Korg KORG Pa50 user manual Welcome, Live Performing, Useful Links, About this Manual

8Welcome!

Live Performing

1. WELCOME!

Welcome to the world of KORG Pa50 Professional Arranger! Pa50 is one of the most powerful arranger available today, both for professional and home entertainment use.

Here are some of the features of your new instrument:

•Powerful HI (Hyper Integrated) KORG sound genera- tion system, as seen in our best professional synthesiz- ers.

•OPOS (Objective Portable Operating System) multi- tasking operating system, to let you load data while playing your instrument.

•Operating System updates, to load new features from disk. Don’t let your instrument get old!

•Solid State Disk (SSD), for any system update–a smart way to replace the usual ROM memory.

•Direct Style access from floppy disk.

•General MIDI Level 2 Sounds-compatible.

•More than 660 Sound Programs.

•4 multieffect processor, each with 89 effect types.

•160 Performances and 1,216 Single Touch Settings (STS), for fast setting of keyboard sounds and effects.

•304 Styles.

•XDS Double Sequencer with Crossfader.

•Style Record and Edit

•Full-featured sequencer (Song Record and Edit)

•Integrated speakers, for the most true sound reproduc- tion.

•Wide Custom Display.

LIVE PERFORMING

Pa50 has been carefully designed to be used live. The “real- time” word has its full meaning in this instrument. Perfor- mances allow the instant selection of all the tracks on the keyboard and a suitable Style; STSs allow an instant selection of the keyboard tracks; and Styles are the realtime backing companions for your realtime playing.

USEFUL LINKS

Your preferred KORG dealer not only carries this keyboard, but also a whole bunch of hardware and software accessories. You should ask him for more Programs, Styles, and other useful music materials.

Each KORG distributor can supply you with useful informa- tion. Just give him a call for additional services. In the English-speaking world, here are the relevant addresses:

USA	KORG USA, 316 South Service Road, Melville,
	New York, 11747, USA
	Tel:1-516-333-9100, Fax:1-516-333-9108
Canada	Jam Industries, 620 McCaffrey, St-Laurent,
	QC, Canada, H4T 1N1
	Tel. (514) 738-3000, Fax (514) 737-5069
UK	KORG UK Ltd, 9 Newmarket Court, Kingston,
	Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK10, 0AU

Telephone: 01908 857100

UK Technical Support Tel: 01908 857122, Fax: 01908 857199

E-mail: info@korg.co.uk

Many KORG distributors also have their own web page on the internet, where you can find infos and software. Useful web pages in English are the following:

www.korg.com

www.korg.co.uk

www.jam-industries.com

A place to find operating system updates and various system files (for example, a full backup of the factory data) is at the following link:

www.korgpa.com

Other useful information can be found worldwide by access- ing to other KORG web sites, like the following:

www.korg.co.jp

www.korgfr.net

www.korg.de

www.korg.it

ABOUT THIS MANUAL

This manual is divided in three sections:

•A Basic Guide, containing an overview of the instru- ment, as well as a series of practical guides (named “Tutorials”).

•A Reference Guide, with each page and parameter described in detail.

•An Appendix, with a list of data and useful information for the advanced user.

Within the manual, you will find the following abbreviations:

The parameter can be saved onto a Perfor- mance by pressing the WRITE button.

The parameter can be saved onto the current Style Performance by pressing the WRITE but- ton.

The parameter can be saved onto a Single Touch Setting by pressing the WRITE button. The parameter can be saved onto the Global, by going to the Global environment (see “Glo- bal edit environment” on page 125) and press- ing the WRITE button.

MAKING A BACKUP COPY OF SYSTEM FILES

Before starting playing with your new Pa50, we suggest you make a back-up copy of all system data, including Pro- grams, Performances and Styles, in case the internal data is changed.

To backup the Operating System, please see “Save OS” on page 141.

To backup the Factory Data (Styles, Programs…), see “Backup Data” on page 141.