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Getting Started • Operative modes
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4. Operative modes
The instrument can function in different “modes”,
each of which groups together functions that are for its own particular use. In order to choose a mode you
need to press a button in the MODE section.
Arrangement Play mode
Arrangement Play is the main operative mode. When
the instrument is turned on, it is always in this mode,
where you can select the arrangements and the Key-
board Set you wish to use.
There are 192 arrangements in total, organized as 64
arrangements in each of the three banks A, B, and
USER. The arrangements in the USER bank are freely
modifiable and can be used to load new data from a
disk.
The 15 Keyboard Set are all freely modifiable and
divided in three banks with 5 Keyboard Set each. The
Keyboard Set are designed to immediately change the
programs of the keyboard tracks and the settings of
the VOCAL/GUITAR section.
Each arrangement is made up of one style and three
keyboard tracks (Upper 1, Upper 2, and Lower):
• the arrangement “contains” the elements that are
necessary to play live with the automatic accompa-
niments. It can be immediately selected from the
control panel.
• the style is the group of automatic accompaniment
patterns. Each arrangement recalls a style, together
with the sounds to be assigned to the accompani-
ment sounds.
• the keyboard tracks are the two tracks that can be
played on the keyboard, while the automatic
accompaniment plays the other tracks.
The keyboard tracks can be played “live”, with the
accompaniment of the style tracks. The way in which
the keyboard tracks are arranged on the iS35 keyboard
and their active/non active status are set in the KEY-
BOARD MODE and KEYBOARD ASSIGN sections.
The styles are made up of patterns (musical structures)
used to create the automatic accompaniments. Each
style contains four variations, two intros (introduc-
tions), two endings and two fill-ins (passages).
The style selected by the arrangement detects the type
of chord played in a section known as “chord recogni-
tion area” and adapts its pattern to that chord. For
example, if the pattern is in C major, playing a F major
chord in the chord recognition area will cause the pat-
tern transposition to F major.
The way in which patterns are affected by chords is of
course more complex than what indicated above. Korg
instruments are renowned for their refinement in
detecting the chords.
The styles consist of six tracks: drums, percussion,
bass, accompaniment tracks ACC1, ACC2 and ACC3.
These six tracks are referred to as the Backing Tracks,
since they provide the rhythmical and harmonic back-
ing of the song.
You can modify the arrangement parameters (such as
the volume of the instrument parts) while you are
playing, but the modifications will be lost when a dif-
ferent arrangement is selected.
To save the changes in the USER bank use the Write
Arrangement of the “Page 25: Write Arrangement”
(see page 88).
To save the changes in the Keyboard Set use the Write
Keyboard Set function of the “Page 26: Write Key-
board Set” (see page 89).
The following diagram shows the parameters that are
automatically changed when selecting an arrangement
or Keyboard Set:
• if the SINGLE TOUCH led is on, the arrangement
can also change the parameters of the real time
tracks;
• if the SINGLE TOUCH led is off, the arrangement
can only change the parameters of the accompani-
ment tracks.