Style Play Mode; Start-Up Settings; How Styles, Variations, Performances And Stss Are Linked; Together - Korg pa 900 User Manual

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Style Play mode

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Start-up settings

Style Play mode
The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in
this mode, you can play along with the Styles (i.e. automatic
accompaniments), using up to four tracks (Upper 1-3 and
Lower) to play on the keyboard. You can choose different
Sounds and Effects by selecting Performances and STSs. Four
Pads will provide single-shot sounds or repeating patterns in
sync with the Style. You can also use the SongBook to automati-
cally select Styles suited for a particular song.
Start-up settings
Since the "My Setting" Performance is automatically selected
when turning the instrument on, you can save your preferred
start-up settings to it.
Select the Sounds, Effects, and other settings you would like to
see automatically selected when turning the instrument on.
Then keep the MY SETTING button pressed for about one sec-
ond. When the Write Startup Settings window appears, confirm
by touching OK.
Note: If you like some settings to be preserved even when choosing
different Performances, STSs and Styles, turn on the desired
"locks" to avoid changes to the selected parameters (see "General
Controls: Lock" on page 249).
How Styles, Variations, Performances and
STSs are linked together
Styles, Variations, Performances and STSs are linked in many
ways.
• When the STS MODE LED is steadily on or blinking, selecting
a Style also changes the Keyboard tracks (STS 1 is automatically
selected). Performance settings are overridden.
• When the STS MODE LED is blinking, selecting a Variation
also select the corresponding STS.
• When the STYLE CHANGE LED is on, selecting a Perfor-
mance also selects a Style (the one memorized with the Perfor-
mance).
• Current track settings can be saved either to a Performance, an
STS, or the Style Settings, depending on the Write command you
select.

Styles and Pads

Each Style includes four Pads. Each time you select a Style, the
four Pads it contains are assigned to the four PAD buttons. The
Style and the Pads will play using the same Tempo value.

Master Volume and Balance

While the MASTER VOLUME knob controls the general vol-
ume of the instrument, you can use the BALANCE knob to bal-
ance the Style's Accompaniment and Pad tracks against the
Keyboard tracks.
Overall instrument's
volume
Note: As an alternative, the BALANCE knob can also work as a
volume control. See "Balance Slider" on page 255.

Factory, Favorite and User Styles

There are three different types of Style locations:
Factory Style banks are the preloaded Styles, that you can't
usually edit (unless you want to do so by turning off the
protection, see "Factory Style and Pad Protect" on
page 254).
Favorite Style banks are Styles that can be loaded from an
external device, or can be created or edited in Style Record
mode. You can rename the tabs in the Style Select window
to create places for custom banks, or for additional music
genres that are not already included among the supplied
banks. See "The Favorite banks" on page 129 for informa-
tion on how to manage these Styles.
User Style banks are, like the Favorite banks, Styles loaded
from an external device, created or edited by yourself (the
User). These are banks conceived as a 'workbench' – a place
where to manage Styles and banks before saving them to a
final location. See the "Style/Pad Record mode" chapter for
information on how to edit or create Styles.
Balance of Style and
Pad tracks against the
Keyboard tracks

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