Korg Pa4X User Manual page 246

232| Customizing, recording and editing the Styles and Pads
What happens when you play a chord
To summarize, when you play a chord in the chord recognition area, the ar-
ranger determines which Style Element is in use, then determines which
Chord Variation should be used for the recognized chord, then Style sequenc-
es for every track of that Chord Variation are transposed from the original
chord to the recognized chord, and so on every time you play a chord.
Ordinary, Guitar and Drum tracks
There are different types of tracks, and each of them is treated in a different
way by the arranger:
track type
Acc (Accompaniment)
Bass
Drum
Perc (Percussion)
Gtr (Guitar)
What to record in a Style
Recording a Style means recording tracks, inside a series of Chord Variations,
inside a series of Style Elements, inside the Style itself.
You don't have to record all Chord Variations for all Style Elements. Often
you only need to record a single Chord Variation for each Style Element.
Exceptions are the Intro 1 and Ending 1, where we suggest to record both a
Major and minor Chord Variations.
Meaning
When a chord is recognized, the programmed chord notes
are transposed to a suitable scale, according to the Note
Transposition Tables (NTT) The NTT table allows you to re-
cord just some Chord Variations, and have all the notes play
in the right place, avoiding dissonances and transposing the
pattern notes to the notes of the recognized chord.
It behaves like the Acc tracks, but playing the chord's root.
No transposition is applied. The original pattern plays al-
ways.
When a chord is recognized, the arranger triggers single
notes, strumming and arpeggios on a 'virtual guitar', keep-
ing care of how notes are played on the guitar fretboard.
Please note that inside a Guitar track you can also find some
sequence typical of an Acc track – a useful addition for short
'free-form' passages, like a short lead solo.