Basic Operations; About Modes; Other Functions; Selecting Sounds And Changing Values - Korg EK-50 Owner's Manual

About modes

The EK‑50 features two different modes, a style mode and a
song mode.
Press the appropriate MODE section button on the front panel
to enter one of the modes.
When turning on the EK‑50, the instrument will automatically
enter style mode.
Style mode
Style mode lets you select a sound in this instrument and play
it together with another sound you like on the keyboard, as
well as play along with auto‑accompaniment (style). You can
also record your playing when using the auto-accompaniment
function.
Song mode
In song mode, you can play back demo songs and user songs as
well as music data files (MP3, WAV and SMF), and play along
with them. You can also edit the user songs easily.

Other functions

SETTING functions
These functions include global settings for the instrument like
keyboard touch, master tune, scale, pitch bend variable range
and so on. There are also settings for pedals that you connect, as
well as MIDI‑related settings.
MEDIA functions
These functions are for saving or loading set lists to/from USB
flash drives, as well as for saving user songs. This also includes
functions for formatting USB flash drives and for system
updates.

Basic operations

Selecting sounds and changing values

Use the dial, the numerical buttons, the + and – buttons and
the CATEGORY button when selecting sounds or changing the
values of the settings.
1.
Dial
This is used to change numbers and values.
Turn the dial clockwise to increase the value, and turn the
dial counter‐clockwise to decrease the value.
2.
Numerical buttons
Use these buttons to directly input numbers and values on
the EK‑50.
To input a two-digit number using the three-digit display
(for example, "36"), press "0", "3" and "6".
3.
+ and – buttons
• Press either the + or – button once to increment or
decrement a number.
• Hold down the + or – button to continually change the
number.
4.
CATEGORY buttons t, u
When you press the CATEGORY button to select a style,
keyboard set, sound and so on in style mode or song mode,
the first digit of the number group corresponding to the
category or genre will be selected.
When using the SETTING or MEDIA functions, press the
CATEGORY button to select a page.
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