Performance Modes; Playing Two Sounds At The Same Time (Layer Mode); Performing With Another Person (Partner Mode) - Korg Poetry Owner's Manual

2. Press the appropriate button shown below to select a
parameter and display its setting in the display, and
then press the + or – button to change the setting.
To return the sound or volume to its default setting, si-
multaneously press the + and - buttons.
Accent Sound
Hold down
the Metronome Settings Mode Time Signature
Setting Setting Range
(Button)
Accent Sound
oFF (no accent sound),
( )
on1 (emphasized sound for the accent beat),
on2 (bell sound for the accent beat)
Tempo ( )
40–240 (same as tempo setting)
Sound ( )
1 (acoustic), 2 (electronic)
Time Signature
02 (2/4), 03 (3/4), 04 (4/4), 06 (6/4)
(PART1)
Volume
01–13
(PART2)
3. After changing the setting, press the METRONOME
button to exit the Metronome Settings Mode.
When the Metronome Settings Mode is exited, the MET-
RONOME button returns to its lighting status (lit or not
lit) before the Metronome Settings Mode was entered.
By performing the "Save parameter settings" (see page
16) operation before the Poetry is turned off, the set-
tings specified for the sound, accent sound and volume
can be saved as the default settings.
Tempo
Sound
Volume
Default
setting
off
120
1
04
10

Performance Modes

Playing two sounds at the same time (Layer
Mode)
You can play two sounds at the same time on the keyboard.
This is called the Layer Mode.
1. While holding down the button of a sound to be lay-
ered, press another sound button.
The two selected sound buttons light up.
In order to use sounds in different banks, first select the
banks in the Single mode for the sound buttons to be
pressed.
For example, to play by layering the Italian Grand Piano
and Jazz Organ 2 sounds, select bank 1 (Italian Grand
Piano) for the PIANO button and bank 2 (Jazz Organ
2) for the ORGAN1 button, and then press both buttons
simultaneously.
To adjust the volume balance of the two sounds, press
the FUNCTION button, then the HARPSI/CLAV but-
ton, and then press the + or – button to adjust the set-
ting. After selecting the setting, press the FUNCTION
button again.
(Refer to "Layer Mode settings" below and "Function
Mode" on page 16.)
2. To return to Single Mode, press any single Sound Button.
When selecting Layer Mode, the total number of voices
that can play at the same time is reduced, depending
on the total number of oscillators used per voice by the
selected sounds. (Refer to "About maximum polypho-
ny" on page 20.)
Sounds accessed by the same Sound Button cannot be
layered. For example, Italian Grand Piano and Jazz Pi-
ano are both accessed via the PIANO button and thus
cannot be layered.
Layer Mode settings
In Layer Mode, the volume balance between sounds can be
adjusted, the octave for each sound can be shifted, and the
damper pedal can be enabled or disabled for each sound.
(Refer to "Function Mode" on page 16.)
The leftmost or uppermost selected sound button is
layer 1, and the other (rightmost or lowermost) one is
layer 2 (see the diagram at the below).
Layer 1
For example, if E.PIANO1 and ORGAN1 are selected,
E.PIANO1 is layer 1 and ORGAN1 is layer 2.
Performing with another person
(Partner mode)
Two people can play in the same range with the keyboard di-
vided in half between them. This is called the Partner mode.
Layer 2
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