Korg Optimize Your Music Creation with Memory Card on M50 Keyboard

M50 EasyStart

After you do this, the M50 will copy that Program (or Combi) into the sequencer, with all of its mixer, effects, tempo – everything intact. It will also copy any arpeggiator or Drum Track settings*, and you can play and instantly-record exactly the way you did when you were first inspired!

* The Program or Combi must be saved with these features turned ON for this to work.

Note: Each time you use One-Touch Record, the M50 will create a New Song. Don’t worry - your other songs won’t go away!

Now, let’s say you have an idea for a song in a specific style, with a specific arrangement of instruments. You can use a Template Song to quickly set up the sequencer with useful sounds, mixer/effect settings, and even rhythms that are relevant to the style of music you want to create…

Work with the Template Song function:

Start by creating a new, empty song:

1.Press the SEQ button, touch the arrow to the left of “New Song”, and then choose an empty song location.

2.Set the length of the song using the Dial, value slider, Inc/Dec buttons, or numeric keypad, and then touch “OK”.

You can skip this step if you simply want to try this function out – just touch “OK” when prompted.

Now the song is basically a “blank canvas”… Time to load a Template Song:

3.Touch the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the display, and then touch “Load Template Song”.

4.Turn the DIAL to select a template for the musical style you’d like to use, and then touch “OK”.

5.Touch the box next to “Copy Pattern to Track Too?”, and you’ll be presented with a large collection of appropriate rhythm patterns to work with!

6.On the page that follows, touch to choose a pattern, and then use the SEQ START/STOP button to audition the rhythm pattern.

7.Touch “OK” to copy the pattern to the track. (You can change the “Measure” field to insert the pattern at a specific place)

8.Copy multiple patterns by touching “OK” repeatedly, to build the initial song length as desired. When you’re finished, touch “Exit”. You can change the patterns as you go, too… to develop “verse, bridge, chorus-type” drum tracks for your new song.

Including the pattern(s) that you loaded, the Template Song function loads 8 useful sounds, and there are 8 more empty tracks (in the “Prog

9-16” tab) waiting for your own flavors.

Now, touch the “Mixer 1-8” tab, and you’ll see that the level/panning for each track has already been set for you. The insert/master/total effects have also been loaded and routed, and so all that’s left is for you to choose a track and start recording. Of course, you can change all the elements of the template while you’re working… and you can even edit preset Template Song tracks and save them as User Templates, or create your own Template Songs from scratch, so that the M50 is always ready to help you create your music, your way. Note: It just doesn’t get any better than this!

In every tab of Sequence mode, you can always change the track you’re working on. Just touch the name of the track, right below the title of the song, and change it using the various navigation controls.

Saving Using SD Cards

The M50 uses the most popular memory card on the market, the SD card.

1.Insert the SD card into the SD card slot on the back of the M50- it will click into place.

2.Press the MEDIA button.

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