Document Outline

• Introduction
  • Main features
    • Wide range of sounds
    • Performances
    • Four zones keyboard
    • Touch control
    • Pedal effects
    • Piano eXperience
    • One-hundred eighty-five songs
    • SongBook included
    • Onboard recorder
    • Metronome
    • Data transfer via USB
    • MIDI capabilities
    • MIDI over USB
    • Temperaments
    • Adjustable pitch
    • Effects
    • Powerful integrated amplification
    • Two sets of headphones
• Control panel
• Connections
  • Connecting to external audio devices
    • Connecting to an external amplification system
    • Connecting other audio devices to the C-720
• Before you begin
  • Open the key cover
  • Turning the instrument on
  • Using the music stand
    • Opening and closing the music stand
    • Using the score holders
  • Adjusting the volume
  • Using the headphones
  • Listening to the Demo
    • Listen to all songs at once
    • Listen to a specified song
• Basic functions
  • Playing a single sound (Single mode)
    • Selecting a sound
  • Playing two sounds at the same time (Layer mode)
    • Entering the Layer mode
    • Exit from the Layer mode
    • Selecting a different pair of sounds
    • Selecting a variation of the Main sound
    • Selecting a variation of the Layer sound
    • Balancing layered sounds
  • Playing different sounds with your left and right hand (Split mode)
    • Entering the Split mode
    • Exit from the Split mode
    • Choosing a different split point
    • Selecting a different Main sound
    • Selecting a variation of the Main sound
    • Selecting a different Left sound
    • Selecting a variation of the Left sound
    • Balancing sounds in Split mode
  • Using the pedals
    • (1) Damper pedal
    • (2) Sostenuto pedal
    • (3) Soft pedal
  • Transposing
  • Changing the brilliance
  • Turning the effects on/off
• Using performances
  • Choosing performances
  • Changing the sounds assigned to a performance
  • Editing a performance
• The metronome
  • Starting and stopping the metronome, adjusting the tempo
  • Tempo and time signature display
  • Adjusting the tempo
  • Choosing a time signature
  • Drum patterns
  • Adjusting the metronome level
  • Adjusting the drum pattern’s reverb
  • Selecting the accent
  • Saving the metronome settings
• Playing back a song
  • Accessing the Song Play mode
  • How to select a song
  • How to start playback
  • Starting from a different measure
  • Muting/unmuting a recorder’s part
  • Changing the song’s tempo
  • Play along with the song
  • Cycle Play
    • Turning the Cycle Play off
• Recording a song
  • Quick recording procedure
  • Step 1: Entering the Record mode
    • Entering Record mode with a new, blank song
    • Entering Record mode with an existing user song
    • Exit from the Record mode
  • Step 2: Selecting sounds
    • What if I record a Layer or Split on a single part?
    • Example 1: Recording a single sound
    • Example 2: Recording a single sound into Part 1
    • Example 3: Recording first with a single sound then both
    • Example 4: Recording each hand of a piano piece in two separate parts
  • Step 3: Setting the record options
  • Step 4: Setting the time signature and tempo
  • Step 5: Recording
    • A: Recording with no metronome
    • B: Recording with the metronome
    • C: Recording with a drum pattern
  • Step 6: Second-pass recording
  • Changing sounds to a recorded song
  • Changing tempo to a recorded song
  • Pedal Punch recording
  • Auto Punch recording
  • Saving the song
    • By choosing the Save Song command
    • By choosing to record a new song
    • By choosing a different song
    • How I delete a Song from the UserSong album?
• Editing a song
  • Setting Cycle Play
  • Erasing a track
  • Cutting measures at the end of the song
  • Quantizing the song
  • Transposing the song
  • Deleting the song
  • Saving the song after editing
• Editing sounds and performances
  • Accessing the Sound edit mode
  • Exit from the Sound edit mode
  • Saving a sound
  • Saving a performance
    • After editing a sound
    • After editing a performance
    • By pressing the Performance button
  • Setting the volume
  • Adjusting the panning
  • Adjusting the effects
  • Setting the reverb effect
  • Setting the chorus or modulation effect
  • Setting the insert effects
  • Setting the octave transposition
  • Adjusting the fine tune
  • Programming the pedals
  • Selecting a scale
  • Resetting the current sound and performance
• Global settings
  • Accessing Global edit
  • Exit from the Global edit mode
  • Touch settings
  • Turning the internal speakers on or off
  • Master tuning
  • Brilliance
  • Default split point
  • Assigning functions to the pedals
  • Quarter Tone (SubScale realtime programming)
  • Fast Play
  • Mute Level
  • Turning the keyboard on or off (Local Control)
  • MIDI Clock
  • MIDI IN Channels
  • MIDI OUT Channels
  • MIDI Filters
  • Data transfer via the USB port
  • Erasing songs from the User Song album
  • General Reset
  • System version number
• MIDI
  • What is MIDI?
  • What is MIDI Over USB?
  • What can you do with MIDI?
  • MIDI connections
  • Standard MIDI settings
  • Using the C-720 as a multitimbral tone generator
  • Program Change
    • Transmitting Program Change messages
    • Receiving Program Change messages
    • Program Change enable/disable
  • Control Change
    • Control Change enable/disable
• Installing the Korg USB MIDI Driver
  • Connecting the C-720 to a personal computer
  • KORG USB-MIDI Driver system requirements
    • Windows
    • Macintosh
  • Please note before use
  • Windows: Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver
    • Driver’s ports
  • Mac OS X: Installing KORG USB-MIDI Driver
    • Driver’s ports
• Assembling the stand
  • Cautions for assembly
  • Assembling procedure
  • Check after assembly
  • Caution
    • Caution when transporting the instrument
    • Screw loosening
    • Disassembly
• Appendix
  • Sounds
  • Performances
  • Effects
  • Songs
  • Error messages
    • Write Protect
    • Out of Memoy
    • Maximum song length reached
    • Loading Song Error
    • USB Working Wait please
    • Memory Full
    • Invalid Name
    • Song Exists Execute
    • Record Mode Not Allowed
    • Song Modified Save?
    • Sound Modified Save?
    • Perf. Modified Save?
    • Globals Modified Save?
    • Save Global Failure
    • Save Preset Failure
    • Save Midi Failure
    • General Reset Wait Please
    • General Reset / nn%
  • Troubleshooting
  • Polyphony
• Technical specifications
• MIDI Implementation Chart