Korg KORG Pa50 user manual Basic Operations, Playing on the Keyboard

24Basic operations

Playing on the keyboard

6. BASIC OPERATIONS

PLAYING ON THE KEYBOARD

Just play on the keyboard. You will hear the Realtime tracks playing. There are four Realtime tracks: Upper 1-3 and Lower. They may play all at the same time, or just one or a few of them, depending on their Mute status. If you cannot hear a track, check the mute status of that part.

SELECTING, MUTING/UNMUTING AND SOLOING A TRACK

Selecting. Use the VOLUME/VALUE (A-H) buttons to select a track.

Tracks can be set in different ways: use the KEYBOARD MODE section to select the way they are configured on the keyboard.

•Press FULL UPPER to play the Upper 1-3 tracks on the full range of the keyboard, just as you would on a piano.

Upper 1

Upper 2

Upper 3

A

B

C

D

BossaNova		STS1
Drum/Perc	Piano01		E
Bass01	Guitar01		F
Acc.1-5	StrngEns2		G
	VoxPad1
			H

•Press SPLIT to let the Upper 1-3 tracks play on the right of the Split Point, and the Lower track on the left.

	Upper 1
Lower	Upper 2
	Upper 3

Split Point

•Keep the SPLIT POINT button pressed, and play a note to change the point where the keyboard is divided in an Upper and a Lower part.

Lower Upper

The selected track is shown with a solid square surrounding its status icons.

Selected track

If you can’t see the track you are looking for, use the TRACK SELECT button to scroll up or down the tracks, and find the hidden ones.

Mute/unmute. Press both VOLUME/VALUE (A-H) but- tons to mute or unmute a track. For example, if you are in the main page that appears after turning the instrument on, and you want to mute the Upper 1 track, press the E (UPPER1/ ACC2) buttons together.

To memorize the selected split point note, press the GLOBAL button, then press WRITE to save the Global in memory (see “The Write window” on page 125).

The mute/play status is shown by the relevant icon in the dis- play:

Play status; the track plays on the keyboard.

(no icon) Mute status; the track doesn’t play on the key- board.

Solo. While in the Style Play, Song Play and Song modes, you can solo one of the tracks. Just keep the SHIFT button pressed, and press both VOLUME/VALUE buttons corre- sponding to the track you wish to solo.

To exit the solo mode, keep the SHIFT button pressed again, and press both VOLUME/VALUE buttons corresponding to the soloed track.