Korg microARRANGER, Owner'S Manual

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15 Front panel
START+STOP LEDs ON
When both LEDs are lit ‐ up, raising your
hand from the keyboard momentarily will
stop the Style from playing. If you play a
chord again, the Style starts again.
OFF All Synchro functions are turned off.
This button doubles as a DELETE function for the
Backing Sequence and Song modes (see chapters 12
and 13).
It is also used to delete the selected character, during
text editing.
24 TAP TEMPO/RESET (INSERT)
This is a double ‐ function button, acting in a different
way depending on the Style status (stop/play).
Tap Tempo: When the Style is not playing, you can
“beat” the tempo on this button. At the end, the accom ‐
paniment starts playing, using the “tapped in” tempo.
Reset: When you press this button while the Style is in
play, the Style pattern goes back to the previous strong
beat.
This button doubles as an INSERT function for the
Backing Sequence and Song modes (see chapters 12
and 13).
It is also used to insert a character at the cursor posi ‐
tion, during text editing.
25 WRITE/CARD IN USE
In Style Play mode, this button opens the Write win ‐
dow, that lets you save all the tracks onto a Perfor ‐
mance, the Realtime (Keyboard) tracks in a Single
Touch Setting (STS), or the accompaniment tracks onto
a Style Performance. (See “The Write window” on
page 42).
In the Global edit environment, press it to save Global
parameters in memory. (See “The Write window” on
page 125).
This button’s LED works as a CARD IN USE indica ‐
tor, and turns on when the card slot is in use.
26 ENSEMBLE
This button turns the Ensemble function on or off.
When on, the right ‐ hand melody is harmonized with
the left ‐ hand chords.
Note: The Ensemble function works only when the keyboard
is in SPLIT mode, and the LOWER Chord Scanning mode
selected.
27 RECORD
This button sets the instrument in Record mode
(depending on the current operating mode).
28 MENU
This button opens the Menu page for the current oper ‐
ating mode or edit environment. After opening a
menu, you can jump to one of the edit pages by press ‐
ing the corresponding VOLUME/VALUE buttons; or
browse them using the PAGE buttons. Otherwise, go
back to the main page of the current operating mode,
or close the edit environment, by pressing the EXIT
button.
See the relevant chapter devoted to each operating
mode or edit environment, to see their “maps” in detail.
29 PAGE -/+
After pressing MENU to open a menu, use these but ‐
tons to browse the edit pages of an operating mode or
editing environment. Press EXIT to go back from an
edit page to the main page of the current operating
mode, or to close the Global or Card Edit environment.
In addition, you can use these buttons to select a differ ‐
ent page in a Style Select or Program Select window.
30 VOLUME/VALUE (MUTE) A–H buttons
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Within this user’s manual, each button pair is marked
with an alphabetic letter (A–H). See “Display and User
Interface” on page 19 for more details.
A corresponding track name is printed over each but ‐
ton pair. These names show the corresponding track
the button pair affects in the main page of the Style
Play mode.
• The left half is for the main page, where you can
see the Realtime tracks, and the Style tracks
grouped together:
• The right half is for the Style tracks page, where
you can see each of the accompaniment tracks:
See “Symbols and Icons” on page 21.
Use these buttons to perform various operations on the
commands and functions appearing in the display.
SELECTING
Use each button pair to select the corre ‐
sponding item in the display (i.e. a track, a
parameter or a command). Use either the
left or right button in a pair.