Importing your Sample to the PA Keyboard - The Basics:

Copy your named sample folders to a usb stick

Press the keyboard ‘sound’ mode button

Press the red ‘Record’ button on screen Rim..

Press the screen menu button [upper right pull down button]

Change to

a similar

sound that

you are

importing.

In this

instance

choose a

Clarinet

Press ‘Import’ – NOT the ‘Load’ option…

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Select your sample usb drive and select your sample – open folder

Open until you see the KMP file [the multisample] Press ‘load’Press screen Menu button again and press ‘exit’ – press ‘yes’Note: you will not hear any sound on the keyboard at this time

Editing the new Sample ‘in Sound mode’:

Top left of screen is a small button that says SND

Select a similar type of ‘sound’ from one of your banks to use as a

‘Template’. Play any key and you will hear the factory sound you justpicked – not your new sample yet.Press the ‘Menu’ button on the Keyboard [not the screen]Press ‘Basic’ on the screen

Changes to screen below. Change ‘OSC’ count to 1

The Oscillator Count here

Is set to ‘1’

It may be set to 2, 3, 4

As you can see the

information on this ‘Sound

Basic’ page includes the

Transpose Range – Leave this

set to the full keyboard

Also on the screen is

‘Legato as OSC Trigger’

Leave the settings as they are

‘Voice’ is set to ‘poly’

Leave the ‘Hold’ Box

un-ticked

Press ‘OSC Basic’ Tab

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Change ROM toRAM

Your sample name

Will be here after

changing to RAM

Sample

Top of the screen, change the High ‘ROM’to‘RAM’ Now it will show

your sample name. Same page below right, change the ‘Vel SW L->H: to‘1’ to enable just the 1 sample to play. Press the keys, this is the newimported sample. Press Vel/Keyzone Tab - Change the velocity zone to127 if necessary to ensure the sound plays at all velocity’s …

Changing the new sound:

Press page Menu, Press ‘write sound’

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Press the ‘T’ Button [text button] and name your new sound – OK

Press ‘select’ for you preferred location in the User area – 1 or 2

You can choose either an empty slot here Or overwrite a sound you maynot like – OK and ‘yes’.

Further Editing of your new sound:

You now have a ‘Basic’ sound ready for further editing to your own taste

Further programming can be done in ‘Sound Mode’.Press the ‘sound’ button on the keyboard to bring it onto screenSelect your ‘sound’ and alter the various parameters and listen as youwork. If you do something you don’t like and can’t quite get it back thenSimply leave ‘sound’ mode by pressing the ‘style play’ button on thekeyboard. Nothing will be changed.If you do like your editing - Go to screen Menu and ‘Write’ the sound ….

By selecting a factory sound to base your new sample on, a lot of the

programming already in the factory sounds is present in your new sound,so be careful and pick a factory sound that has similar characteristics thatyou need…….

Advanced Edit Manual here:

http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/en/products/pa2x_man.html

Keith Ball