Korg Pa800 owner manual Easy Mode, Playing the Demo Songs, Playing Sounds

Pa800 EasyStart

Easy Mode

Are you viewing more on-screen information than you need? Try going from Expert Mode to Easy Mode! Touch the drop-down Page menu in the upper-right corner of the display, and select “Easy Mode”. This mode will show you what’s assigned to the Single Touch Setting buttons, and it will give you a shortcut to the lyrics in Song Play mode. It also displays the status of a microphone connected to one of the audio inputs. If you’re just starting with the Pa800, try this mode to get comfortable with playback of Styles and Songs. Later on, you can return to Expert Mode, where all Pa800 performance and editing functions are available to you.

Playing the Demo Songs

3.Press both the STYLE PLAY and SONG PLAY buttons. Demos will automatically start to play, however you can also select Solo Instrument, Style or Full Song demos by pressing the appropriate box in the display, and then selecting the desired demo from the list.

4.Press the EXIT button to return to the main demo page, where you can select a different demo category.

5.Exit Demo Play mode by pressing the STYLE PLAY button.

Playing Sounds

The Pa800 utilizes Korg’s amazing RX (Real eXperience) technology and sound engine from the flagship Pa1x- series instruments… and that same sound engine powers Korg’s new flagship workstation, the M3! With the Pa800, you can use up to sixteen oscillators per sound to create guitar slides, harmonics and pull-offs, flute overblow, frulatto, and many other beautiful nuances. This means that your acoustic instruments will sound incredibly realistic, and you can authentically recreate an entire orchestra worth of instruments using just a few keys! Let’s

experiment with a few of these sounds…

1.Press the SOUND mode button. Here you can try out and play individual sounds. In this mode the sound will be played across the entire keyboard and will be heard solo without a Style accompaniment.

2.Grand Piano should be the currently selected sound. This is indicated in the “Sound Info” area at the upper part of the display. Touch this and you’ll be able to search for sounds by category. Within the piano category, try the Grand Piano RX sound. You can hear the hammers return when you remove your finger from a key, just like a real piano… and with a damper pedal attached, you’ll notice string and damper resonance! Try pressing down on the pedal without playing keys… You can even hear the damper by itself!

3.Press the DISPLAY HOLD button at this point, so that you can keep searching through sounds uninterrupted…

4.Press the “Guitar” tab, and then press “Nylon Slide Pro” to select this sound. Play the keyboard with varying degrees of velocity (light, medium and hard) to hear the different guitar articulations, including a very cool slide!

5.Now select one of the great trombone sounds using this alternate method of selecting sounds: Press the SOUND SELECT BRASS button to the right of the display, and then select “Big BandShake Y+”. Play a chord, and move the joystick up for a great jazzy shake!

6.Press the SOUND SELECT WOODWIND button (press the E. PIANO button, and then press the button to the left of PIANO to switch to the bottom row) and select “Flute Frulatto”. Try this at various velocities. Play softly, and you get a tasty frulatto… Hit it hard for a percussive overblow.

7.Press the SOUND SELECT DIGITAL DRAWBARS button. This is Korg’s world-renown DSP organ modeling in action! You’ve got rotary speaker emulation, switchable percussion and foot control.

a.Try speeding up/slowing down the rotary speaker by pushing the Joystick Y+ (push it upwards)!

!In STYLE PLAY mode (Explored in the next section); up to four sounds can be combined together!

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