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Korg OASYS musical instruments
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Contents
About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Playing Programs and Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Listening to the demo songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New features in software version 1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . 6
New features in software version 1.1 . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introduction to OASYS. . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Main Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Open Architecture Synthesis Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Front and rear panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Names and functions
of objects on the LCD display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Basic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
About the OASYS’ modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
About the OASYS’ PCM memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
About polyphony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Basic operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Turning the power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the CD-R/RW drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Playing and editing Programs . . . . . . .43
Selecting Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using Chord mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Quick Edits using the Sliders,
Knobs and Switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Detailed Editing with HD-1 Programs . . . . . . . . . 54
Using LFOs and Envelopes (EGs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Using Alternate Modulation (AMS)
and the AMS Mixers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Controlling Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Using Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using the Amp section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Using Vector Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Automatically importing a Program
into Sequence mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Playing and editing Combinations . . . .67
Combination overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Selecting Combinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Easy Combination editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Combination editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Layers, Splits, and Velocity Switches . . . . . . . . . . 72
MIDI Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Altering Programs to fit within a Combination . 73
Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Automatically importing a Combination
into Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Saving your edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Creating songs (Sequencer mode) . . . . 77
Overview - About the OASYS’ sequencer. . . . . 77
Sequencer mode structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Playing Songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
The control surface in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . 80
MIDI recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Preparations for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Recording MIDI in real-time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
MIDI step recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Recording the sound
of a Combination or Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Recording multiple MIDI tracks from
an external sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Recording System Exclusive events . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Recording patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Other ways to record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Audio recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Overview: About the
OASYS’ hard disk recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Audio input settings
and recording source selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Recording procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Placing a WAVE file in an audio track . . . . . . . . 108
Song editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Using RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play/Record) . . 112
Sampling in Sequencer mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Saving your song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Cautions and other functions
in Sequencer mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Sampling (Open Sampling System) . . 119
Sampling Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Preparations for sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Sampling and editing in Sampling mode. . . . . . 126
Sampling in Program, Combination,
and Sequencer modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Settings for the entire OASYS
(Global mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
How Global mode is structured . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
P0: Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Global audio settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

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