Connecting a Pa-Series instrument to an external controller |
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Connecting an external controller with pads to play
percussive sounds or special effects
You can use an external controller with pads, for example one of the KORG
nanoPADs, to play percussive sounds or special effects in the Pa-Series in-
strument.
In this example, the percussive sounds or special effects will be assigned to
the Upper 3 Sound, so that you can easily program it from the main page of
the Pa-Series instrument.
As an alternative, you could play the percussive instruments usually assigned
to MIDI channels 10 (Drums) or 11 (Percussion), but you will have a more lim-
ited control on the sounds, and will compete with the internal Arranger or
Player for the same sounds.
Configure the external controller
1
Be sure the external controller is sending data on MIDI channel 1. This is usu-
ally the default setting.
With the nanoPAD2 and devices of the same series, you can choose a trans-
mission MIDI channel by using the KORG KONTROL Editor software, that you
can freely download from our
In the following image, you can see how the nanoPAD2’s Global channel has
been set to MIDI channel 1 in the
Global
dialog.
If you have changed the transmit MIDI channel (that is, in this case, the
Global channel), press the
Write
button to save the setting in the controller’s
memory. Then press the
Close
button to close the dialog.
2
Be sure the external controller is sending Note data to trigger a percussive
sound.
