Style Play Operating Mode; Start-Up Settings; How Styles, Performances And Stss Are Linked Together; Main Page (Normal View) - Korg PA1X User Manual

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Style Play operating mode

Start-up settings

Style Play operating mode
The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in
this mode, you can play with Styles (i.e. automatic accompani-
ments), while playing with one to four tracks (Upper 1-3 and
Lower) on the keyboard. You can select different Sounds and
Effects by selecting Performances and STSs. A different Voice
Processor Preset may be selected by a Performance or STS. You
can also use the SongBook to automatically select Styles for a
desired music genre.
Start-up settings
Since Performance 1 of Bank 1 (Performance 1-1) is automati-
cally selected when turning the instrument on, you can save to it
your preferred start-up settings.
Just select the Sounds, Effects, MIDI channels, Voice Processor
Preset, and other settings you would like to have automatically
selected when turning the instrument on, and select the "Write
Performance" from the page menu. When the Write Perfor-
mance window appears, save the settings to Performance 1 of
Bank 1. (See "Write Performance dialog box" on page 98).
Note: If you like some settings are preserved even when selecting
different Performances, STSs and Styles, turn on the desired "locks"
to avoid changes to the selected parameters (see "General Controls:
Lock" on page 232). Save these locks to the Global (see "Write Glo-
bal - Global Setup dialog box" on page 257).
How Styles, Performances and STSs are
linked together
Styles, Performances and STSs are linked in many ways.
• When the SINGLE TOUCH LED is on, selecting a Style also
changes Keyboard tracks (STS 1 is automatically selected). Per-
formance settings are overridden.
• When the STYLE CHANGE LED is on, selecting a Performance
also selects a Style (the one whose number is memorized with
the Performance).
• Current track settings can be saved either in a Performance, an
STS, or a Style Performance, depending on the page menu com-
mand you select.

Main page (Normal view)

This is the page you see after you turn the instrument on.
To access this page from another operating mode, press the
STYLE PLAY button.
To return to this page from one of the Style Play edit pages, press
the EXIT button.
Style area Page header
Perfor-
mance/
STS
area
Sequen
cer 1/2
area
Panels
To switch between Normal view (Keyboard tracks, grouped
Style tracks and Mic/In controls) and Style view (individual
Style tracks), use the TRK. SEL. (TRACK SELECT) button.
(See "Style Tracks view page" and "Volume panel" starting
from page 80 ).
Page header
This line shows the current operating mode, transposition and
recognized chord.
Operating mode Master Transpose
name (in semitones)
Operating mode name
Name of the current operating mode.
Master transpose
Master transpose value in semitones. This value can be changed
using the TRANSPOSE buttons on the control panel.
Note: Transpose may be automatically changed when selecting a
different Performance or Style. It may also be changed when load-
ing a Standard MIDI File generated with an instrument of the Korg
Pa series.
To avoid transposing, "lock" the Master Transpose parameter in the
Global (see "General Controls: Lock" on page 232), then write the
Global to memory (see "Write Global - Global Setup dialog box"
on page 257).
Page menu icon
Key-
board
tracks
area
Recognized
chord
Sty