Selecting And Playing Back One Or More Songs; Selecting The Tracks - Korg iS35 User Manual

Reference • Song Play mode
Selecting and playing back
one or more songs
You can select and play back one or more songs in dif-
ferent ways.
Playing back all the songs
In order to play back all the songs contained in the
disk, the display must show "ALL SONG PLAY" and a
series of hyphens (---), as shown in the figure above.
If the display shows a different message, press EXIT/
NO to go back to "ALL SONG PLAY".
Now press START/STOP to start playing back all the
songs. The songs are played back in the order in which
they are saved on the disk. Press START/STOP again
to stop the playback.
Playing back one song
Select the song with the TEMPO/VALUE buttons (or
the DIAL). You can select the song from disk with the
buttons of the ARRANGEMENT section. Press the
ARRANGEMENT BANK [A] button and one of the
ARRANGEMENT NUMBER [1]-[8] buttons to select
songs 1-8.
Press the ARRANGEMENT BANK [B] button and one
of the ARRANGEMENT NUMBER [1]-[8] buttons to
select songs 9-16.
Press the ARRANGEMENT BANK [USER] button and
one of the ARRANGEMENT NUMBER [1]-[8] buttons
to select songs 17-24.
Press START/STOP to start playback. Press START/
STOP again to stop playback.
When the sequencer is not playing, you can press
RESET to go back to the beginning of the song. The ini-
tial tempo of the song will be recalled as well.
The JukeBox
You can create a list of songs with the JukeBox func-
tion. For more information, see also the chapter "Tuto-
rial" on page 30.
1. Choose the first song with the TEMPO/VALUE
buttons (or the DIAL).
2. Press ENTER/YES to insert the song in the list.
3. Choose the second song with the TEMPO/VALUE
buttons (or the DIAL).
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4. Press ENTER/YES to insert the song in the list.
5. Proceed in the same way to insert the other songs.
6. Press START/STOP to playback the songs on the
list.
7. You can use START/STOP to stop or restart play-
back.
8. Press EXIT/NO to exit the JukeBox mode.
There are already songs and/or back-
ing sequences in memory
If the memory already contains a backing sequence
(Backing Sequence mode) or a song (Song Edit mode),
the message "Ok to erase B.Seq&Song Edit" may
appear in the display before loading an SMF in format
1, asking if you want to cancel the songs or backing
sequences already contained in the memory. Press
ENTER/YES to erase the memory contents and play-
back the new song. Press EXIT/NO to avoid losing the
memory contents.
If you want to save the data contained in memory, fol-
low the Save procedure in the Disk/Global mode to
save the backing sequences, the Save function on
"Page 13: Save" of the Song Edit mode to save the
song.
If the size of the file you wish to load is larger than the
size of the edit memory, the message "Can't play all
tracks" will appear. Press ENTER/YES to continue
loading, or EXIT/NO to cancel.
If a file does not appear
In Song Play mode, only files with an extension of
".MID" will be played
MICHELLE.MID). You cannot view the SMF which
have been saved with a different filename extension.
Read the disk with a computer, and change the
filename extension to ".MID". The name of the file
must be 8 characters long, plus period and "MID" suf-
fix (MS-DOS® conventions).
If the file does not comply with the Standard MIDI File
specifications, it might be impossible to read the file
with the iS35, or it might be read incorrectly, with a
bad sound.

Selecting the tracks

The track you have selected can be played on the key-
board, while the song is stopped or played back. Use
the VOLUME/PROGRAM buttons to select the track.
back (for example,