P3: Edit-Filter

Filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

P4: Edit-Amp

Amplifier settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

P5: Edit-Common LFO

LFO settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

P7: Edit-arpeggiator

Arpeggiator settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

P8: Edit-Insert Effect

Insert Effect settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

P9: Edit Master Effect

Master Effect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 More about Alternate Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Combination mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Pages in Combination mode

.52

Playing a combination

.52

P0: Play

.52

How a combination is structured

.53

Basic combination editing

.53

P1: Edit-Program/Mixer

 

Timbre 1–8 program, pan and volume . . . .

.54

P2: Edit-Trk Param

 

Settings for status, MIDI channel, and playing

mode

.55

P3: Edit-MIDI Filter

 

MIDI filter settings

.56

P4: Edit-Zone/Ctrl

 

Layer, split, and velocity switch settings . .

.56

P7: Edit-Arpeggiator

 

Arpeggiator settings

.57

P8: Edit-Insert Effect

 

Insert Effect settings

.57

P9: Edit Master Effect

 

Master Effect settings

.57

Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Features of the sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 About each page in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . .60 The structure of Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Cue List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Playing a song (Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Other playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Recording on a track, and recording on a pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Realtime recording on a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Realtime recording to a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 Step recording on a track or pattern . . . . . . . . . .69 Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Track editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Pattern editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Song editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Creating and playing a Cue List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play/Recording) function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

RPPR settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 RPPR playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Realtime recording an RPPR performance. . . . .73

Sampling mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Features of sampling mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Pages in Sampling mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 How Sampling mode is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 In Sampling mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Samples and Multisamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Sampling (recording a sample) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Preparations for sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Manual sampling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Auto sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Creating multisample indexes and

sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Loop settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 The grid display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Sample (waveform data) editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Multisample editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Editing the indices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Modifying the settings of an index . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Converting a multisample to a program . . . . . . . . 84

Song Play mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

The pages in Song Play mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 The structure of Song Play mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Playing SMF data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Playback using the Jukebox function . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Saving a Jukebox list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Playing along with SMF data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

About the pages in Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Creating a drum kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 About drum kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Editing a drum kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Disk mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

How Disk mode is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 The pages of Disk mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Types of media that can be used. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Loading data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Types of data that can be loaded . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Data loading procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Saving data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Types of data that can be saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Formatting media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Cautions when handling floppy disks . . . . . . . . . . 95

Arpeggiator settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Arpeggiator settings for a program . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Arpeggiator settings in Combination, Song, and

Song Play modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Creating an user arpeggio pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 About user arpeggio patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Editing a user pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Dual arpeggiator editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 About arpeggiator synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Effects settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Effects in each mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Routing settings and effect settings . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Effect settings for a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Effect settings in Combination, Song, and Song Play modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Effect settings in Sampling mode . . . . . . . . . . . 109

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Korg Speaker System owner manual Combination mode, Sequencer mode, Sampling mode, Song Play mode, Global mode, Disk mode

Speaker System specifications

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