Korg PA50sd Electronic Keyboard User Manual


 
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Song operating mode
Page 15 - Track: Mode
Drum tracks
When a track is set in Drum Mode (like the Drum and Per-
cussion tracks), you can adjust the volume for each of the
Drum and Percussion categories.
Kick V Kick drums volume.
Snare V Snare drums volume.
Tom V Toms volume.
HiHat V Hi-Hat volume.
CymbalV Ride, Crash and other cymbals volume.
Percus1V “Classic” percussion set volume.
Percus2V “Ethnic” percussion set volume.
SFX V Special effects volume.
Reset
You can reset the parameters’ value by keeping the SHIFT
button pressed, while pressing the selected track VOLUME/
VALUE button. When you press the above combination, the
Reset window appears:
Press ENTER/YES to reset the currently selected track. Keep
SHIFT pressed, and press ENTER/YES, to reset all tracks.
Press EXIT/NO to abort and leave all parameters unchanged.
PAGE 15 - TRACK: MODE
This page lets you set the polyphony mode for each track.
Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch between Song
tracks 1-8, Song tracks 9-16, and back again.
Parameters
Drum This is a Drum/Percussion track. No Master or
Octave Transpose applies to this track. You can
set a different volume for each class of percus-
sive instruments (“Page 14 - Track: Easy edit”
on page 98).
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.
PAGE 16 - TRACK: INTERNAL/EXTERNAL
This page lets you set the Internal or External status for each
track. It is very useful to let a Song track drive an external
expander.
Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch between Song
tracks 1-8, Song tracks 9-16, and back again.
Parameters
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 con-
nected to the MIDI OUT. It does not play the
internal sounds, thus saving polyphony.
When a track is set to “External”, a strings of
transmitted Control Change and Program
Change data is shown instead of the Program
name assigned to the track. 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.
Both The track plays both the internal sounds and
an external instrument connected to the MIDI
OUT.
RESET NO=Cancel
YES=Trk SHFT+YES=All
Poly Poly
Poly Poly
Poly Poly
Poly Poly
Track:Mode
Poly Poly
Drum Poly
Drum Poly
Poly Poly
Track:Mode
Both Both
Both Both
Both External
Both Both
Track:Int/Ext
Both Both
Both Both
Both External
Both Both
Track:Int/Ext
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CC#0
CC#32
PC