Additional Features - Korg The iS40 Manual

Korg iS40 Guide
Program Editing:
All of the parameters used to create the programs and effects are easily accessible by
pressing the PAGE +/- buttons, or by direct page selecting. To go to a specific edit page,
hold the PROGRAM button, then press ARRANGEMENT NUMBER BUTTONS 1-8 or
PROGRAM NUMBER buttons 1-8.
More detailed information on program editing is available in the owner's manual pgs.
143-169.

Additional Features

This tutorial has provided you with a basic understanding of the iS40. There are some
additional and important features that haven't been discussed yet:
MEMORY-CHORD / button:
When this button is ON in Arrangement Play and Backing Sequencer modes, the
accompaniment and bass track continue to play, even when you release the keyboard. If
it is OFF, the accompaniment and bass tracks will stop when you release the keyboard,
but the drum and percussion tracks will continue to play.
MEMORY-LOWER / button:
This holds the Lower sound without keeping your hand on the keyboard. In Global mode,
pg10, you can set this function to work in one of three ways: ACTUAL - chords
reproduced exactly as played. AUTO - completes chords with missing notes, i.e. playing
notes "C-E-B" will trigger a Cmajor7th chord and the C, E, B and G will be played. BASS -
when accompaniment is stopped, the bass note will sustain as well.
BASS INV. button:
In Arrangement Play and backing Sequence modes, this setting ensures that the lowest
note of a chord played in inverted form will be used as the bass note. In other words, if
BASS INV. is ON, and you play an F chord with a C bass, the accompaniment will play in
F, with the bass player playing a C note. If BASS INV. is OFF, and you play the same
chord, the accompaniment will play in F, and the bass will play the root note (F) of the
chord. So the OFF setting is the simpler way to play chords without worrying about your
chord voicing, and the ON setting gives you better control over chord inversions alternate
bass lines.
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