Creating Songs (Sequencer Mode); Overview - About The Oasys' Sequencer; Sequencer Mode Structure - Korg Oasys Operation Manual

Creating songs (Sequencer mode)

Overview - About the OASYS' sequencer

The OASYS' sequencer can hold up to 200 songs and
400,000 MIDI events or 300,000 audio events. It consists
of a 16‐track MIDI sequencer and a 16‐track hard disk
recorder, giving you a total of 32 tracks.
You can use the sixteen MIDI tracks and one master
track (containing tempo data, etc.) to record and play
back MIDI data using internal or external tone
generators, and use the sixteen audio tracks of the hard
disk recorder to record and play back audio signals.
(You can play back up to sixteen audio tracks
simultaneously, and record up to four audio tracks
simultaneously.)
Audio tracks can record external audio sources such as
guitar and vocal, as well as the OASYS' internal tone
generator. Automation data for volume and pan can
also be recorded.
When you've completed a song, you can resample it to
a WAVE file and use Disk mode to burn your WAVE
files to an audio CD. This entire process can be carried
out on the OASYS itself without using any other
equipment.
With its broad range of capabilities such as its In‐track
Sampling function, Time Stretch/Slice function,
KARMA function, high‐quality effects, and controllers,
the OASYS is the ideal environment for music
production or live performance.

Sequencer mode structure

Songs
A song consists of MIDI tracks 1–16, a master track,
audio tracks 1–16, song parameters such as the song
name, vector function, KARMA function, effect and
RPPR parameters, and 100 user patterns.
A maximum of 200 such songs can be created on
OASYS.
MIDI tracks 1–16 and audio tracks 1–16 each consist of
setup parameters located at the start location, and
musical data within the track. The master track
consists of tempo and time signature data.
For more information, see "Setup parameters &
Musical data" on page 469 of the Parameter Guide.
Song recording and editing
Song recording is performed on tracks.You can record
MIDI tracks in either of two ways; realtime recording
or step recording. For realtime recording you can
choose one of six recording modes.
Audio tracks can be recorded only in realtime. You can
also paste WAVE files to locations you specify.
You can edit MIDI tracks by using Event Edit
operations to modify the recorded data or insert new
data, and by using Track Edit operations such as
Create Control Data, which inserts pitch bend,
aftertouch, or control change data.
When you turn off the power, the settings made in
Sequencer mode and the song data, and any user
pattern data that you recorded will not be backed
up. If you wish to keep this data, you must save it
on media (such as the internal hard disk or CD‐R, or
an external USB device) before turning off the
power, or perform a MIDI data dump to save the
data on an external data filer etc.
If you wish to save the programs, track parameters,
effects, and KARMA function settings etc. selected
for a song as a template song, use the page menu
command "Save Template Song."
Immediately after the power is turned on, OASYS
will not contain any song data, so if you wish to
play a song on the sequencer, you must first load
data from disk, or receive a MIDI data dump from a
MIDI filer. For more information, see "Loading data
from disk" on page 177, and "Receiving SysEx data
dumps" on page 744 of the Parameter Guide.
You can't record audio tracks if MIDI Clock is other
than Internal. (See "MIDI Clock (MIDI Clock
Source)" on page 710 of the Parameter Guide.)
You can also edit audio tracks in a variety of ways
including Event Editing operations that let you insert
or delete audio events, and Region Editing operations.
Region Editing allows you to select WAVE files and to
edit the start/end addresses of a WAVE file in single‐
sample units.
Patterns
There are two types of patterns: preset patterns and
user patterns.
• Preset patterns: Patterns suitable for drum tracks
are preset in internal memory, and can be selected
for any song.
• User patterns: Each song can have up to 100
patterns. When using a pattern in a different song,
use the Utility menu commands "Copy Pattern" or
"Copy From Song" etc. to copy the pattern. The
pattern length can be specified in units of a
measure.
Each pattern consists of musical data for one track. It is
not possible to create patterns that contain multiple
tracks.
You can use these patterns by placing them in a MIDI
track ("Put to MIDI Track" page menu command) or
by copying them ("Copy to MIDI Track" page menu
command). You can also use patterns with the RPPR
function of a song.
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