Korg musical instruments

Quick Edits using the Sliders, Knobs and Switches

You can achieve the same effect as Basic, above, by

setting Chord to Advanced, Voice Assign to Mono,

Priority to Last Note, and Legato to Off.

Creating and editing chords

Chords are assigned to the Pads, stored, and edited as

described under “Drum & Chord Pads” on page 48.

Selecting chords

The Chord function uses the chords assigned to the

Pads. To select a chord to play from the keyboard (or

via MIDI):

1. Select the desired Pad from the Source pop-up

or:

When Chord is enabled, Press a Chord Pad.

When Chord mode is enabled, pressing a Chord Pad

edits the Source parameter. The Pad will not play any

sounds by itself; it only selects the chord to be played

from the keyboard.

Chord mode is enabled when the Chord SW is either

unassigned or turned On, and...

• In Program mode, Chord is set to Basic or

Advanced

• In Combi mode, Chord is set to Basic or Advanced

on any Timbre (with Status set to INT) on the

Global channel

• In Sequencer mode, Chord is set to Basic or

Advanced on any Track (with Status set to INT or

BTH) on the same MIDI channel as the current

Keyboard Track

In Combi mode, selection via the Pads affects all

Timbres on the Global Channel. In Sequencer mode,

this affects Tracks on the same MIDI channel as the

current Keyboard Track.

What if Timbres/Tracks share the same channel,

but have different Source settings?

If Timbres/Tracks share the same channel but have

different Source settings, they will maintain the

different settings as long as the Pads are not used to

select a different chord. As soon as a Pad is used, all the

Timbres/Tracks will be set to the same chord–unless

they are set to PRG.

When Source is set to PRG, the Timbre/Track uses the

Source chord stored in the Program, instead of any of

the chords from the current Combi or Song. This

makes it easy to use Chord mode for sound-speciﬁc

effects, such as octaves, stacked ﬁfths, and so on.

Playing chords

The lowest note of the selected chord is transposed to

match the note played on the keyboard. Higher notes

are transposed accordingly. For instance, let’s say that:

• The stored chord is F4, Bb4, and Eb5

• You play a D3 on the keyboard (or via MIDI)

In this case, the resulting chord will be D3, G3, and C4.

Just as with the Pads, the stored velocities are scaled by

the velocity of the played note.

In Combi and Sequencer modes, as long as the root

note of the chord is within the Timbre/Track keyboard

zone, the entire chord will be played in that

Timbre/Track–even if some of the notes extend beyond

the Timbre/Track’s key zone.

Chords and MIDI

The Chord SW and Source Pad settings (including

selections via the Pads) are transmitted and received

via SysEx, which can be recorded and played back via

internal or external sequencers.

In Combi and Sequencer modes, there are discrete

SysEx messages per Timbre/Track for both Chord SW

and Source Pad, so that each Timbre/Track can be set

individually if desired. Note that this allows more

ﬂexibility than when using the local keyboard’s Chord

SW and Pads.

When the Chord SW or the front-panel Pads are used

to change the chord state, separate messages are sent

for each affected Timbre or Track, including:

• In Combi mode, each Timbre on the Global

Channel

• In Sequencer mode, each Track on the same MIDI

channel as the Keyboard Track

Quick Edits using the Sliders, Knobs and Switches

You can edit any of the Programs shipped with

OASYS, or you can start with an initialized Program to

create sounds from scratch.

You can do many basic edits directly from the front

panel Control Surface knobs, switches, and sliders,

without ever delving deeper into the LCD interface.

For instance, you can use the knobs to change attack

and release times, make sounds brighter or darker,

alter effects depths, modulate KARMA’s phrase

generation, and so on.

The knobs, sliders, and switches will do different

things, depending of the Control Surface CONTROL

ASSIGN setting. For editing Programs, the three

important CONTROL ASSIGN settings are

TIMBRE/TRACK, R.TIME KNOBS/KARMA, and

TONE ADJUST.

TIMBRE/TRACK lets you adjust

the volume, pan, and send levels

for Oscillators 1 and 2, along with

the Program EQ.

R.TIME KNOBS/KARMA lets you

modulate sounds and effects with

the knobs, and control KARMA

with the sliders and switches.