Korg KARMA Frequently Asked Questions Manual page 30

If you want to bring in certain FX settings associated with a Program,
you do it manually using the "Copy Insert Effect" and "Copy Master
Effect" Utilities. These are only available when you happen to be on the
correct page (i.e. the IFX or MFX editing screens, 7.2-1 and 7.3-1).
Parameter Guide, Pages 38 and 41.
Note that when you Copy Effects, you may overwrite what is already
there unless you go look at what you are doing. Let's say that you have a
Combi that is using IFX 1,2 & 3 already; you want to add some Program
that is using IFX 1 & 2 (which you can see by checking it in the Program
Mode). The thing to do in this case is manually copy from the Program
IFX 1 into Combi IFX 4, and IFX 2 into Combi IFX 5. Then you want to
look at how the BUS routing is set up in the Program, and assign it to
the new IFX locations in the Combi in a similar fashion.
8. It appears that in Combi Mode you cannot have a Timbre play the
internal sound and send MIDI to an external device.
That is true. The simplest workaround is to just copy a Combi into a
Song in the Sequencer, even if you are going to use an external
sequencer. You can have up to 200 Songs. Then you can set tracks to
play internal sounds and send MIDI data to external sequencers. The
only real negative to doing this is that a Song does not "store" the
KARMA knob positions. If you move them around, go to a different song,
and come back, they will be as you left them. With a Combi, if you go to
a different Combi and come back, they will be reset (of course) to their
stored positions. The workaround for this is to just copy the Combi to
the Song again, or reload the saved Song from Disk.
Another workaround is to use an available timbre to just send to the
external device. In other words, let's say you want the bass line to use
the Karma sound, and you want to layer it with another bass sound from
an external device. You can do it by finding an open Timbre (one that is
set to Status "OFF" on (3.1-1) [Menu]-[Prm1]-[MIDI]), and set it to the
same MIDI channel as the timbre that the bass is on. Then set the
Status of this timbre to "EXT", and you will have 2 timbres listening to
the bass MIDI Channel, one of them playing the internal sound, and one
of them sending MIDI to the external device. See the MIDI section of this
FAQ for more information.
9. When I select a combi, how can I change the right hand lead
instrument?
You need to edit the programs that are assigned to the right hand, inside
the combi. A combi is a collection of up to 8 programs (timbres), layered
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