Korg KORG Pa50 user manual Tutorial, Playing in Realtime, SoftBeat

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Tutorial

1 - Playing in realtime

7. TUTORIAL

This chapter is fully devoted to step-by-step instructions, that we hope may be useful to learn the basics—on-field.

the pointing arrow. You will hear the Dark Pad Program play together with the Grand Piano.

1 - PLAYING IN REALTIME

As soon as you turn your Pa50 on, it is in Style Play mode, and you can play it in realtime. Please follow me…

1Play on the keyboard.

When you turn the Pa50 on, Performance 1-1 (“Ste- reoGrand”) is automatically selected. This sets the Realtime (Keyboard) tracks for you. In this case (unless someone mod- ified this Performance earlier) you get the Upper 1 track play- ing on the full keyboard range, with the Grand Piano Program selected.

You may know there are four available Realtime tracks: Upper 1-3 and Lower. Upper Realtime tracks may play on the full range of the keyboard (the selected KEYBOARD MODE shall be FULL UPPER). Otherwise, the Lower track plays on the left of the Split Point, and the Upper tracks on the right (KEYBOARD MODE shall be SPLIT).

If you are not satisfied with this setting at startup, just select another Performance. Or change the track’s settings—as you will see in this tutorial—and save them into Performance 1-1. You’ll soon see how to do it.

2Select a different Performance.

Is the PERFORM. LED switched on?

If so, press one of the PROGRAM/PERFORMANCE buttons, and select a Performance with the VOLUME/VALUE buttons (on the side of the display).

StereoGrand

StereoGrand Blue

ClupPiano Legend

ForrestStr MrJazz

ResonPads OxydBrass

Select a Performance with the VOLUME/VALUE buttons

Go on trying with the different Performances. We provided 160 of them for you.

3Select Performance 1-1 (“Grand Piano”) again.

As above: press Performance bank 1, and use the A VOL- UME/VALUE buttons to select Performance 1-1.

4Unmute the Upper 2 track.

Press both F VOLUME/VALUE buttons.

The Upper 2 track will be selected and unmuted. The Play icon will appear, sur-

rounded by the “selected track” frame and accompanied by

SoftBeat STS1

Drum/Perc	GrandPiano
Bass01	DarkPad
Acc.1-5	StrngEns2
	AnalogStr

Press the F VOLUME/VALUE buttons

5Press SPLIT on the KEYBOARD MODE section, and play.

Now, the keyboard is split in two parts: the Lower part on the left, and the Upper part on the right. The AnalogStr Program is playing on the Lower part, while the Grand Piano and the Dark Pad are playing on the Upper part.

6Set the split point.

Not happy with the current split point? Keep the SPLIT POINT button held down, and play the new split point on the keyboard. You can even save this setting in memory (see “The Write window” on page 125).

7Mute/unmute various tracks.

Press both H VOLUME/VALUE buttons. You will mute the Lower track.

SoftBeat STS1

Drum/Perc	GrandPiano
Bass01	DarkPad
Acc.1-5	StrngEns2
	AnalogStr

Press the H VOLUME/VALUE buttons

Press them again to unmute the Lower track.

Try also with the Upper tracks, using the E, F and G VOL- UME/VALUE buttons. You will notice the sound becomes more or less fuller-sounding, depending on the number of tracks muted or unmuted.

SoftBeat STS1

Drum/Perc	GrandPiano
Bass01	DarkPad
Acc.1-5	StrngEns2
	AnalogStr

Press the E-G VOLUME/VALUE buttons