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Welcome!
About this manual
ABOUT THIS MANUAL
Thismanualisdividedinthreesections:
•A Basic Guide, containi
ng an overview of the
instrument, as well as a series of practical guides
(named“Tutorials”).
•AReferenceGuide,witheachpageandparame‐
terdescribedinde
tail.
•AnAppendix,withalistofdataandusefu
linfor‐
mationfortheadvanceduser
.
Withinthemanu
al,youwillfindthefollowingabbrevi‐
ations:
Theparametercanbesav
edontoaPerfor‐
mancebypressi
ngtheWRITEbutton.
Theparameterca
nbe savedontothe cur‐
rent Style P
erformance by pressing the
WRIT
Ebutton.
Thepa
rametercanbesavedontoaSingle
To
uchSettingbypressingtheWRITEbut‐
ton.
Theparametercanbesav
edontoaGlo
bal
setting by goi
ng to the Global environ‐
ment (see “Global edi
t environment” on
page12
5)andpressingtheWRITEbutton.
LOADING THE OPERATING SYSTEM
Your microARRANGER can be constantly upda ted as
new versions of the operating system are released by
KORG. You can download the operating system from
http://www.korgpa.com/. Please, read the Readme file
includedwiththeoperatingsystemitself.
Youcan seewhichversionofthe operatingsy
stemsis
installed in your microARRANGER by keeping the
SHIFT button pressed, and pressing the ENTER and
EXIT buttons together. The operating system version
numberwillappearinthedisplay.PressEXITto close
themessagewindow.
Toloadanewsy
stem,followtheseinstructions:
1. Copyth
ethreeoperatingsystem’sfilesintheroot
ofanSDca
rd.Thesearetheneededfiles:
•BPaMAR1.sys
•NBPaMAR1.sys
•OsPaMAR1.lzx
2. Turn the ins
trument off, and insert the card con‐
tainingtheoperatingsy
stemintothecardslot.
3. Turntheins
trumenton.Amessageappears inthe
display, as
king if you want to load the operating
system.
4. PressENTERtoload,orEXITtocanceltheloading
procedure. If you press ENTER, wait until the
loadingisfi
nished.
When the operating system is finished
loading, a
message appears, asking you to remove the card
andpressanybutton.
Hint: When done, delete the operating system files,to
avoi
d microARRANGERstarts the upgrade procedure
eachtimeitisturnedonwiththesamecardinthedrive.
5. Removethecard,andpressanybutton.
RELOADING THE FACTORY DATA
Shouldtheinternalmemorycontentgetdamaged,you
can reload the original Factory Data from the backup
card.See“RestoreData”onpage141.