Korg KORG Pa50 user manual Playing a Style

8Set the relative volume of the Realtime tracks.

Use each E-H VOLUME/VALUE button pair to set the vol- ume of the Realtime tracks. Press one of the VOLUME/ VALUE button to select a track. Then press the right one to increase the volume, the left one to lower it.

Press the left one to lower…

…and the right one to raise.

9Press FULL UPPER on the KEYBOARD MODE sec- tion, and play.

Again, the Upper tracks can play across the full keyboard range.

0Save your track configuration in a Performance.

That’s all! When you find the right sound, you can press the WRITE button to save the track configuration into a Perfor- mance, a Single Touch Setting (STS), or a Style Performance. The Performance is a handy idea for saving Realtime tracks. See “The Write window” on page 42 for more information.

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2 - Playing a Style

2 - PLAYING A STYLE

A Style will be your virtual band in your best solos. Select one of the 304 Styles we fitted in this machine…

1OK, select your favorite musical Style.

There are plenty of Styles to choose from. We will go with a Jazz Style—the “Jazz Brush”. Let’s come on.

Select the second row of Styles. Press the leftmost STYLE but- ton to switch the lower LED on.

Now, you are free to press button number 4, called “JAZZ 1”. The Style Select window appears.

SoftBeat
JazzBrush	JazzWaltz1
Med.Swing	JazzWaltz2
SlowSwing	5/4 Swing

SwingBallad Mood Swing

Press one of the A VOLUME/VALUE buttons to select “Jazz Brush”.

2Call an Intro.

You can engage an Intro, to be played before the Style. Press INTRO1 or INTRO2. The former plays more freely, without letting you decide of the chords. The latter lets you play a chord progression during its playing.

3Start the Style!

Play a chord, and press the START/STOP button. Then begin playing. Usually (when the SPLIT LED is on) chords are rec- ognized under the split point, i.e. on the Lower part of the keyboard. With the UPPER or FULL Chord Scanning mode, you must play three or more notes to have a chord recog- nized.

4Play your chords and your melody.

Go on playing. As you may notice, Pa50 features a very sophisticate chord recognition engine. Recognized chords are shown in the display.

5Make a break—or should we say “a fill”?

During your playing, you are free to call a one-bar break. Try it:

PRESS BREAK

Do you see? Music stopped for one bar. Then, it is back again. After a while, let’s go for something different…

PRESS FILL1 OR FILL2

No silence, this time. Pa50 plays a complex passage to let you take a breath. FILL1 is the simpler one, where the FILL2 is the more sophisticate. Usually, you will touch FILL1 when play- ing with Variations 1 and 2 (the most easy), FILL2 when in business with Variations 3 and 4 (more complex ones).