Sound Edit Operating Mode; The Midi Channel; How To Select Oscillators; Sounds, Drum Kits - Korg PA600 Reference Manual

Sound Edit operating mode

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The MIDI channel

Sound Edit operating mode
The Sound Edit operating mode is where you can listen to indi-
vidual Sounds, and edit them. In this mode, the selected Sound
can always be played across the full keyboard range.
Details on how to select a Sound are included in the "Selecting
elements" chapter (see "Sound Select window" on page 7).
While in a different operating mode, you can easily select the
Sound to be edited when switching to the Sound Edit mode. Just
select the track the Sound to be edited is assigned to, then keep
the SHIFT button pressed while pressing the SOUND button.
Hint: This is also useful to see the Bank Select/Program Change
numbers when programming a Song on an external sequencer.
The MIDI channel
In Sound mode, Pa600 receives and transmits on the same chan-
nel of the Upper 1 track. If the Global channel is assigned, notes
can also be received on this channel. See "MIDI: MIDI In Chan-
nels" on page 151 and "MIDI: MIDI Out Channels" on page 151
for more information.

How to select oscillators

While in an edit page requiring an oscillator to be selected
for editing, use the vertical row of buttons on the right
(1...24 max) to select one of the available oscillators. The
number of available oscillators depends on the "Oscillators
Count" parameter (see page 111).
If you cannot see the desired oscillator, touch the scroll
arrow, until the hidden oscillator is shown in the display.
When oscillators cannot be select, since the parameter
contained in the current page are global and valid for the
whole Sound, these buttons are greyed out, and cannot be
selected.

Sounds, Drum Kits

Pa600 features two different types of Sounds:
• Ordinary Sounds. These are normal instrument Sounds,
like pianos, strings, basses.
• Drum Kits. These are drum and percussion kits, where
each note of the keyboard is a different percussive instru-
ment. You can find Drum Kits in the Drum & SFX and
User Dk banks.
Before pressing MENU to access the edit pages, you should
select a Sound of the type you wish to edit or create.
Note: Notes pointing to special Drum Kit features are marked by
the icon.

Main page

Here is the main page of the Sound operating mode.
Page header
Soun
d Info
area
Realtime
Controls
area
FX area
Page header
This line shows the current operating mode and transposition.
Operating mode Master Transpose (in
semitones)
Operating mode name
Name of the current operating mode.
Master transpose
Master transpose value in semitones. This value can be changed
using the TRANSPOSE buttons on the control panel.
Page menu icon
Touch the page menu icon to open the menu. See "Page menu"
on page 134 for more information.
Sound Info area
This is where basic details for the Sound are shown. Touch any-
where in this area to open the Sound Select window.
Sound name
Name of the Sound assigned to the corresponding Keyboard
track.
Bank
Bank the current Sound belongs to.
Bank Select / Program Change sequence
Bank Select MSB / Bank Select LSB / Program Change numbers,
in the form "CC00.CC32.PC".
Page menu icon
Voice Assign Mode area