Customizing And Saving Your Styles And Keyboard Sets; Setting Styles And Parts - Korg XE20 Quick Start Manual

Customizing and saving your styles and keyboard sets

STYLE SET button REVERB
SETTING/[MEDIA]
STYLE/[MUSIC STYLE]
button
Accompaniment
part
Keyboard
part

Setting styles and parts

After making the following changes in style mode (the
STYLE/[MUSIC STYLE] button will light) and then turning off
the power, the XE20 will return to its original settings. Save
your favorite settings in a set list.
„ Muting parts and changing sounds
On the keyboard part (upper 1–3 and lower) and on the
accompaniment part (drums, percussion, bass and other parts),
you can mute (turn off) individual parts, or change the part's
sound.
Muting
y Pressing the part buttons will mute the respective part(s)
(the buttons will go dark). Pressing the buttons again will
cancel muting (the button will light).
Changing sounds
1.
Press the part button for the part you want to change while
holding down the [SHIFT] button (the part button will
blink).
and the sound name will blink on the display.
Note:
The sounds for "other parts" cannot be changed.
2.
Use the dial or the +/– buttons to select a sound.
3.
Press the [SHIFT] button to return to the previous mode.
„ Setting a split
You can divide the keyboard into a high note range (for upper
1–3 parts) and a low note range (for lower part). This is called a
"split function," and the key where the sound changes (the next
note directly below the upper part) is called the "split point."
button
Style name
button
Sound name
[SHIFT] button
Customizing and saving your styles and keyboard sets
Octave/transpose
Bank
Chord name
Buttons 1–4
BANK/WRITE button
Lower part
Left side
y To turn the split on: Press the SPLIT button to turn the split
function on (the button will light). The keyboard will be
divided into two ranges.
y To turn the split off: Press the SPLIT button once more
to turn the split off (the button will go dark). The entire
keyboard range will play upper parts 1–3.
y To change the split point: Press any key while holding
down the SPLIT button.
„ Transposing
You can change the key of this instrument in semitones, over a
range of ±1 octave.
The key that is currently set is shown in the display.
y To lower the key: Press the TRANSPOSE
button.
y To raise the key: Press the TRANSPOSE
button.
y To reset the key: Press both the TRANSPOSE
and TRANSPOSE
Keyboard set
Dial
name
ENSEMBLE button
SPLIT button
TRANSPOSE /[OCTAVE –] button
TRANSPOSE /[OCTAVE +] button
Upper parts 1–3
Right side
Split point
♯
/[OCTAVE +] buttons together.
11
♭
/[OCTAVE –]
♯
/[OCTAVE +]
♭
/[OCTAVE –]