Keyboard Presents Korg Product Spotlight - (Page 7) www.korg.com PA800 HARDWARE LOOPS The screen shots below are representative of what you’ll learn in the article. You can click on any image to read the full article. One of the popular ways to make music these days is to assemble a collection of loops – usually in software – stack ‘em up and string ‘em together to craft a brand new song. I do the same thing with my Korg Pa800 Professional Arranger keyboard. However, it allows me to work with loops in a much more musical environment, and I have some instant control that’s unavailable in the software world. Essentially, an arranger keyboard is just a big box o’ loops, but presented in a different manner. The base unit of currency in an arranger keyboard is the “Style” – a drum pattern and bass line augmented by up to five additional backing parts (Piano, organ, guitar, horns, etc.) all playing in sync to express a certain musical genre. Now some people are happy to enjoy a complete Style as it is presented. But I like to break it down into each specific element to pick, choose, mix and match parts to create a backing track that works for me. I’m guessing you’re somewhat skeptical, so let’s zero in on one example. I’m looking for a bass groove/pattern to start my song. The Pa800 comes loaded with 419 Styles – and each one includes bass lines. Each Style has four Variations - that’s 1676 so far. The Pa800 can play each bass line in any of twelve keys and can use any of up to 16 chord types. Just using the preset sounds – with out any editing – I have access to some 98 bass & synth bass sounds. We’re now up to some 30 million variations of bass lines that the Pa800 can generate, as I play, in real-time. Oh, and of course, I can set the tempo anywhere from 30 BPM to 250 BPM. Let’s see your bass player do that! In all seriousness, the Pa800 is a vast resource for the songwriter, but many users may not know there’s a vast world of opportunity that lies between using a pre-programmed style intact and programming your own from scratch. Follow along and I’ll give you a real life example of bending the Pa800 to my musical will, and not the other way around. And I’ll do it all without actually playing the keyboard, just to show some of the vocalists and guitarists out there how easily it can be done. More… Step 1: Saving a copy of your current settings and renaming it – in this case E-Zine. Step 2: Selecting a Kick and Snare, and re-mapping the other drums Step 3: Adjusting the different percussion instrument levels using the Drum Mixer Step 4: Cloning the bass groove from a different Style Step 7: Choosing a sequenced pattern and assigning it to a Pad Step 8: Recording your own Pad Sequence and assigning it to a Pad Step 10: Entering chord changes into the Step Sequencer Step 11: Recording the Pad parts in real time 7 http://www.korg.com http://Korg.com/pa800 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350 http://www.korg.com/service/downloadinfo.asp?DID=1350
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