When the samples do not fit your KORG Pa

Sample memory of each keyboard

A Pa4X on OS 2 or 3, a Pa1000 and a Pa700 also load at most 15,048 samples, whatever memory is left; a Pa3X 12,672.

See how full a SET is

• The memory bar under each side of the SET / KST Manager: the samples a SET holds against your keyboard’s memory
• Target keyboard: choose the exact model, and for a Pa4X its OS, so the right limits are used
• The Memory window: sample memory, number of samples, own Sounds, Drum Kits, Styles, Keyboard Sets and Pads against what the keyboard holds
• When converting a Pa5X KST: Your own Sounds on the keyboard, a report of which own Sounds fit, which get a close factory Sound and which the standard Sound

Ways to make it fit

• Compress the samples when converting a Pa5X KST for a Pa4X, Pa1000 or Pa700: plain samples are written Korg-compressed, as the keyboard does, in about half the memory
• Smaller copy…: a copy of a Pa4X-format SET or a Pa5X KST without the samples nothing in it plays; every Style, Keyboard Set, Pad and Sound plays as before
• Delete unreferenced: deletes samples no Multisample or Drum Sample points at
• Merge duplicates: the same audio twice becomes one shared copy
• Delete unused: removes own Sounds no Style, Keyboard Set or Pad uses
• When you copy, bring along only the own Sounds you need; the rest get the closest factory Sound
• In the sample editor, trim a sample or lower its sample rate

How to bring a SET down to size

1. 1Open the SET in the SET / KST Manager and set the Target keyboard to your model.
2. 2Open Memory to see what is over.
3. 3On the Sounds tab, use Delete unused; on the Samples tab, Delete unreferenced and Merge duplicates.
4. 4Or press Smaller copy… to make a slimmer copy next to the SET, which stays as it is.
5. 5Check the memory bar again before loading the SET.

Nothing is cut without telling you

When a converted SET holds more than the keyboard can, the app does not leave things out by itself. It writes everything and says so: “DO NOT INSTALL .SET AS IS.”, with the list in a file inside the SET. Remove what you do not need until it fits. Loading a SET with more samples than the keyboard’s memory can crash the keyboard.

There is no separate button yet to compress or uncompress the samples of a SET you already have. The Pa900, Pa600, Pa300 and Pa3X Le cannot load Korg-compressed samples.

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