Korg GEC3 User Manual page 12

Meet the GEC3
The GEC3 also comes equipped with Split-Function capability. One student unit is connected
to one keyboard, but if you activate the Split Function toggle, two students can share the use
of one keyboard. Combining this feature with the expansion units allows you to interface with
up to 64 students at one time.
Information for up to 16 teachers can be stored on the GEC3 and settings for up to eight
classes can be associated with each teacher. Settings can be stored to a Smart Media card or
backed up on your Windows based personal computer.
The display is a touch-screen enabled LCD, meaning that you tap the buttons on the display
screen to select options, menus and to set up and access class lists.
There are three main modes of GEC3 operation. Each of these can be selected from buttons to
the left of the touch-screen interface. They are:
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Lecture Mode: This mode is used if you want to present material in a lecture format. All
students hear your microphone and instrument as well as their own instruments. You
have the option of including any student or students (and their microphone and
instrument) in your lecture.
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Practice Mode: This mode is used if the students are working independently. Each
student hears only their own instrument. You have the option of "eavesdropping" on
students and you can initiate 2-way communication with the students.
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Group Mode: This mode is similar to Practice Mode but should be used if the students are
working together in groups (two or more student workstations in any conceivable order).
The students in a group hear their own instruments as well as the instruments of the other
members of their group. Students can also speak to each other if their microphones are
enabled. As in Practice Mode, you have the option of "eavesdropping" on the group and,
if you wish, initiating 2-way communication with the members of the group.
Five tabs appear on the touch-screen regardless of what mode you are in. Each tab allows you
to perform a variety of tasks. All of the tabs; Play, Setup, Volume, Global and Disk,
appear regardless of what mode you are in; however, the Play tab and the Setup tab
function differently in each mode. The remaining tabs; Volume, Global and Disk, function
the same way, regardless of the mode you are in.
In this manual, tabs that are the same in various modes are described only once, in the Shared
Tabs section of the manual. You are referred to the corresponding section in the Shared Tabs
chapter from various other sections in the manual.
The GEC3 is the name of the system as a whole, and it also refers to the teacher unit of the
entire GEC3 interface. The GEC3 is used to perform all the functions described in the
modules.
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