Korg KORG Pa50 user manual Style Play Operating Mode, WHAT’S a STYLE?, Styles and Performances

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Style Play operating mode

What’s a Style?

9. STYLE PLAY OPERATING MODE

The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in this mode, you can play Styles (i.e. automatic accompani- ments), or just play with one to four Realtime tracks on the keyboard (Upper 1…3 and Lower).

WHAT’S A STYLE?

A Style is a rhythm/accompaniment structure, that simulates a band backing your solos.

In a vertical direction, it is composed of 8 different tracks (Drums, Percussion, Bass, and 5 different harmonic or melodic instruments). You can play on the keyboard with 4 more Realtime tracks (Upper 1-3 and Lower).

In a horizontal direction, it is a series of Style Elements (i.e., the various sets of patterns for each chord and each of the Intros, Variations, Fills, Breaks and Endings).

STYLES AND PERFORMANCES

Styles and Performances are linked in many ways.

•When the SINGLE TOUCH LED is on, selecting a Style also changes the Realtime (Keyboard) tracks (a Single Touch Setting is selected). The Performance settings are overridden.

•When the STYLE CHANGE LED is on, selecting a Per- formance also selects a Style (the one whose number is memorized with the Performance).

•When pressing the WRITE button, you can save the track’s settings either in a Performance, a Style Perfor- mance, or a Single Touch Setting (STS).

CHANGING AND RESETTING THE TEMPO

While in the main page of the Style Play mode, you can change the Tempo using the DIAL or the DOWN/- and UP/+ buttons.

In any other page, keep the SHIFT button pressed, and use the DIAL to change the Tempo.

To recall the Tempo stored in the current Style, keep the SHIFT button pressed, and press one of the DOWN/- or UP/ + buttons.

Folder	DIRECT FD pages
*.SET > STYLE > USER02	3, 4
*.SET > STYLE > USER03	5, 6

Note: Reading from floppy disk is a little slower than reading from the internal memory. So, there is a chance that you will have to wait some beats, before the selected DIRECT FD Style is ready to play. The Style will enter at the next beginning of mea- sure.

How to make the DIRECT FD bank

To configure the DIRECT FD bank, save your Styles into the first folder in the floppy disk. Folders are read in alphabetical order.

Note: The following procedures requires you overwrite the User Style banks. Save these banks before proceeding, to avoid loosing important data.

1.Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive.

2.Press DISK and go to the Load page.

Disk:Load
	NEWNAME.SET
	LIVE.SET
	ETHNICA.SET
FD	LOAD OPEN	CLOSE

3.Use the F1 (Disk device) button to select the FD (Floppy Disk) device.

4.Load three banks of Styles, to be transformed into the DIRECT FD bank.

5.Go to the Save page.

Disk:Save

ALL

THE DIRECT FD BANK

In addition to the internal memory Styles, you can have DIRECT FD Styles, directly accessed by the floppy disk.

Just insert a disk, and press the DIRECT FD Style bank. The disk drive will read the first (in alphabetical order) “.SET” folder in the floppy disk, and will give you direct access to the Styles it contains (no loading required).

Note: Reading from floppy disk may take some seconds, before the Styles are shown.

Browse through the DIRECT FD Styles using the PAGE but- tons. You can have up to 6 pages, and up to 48 DIRECT FD Styles in a disk.

Folder	DIRECT FD pages
*.SET > STYLE > USER01	1, 2

FD SAVE OPEN CLOSE

6.While the “ALL” item is selected, press F3 (Open) to open it.

7.Use the E-F (Scroll Up) and G-H (Scroll Down) VOL- UME/VALUE buttons (or the TEMPO/VALUE section controls) to move the “STYLE” item to the first line of the display, and press F2 (Save).

8.Select the floppy disk (FD) as the target, using the F1 button.

9.The floppy disk directory appears. Use the E-F (Scroll Up) and G-H (Scroll Down) VOLUME/VALUE buttons (or the TEMPO/VALUE section controls), to scroll the disk content. Move the first folder of the directory to the first line of the display.

10.Press ENTER twice to save the banks.