EasyStart
CONTENTS
A Quick Overview of Keys, Knobs and Switches
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Listening to the Demo Songs
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Selecting and Playing Programs
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Editing Programs using the Performance Edit Mode
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Editing Programs using the EDIT SELECT knobs
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Connecting the Microphone and using the Vocoder
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Using the Format Hold Function
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Using the Arpeggiator
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Storing an Edited Program
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Shift Key Functions
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Important Owner’s Manual references
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EasyStart
microKORG Main Features
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Perfect for use with laptop computers, live electronica
rigs, DJ’s, non-keyboardists and much more!
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Same dual-oscillator DSP synthesis engine as the
MS-2000, with 71 waveforms to choose from!
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8-band Vocoder with a built-in Microphone, and formant
“freezing” / shifting functions!
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37 velocity -sensitive mini-keys
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128 fully-editable cutting edge Programs, grouped into
musical genres
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5 Realtime control knobs send MIDI controller data
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Flexible arpeggiator with 6 types of patterns and ability
to turn individual steps on and off like a step sequencer!
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Multi-mode resonant fi lters include 12dB (2-pole) low
pass, high-pass, high pass/band pass and a -24dB
(4-pole) low pass type!
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Two ADSR Envelope Generators and two
MIDI-syncable LFOs.
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Two audio inputs for processing external sources like CD
or instruments through the filter and effects!
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Three types mod effects, three types MIDI syncable
delay effects and a 2-band EQ for every Program!
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Virtual Patch matrix works like a modular synth to
modulate and shape sounds!
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Portable! Battery powered, too!
