Korg Speaker System owner manual Sequencer mode, Features of the sequencer

Sequencer mode

The TRITON contains a 16-track MIDI sequencer. This sequencer is the center to which the TRITON’s numerous functions are integrated, allowing it to be used in a variety of situations including music pro- duction and live performance.

When you turn off the power, the settings made in Sequencer mode and the song data, cue list data, and user pattern data that you recorded are not backed up. If you wish to keep this data, you must save it on a floppy disk or external SCSI device (if the separately sold EXB-SCSI option is installed) before turning off the power, or perform a MIDI data dump to save the data on an external data filer etc.

If you wish to save the programs, track parameters and effects etc. selected for a song as a template song, use the page menu command “Save as User Template Song.”

Immediately after the power is turned on, the TRI- TON will not contain any cue list data or song data, so if you wish to playback a song on the sequencer, you must first load data from floppy disk or receive a MIDI data dump from an external MIDI sequencer (☞p.40, 92). (☞p.119 in the Param- eter Guide)

Features of the sequencer

•The sequencer lets you record a maximum of 200,000 events (note data etc.), up to 200 songs, and as many as 999 measures per song.

•Up to 20 cue lists can be created.

A cue list is an arrangement of up to 99 songs that will be played as a chain. You can specify the num- ber of times that each song will repeat. Songs in a cue list can also be converted into a single song.

•The RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play/Recording) function can be used for playback or recording.

•The dual polyphonic arpeggiator can be used for playback or recording.

•Sixteen different template songs are built-in, and contain program and effect settings suitable for various musical styles. Up to sixteen original templates that you create can be registered as user template songs.

•Five stereo insertion effects, two master effects, and a stereo master EQ can be used for each song.

•Sample waveforms that you sampled in Sampling mode or loaded in Disk mode can be converted into programs and used in a song.

•If the separately sold EXB-MOSS option is installed, MOSS tone generator programs can be played multi-timbrally. (For example, you could use two bass voices and four electric piano voices. However, effect settings cannot be made separately.)

•Timing resolution is a maximum of /192.

•Sixteen tracks are provided for musical data, and a master track contains time signature and tempo data that controls the playback.

•A track play loop function lets you loop specified measures independently for each track.

•150 preset patterns ideal for drum tracks are built in. In addition, you can create up to 100 user patterns for each song. These patterns can be used as musical data within a song, or can be played by the RPPR function.

•Various methods of recording are supported, including realtime recording in which your performance on the keyboard and controllers (including MIDI control events) is recorded just as you play, and step recording in which the timing, length, and velocity of each note can be specify in the LCD as you input the pitches from the keyboard.

•The musical data and control events that you recorded can be edited in various ways (including event editing and many other edit commands).

•When the “Status” of a track is set to INT or BTH, an external sequencer can be used to play the TRITON as a multi-timbral tone generator. When the “Status” of a track is set to BTH, EXT, or EXT2, the sequencer of the TRITON can play exter- nal tone generators.

•Playback can be synchronized with an external MIDI device.

•The TRITON’s AMS (Alternate Modulation) capability lets you use control changes for realtime control of the parameters of the programs used in a program. Its MIDI Sync. functionality lets you synchronize the LFO speed to changes in the tempo.

•Dmod (Dynamic Modulation) functionality lets you control effect parameters in realtime. You can also use MIDI Sync. to synchronize the LFO speed or delay time to changes in the tempo.

•You can assign names not only to the song, but also to each pattern and track.

•Combination settings can be copied to a song.

•Sequencer data such as a song or cue list that you create can be saved in the TRITON’s native format, or transmitted as a MIDI data dump.

•Programs or sample files can be linked and saved on external media. This data can be loaded when desired.

•A song you created can be converted into SMF (Standard MIDI File) data and saved on external media. SMF songs can also be loaded.

•The PLAY/MUTE/REC buttons and SOLO buttons let you instantly play/mute any desired track.

•You can rewind or fast-forward while listening to the sound.

•The [LOCATE] key lets you move quickly to a desired location.

58