Korg EK-50L - Auto-Accompaniment (Style Mode); Playing with Styles and Chord Recognition

Auto-accompaniment (style mode)
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Auto‑accompaniment (style mode)
Playing along with auto‑accompaniment
Auto-accompaniment is a function that automatically plays
accompaniment to match the chord that you specify. The EK-50
features accompaniment paerns in various styles, such as
dance, rock, jazz, Latin and so on. These paerns are called
styles.
There are over 280 styles, divided into 17 groups.
Playing with a style you choose
The sounds used in a style (auto-accompaniment) are assigned
to four parts (drums, percussion, bass and other parts).
Together, these four parts are called an accompaniment part.
Accompaniment part
1.
Press the STYLE/[MUSIC STYLE] buon to enter style
mode.
will blink on the display, and the style name will
be shown.
2.
Select the style using the dial.
Use the CATEGORY buons to switch the style between
dierent musical genres.
3.
Press the KEYBOARD SET/[STS] buon while holding
down the [SHIFT] buon.
A keyboard set that matches the style will be recalled, and
“
” (Single Touch Seings) will be displayed before the
keyboard set name.
4.
Press the SPLIT buon to activate the keyboard split
feature (the buon will light).
When you turn the split on, all keys to the left of the split
point (the lower part) will become the “chord recognition
range.”
Turn the split o to make the entire keyboard become the
chord recognition range.
Split point
Right sideLeft side
Chord recognition range
Tip:
To change the split point, press a key while holding
down the SPLIT buon. See page 11 “Changing the
sounds on the left and right (split)” for details on the split
feature.
5.
Play a chord within the chord recognition range.
The chord name that you played is recognized and shown
on the display.
Tip:
You can change how this instrument recognizes the
chords you play, by changing the Chord Detect seing in
the SETTING functions (see page 22 “Chord Detect”).
6.
Press the start/stop buon.
The auto-accompaniment will begin, and the start/stop
buon will light up green.
7.
Play a melody on the right side of the split point on the
keyboard, while playing a chord in the chord recognition
range.
When you change the chord, the accompaniment will
automatically follow along.
Tip:
See “List of chords recognized” (page 30) for a list of
the chords that this instrument can recognize.
Tip:
To change or lock the tempo, see “Adjusting the
tempo” (page 11). When you lock the tempo, the tempo
will not change when you select a dierent style.
8.
To stop the auto‐accompaniment, press the start/stop
buon.
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