Playing In Realtime (Without Using Automatic Accompaniment) - Korg microARRANGER Owner's Manual

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Playing in Realtime (Without using Automatic Accompaniment)
7 Stop it!
OK, you could say: "Oh, that's easy, I know how to do
it, I can just press that big red START/STOP button
again".
Yes, you are perfectly right. But that's the easy way. Let
us suggest a more colorful way:
PRESS ENDING1 OR ENDING2
An ending is instantaneously called, and will begin
playing, to lead the Style to a colorful end. As usual,
ENDING1 is pre‐programmed, while ENDING2 asks
for your chord progression.
In Sync
"What if I want to avoid all that START/STOP stuff? I
mean, I prefer to have my hands free for playing
music!"
Good point. The SYNCHRO button is there right for
this purpose.
1 While the Style is stopped, press the SYN-
CHRO button.
The SYNCHRO‐START LED begins blinking. The Syn‐
chro Start function is enabled.
2 Play a chord on the keyboard.
You must play a chord for the chord recognition
engine. Usually, it will be to the left of the split point,
but it depends on the CHORD SCANNING section (see
"CHORD SCANNING section" on page 17).
The Style starts.
3 Stop the Style using your chosen method.
Need more information?
Go to "Style Play operating mode" on page 40. The Ref‐
erence Guide includes all the information you need.
PLAYING IN REALTIME
(Without using Automatic Accompaniment)
As soon as you turn your microARRANGER on, it is in
Style Play mode, and you can play it in realtime. Please
follow me...
1 Play on the keyboard.
When you turn the microARRANGER on, Performance
1‐1 is automatically selected.
Performance bank-number
This sets the Realtime (Keyboard) tracks for you. In this
case you get the Upper 1 track playing on the full key‐
board range, with the Grand Piano Program selected.
As you may know, there are four available Realtime
tracks: Upper 1–3 and Lower. Upper Realtime tracks
may play on the full range of the keyboard (the
selected KEYBOARD MODE shall be FULL UPPER).
Otherwise, the Lower track plays on the left of the Split
Point, and the Upper tracks on the right (KEYBOARD
MODE shall be SPLIT).
If you are not satisfied with this setting at startup, you
can simply select another Performance. Or change the
track's settings—as you will see in this tutorial—and
save them into Performance 1‐1. You'll soon see how to
do it.
2 Select a different Performance.
Is the PERFORM. LED on?
If so, press one of the PROGRAM/PERFORMANCE
buttons, and select a Performance with the VOLUME/
VALUE buttons (on the side of the display).
Select a Performance with the VOLUME/VALUE buttons
Go ahead and try out the different Performances. We
provided 160 of them for you.