Korg musical instruments

Using Chord mode

Assigning notes and chords to pads

You can assign single notes and chords to the pads in

three different ways.

Play the notes, and then press CHORD ASSIGN

1. Play a single note, or a chord of up to 8 notes.

2. Press the CHORD ASSIGN button.

3. Press the pad to which you’d like to assign the

notes.

That’s it! The notes are now assigned to the pad.

Press CHORD ASSIGN, and then play notes

This method lets you create a chord out of widely-

spaced notes, even if you can’t play all of the notes

simultaneously.

1. Press the CHORD ASSIGN button.

2. Play a single note, or a chord of up to 8 notes.

You can play a single note, or a simple chord.

If you like, you can also play up to 8 notes as a legato

phrase. As long as you take care that the notes overlap

each other, the entire phrase will be recorded as a

single chord. You can take as long as you like to play

the phrase.

3. Press the pad to which you’d like to assign the

notes.

After pressing the pad, you’re done!

Editing notes and velocities using the LCD

You can edit the recorded notes and velocities using

the LCD. If you like, you can also enter new notes this

way. For more information, please see “1–9: Set Up

Pads” on page 46.

Copying and merging pads

Copying one pad to another, or merging two or more

pads together, is just like assigning notes from the

keyboard.

As with assigning notes to the keyboard, you can

either play the pads ﬁrst, or press CHORD ASSIGN

ﬁrst. In the interest of saving space and time, only the

ﬁrst method is described below.

Copying notes from one pad to another

To copy the note assignments from one pad to another:

1. Press and release the pad whose notes you want to

copy.

2. Press the CHORD ASSIGN button.

3. Press the pad to which you’d like to copy the

notes.

The new pad will now play the same notes as the

original pad.

Merging two or more pads together

You can merge the assignments from two or more pads

together, as long as the total number of notes is 8 or

fewer. To do so:

1. Press all of the pads that you’d like to merge, and

then release them.

All of the pads must be held down at the same time.

2. Press the CHORD ASSIGN button.

3. Press the pad to which you’d like to copy the

notes.

You can even use one of the pads that was being

merged, if you like. After pressing the destination pad,

you’re done.

Fixed Velocity vs. Velocity Sensitive

Each pad stores a velocity level for each of its 8 notes.

The PAD MODE button, to the right of the pads,

controls whether or not the pads respond to how hard

you play.

In Fixed Velocity mode, the pads always use their

stored velocity settings, regardless of how hard you

play.

In Velocity Sensitive mode, hitting the pad very

strongly produces the preset velocities. When you play

more softly, the preset velocities are scaled down

accordingly, maintaining the balance between the

notes in the chord.

Using Chord mode

Overview

Chord mode lets you choose one of the chords

assigned to the Pads, and then play it from the

keyboard. The chord is transposed according to the

note that you play; the played note speciﬁes the lowest

note of the chord, and the higher notes are transposed

to match. As when playing chords from the Pads

themselves, each note in the chord can have a different

stored velocity, scaled by the played note.

In addition to using the on-screen parameters, you can

turn Chord mode on and off via SW1/2 or the Foot

Switch, and change chords simply by pressing the

Pads. In Combination and Sequencer modes, you can

make these settings for each Timbre or Track, as

desired. Naturally, you can control all of this via MIDI

as well.

Chord mode can duplicate the way that similar

features worked on classic analog synths (such as the

original Polysix), but it can also use all of the Voice

Assign options to create different effects–such as mono

legato chords with ﬁngered portamento, or poly

chords that overlap one another.

Finally, note that you don’t have to use Chord mode to

play full chords; you can also use it to create more

subtle effects, such as stacked octaves or ﬁfths. You can

even adjust the relative levels of these additional

pitches via the stored velocities of the individual chord

notes.