Warning: When saving the edited sample into the card (Write
operation), the segments exceeding the Sample Start and End
points are permanently removed.
Loop
The loop is a cycling portion of a sampled sound, that may
coincide with the whole sampled audio groove. After the
attack stage, most sounds tend to repeat the same waveform
during their sustain stage. You may adjust the Loop Start
point with the “L” parameter, and the Loop End point
(always matching the Sample End point) using the “E”
parameter.
Note: When moving the “S (Sample Start)” point forward, the
“L (Loop Start)” point is also moved forward.
On The loop is turned on, and the portion of
sound included between the Loop Start and
Loop End points will cycle until a key is kept
pressed. If the “L (Loop Start)” point matches
the “S (Sample Start)”, the whole audio groove
is cycled.
Off The loop is turned off. The sound will play
from the Sample Start to the Sample End point
only once, even if you keep a key pressed on
the keyboard.
L (Loop Start)
Use this parameter to adjust the Loop Start point. When you
adjust this parameter, an audible click may appear, due to a
pitch and/or level mismatch between the starting and ending
points of the loop. Move the Loop Start and Loop End/Sam-
ple End points, so that the click disappears.
When editing grooves, the Loop Start should match the Sam-
ple Start point. This parameter usually differs from the Sam-
ple Start in ordinary sounds (i.e., a guitar, a piano, a voice…).
Note: When editing the “S”, “E” and “L” parameters, keep the
SHIFT button pressed, and use the DIAL to change the selected
value in steps of 1000s.
The Record (Sampling) procedure
Here is a short overview of a typical sampling procedure.
1. Insert a RAM Flash Card (Korg PCM-8MB), with
enough free space to save the samples, into the FLASH
CARD slot on the back of the instrument.
2. With the MASTER VOLUME set to zero, connect the
source to be sampled to one or both the Audio Inputs of
the Pa80. At the end, raise the MASTER VOLUME slider
to a position different from zero.
3. If possible, set the output level of the source to be sam-
pled at its maximum. Set the input level of the Pa80
using the GAIN knobs next to the Audio Input connec-
tors. See the SIGNAL LED to check the input level. Ide-
ally, the LED should never go to red, but regularly stay
orange (Green means too low an input signal).
4. Press RECORD and go to the Record page. Select the
Source to be sampled.
5. If you can, first start the sound to be recorded, then
press START/STOP to start recording.
Otherwise, press START/STOP, and immediately start
the sound to be recorded.
The “Recording” window appears.
6. Press START/STOP again to stop recording. When the
memory is full, the sampling automatically stops. A
maximum of 6 seconds is allowed for each sample.
7. Play on the keyboard to listen to the sampled sound. A
multisample is automatically created during sampling,
with the same pitch assigned to all notes of the key-
board.
8. If you are not satisfied with the recorded sound, press
START/STOP again to repeat the recording. Stop the
recording with START/STOP.
9. When finished sampling your sound, you can either save
it into the Flash Card, or continue editing it in the Slice
and Extend pages.
• To save the sound, press WRITE. The Write Sound
window will appear (see “The Write window” on
page 15-9). Assign a name to the new Program, and save
it into a User Program location into the Flash Card.
(After saving, you will go back to the Record/Edit page).
Note: When saving, a new multisample and Program is
automatically created, with the new sample assigned to
the C4 (Root Key), and transposed to the remaining
notes of the scale. Transposed notes play faster (higher
notes) or slower (lower notes) than the original sample.
• To create a series of separate percussive samples, and a
MIDI Groove, press PAGE+ to go to the Slice page (see
“Page 2 - Time Slice” below). After creating a series of
slices, press PAGE+ to go to the Extend page and refine
your groove (see “Page 3 - Extend” on page 15-5).
10. After saving, press RECORD to exit the Sampling mode.
The Write Sound page will appear. Press one of the D
VOLUME/VALUE buttons (Abort), then ENTER to exit.
11. To access the newly sampled sound, just select the
CARD banks of Programs (see “PROGRAM/PERFOR-
MANCE section” on page 3-7 for more information).
Select the bank of Programs were the new sound has
been saved, then use the A-H VOLUME/VALUE buttons
to select the Program.
Length
Sample End (E)Sample Start (S)
Loop
Loop End (E)Loop Start (L)
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Sample length
Total sampling time
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