Edit KORG Pa Styles on your computer

What you can edit

• Tempo, and each track’s Sound, volume and pan (Edit… › Tempo, Sounds, volume and pan)
• Notes in a piano roll: draw, move, lengthen, copy and paste, quantize, velocity, split, join, legato, Undo
• The event list of one track in one element and chord variation: position, note, velocity, length; quantize from 1/4 to 1/32 with triplets; transpose ±12
• Copy an element (Variation, Intro, Fill, Ending, Break, Count-In) or one chord variation, from this Style or another; clear an element; change its length and meter
• Copy a track from another Style with its Sound, volume and pan; make a Pad from a track; put a Pad into a track
• Delete duplicate notes in a whole Style

Style Record and the Style Editor

The RECORD button in the Live Player opens Style Record, laid out as the keyboard’s: choose the element and chord variation, set a track to REC, press START/STOP and play after the count-in. Each loop adds to what you played. Write Style puts it into the SET.

The Style Editor shows the same Style as a piano roll. You can hear the pattern on any chord while you edit, and try other Sounds for a track while it plays. ＋ New Style makes an empty Style in a free place of a Favorite or User bank.

MIDI in and out, and a Style from your DAW

MIDI… saves the chosen Styles as MIDI files, every section and chord variation with markers. Import a MIDI file… brings such a file back into every element, or any other MIDI file into the element and chord variation you choose, by channel: Bass 9, Drum 10, Perc 11, Acc 12–16.

Style from a DAW makes a project folder with a template. You write the Style between the markers in Cubase, Logic or another DAW and export one MIDI file into the folder; the app makes the Style from it. Audio files in the Samples folders become own Sounds for the tracks.

How to edit a Style

1. 1Open a Pa4X, Pa1000, Pa700 or Pa3X-family SET in the SET / KST Manager.
2. 2Choose the Style and press Edit…, then pick what to do: setup, notes, elements, tracks or MIDI import.
3. 3Or open it in the Live Player and press RECORD, or switch to the Editor for the piano roll.
4. 4Save or write the Style. Undo in the SET / KST Manager brings it back.
5. 5Copy the SET to a USB stick and load it on the keyboard.

What to expect

Pa5X Styles, factory Styles and protected Styles cannot be edited. Copy a Style into a User or Favorite bank of a Pa3X or Pa4X SET first. Pa2X Styles can be copied and renamed, but not edited. To take an edited Style to a Pa5X, write it into a KST with To KST… (not yet checked on a Pa5X).

Questions