Korg PA 600 QT, Reference Manual

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Style Play operating mode
Start-up settings
The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in
this mode, you can play with Styles (i.e. automatic accompani-
ments), while playing with one to four tracks (Upper 1-3 and
Lower) on the keyboard. You can choose different Sounds and
Effects by selecting Performances and STSs. Four Pads will pro-
vide single-shot sounds or repeating patterns in sync with the
Style. You can also use the SongBook to automatically 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 to it your pre-
ferred start-up settings.
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 141).
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 page menu com-
mand you select.
Styles and Pads
Each Style includes four Pads. Each time you select a Style, the
four Pads 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 Accompaniment and Pad tracks against the
Keyboard tracks.
Note: As an alternative, the BALANCE knob can also work as a
volume control. See “Balance Slider” on page 146.
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 don’t want to do so, by turning the
protection off, see “Factory Style and Pad Protect” on
page 145).
• Favorite Style banks are Styles loaded from an external
device, created or edited by yourself. 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 35 for information 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.
Style Play operating mode
Overall instrument’s
volume
Balance of Style and
Pad tracks against the
Keyboard tracks