Korg EK-50 - Style Mode Performance Techniques; Changing Sounds on Left and Right (Split); Playing with the Metronome; Adjusting the Tempo

Customizing and saving your styles and keyboard sets
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Customizing and saving your styles and keyboard sets
SETTING/[EFFECT] button Octave/transpose
TRANSPOSE
♭
/[OCTAVE –] button
TRANSPOSE
♯
/[OCTAVE +] button
KEYBOARD SET/[STS] button
STYLE/[MUSIC STYLE]
button
Keyboard part [SHIFT] button Bank
Style name
Sound name
Accompaniment
part
Chord name
Dial
SPLIT button
Buttons 1–4 BANK/WRITE buttonSplit pointKeyboard display
Keyboard set name
Eect name
Setting styles and parts
After making the following changes in style mode (the
STYLE/[MUSICSTYLE]buonwilllight)andthenturningo
thepower,theEK-50willreturntoitsoriginalseings.Save
yourfavoriteseingsinasetlist.
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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]buon
whileholdingdownthe[SHIFT]buon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dierentstyle.
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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o)individualparts,orchangethepart’s
sound.
Muting
y
Pressing the part buons will mute the respective part(s)
(the buons will go dark). Pressing the buons again will
cancel muting (the buon will light).
Changing sounds
1.
Press the part buon for the part you want to change while
holding down the [SHIFT] buon (the part buon 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] buon to return to the previous mode.
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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.”
Split point
Right sideLeft side
Lower part
Upper parts 1–3
y
To turn the split on:PresstheSPLITbuontoturnthesplit
functionon(thebuonwilllight).Thekeyboardwillbe
divided into two ranges.
y
To turn the split o:PresstheSPLITbuononcemore
toturnthesplito(thebuon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buon.
Tip:
You can check the split point on the keyboard display,
which is shown in the display.
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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
♭
/[OCTAVE–]
buon.
y
To raise the key: Press the TRANSPOSE
♯
/[OCTAVE+]
buon.
y
To reset the key: Press both the TRANSPOSE
♭
/[OCTAVE–]
and TRANSPOSE
♯
/[OCTAVE+]buonstogether.