Keyboard Presents Korg Product Spotlight - (Page 3) www.korg.com Simply put– each Program has an additional timbre under the hood–a drumkit that can be driven by a large library of drum patterns. So you call up a Program, turn on the dedicated Drum Track button and voila, a great groove starts playing for you to jam with. These drumkits have already been programmed and mixed into the sound to give you great results. Over 500 drum patterns have been created by expert programmers, (many have been played by world-class drummers) to give you a wealth of grooves across many genres of music at your fingertips . And all of this has been set up so you can just turn it on and get inspired, as opposed to having to add tracks, shop through browsers and configure effects yourself. It’s easy to change patterns or even drumkits when you feel like exploring deeper, but often just changing the tempo can be enough to get a different vibe going. One of my favorite deeper tweaks involves the Detune parameter, which retunes the drumkit without affecting the grooves, turning a normal kit into a cool boomy sound, or a tight breakbeat-enhanced vibe. use the “Convert MS to Program” command, and set the new Program’s category to Drums to make it available to the Drum Track. The M3 also has advanced sample tools like Time Stretching and Time Slicing so you can change tempo and tuning of loops in a variety of ways. Click the play button for examples Capture Your Inspiration When you like the results of any of these techniques and want to start recording your ideas, just press and hold ENTER+REC. Everything you’ve set up will be instantly “sent” to the M3’s sequencer with tracks armed and the metronome clicking, so you’re ready to record. No interfaces to setup, no drivers, no latency issues, no matching MIDI channels - what could be easier? Grooves From Another Dimension The M3 has another cool way to get your groove on, using the amazing KARMA technology exclusive to Korg workstations. Invented by Stephen Kay, KARMA is a multi-faceted toolbox of MIDI-generated phrases, performance gestures, controller patterns and more that can be varied in real time. For example, it can create drum patterns with infinite variability, and can even improvise along with you! Here’s a screenshot of the realtime controls available for a KARMA-fied drum track. Click the play button for examples The Patterns that drive the grooves are MIDI data, so you can easily copy them into the sequencer for editing if you want to tweak the sounds being used, add or take away some parts, or change the feel. You can sequence your own or simply copy phrases from existing songs or MIDI files. There are a number of companies who sell these – just type “MIDI drum patterns” into your browser to see what’s available.Do you like to work with audio loops rather than MIDI data to get the true sound of a famous drummer’s kit and playing style? No problem –the M3 can handle it. If you load a sample loop into the M3 (WAV, AIFF, Soundfont 2.0 and full AKAI program conversion are supported), you can easily turn them into a Drum Track. Here’s the secret: after loading the sample, just Click here for a quick audio tutorial on what you can do by manipulating these cool controls. Reach Out and Touch… Inspired by our acclaimed KAOSS products, the M3 adds another unique way to control and interact with sounds. The color TouchView display can be used as an X/Y continued 3 http://www.korg.com
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