Table Of Contents - Korg CX-3 Combo Organ Owner's Manual

Introduction .......................................5
1. About the CX-3 ....................................................... 5
Main features ............................................................... 5
The modes of the CX-3 ................................................ 5
2. Parts of the CX-3 and what they do ..................... 6
Front panel ................................................................... 6
Rear panel .................................................................... 9
Connections ............................................................... 10
1. Power cable connections .................................... 10
2. OUTPUT jack connections .................................. 10
3. Pedal connections ............................................... 10
4. MIDI connections ................................................ 10
Quick Start ....................................... 11
1. Listening to the demo songs ............................. 11
2. Normal mode ........................................................ 11
Selecting a program ................................................... 11
Playing ........................................................................ 11
Playing using the Program's drawbar settings ....... 11
Play using Drawbar 1 and 2 .................................... 12
3. EX mode ............................................................... 13
Selecting a program ................................................... 13
Playing ........................................................................ 13
Playing Using the Program's drawbar settings ....... 13
Play using Drawbar 1 and 2 .................................... 13
4. Split function ........................................................ 14
Basic functions................................15
1. About the display ................................................ 15
Switching the display ................................................. 15
Normal mode ........................................................... 15
EX mode .................................................................. 15
Drawbar levels and icons ........................................... 15
Shortcuts .................................................................... 16
Normal Edit mode / EX Edit mode .......................... 16
Global mode ............................................................ 16
2. About the programs ............................................ 17
How a program is structured ...................................... 17
3. Restoring the factory settings ........................... 17
Initializing one program ........................................... 17
Initializing all programs ........................................... 17
Initializing the Global parameters ........................... 18
Initializing programs and Global parameters .......... 18
4. Percussion ........................................................... 18
Normal mode .............................................................. 18
Checking the "DB Preset's Perc" parameter ........... 18
EX mode ..................................................................... 19
EX Percussion in Drawbar 2 ................................... 19
5. Rotary ................................................................... 19
6. Effects ................................................................... 20
Reverb ........................................................................ 20
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Vibrato and chorus ..................................................... 20
Overdrive .................................................................... 20
7. Saving your data ................................................. 20
Writing to internal memory ......................................... 20
Writing a program .................................................... 20
Writing the Global parameters ................................ 21
MIDI data dump .......................................................... 21
8. Editing .................................................................. 21
Editing the sound ....................................................... 21
Other parameters .................................................... 22
Editing the drawbar parameters ................................. 22
Normal mode ........................................................... 22
EX mode .................................................................. 22
Copying drawbar parameters .................................... 22
Copying a program ..................................................... 23
Swapping two programs ............................................ 23
Editing the name of a program .................................. 24
Parameters .......................................25
1. Normal Edit mode / EX Edit mode ..................... 25
2. Global mode ......................................................... 31
Appendices ......................................37
1. How the drawbars work ...................................... 37
2. MIDI applications ................................................. 37
About MIDI ................................................................. 37
Connecting an external MIDI sequencer or com-
puter ........................................................................ 37
MIDI data dump .......................................................... 38
Transmission ........................................................... 38
Reception ................................................................ 39
MIDI messages that the CX-3 transmits and receives .. 39
3. Voice name list ..................................................... 42
Normal mode programs .......................................... 42
EX mode programs ................................................. 42
Demo song names .................................................. 42
4. Troubleshooting .................................................. 43
5. Operation of included Expression pedal .......... 44
6. Specifications and options ................................ 45
7. MIDI implementation chart ................................. 46
Index .................................................47