Sound Studio: make your own KORG Pa Sounds

Ways to make a Sound

• Sound from WAV files (Import WAV…): WAV, AIFF and Korg KSF files, 8 to 32-bit, each a Sound over the whole keyboard with the root key and loop from the file; Korg .KMP Multisamples and .KSC files too
• SoundFont / PCG…: SoundFont (.sf2) presets with their key zones, tuning, loops and up to 4 velocity layers, or Kronos Programs with the .KMP files beside the .PCG
• Drum Kit from WAV files: each file goes to the key its name starts with (“36 Kick”, “D2 Snare”), files for the same key become velocity layers, up to 4
• Auto-sampler: plays your keyboard or synth over MIDI and records each note from an audio input into a new Sound, with 1 to 4 velocity layers and loops for sustained notes
• Time Slice: cuts a drum loop at its hits into a new Drum Kit, and a new Pad plays the slices in time at any tempo

Edit samples and zones

Samples › Edit… opens a sample with its waveform and loop points: trim, cut silence at both ends, normalize, gain, fade in and out, loop on or off, sample rate, low and high cut, and a 3-band EQ, with a preview before you save. It works on plain 16-bit samples; Korg-compressed samples and stereo samples cannot be edited yet.

Multisample zones (Zones…) shows each own Multisample’s zones: key range, original key, tune, level and sample. Split a zone, delete one, or give it another sample. The Samples page also renames, finds samples nothing uses, merges duplicates and deletes what is not needed.

How to make a Sound from WAV files

1. 1Open Sound Studio and choose a Pa4X, Pa1000 or Pa700 SET (or make a new one in the SET / KST Manager).
2. 2On the Record page, choose Sound from WAV files, SoundFont, or Auto-sampler.
3. 3Pick the files or presets. New own Sounds are written into free Sound places of the SET, with their samples.
4. 4Check the zones and samples, then play the Sound.
5. 5Copy the SET to a USB stick and load it on the keyboard.

Play and export your Sounds

In the Live Player, own Sounds play their real samples: choose one for a keyboard part and play it from your MIDI keyboard, or hear it in a Style. Export as WAV saves the samples of the chosen Sounds; Export as KMP saves them as Korg Multisamples with KSF samples (plain 16-bit samples; Korg-compressed ones are not written yet). Copy from another SET brings Sounds over with the recordings they need.

What to expect

Making and editing Sounds works in Pa4X, Pa1000 and Pa700 SETs; from other SETs you can still export. Stereo WAV files are mixed to mono, and the auto-sampler records in mono. Not every one of these tools has been checked on a real keyboard yet, so keep a backup of your keyboard’s data before loading a SET. Use the auto-sampler for your own instrument and your own use.

Questions