User’s Manual
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Important Safety Instructions
Data Reset
Contents
Introduction
Main features
Temperaments
Adjustable pitch
Powerful integrated amplification
Two sets of headphones
Performance button
Control panel
Chorus
Connections
Amplification, connect only the L/MONO output. Do not con
Connecting to external audio devices
Connecting to an external amplification system
Connecting other audio devices to the C-720
Turning the instrument on
Using the music stand
Before you begin
Open the key cover
Listen to a specified song
Adjusting the volume
Using the headphones
Listening to the Demo
Before you begin Listening to the Demo
GrandPiano 4/4
Playing a single sound Single mode
When you turn the instrument on, it is in Single mode
Basic functions
Playing two sounds at the same time Layer mode
Choosing a different split point
Entering the Split mode
Exit from the Split mode
Selecting a different Left sound
Transposing
Using the pedals
Transpose +02 semitones
Changing the brilliance
Turning the effects on/off
Press the Transpose button to show the Transpose dis- play
Performance Button Bank
Using performances
Choosing performances
Perf.01 4/4 Split&Layr
Changing the sounds assigned to a performance
Editing a performance
Piano&Str Ac. Bass
Tempo and time signature display
Starting and stopping the metronome, adjusting the tempo
Adjusting the tempo
Metronome
Metro TS/Tempo
Choosing a time signature
Drum patterns
Press the Exit button to return to the Main
Selecting the accent
Adjusting the metronome level
Adjusting the drum pattern’s reverb
Saving the metronome settings
After you press the Song button, the Song Play page appears
Accessing the Song Play mode
How to select a song
Playing back a song
After having selected a song, you can play it back
How to start playback
Starting from a different measure
AlbumSongBook 01-Prelude Prelude 1 M--- 4/4
Muting/unmuting a recorder’s part
Changing the song’s tempo
Play along with the song
Turning the Cycle Play off
Cycle Play
Entering Record mode with an existing user song
Quick recording procedure
Entering the Record mode
Entering Record mode with a new, blank song
Selecting sounds
Setting the record options
Recording with the metronome
Setting the time signature and tempo
Recording
Recording with no metronome
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Second-pass recording
Changing sounds to a recorded song
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Pedal Punch recording
Record Mode Pedal Punch
Record Mode Pnc S001 E001
Changing tempo to a recorded song
By choosing a different song
By choosing the Save Song command
Saving the song
By choosing to record a new song
Play mode, whose use has been seen above see Cycle Play on
Setting Cycle Play
Editing a song
Erasing a track
Quantize Q1/16 Exec?
Cutting measures at the end of the song
Quantizing the song
Cut Measures From 99 Exec?
Choose a transposition value in semitones
Transposing the song
Deleting the song
Saving the song after editing
Editing a song Saving the song after editing
Saving a sound
Accessing the Sound edit mode
Exit from the Sound edit mode
Editing sounds and performances
Press the +/YES button to go to the Save To Performance
Press +/YES to confirm, -/NO to cancel
Saving a performance
After editing a sound
After editing a performance
Setting the volume
Adjusting the panning
Use this page to set each sound’s volume
Press Scroll again to select the Reverb On/Off pa- rameter
Adjusting the effects
Setting the reverb effect
C-720 is equipped with three types of effects
Use the +/YES and -/NO buttons to select a different effect
Setting the chorus or modulation effect
Setting the insert effects
If you are in Layer or Split mode, press Scroll
To select the L Layer/Left parameter
Setting the octave transposition
IFX Wet/Dry MW099 LD020
Octave +02 L+00
Programming the pedals
Adjusting the fine tune
SubScale Sw MOn LOff
Selecting a scale
SubScale Type Kirnberger
With the M Main parameter selected
Reset Snd/Prf Exec?
Resetting the current sound and performance
Exit from the Global edit mode
Global settings
Touch settings
Accessing Global edit
Master tuning
Default split point
Brilliance
Pedal 3 Glob Sound Pedal 2 Glob Sound Pedal 1 Glob Sound
Assigning functions to the pedals
Use the +/YES and -/NO button to choose the mute level
Quarter Tone SubScale realtime programming
Fast Play
Mute Level
Turning the keyboard on or off Local Control
Midi Clock
Midi in Channels
Button to show the Midi OUT Channels
Midi OUT Channels
Press the Scroll Button to move the cursor to Channel again
Midi in Ch Ch01 Tr01
Midi Filters
Data transfer via the USB port
Tus of the selected filter
Erase Song Prelude Exec?
Folder Content
Erasing songs from the User Song album
On a Mac Drag the Korg SSD icon over the Eject icon
You can see the operating system’s version number while
General Reset
General Reset Exec? Yes/No
System version number
Midi connections
What is MIDI?
What is Midi Over USB?
What can you do with MIDI?
Standard Midi settings
Using the C-720 as a multitimbral tone generator
Program Change
Control Change
Control Change enable/disable
Please note before use
Installing the Korg USB Midi Driver
Connecting the C-720 to a personal computer
Korg USB-MIDI Driver system requirements
Windows Installing the Korg USB-MIDI Driver
Mac OS X Installing Korg USB-MIDI Driver
Driver’s ports
Assembling the stand
By inserting the four bolts on the front of the pedal
Assembling procedure
For assembly
Fasten the two pieces using two screws a
Assembling the stand Assembling procedure
Assembling the stand Assembling procedure
Remove
Left Speaker Right Speaker Pedals
Check after assembly
Disassembly
Screw loosening
Appendix
Sounds
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
Songs
Album SongBook Title Composer
Album Classics Title Composer
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Error messages
Troubleshooting
Problem Possible remedy
Polyphony
Specifications 720
Technical specifications
RPN LSB, MSB
Midi Implementation Chart
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