Recording A Track At A Time In Real Time - Korg i40M User Manual

Recording a track at a time in
real time
This method allows you to create a backing sequence
by recording a track at a time.
The backing sequence tracks may corresponds to vari-
ous tracks of the i40M. Some of the backing sequence
tracks do not correspond to real tracks of the i40M, but
to special control tracks.
Abbrev. BSQ track
ATr Arrangement Tracks
KBTr Real Time Tracks
ETr Extra Tracks
CHRD Chord Track
CTRL Control Track
Preparing the recording
If the i40M is connected to a MIDI accordion, go
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the Disk/Global mode and select the MIDI Setup
"Accordion 1".
See "Connecting the i40M to a MIDI accordion" on
page 49. "Accordion 1" allows you to transmit the
right hand over the special Global channel and the
chords over the Chord 1 and Chord 2 channels.
Note: The backing sequence must receive the real
time tracks over the Global channel and the chords
over the Global and/or Chord 1 and Chord 2 chan-
nels.
If the i40M is connected to a keyboard or
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another controller, program it to transmit over
the special Global channel.
Press B.SEQ to enter the Backing Sequence
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mode.
The B.SEQ led will light up. The display shows the
backing sequence name, the measure number and
i40M track
Upper 1, Upper 2,
Lower, Drum, Percus-
sion, Bass, Acc1, Acc2,
Acc3, chords, controls
Upper 1, Upper 2,
Lower
Channels not used by
real time and accompa-
niment tracks
Accompaniment
(Drum, Perc, Bass,
Acc1, Acc2, Acc3)
Accompaniment con-
trol buttons (Fill, Varia-
tion, Style selection,
Arrangement selection,
etc.)
Reference • Backing Sequence mode
the tempo. If this information does not appear,
press EXIT/NO to go to Page 1 of the Backing
Sequence mode.
Tempo
Arrangement
Move the cursor to the backing sequence name
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with the CURSOR buttons, then select the back-
ing sequence you wish to record using the
TEMPO/VALUE buttons.
In this example select BSQ4. (If BSQ4 is recorded,
select another backing sequence).
5 Select an arrangement with the buttons of the
PROGRAM/ARRANG section.
Press the PROGRAM/ARRANG button to light up
the ARRANG led. Then press one of the BANK [A],
[B] or [USER] buttons to select the bank. Press two
NUMBER buttons in a sequence to enter a two-
digit number from 11 to 88.
If necessary, change the split point, the Key-
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board Mode, the Keyboard Assign and the
Chord Scanning.
Press REC/WRITE/LYRICS to enter the recording
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mode.
The REC/WRITE/LYRICS will light up and the
recording page will appear. The arrangement
tracks (ATr) are selected. The display shows the sta-
tus of the backing sequence tracks (REC = record-
ing).
Tempo
Real time tracks
Selected track/s
Measure number
Backing Sequence name
Controls track
Chord track
Metronome
Quantize value
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