SET / KST Manager: edit and combine KORG Pa SETs

What you can do

• Tabs for Styles, Keyboard Sets (Performances on Pa3X-family SETs), Pads, Sounds, Samples and SongBook
• Copy with Copy → and ← Copy, drag and drop, or Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V; Ctrl+click to choose several, Ctrl+A for all
• Rename and Delete; drag a bank onto another to swap them, or onto the other side to copy it whole
• Search in every tab, across all banks
• Undo for every change; changes are saved into the SET at once
• New SET… for an exact keyboard, and Copy a whole SET as it is… (byte for byte, locked Styles and samples stay locked)
• Report… lists every Style (bank, tempo, Sound per track), Keyboard Set, Pad and own Sound, as a web page or spreadsheet

Copies are converted on the way

Copy from a Pa3X SET into a Pa4X SET, or back, and each Style, Keyboard Set and Pad is rewritten for the other keyboard, with Sounds the exact target model has. The same works into Pa1000, Pa700, Pa900, Pa600 and Pa300 SETs.

Into a Pa4X-format SET or a Pa5X KST, the own Sounds the copied items use come along, with only the Multisamples and samples they need; a Sound the target already has is used again. Copying into a Pa4X-format SET, the app lists those Sounds and you tick which to bring; the rest get the closest factory Sound. Copy options… sets what happens by default: bring own Sounds, use the closest factory Sound, skip what the target already has.

Pa5X KSTs can be written to as well: copy Styles, Keyboard Sets and Pads into your own KST, rename and delete them, and add banks with New bank…; a copy that takes a KST past the Pa5X’s 4 GB of sample memory is kept whole, and the app says at once that it must be brought down before it loads.

How it works

1. 1Open the SET / KST Manager. Your SETs on USB sticks and the Desktop are in the list at the top of each side.
2. 2Choose a SET or KST on the left and another on the right (Open… for one in another folder).
3. 3Choose a tab and a bank, click what you want (hold Ctrl for more) and press Copy →, or drag it across.
4. 4Answer which own Sounds come along, if the app asks.
5. 5Check the memory bar, then copy the SET to a USB stick and load it on the keyboard.

Sounds, memory and SongBook

The Sounds tab shows where each own Sound is used, finds duplicates, and has Delete unused, Replace… (one Sound for another in every Style) and Move… (another place; every Style, Keyboard Set and Pad follows). The Memory window shows sample memory, own Sounds, Drum Kits, Styles, Keyboard Sets and Pads against what your keyboard holds.

The SongBook tab lists each entry with its genre, tempo, meter and Style, with Show Style and Play. SongBook entries can be viewed here, not edited.

Which license

Managing SETs, copying between SET generations in both directions, SET to KST and A/B compare are part of every license: Standard, Professional and All Access. Copying from a Pa5X KST into an older SET needs Professional or All Access.

Questions