User’s Manual
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Important Safety Instructions
Data Reset
Contents
Introduction
Main features
Powerful integrated amplification
Adjustable pitch
Two sets of headphones
Temperaments
Performance button
Control panel
Chorus
Connections
Connecting to an external amplification system
Connecting to external audio devices
Connecting other audio devices to the C-720
Amplification, connect only the L/MONO output. Do not con
Before you begin
Using the music stand
Open the key cover
Turning the instrument on
Using the headphones
Adjusting the volume
Listening to the Demo
Listen to a specified song
Before you begin Listening to the Demo
When you turn the instrument on, it is in Single mode
Playing a single sound Single mode
Basic functions
GrandPiano 4/4
Playing two sounds at the same time Layer mode
Exit from the Split mode
Entering the Split mode
Selecting a different Left sound
Choosing a different split point
Transposing
Using the pedals
Turning the effects on/off
Changing the brilliance
Press the Transpose button to show the Transpose dis- play
Transpose +02 semitones
Choosing performances
Using performances
Perf.01 4/4 Split&Layr
Performance Button Bank
Editing a performance
Changing the sounds assigned to a performance
Piano&Str Ac. Bass
Adjusting the tempo
Starting and stopping the metronome, adjusting the tempo
Metronome
Tempo and time signature display
Drum patterns
Choosing a time signature
Press the Exit button to return to the Main
Metro TS/Tempo
Adjusting the drum pattern’s reverb
Adjusting the metronome level
Saving the metronome settings
Selecting the accent
How to select a song
Accessing the Song Play mode
Playing back a song
After you press the Song button, the Song Play page appears
Starting from a different measure
How to start playback
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After having selected a song, you can play it back
Changing the song’s tempo
Muting/unmuting a recorder’s part
Play along with the song
Turning the Cycle Play off
Cycle Play
Entering the Record mode
Quick recording procedure
Entering Record mode with a new, blank song
Entering Record mode with an existing user song
Selecting sounds
Setting the record options
Recording
Setting the time signature and tempo
Recording with no metronome
Recording with the metronome
Changing sounds to a recorded song
Second-pass recording
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Record Mode Pnc S001 E001
Record Mode Pedal Punch
Changing tempo to a recorded song
Pedal Punch recording
Saving the song
By choosing the Save Song command
By choosing to record a new song
By choosing a different song
Editing a song
Setting Cycle Play
Erasing a track
Play mode, whose use has been seen above see Cycle Play on
Quantizing the song
Cutting measures at the end of the song
Cut Measures From 99 Exec?
Quantize Q1/16 Exec?
Deleting the song
Transposing the song
Saving the song after editing
Choose a transposition value in semitones
Editing a song Saving the song after editing
Exit from the Sound edit mode
Accessing the Sound edit mode
Editing sounds and performances
Saving a sound
Saving a performance
Press +/YES to confirm, -/NO to cancel
After editing a sound
Press the +/YES button to go to the Save To Performance
Adjusting the panning
Setting the volume
Use this page to set each sound’s volume
After editing a performance
Setting the reverb effect
Adjusting the effects
C-720 is equipped with three types of effects
Press Scroll again to select the Reverb On/Off pa- rameter
Setting the insert effects
Setting the chorus or modulation effect
If you are in Layer or Split mode, press Scroll
Use the +/YES and -/NO buttons to select a different effect
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Setting the octave transposition
Octave +02 L+00
To select the L Layer/Left parameter
Programming the pedals
Adjusting the fine tune
SubScale Type Kirnberger
Selecting a scale
With the M Main parameter selected
SubScale Sw MOn LOff
Reset Snd/Prf Exec?
Resetting the current sound and performance
Touch settings
Global settings
Accessing Global edit
Exit from the Global edit mode
Default split point
Master tuning
Brilliance
Pedal 3 Glob Sound Pedal 2 Glob Sound Pedal 1 Glob Sound
Assigning functions to the pedals
Fast Play
Quarter Tone SubScale realtime programming
Mute Level
Use the +/YES and -/NO button to choose the mute level
Midi Clock
Turning the keyboard on or off Local Control
Midi in Channels
Press the Scroll Button to move the cursor to Channel again
Midi OUT Channels
Midi in Ch Ch01 Tr01
Button to show the Midi OUT Channels
Data transfer via the USB port
Midi Filters
Tus of the selected filter
Erasing songs from the User Song album
Folder Content
On a Mac Drag the Korg SSD icon over the Eject icon
Erase Song Prelude Exec?
General Reset Exec? Yes/No
General Reset
System version number
You can see the operating system’s version number while
What is Midi Over USB?
What is MIDI?
What can you do with MIDI?
Midi connections
Using the C-720 as a multitimbral tone generator
Standard Midi settings
Program Change
Control Change
Control Change enable/disable
Connecting the C-720 to a personal computer
Installing the Korg USB Midi Driver
Korg USB-MIDI Driver system requirements
Please note before use
Mac OS X Installing Korg USB-MIDI Driver
Windows Installing the Korg USB-MIDI Driver
Driver’s ports
Assembling the stand
For assembly
Assembling procedure
Fasten the two pieces using two screws a
By inserting the four bolts on the front of the pedal
Assembling the stand Assembling procedure
Assembling the stand Assembling procedure
Remove
Left Speaker Right Speaker Pedals
Disassembly
Check after assembly
Screw loosening
Sounds
Appendix
Var Name CC32 Osc Description
Drum Kits Selected only by Drum Patterns or via Midi
Var. Name CC 0 CC32 PC* Osc. Description
Performances
Btn Name Sounds / Timbres Mode Remarks Bank
Reverb Description / Beschreibung Chorus
Effects
Album SongBook Title Composer
Songs
Album Classics Title Composer
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Error messages
Problem Possible remedy
Troubleshooting
Polyphony
Specifications 720
Technical specifications
RPN LSB, MSB
Midi Implementation Chart
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