Korg musical instruments

Introduction to OASYS

To reset a single control, hold down RESET

CONTROLS and then move a Control Surface slider or

knob, press one of the control surface buttons, or move

the Vector Joystick.

To reset an entire page of the Control Surface all at

once, including all sliders, knobs, and switches, hold

down RESET CONTROLS and then touch any of the

Control Assign buttons, such as TIMBRE/TRACK or

TONE ADJUST.

COMPARE button

Use this button to compare the sound of the Program

or Combination that you are currently editing with the

saved, un-edited version of the sound. You can also use

this button to make “before and after” comparisons

when recording or editing in Sequencer mode.

FUNCTION button

This button is reserved for future use.

11. BANK SELECT buttons

Use these buttons to change banks when selecting

Programs or Combinations. The LEDs in the buttons

light up to show the current bank.

In Program mode, these buttons select the Program

bank. They are active only on the Play pages.

In Combination mode, these buttons have two

functions:

• When you’re selecting Combinations, they choose

the Combination bank.

• When you’re assigning a Program to a timbre

within the Combi, they select the Program bank.

In Sequencer mode, when a track’s Program name is

selected, these buttons change the Program bank.

General MIDI banks

Selecting General MIDI Program banks is a little

different from selecting other banks. Each time you

press the INT-G button, the bank will step to the next

GM(2) bank or GM drum bank in the following order:

G, g(1), g(2)–g(8), g(9), g(d), G, g(1), etc.

What’s in each bank?

For details on the contents of the Program banks, see

“Program Bank Contents” on page 2. For details on the

Combi banks, see “Combination Bank Contents” on

page 3.

12. TouchView display

The OASYS features our exclusive TouchView graphic

interface, based on a touch-panel LCD screen.

By touching items on the LCD screen, you can select

pages, tabs, and parameters, and set parameter values

via on-screen menus and buttons.

13. Headphone jack

This stereo 1/4” headphone jack carries the same

signal as the Main L/R outputs.

The headphone volume is controlled by the VOLUME

slider.

14. CD-R/RW drive

The built-in CD-R/RW drive lets you save and load

sound and sample data, back up your sequences and

audio recordings, and burn your ﬁnal mixes as audio

CDs.

This drive is a precision device. When using it–

especially when burning CDs–the keyboard must be

in a horizontal position, and not be subject to

vibration. Speciﬁcally, don’t try to burn a CD and

play on the keyboard at the same time.

15. Drum/Chord Pads

These velocity-sensitive pads can trigger single notes

or chords of up to eight notes each. You can use them

for playing or programming drums, for triggering

chords (especially useful in conjunction with

KARMA), or for selecting chords to play from the

keyboard in Chord mode. For information about

Chord mode, see “Using Chord mode” on page 49.

Assigning notes to the pads is fast and easy.; see

“CHORD ASSIGN button” on page 19 for details.

The notes and/or chords assigned to the pads are

stored with each Program, Combi, and Song. There are

also Global settings for use when the Control Surface is

set to EXTERNAL, for easy control of external sound

modules or plug-ins.

PAD MODE button

The PAD MODE button switches the pads between

being velocity sensitive (so that the loudness varies

depending on how hard you hit the pad) and playing a

single, ﬁxed velocity for each note (handy if you want

the same results every time, regardless of how hard

you play).

16. EXIT button

This button makes it easy to return to the main page of

the current mode:

• Press it once to go to the previously-selected tab on

the main P0 page.

• Press it again to go to the first tab on the main P0

page (such as the main Program Play page). If you

had previously selected a parameter on this page,

that parameter will be selected.

• Press it a third time to select the main parameter on

the P0 page, such as the Program name in Program

mode.

Wherever you are in Program, Combi, or Sequencer

modes, pressing EXIT three times (or fewer) will take

you back to Program/Combination/Song Select,