Style/Pad Record; Recording Styles And Pads - Korg Pa300 User Manual

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Style/Pad Record

Recording Styles and Pads

Style/Pad Record
By entering the Style/Pad Record mode, you can create your own
Styles or Pads, or edit an existing Style or Pad.
Recording Styles and Pads
Styles and Pads share most of the same structure and recording/
editing operations. Here is how they are made.
The Style's structure
The term "Style" relates with music sequences automatically
played by the arranger of the Pa300. A Style consists of a pre-
defined number of Style Elements (E) (Pa300 features fifteen
different Style Elements: Variation 1-4, Intro 1-3, Fill 1-4, Break,
Ending 1-3). When playing, most of these Style Elements can be
directly selected by using the corresponding buttons on the con-
trol panel.
To explain the Style structure, we can use a tree structure, as
shown in the following diagram:
P op Balla d
Va ri ation 1
CV1
Dr um
P erc
Bass
Acc1
Acc2
Acc3
Acc4
Acc5
CV2
CV3
CV4
CV5
CV6
Each Style Element is made up of smaller units, called Chord
Variations (CV), but not all of them have the same number of
CVs. Variations 1-4 have up to 6 CVs each, while the other Style
Elements have only up to 2 CVs.
When you play in the chord recognition area (Lower or Full,
depending on the On or Off status of the SPLIT button), the
arranger scans the keyboard and determines which chord you
are playing. Then, depending on the selected Style Element, it
determines which Chord Variation (CV) should be played for
the scanned chord. Which Chord Variation corresponds to each
scanned chord is a setting of the Style: the Chord Variation
Table. Each Style Element contains a Chord Variation Table,
whose prototype is the following:
Chord
Major
6
M7
(b5)
M7
sus
sus2
M7sus
Va ri ation 2
m
m6
Va ri ation 3
m7
Va ri ation 4
(b5)
m7
(M7)
m(
Intro1
7
(b5)
7
CV1
7sus4
CV2
dim
(M7)
Intro 2
dim
#5
Intro 3/C.In
(#5)
7
(#5)
M7
Fill 1
1+5
Fill 2
1+8
b5
Fill 3
dim7
Fill 4
After deciding what CV to play, the arranger triggers the right
Break
sequence for each track. Since each sequence is written in a par-
ticular key (for example, CMajor, GMajor or Emin), the arranger
Ending 1
transposes it according to the scanned chord. Notes in the
sequence are carefully transposed, to make them work fine with
Ending 2
all recognized chords.
Ending 3 Going deeper into the Style structure, we can see that each
Chord Variation is made up of Track Sequences, and the Pa300
supports 8 different tracks. DRUM and PERC are used for drum
and percussion sequences, BASS for bass and ACC1-5 are for
Chord Variations (CVs)
Intro 1-2, Count-In, Fill 1-4, Break,
Variation 1-4
Ending 1-3
CV1 – CV6 CV1 – CV2