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
 Piano&Str Ac. Bass
Changing the sounds assigned to a performance
Editing a performance
 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
 Play along with the song
Muting/unmuting a recorder’s part
Changing the song’s tempo
 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 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
 Brilliance
Master tuning
Default split point
 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 in Channels
Turning the keyboard on or off Local Control
Midi Clock
 Press the Scroll Button to move the cursor to Channel again
Midi OUT Channels
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Button to show the Midi OUT Channels
 Tus of the selected filter
Midi Filters
Data transfer via the USB port
 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
 Program Change
Standard Midi settings
Using the C-720 as a multitimbral tone generator
 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
 Driver’s ports
Windows Installing the Korg USB-MIDI Driver
Mac OS X Installing Korg USB-MIDI Driver
 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
 Screw loosening
Check after assembly
Disassembly
 Var Name CC32 Osc Description
Appendix
Sounds
 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 Classics Title Composer
Songs
Album SongBook Title Composer
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 Error messages
 Polyphony
Troubleshooting
Problem Possible remedy
 Specifications 720
Technical specifications
 RPN LSB, MSB
Midi Implementation Chart
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