Playing Another Instrument With The Pa80 - Korg PA 80 User Manual

8-4 MIDI

Playing another instrument with the Pa80

PLAYING ANOTHER INSTRUMENT WITH THE
PA80
You can use the Pa80 as the master controller for your MIDI
setup.
1. Connect Pa80's MIDI OUT to the other instrument's
MIDI IN.
Set-up the other instrument's tracks to the same chan-
2.
nels you want to play from Pa80. For example, if you
wish to play the Upper 1 and Upper 2 tracks with the
other instrument's sound, set the other instrument to
receive on the same channels of the Upper 1 and Upper
2 tracks (by default, channels 1 and 2).
3. Set the general volume of the other instrument with its
own volume controls.
4. Mute/unmute any track right from the Pa80 front panel.
Set each track's volume using Pa80 own VOLUME/
VALUE controls.
5. Play on Pa80's keyboard.
The Keyboard
Pa80's physical keyboard can drive up to 4 tracks via the
MIDI OUT (Upper 1-3 and Lower). MIDI output channels
are set in Global mode (see "Page 11 - MIDI OUT Channels"
on page 16-5).
As a default situation (Default Setup), each of Pa80 Realtime
Tracks transmit on these channels:
Track
Upper1
Upper2
Upper3
Lower
When a track is in mute, it can't transmit any MIDI data to
an external expander or sequencer connected Pa80's MIDI
OUT.
To hear only the expander's sounds, you can lower the MAS-
TER VOLUME control on the Pa80, or set the Realtime
Tracks to the External status (see "Page 15 - Track: Internal/
External" on page 9-8).
The Sequencer
Any Sequencer's track can drive a channel on an external
instrument. To set each track's MIDI output channel, see
"Page 11 - MIDI OUT Channels" on page 16-5.
To hear only the expander's sounds, you can lower the MAS-
TER VOLUME control on the Pa80, or set the Song tracks to
the External status (see "Page 8 - Track: Internal/External" on
page 11-9).
Select the Sequencer 1 or Sequencer 2 MIDI Setup (depend-
ing on the Sequencer you are using on the Pa80) to set the
channels as follows.
Track
Song 1...16
The Arranger
One of the most interesting aspect of MIDI, is that you can
use your Pa80 to play an external instrument with its
onboard arranger. Yes, it's hard to beat the audio quality of
Pa80, but you could wish to use that old faithful synth you
are still accustomed to...
To assign some of Pa80 Style tracks to an external instru-
ment, set them to the External status (see "Page 15 - Track:
Internal/External" on page 9-8).
Select the Default MIDI Setup to set the channels as follows
Out Channel
(this is the default status of Pa80).
1
2
Track
3
Bass
4
Drums
Percussion
Acc1...5
Out Channel
1...16
Out Channel
9
10
11
12...16