Korg music workstation, sampler manual Producing songs, Features of the sequencer

Producing songs

TRITON STUDIO contains a 16-multi track MIDI sequencer. The sequencer acts as a hub, integrating TRI- TON STUDIO’s numerous functions, allowing it to be used in a variety of situations including music production and live performance.

Sampling or resampling can be performed in Sequencer mode (☞p.115). You can also apply the TRITON STUDIO’s effects to an external audio input source, for a wide range of possibilities. (☞p.143)

When you turn off the power, the settings made in Sequencer mode and the song data, cue list data, and any user pattern data that you recorded will not be backed up. If you wish to keep this data, you must save it on media (Floppy disk, hard drive etc.) before turning off the power, or perform a MIDI data dump to save the data on an external data filer etc.

If you wish to save the programs, track parameters, effects, and arpeggiator function settings etc. selected for a song as a template song, use the page menu command “Save Template Song.”

Immediately after the power is turned on, TRITON STUDIO will not contain any cue list data or song data, so if you wish to playback a song on the sequencer, you must first load data from media or receive a MIDI data dump from a MIDI filer (☞p.63, PG p.145, 161)

Features of the sequencer

•The sequencer lets you record a maximum of 200,000 events (note data etc.), up to 200 songs, and as many as 999 measures per song.

•Up to 20 cue lists can be created.

A cue list is an arrangement of up to 99 songs that will be played as a chain. You can specify the number of times that each song will repeat. A cue list can also be converted into a single song.

•The arpeggiator function can be used during playback or recording.

•The RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play/Recording) function can be used during playback or recording.

•Sixteen different template songs are built-in, and contain program and effect settings suitable for various musical styles. Up to sixteen original templates that you create can be saved as user template songs.

•Five stereo insert effects, two master effects, and a stereo master EQ can be used for each song.

•Timing resolution is a maximum of /192.

•Sixteen tracks are provided for musical data, and a master track contains time signature and tempo data that controls the playback.

•A track play loop function lets you loop specified measures independently for each track.

•150 preset patterns ideal for drum tracks are built in. In addition, you can create up to 100 user patterns for each song. These patterns can be used as musical data within a song, or can be played by the RPPR function.

•Various methods of recording are supported, including realtime recording in which your performance on the keyboard and controllers (including MIDI control events) is recorded just as you play, and step recording in which the timing, length, and velocity of each note can be specified in the LCD as you input the pitches from the keyboard.

•The musical data and control events that you recorded can be edited in various ways (including event editing and many other edit commands).

•When the “Status” of a track is set to INT or BTH, an external sequencer can be used to play TRITON STUDIO as a multi-timbral tone generator.

When the “Status” of a track is set to BTH, EXT, or EXT2, the sequencer of TRITON STUDIO can play external tone generators.

•Playback can be synchronized with an external MIDI device.

•TRITON STUDIO’s AMS (Alternate Modulation) capability lets you use control changes for realtime control of the parameters of the programs used in a program. Its MIDI Sync abilities let you synchronize the LFO speed to changes in the tempo.

•Dmod (Dynamic Modulation) functionality lets you control effect parameters in realtime. You can also use MIDI Sync to synchronize the LFO speed or delay time to changes in the tempo.

•You can assign names not only to the song, but also to each pattern and track.

•Combination settings can be copied to a song.

•Sequencer data such as a song or cue list that you create can be saved in TRITON STUDIO’s native format, or transmitted as a MIDI data dump.

•A song you created can be converted into SMF (Standard MIDI File) data. SMF songs can also be loaded.

•The PLAY/MUTE/REC and “SOLO On/Off” let you instantly play/mute any desired track on the fly.

•You can rewind or fast-forward while listening to the sound.

•The [LOCATE] key lets you move quickly to a desired location.

•Multisamples you create can be played back together with internal programs in Sequencer mode.

The Time Slice function of Sampling mode lets you divide a rhythm loop sample and create performance data that corresponds to the divided samples. In Sequencer mode you can play this performance data, and adjust the playback tempo without affecting the pitch of the rhythm loop sample. You can also exchange the note numbers of the data, or modify the timing to freely re-create new rhythm loops.

•The TRITON STUDIO provides an In-Track Sampling function which lets you sample an external audio source while the song plays back, and will automatically create note data to trigger that sample at the appropriate point during the playback of the track.

•A song you create can be resampled to the hard disk. In Disk mode, this data can then be written to an audio CD by using the CDRW-1 option.

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