Quarter Tone” button pressed

Note: Quarter Tone selection can be received by MIDI (i.e., by an external sequencer or controller). Conversely, selection of Quarter Tone settings can be sent by the Pa600 to an external MIDI recorder as System Exclusive data.

Scale

Selected scale. See “Scales” on page 242 for a list of the available scales. When selecting the User scale, the keyboard diagram becomes active, letting you program a custom scale (see “How to create a custom scale by fine-tuning each note of the User scale” below).

Key

This parameter is needed by some scales to set the preferred key (see

“Scales” on page 242).

Style Play operating mode

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale

Fine tuning values

Quarter Tone

Pa600 Quarter Tone only: When this option is turned on, this page corresponds to the QUARTER TONE section of the control panel. You can program the Quarter Tone scale on the display, or by using the keys on the control panel. The controls on the control panel remain functional, even when going to a different page.

Press the Quarter Tone button to make the keyboard diagram active (Pa600 Quarter Tone only: this also activates the QUAR- TER TONE section of the control panel). In the display, touch any note you want to lower a quarter tone, making a big dot appear on the note diagram. Touch the note again to make the dot disappear.

Touch one of the four SC Preset buttons to recall the corresponding preset, and touch any note you want to lower a quarter tone down, making a big dot appear on the detuned note in the diagram. Touch the note again to make the dot disappear.

Scale alteration made in this page is momentary and is not memorised. It is only meant to allow for fast scale alteration while playing.

To make realtime changes faster, you can also assign the Quarter Tone function to the footswitch or an Assignable Switch (see below “How to use the Quarter Tone function with a footswitch or Assignable Switch” for more information).

The use of SC Presets allows for immediate recall of previously programmed Quarter Tone scales (see below “How to use the Quarter Tone function with the SC Presets” for more information).

SC Preset buttons

These buttons appear only when the “Quarter Tone” parameter is checked. Use these buttons to recall the corresponding custom

scale presets. See “How to use the Quarter Tone function with the SC Presets” below for information on how to use them.

Keyboard diagram

When “Quarter Tone” is checked, this diagram allows for lowering each note of a quarter tone. When a User scale is selected, it allows you to fine-tune each note’s pitch.

Scale lock icon

When locked, Scale parameters remain unchanged when selecting a different Performance or STS.

For more information on parameter locks, see “General Controls: Lock” on page 141.

How to create a custom scale by fine-tuning each note of the User scale

way, you can create a custom scale, that you can save to a Performance or STS.

After having selected the User scale, touch a note in the keyboard diagram, and use VALUE DIAL to adjust the selected note tuning in cents.

Note: These settings can be saved to a Performance or STS, as described below.

How to use the Quarter Tone function with the SC Presets

When the “Quarter Tone” button is pressed, four “SC Preset” buttons appear, and you can select one of four SC Presets to recall a preset custom scale. (Pa600 Quarter Tone: these buttons

correspond to the SC buttons in the QUARTER TONE section of the control panel.)

1. Program and save a custom scale into an SC Preset.

To do so, go to the Global mode, and reach the “Tuning: Scale” page. When programming is done, choose the “Write SC Preset” command from the page menu, then select one of the preset locations where to save the current settings (see “Write Quarter Tone SC Preset dialog box” on page 155).

2. Return to this page, and touch the “Quarter Tone” button to

make the “SC Preset” buttons appear.

3. Touch one of the “SC Preset” buttons to recall a preset cus-

tom scale.

Each preset contains custom detuning of each note of the scale, and memorizes the selected degree(s) of the scale.

When no preset is selected, the default scale is automatically recalled. This scale assigns a -50 cent value to all notes, and turns all scale degrees off.

You can also select an SC Preset by assigning the relevant function to an Assignable Switch (see “Pad/Switch: Switch” on page 31) or Assignable Footswitch (see “Controllers: Foot Controllers” on page 146).

4. Use the keyboard diagram to turn the note detuning on or

off.

Make a big dot appear to detune the corresponding note, or make it disappear to reset tuning.

5. Reset the original scale.

Touch the “Quarter Tone button again, to deselect it and recall the main scale.

Reference

When the User scale is selected, the keyboard diagram becomes active. You can then change each note tuning in cents of a semitone (within a range of ±99 cents, referred to Equal tuning). This

Style Play operating mode

Effects: A/B FX Configuration

FX group

How to use the Quarter Tone function with a footswitch or Assignable Switch

Effects: A/B FX Configuration

You can assign the “Quarter Tone” function to a footswitch or an Assignable Switch, to program a custom scale in realtime, for example to allow for those sudden scale changes typical of the Arabic music. These changes are not saved anywhere, so the scale is easily “wiped-out” when selecting a different Performance or STS, or when pressing the Quarter Tone pedal again.

Note: While in Style Play mode, you can create a custom scale, to be assigned to a Performance or STS, simply by selecting and editing a User scale, and saving any change to a Performance or STS. See “How to create a custom scale by fine-tuning each note of the User scale” above.

While in Global mode, you can create a custom scale and save it to one of the four SC Presets, and recall it by touching one of the SC Preset buttons in the display. Then, you can start your realtime scale editing from the selected preset. See “How to use the Quarter Tone function with the SC Presets” above.

1. Program the footswitch or an Assignable Switch to be the

Quarter Tone switch.

Simply go to the Global mode, and reach the “Controllers: Foot Controllers” page. There, you will find the “Pedal/ Footswitch” parameter, to which you can assign the Quarter Tone function.

2. Lower some note pitches.

Keep the Quarter Tone pedal pressed. The keyboard will not play at this time. Press the notes you want to lower a quarter tone. Release the pedal.

3. Play with your new scale.

Notes you pressed on step 2 are now lowered of a quarter tone.

4. Reset the original scale.

Press and release the Quarter Tone pedal again, without playing any note. All pitches will be reset, and the scale selected by the Performance or STS will be recalled.

This page allows you to select the A (Style and Pads) and B (Keyboard) groups of effects. Please use the “FX A” and “FX B” side tabs to switch from one group to the other one.

FX Groups (FX A, FX B)

Pa600 includes two groups of effects (FX A and FX B). There are two master FXs for group. In Style Play mode, the A group is reserved to the Style and Pad tracks, the B group to the Realtime (Keyboard) tracks.

Master FX 1, 2

Effects assigned to the corresponding effect processors. Usually, FX1 are reverbs, while FX2 are modulating effects (chorus, flanger, delay…). For a list of the available effects, see in the Appendix.

Effects assigned to both FX groups can be saved to a Performance. Effect assigned to the FX A group (Style and Pad tracks) can be saved to the Style Settings. Effects assigned to the FX B group (Keyboard tracks) can be saved to an STS.

W/D

Use this parameter to set the amount of the effect (Wet) against the non-effected (Dry) signal coming from the track.

MFX2 to MFX1

Amount of the MFX2 effect going back to the input of the MFX1 effect.

M.T. (Modulating Track)

Source track for modulating MIDI messages. You can modulate an effect parameter with a MIDI message generated by an internal physical controller.

Style Play operating mode

Effects: Master 1, 2

Selected effect

FX parameters

FX group

Control Change/Program Change area

CC#0 value

CC#32 value

PC value

Effects: Master 1, 2

These pages contain the editing parameters for the four effect processors. Here is an example of the FX A page, with the Reverb Wet P la te ef f ect a ss i gne d .

Selected effect

Select one of the available effects from this pop-up menu.

Note: Effects can be different for each one of the editing pages.

FX parameters

Parameters may be different, depending on the selected effect. See the relevant chapter in the Appendix for a list of the available parameters for each effect type.

Wet /Dr y

Use this parameter to set the amount of the effect (Wet) against the non-effected (Dry) signal coming from the track.

Track Controls: Mode

This page lets you connect each track to the internal sound generator and to external MIDI devices. This is very useful to let a Style track drive an external expander, or play a digital piano with one of Pa600’s Keyboard tracks. In addition, here you can set the polyphony mode for each track.

Int./Ext. (Internal/External)

Internal The track plays the sounds generated by the

internal sound engine. It does not play an external instrument connected to the MIDI OUT.

External The track plays an external instrument connected

to the MIDI OUT. The connected device must receive on the MIDI channel associated with this track on the Pa600 (see “MIDI: MIDI Out Channels” on page 151).

A track set to this status cannot play the internal sounds.

Instead of the assigned Sound name, the <E: aaa.bbb.ccc> indicator is shown on a track’s area in the Main page:

Src (Source)

Modulation source. To select the track generating this message, see the “M.T. (Modulating Track)” parameters found in the “Effects: A/B FX Configuration” page (see above). See the relevant chapter in the Appendix for a list of the modulation sources.

Reference

This indicator begins with a remark saying the track is in External (”E”) mode, and continues with a strings of transmitted Control Change and Program Change data. This will let you know what the track is transmitting to the MIDI OUT. In the following example, CC#0 is the Control Change 0 (Bank Select MSB), CC#32 is the Control Change 32 (Bank Select LSB), PC is the Program Change:

When touching the Sound area, the numeric keypad appears, instead of the Sound Select window. You can enter the Control Change/Program Change bundle shown above, separating the three parts with a dot (.).

Style Play operating mode

Track Controls: Drum Edit

Both The track plays both the internal sounds and an

external instrument connected to the MIDI OUT.

Typ e

Drum Drum/Percussion track. Set a track to Drum

mode if you wish to separately adjust the volume and set a different output for each percussive family of the assigned Drum Kit Sound. (See “Track Controls: Drum Edit” on page 26).

Note: Tracks set to Drum or Percussion mode while in Style Record (see “Track Type” on page 62) cannot be edited here. This option appears in grey. Other Style tracks cannot be set to Drum mode here.

Note: Drum Kits are not affected by transpose whichever the type of track they are assigned to.

Hint: Set any track to Drum mode, if you don’t want the assigned Sound to be transposed (it will behave as a Drum Kit).

Poly Tracks of this kind are polyphonic, i.e. they can

play more than one note at the same time.

Mono Tracks of this kind are monophonic, i.e. each new

note stops the previous note.

Mono Right A Mono track, but with priority assigned to the

rightmost (highest) note.

Mono Left A Mono track, but with priority assigned to the

leftmost (lowest) note.

Play/Mute icon

Track’s play/mute status.

Track Controls: Drum Edit

In this page you can adjust the volume and edit the main parameters for each family of Drum and Percussion instrument for the selected track. A list of families is shown below.

These parameters can be accessed only on tracks set to the Drum mode (see above). Use them on tracks with a Drum Kit assigned, or you will not be able to hear any change.

Hint: Use the TRACK SELECT button to cycle between the track groups. After selecting a track, choose the “Solo Track” command from the page menu to avoid listening to the other tracks during editing.

Note: All values are offsets referred to the value of the original Sounds.

Family Select

Use these icons/buttons to select the drum family you want to edit. These buttons are only accessible when you select a Drum track.

Play status. The track can be heard.

Mute status. The track cannot be heard.

Drum family icon Drum family

Kick drums

Snare drums

Tom s

Hi-Hat cymbals

Ride, Crash and other cymbals

Low-pitched percussions

High-pitched percussions

Special effects

Overview of the current parameter

Under the icons of the Drum families you can see the value of the selected parameter for all the families. This will let you compare the value of the selected family with all the others. The values are shown in grey (non editable).

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Table of Contents

Selecting elements

Style Select window

Style Select page menu

Sound Select window

Sound Select page menu

Performance Select window

Performance Select page menu

Pad Select window

Sound Select page menu

STS Select

Song Select window

Selecting a Song by its ID number

Song Select page menu

Style Play operating mode

Start-up settings

Styles and Pads

Master Volume and Balance

How Styles, Variations, Performances and STSs are linked together

Factory, Favorite and User Styles

Main page

Page menu icon

Style area

Page header

Song area

Performance/STS area

Keyboard tracks area

Panels

STS Name panel

Volume panel

Changing the tracks’ volume

Changing the Play/Mute status

Saving the track’s volume and play/mute status

Track names

Normal View

Style Tracks View

Selected Track Info area

Pad panel

Sounds area

Split panel

Sub-Scale panel

Edit menu

Mixer/Tuning: Volume/Pan

Edit page structure

Mixer/Tuning: FX Send

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Gain

Mixer/Tuning: EQ Control

Mixer/Tuning: Tuning

Mixer/Tuning: Sub Scale

How to create a custom scale by fine-tuning each note of the User scale

How to use the Quarter Tone function with the SC Presets

Effects: A/B FX Configuration

How to use the Quarter Tone function with a footswitch or Assignable Switch

FX Groups (FX A, FX B)

Effects: Master 1, 2

Track Controls: Mode

Track Controls: Drum Edit