Korg KORG Pa50 user manual Arabic Scale, Other editings

34Tutorial

6 - The Arabic Scale

8Save the Song.

Your changes will be lost when you load a new Song, switch to the Song Play mode, or turn the instrument off. So, press EXIT to go back to the main page of the Song mode.

MySong

Load Song Metro:Off

Save Song Meter:4/4

Sel.Tempo Tempo:Auto

Press one of the C VOLUME/VALUE buttons, to select the Save Song command. Save your Song with a new name. How to accomplish this simple operation is described in great details on page 90 (“Save Song page”).

Note: When saving a Song the Song Performance events (initial Program, Volume, Pan, Effect Send settings) are saved at the beginning of the Standard MIDI File. Effect settings are saved as Pa50 SysEx events, ignored by other musical instruments.

Other editings

The Volume is not the only parameter you can edit. You can edit a lot more things, like the Pan, the Effects, the Tuning… you can even use up to 4 effects (A-D Internal FX Proces- sors), but this will be useful only when reading the Song back on the Pa50 only, since other General MIDI-compliant instruments use only 2 effects.

Need more information?

Go to “Song operating mode” on page 88. The Reference Guide includes all the information you need.

6 - THE ARABIC SCALE

You can program an Arabic scale in real time, by assigning a footswitch or a pad the “Quarter Tone” function.

Another way of changing the scale is assigning it to a Perfor- mance or Single Touch Setting (STS), but this is the most convenient way to change the pitch in real time.

1Program a footswitch to be the Quarter tone switch.

Simply go to the Global environment, and reach “Page 3 - Assignable Pedal/Footswitch, Assignable Slider”. There, you will find the “P/S (Pedal/Switch)” parameter, to which you can assign the Quarter tone function.

Press WRITE to save the Global status in memory (see “The Write window” on page 125).

2Lower some note pitches.

Keep the Quarter tone pedal pressed. The keyboard will not play at this time. Press the notes you want to lower a quarter of tone. Release the pedal.

3Play with your new scale.

The notes you pressed are now lowered of a quarter of tone.

4Reset the original scale.

Press the Quarter tone pedal again. All pitches will be reset, and the scale selected by the Performance, STS or Style Per- formance will be recalled.

Need more information?

As stated, you can assign an alternative scale to a Perfor- mance or STS. Go to “Page 5 - Tuning: Scale” on page 44, and give also a look to the “Scale Mode” parameter (see page 51).