Tuning: Scale - Korg Pa300 User Manual

Standard MIDI File and chord transpose
When changing the Master Transpose, chord abbreviations con-
tained in a Standard MIDI File are transposed and correctly
shown in the display. Master Transpose must be activated on the
Player, but not on the Keyboard.
Note: Chords contained in a linked TXT file or shown when load-
ing a CDG file are not transposed.
Drum Kits and transpose
Drum Kits are never transposed. If you want that any Sound is
not transposed as well, assign them to a track set to the Drum
mode in Style Play/Song Play > Track Control > Mode (see
"Type" on page 102).

Tuning: Scale

This page lets you select the main scale of the instrument.
Main Scale
Main Scale
This parameter lets you set the main scale for the whole instru-
ment, apart for those tracks where a different sub-scale has been
selected by a Performance or STS (see "Scale" on page 98, Style
Play mode).
See "Scales" on page 355 for a list of the available scales.
Note: You cannot select a User scale in Global mode.
Key
This parameter is needed by some scales to set the preferred key.
User Quarter Tone SubScale
This section is where you can program the Quarter Tone scale,
and save up to four Quarter Tone Scale (SC) Presets.
SC Preset buttons
Touch these buttons to recall the corresponding presets. Each pre-
set contains a custom detuning of each note of the scale (shown in
the upper scale diagram). It also memorizes the selected degree(s)
of the scale (shown in the lower scale diagram).
When no preset is selected, the default scale is automatically
recalled. This scale assigns a -50 cent value to all notes, and turns
all scale degrees off.
You can also select an SC Preset by assigning the relevant func-
tion to the footswitch.
To save the current scale programming to a preset, while in this
page choose the "Write Quarter Tone SC Preset" command from
the page menu, then select one of the preset locations where to
save the current settings (see "Write Quarter Tone SC Preset" on
page 163).
Upper scale diagram
Use this diagram to set the detuning of each note of the scale.
-99...0...+99 Note detuning in cents. Zero is no detuning, ±50
is a full quarter tone up or down, ±99 is nearly
one whole semitone up or down.
Lower scale diagram
Use this scale to turn detuning on or off. Applied detuning will
depend on the programming set with the Upper scale diagram,
or recalled by selecting one of the SC Presets.
When a note is detuned, a black dot appears in the correspond-
ing note of the diagram.
Global 157
Tuning: Scale