KORG OASYS musical instruments - Manual (Page 51)

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Playing and editing Programs
What’s a Program?
Programs are the basic sounds of the OASYS. You can
play them by themselves, layer them together in
Combinations, or play a different Program on each of
the 16 MIDI tracks, either from the internal sequencer
or from external computer-based sequencers.
This section of the manual takes a quick look at
playing Programs, including tours of the front-panel
controllers and basic editing techniques.
Selecting Programs
There are several different ways to select Programs.
Each one is convenient in a different way:
• Using the front-panel buttons, value slider, and
value knob, you can select Programs quickly via
physical controls
• Selecting by Bank and number (via the touch-
screen) lets you browse through all of the Programs
in memory, to find the one that you want
• Selecting by Program category (via the touch-
screen) lets you filter Programs by sound type, such
as Pianos or Drums
• Using a foot-switch lets you change Programs even
while both hands are busy playing on the keyboard
- convenient for live applications
• MIDI program change messages let you select
Programs remotely, from either -a MIDI sequencer
or an external MIDI controller
Overview: Program Banks
OASYS ships from the factory with over a thousand
Programs loaded into memory. Another 768 Program
slots are left open for your own programming, or
additional sound libraries.
These Programs are organized into 14 Banks, as
described below.You can also store many more
Programs on the hard drive, or on external USB 2.0
devices.
The preloaded Programs in internal (INT) banks A-E
use the HD-1 sample-playback synthesizer and the
built-in sample library.
Both INT-F and USER-F are EXi banks. Their
preloaded Programs use the AL-1 to create analog
synth sounds, and the CX-3 to make tonewheel organ
sounds.
Internal bank G contains a full set of General MIDI 2
Programs.
USER A-E and G are left open, and contain only
initialized Programs. USER-B bank is the default
location for Programs created by resampling.
Program Bank Contents
As shipped from the factory, the contents of the
Program Banks are as follows:
Program bank contents
For details on the factory Programs, please refer to the
“Voice Name List” on page 1041 of the Parameter
Guide.
Changing the Bank Type for USER-A…G
Banks can contain either HD-1 Programs or EXi
Programs, but not both. This assignment is fixed for
the Internal banks, but can be set separately for each of
the USER banks.
To change the type of a USER bank:
1. Press the front-panel GLOBAL button to enter
Global mode.
2. Select the Basic tab.
3. Press the page menu button, and select Set
Program User-Bank Type.
4. Change the Type for the desired banks. Leave all
of the other banks set to “No Change.”
Setting a bank’s type will erase all of the Program data
in the bank - so make sure that you’re not erasing any
Programs you want to keep!
5. Press the OK button.
An “are you sure?” dialog appears.
6. If you’re certain of the change, press OK again.
The selected banks will now be initialized to use the
new Program types.
Bank Contents Bank Type.
INT-A…D Factory Programs
HD-1
INT-E
Factory Programs; requires the
EXs1 ROM Expansion PCM.
INT-F Factory EXi Programs. EXi
GM (INT-G) GM2 main programs
GM g(1)…g(9) GM2 variation programs
g(d) GM2 drum programs
USER-A
000…007: Factory Programs;
requires the EXs2 Concert
Grand Piano PCM.
008, 11…127: Initialized
programs.
Bank type
can be set to
either HD-1
or EXi
USER-B…E, G Initialized HD-1 Programs.
USER-F Factory EXi Programs.