Korg KORG Pa50 Play/Mute status saved with the Song, Master Transpose saved with the Song

90Song operating mode

Save Song page

SAVE SONG PAGE

The new or edited Song is contained in RAM, and is lost when turning the instrument off. The Song is also lost when you overwrite it in Backing Sequence Record mode, or when switching to the Song Play mode. You must save on disk any Song you wish to preserve. The Song is saved as a Standard MIDI File (SMF).

Note: When saving a Song as a SMF, an empty measure in automatically inserted to the beginning of the Song. This mea- sure contains various Song initialization parameters.

1.If you are in an edit page, press EXIT to go back to the Main page.

2.Select the Save Song button. The Save Song page appears.

Move the cursor using the DOWN/- and UP/+ buttons. Select a character using the DIAL. Insert a character at the cursor position by pressing the INSERT button. Delete a character at the cursor position by pressing the DELETE button.

6.When you have finished writing a name for the new midifile, press F2 (Save) to confirm. The “Are you sure?” message will appear. Press ENTER to confirm, or EXIT to abort.

Play/Mute status saved with the Song

When saving a Song, the Play/Mute status is saved with the Song. This status is preserved when playing back the same Song in Song Play mode.

Save Song

NEW_NAME.MID

MYSONGS

MYSONG.MID

FD SAVE OPEN CLOSE

3.Move the folder where you wish to save your Song to the first line of the display, using the E-F (Scroll Up) and G- H (Scroll Down) VOLUME/VALUE buttons, or the TEMPO/VALUE controls. Press F3 (Open) to open it. Close the current folder by pressing F4 (Close).

4.When in the selected folder, you can save the Song over an existing midifile (a file with a “.MID” extension), or create a new midifile.

•To overwrite an existing midifile, move it to the first line of the display.

•To create a new midifile, move the “NEW_NAME.MID” item to the first line of the display.

5.When the “NEW_NAME.MID” item is selected, press one of the A VOLUME/VALUE buttons. You are prompted to assign a name to the new file:

NEW_NAME.MID

Master Transpose saved with the Song

When saving a Song, the Master Transpose value is saved with the Song. Since this value is saved as System Exclusive data, it is preserved when playing back the Song in Song Play mode.

Hint: Since the Master Transpose is a global parameter, loading a Song with a non-standard transposition may result in unwanted transposing when loading other Songs that do not contain their own transposition data. To transpose a Song it is advisable to use the Edit-Transpose function; you can access this function by pressing the MENU button and one of the E VOL- UME/VALUE buttons (see “Page 18 - Edit: Transpose” on page 100).

You may also lock the Master Transpose for various tracks, to avoid unwanted transposition. See “Page 2 - Master Transpose” on page 126 of the Global chapter.

As a general rule, you should use the Master Transpose (TRANSPOSE buttons on the control panel) when you need to transpose the Realtime tracks together with the Song. You should use the Edit-Transpose function (Song Edit mode) when only the Song has to be transposed.

Note: The Master Transpose value is always shown in the upper right corner of the display: