Style Play Operating Mode; What's A Style; Styles And Performances; Changing And Resetting The Tempo - Korg PA 80 User Manual

9. STYLE PLAY OPERATING MODE

The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in
this mode, you can play Styles (i.e. automatic accompani-
ments), or just play with one to four Realtime tracks on the
keyboard (Upper 1...3 and Lower).

WHAT'S A STYLE?

A Style is a rhythm/accompaniment structure, that simulates
a band backing your solos.
In a vertical direction, it is composed of 8 different tracks
(Drums, Percussion, Bass, and 5 different harmonic or
melodic instruments). You can play on the keyboard with 4
more Realtime tracks (Upper 1-3 and Lower).
In a horizontal direction, it is a series of Style Elements (i.e.,
the various sets of patterns for each chord and each of the
Intros, Variations, Fills, Breaks and Endings).

STYLES AND PERFORMANCES

Styles and Performances are linked in many ways.
• When the SINGLE TOUCH LED is on, selecting a Style
also changes the Realtime (Keyboard) tracks (a Single
Touch Setting is selected). The Performance settings are
overridden.
• When the STYLE CHANGE LED is on, selecting a Per-
formance also selects a Style (the one whose number is
memorized with the Performance).
• When pressing the WRITE button, you can save the
track's settings either in a Performance, a Style Perfor-
mance, or a Single Touch Setting (STS).

CHANGING AND RESETTING THE TEMPO

While in the main page of the Style Play mode, you can
change the Tempo using the DIAL or the DOWN/- and UP/+
buttons.
In any other page, keep the SHIFT button pressed, and use
the DIAL to change the Tempo.
To recall the Tempo stored in the current Style, keep the
SHIFT button pressed, and press one of the DOWN/- or UP/
+ buttons.

THE DIRECT HD BANK

You can expand the internal memory User Styles with nine
additional banks residing on the (optional) hard disk. When
both LEDs of the leftmost STYLE button are lit, the DIRECT
HD banks are selected. No loading is required.
Use the first nine STYLE bank buttons to select these banks.
Each bank can include up to 16 Styles; browse them using the
PAGE buttons.
Style Play operating mode
The DIRECT HD Styles are contained in three folders to the
hard disk. These folders, automatically created by the Pa80,
have fixed names:
Folder DIRECT HD banks
!123.SET 1, 2, 3
!456.SET 4, 5, 6
!789.SET 7, 8, 9
How to make the DIRECT HD banks
To configure the DIRECT HD banks, just save any Style into
the DIRECT HD folders. See the Disk chapter for more infor-
mation on the disk procedures.
Note: The following procedures requires you overwrite the User
Style banks. Save these banks before proceeding, to avoid loosing
important data.
Remove any floppy disk from the disk drive.
1.
Press DISK and go to the Load page.
2.
Disk:Load
NEWNAME.SET
LIVE.SET
ETHNICA.SET
FD LOAD
Load three banks of Styles, to be transformed in
3.
DIRECT HD banks 1, 2 and 3, into the USER01, USER
02 and USER03 banks.
4. Go to the Save page.
Disk:Save
ALL
FD SAVE
5. While the "ALL" item is selected, press F3 (Open) to
open it.
6. Use the E-F (Scroll Up) and G-H (Scroll Down) VOL-
UME/VALUE buttons (or the TEMPO/VALUE section
controls) to move the "STYLE" item to the first line of
the display, and press F2 (Save).
7. Select the hard disk (HD), using the F1 button.
The hard disk directory appears. Use the E-F (Scroll Up)
8.
and G-H (Scroll Down) VOLUME/VALUE buttons (or
the TEMPO/VALUE section controls), to scroll the disk
content. Move the "!123.SET" folder to the first line of
the display.
9. Press ENTER twice to save the banks.
Load other Styles into the USER01-USER03 banks. Save
10.
them onto the "!456.SET" folder.
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