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Korg Karma Basic Guide

Korg Karma
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Basic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Saving data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Types of data that can be saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Writing to internal memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Writing a program or combination . . . . . . . . . . 38
Writing global settings and user drum kits. . . . 40
Saving on Floppy disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
MIDI data dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Restoring the factory settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Loading the preload data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Program mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
How a program is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Basic program editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Oscillator settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Controller settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Pitch settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Amplifier settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
LFO settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
KARMA function settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
BUS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Insert Effect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Master Effect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
More about Alternate Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Combination mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
How a combination is organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Basic combination editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Timbre 18 program, pan and volume. . . . . . . 53
Controller settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Settings for status, MIDI channel,
and playing mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Turn KARMA on/off, and specify note delay
and scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Layer and split settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Velocity switch settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
MIDI filter settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
KARMA function settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Bus settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Insert Effect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Master Effect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Features of the sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The structure of Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Cue List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Playing a song (Play). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Other playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Recording on a track, and recording
on a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Realtime recording on a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Realtime recording to a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Step recording on a track or pattern . . . . . . . . 68
Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Track editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Pattern editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Song editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Creating and playing a Cue List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play/Recording)
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
RPPR settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
RPPR playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Realtime recording an RPPR performance . . . 72
Song Play mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
The structure of Song Play mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Playing SMF data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Jukebox function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Playback using the Jukebox function. . . . . . . . 76
Saving/loading a Jukebox list . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
About the KARMA function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The structure of the KARMA
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
KARMA function settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
KARMA function settings
in Program mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
KARMA function settings
in Combination mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
KARMA function settings
in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
KARMA function settings
in Song Play mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Synchronizing the KARMA function . . . . . . . . . . . 88
The Quantize Trig parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Synchronizing with song start/stop . . . . . . . . . 89
Synchronizing to an external MIDI device . . . . 89
Global mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Creating a drum kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
About drum kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Editing a drum kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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Korg Karma Specifications

General IconGeneral
Polyphony62 voices
Oscillators2 per voice
Display240 x 64 pixel backlit LCD
MIDIIn, Out, Thru
TypeWorkstation Keyboard
Keyboard61 keys
Effects2 Master effects
Sequencer16-track
ArpeggiatorYes
OutputsL/Mono, R
StorageSmartMedia

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