Customizing And Saving Your Styles And Keyboard Sets; Setting Styles And Parts - Korg EK-50 Guia De Inicio Rapido

Customizing and saving your styles and keyboard sets

KEYBOARD SET/[STS] button
STYLE/[MUSIC STYLE]
button

Setting styles and parts

After making the following changes in style mode (the
STYLE/[MUSIC STYLE] button will light) and then turning off
the power, the EK-50 will return to its original settings. Save
your favorite settings in a set list.
„ Changing the keyboard set for a style
You can play with a style using a keyboard set that you like (see
page 7 "Selecting the keyboard set").
Tip: You can also press the KEYBOARD SET/[STS] button
while holding down the [SHIFT] button to select the optimum
keyboard set (STS) that is preset for that style. If the keyboard
set is STS, you can switch to a keyboard set for that style by
switching to a different style.
„ Muting parts and changing sounds
On the keyboard part (upper 1–3 and lower) and on the
accompaniment part (drums, percussion, bass and other parts),
you can mute (turn off) individual parts, or change the part's
sound.
Muting
y Pressing the part buttons will mute the respective part(s)
(the buttons will go dark). Pressing the buttons again will
cancel muting (the button will light).
Changing sounds
1.
Press the part button for the part you want to change while
holding down the [SHIFT] button (the part button will
blink).
and the sound name will blink on the display.
Note:
The sounds for "other parts" cannot be changed.
2.
Use the dial to select a sound.
3.
Press the [SHIFT] button to return to the previous mode.
SETTING/[EFFECT] button
Keyboard part [SHIFT] button
Accompaniment Style name
part Sound name
Keyboard display
Customizing and saving your styles and keyboard sets
Octave/transpose
Chord name
Bank Keyboard set name
Effect name
Dial
Split point BANK/WRITE button
„ Setting a split
You can divide the keyboard into a high note range (for upper
1–3 parts) and a low note range (for lower part). This is called a
"split function," and the key where the sound changes (the next
note directly below the upper part) is called the "split point."
Lower part
Left side
y To turn the split on: Press the SPLIT button to turn the split
function on (the button will light). The keyboard will be
divided into two ranges.
y To turn the split off: Press the SPLIT button once more
to turn the split off (the button will go dark). The entire
keyboard range will play upper parts 1–3.
y To change the split point: Press any key while holding
down the SPLIT button.
Tip:
You can check the split point on the keyboard display,
which is shown in the display.
„ Transposing
You can change the key of this instrument in semitones, over a
range of ±1 octave.
The key that is currently set is shown in the display.
y To lower the key: Press the TRANSPOSE
button.
y To raise the key: Press the TRANSPOSE
button.
y To reset the key: Press both the TRANSPOSE
and TRANSPOSE
♭
TRANSPOSE /[OCTAVE –] button
♯
TRANSPOSE /[OCTAVE +] button
SPLIT button
Buttons 1–4
Upper parts 1–3
Right side
Split point
♭
/[OCTAVE –]
♯
/[OCTAVE +]
♯
/[OCTAVE +] buttons together.
11
♭
/[OCTAVE –]