KORG Professional Engineer PA3 - Manual (Page 58)

56 Sound operating mode
Basic: Damper Mode
Basic: Damper Mode
Here you can program how the Damper pedal works, the Reso-
nance/Halo effect, and the range within the Note Off message is
not sent to the selected Oscillator:
Damper Mode
Here you can program the Damper Mode for each Oscillator.
Damper Mode
This parameter determines how the Damper pedal works.
Normal The Damper pedal works as usual: by keeping it
pressed, the note decay is lengthened, to simulate
the longer note decay of an acoustic piano.
Damper Off The Damper pedal is deactivated for the selected
Oscillator.
Hint: Set the Damper to Damper Off, if you plan to
use the selected Oscillator in the Damper Trigger
page to trigger sounds. Check the Sound “Harmon-
ica DNC”, and see how the Damper Trigger is
used.
Resonance/Halo
The Damper pedal enables a multisample, nor-
mally used for the Piano Resonance/Halo effect.
If the pedal is pressed when the note is already
playing, the speed at which the multisample
appears and disappears, and the volume it can
reach, depend on the “Resonance/Halo” parame-
ters programmed below.
Hint: This Damper mode is much more realistic
than the Normal mode, but also ‘steals’ more notes
from the overall polyphony, and is especially sug-
gested for solo piano playing.
Note: Half-pedaling, as well as Damper messages
received via MIDI (as Control Change #64), con-
trol the level of the Resonance/Halo effect.
Repedaling This mode acts as the Normal mode, but also
enables the Damper pedal effect when the pedal
is pressed after the note has been released (Note
Off). In this case, the Damper effect starts from
the current Release level, and decays slowly.
Warning: Do not use Sounds with the “Repedal-
ing” assigned to any Oscillator in a Style, or the
sustained sound could cause unwanted disso-
nances. The “Grand Piano RX” Sound is an exam-
ple of this kind of Sounds to be avoided in a Style
track.
Resonance/Halo
Here you can program the Resonance/Halo effect that is enabled
by the “Resonance/Halo” Damper Mode (see above). These
parameters only affect the Resonance/Halo that is enabled when
pressing the Damper pedal down when a note is already playing.
Attack Time
Time needed to the Resonance/Halo to reach the maximum level
after the Damper pedal has been pressed.
0…99 Attack time as a value relative to the current Amp
Env Attack value.
Release Time
Time needed to the Resonance/Halo to extinguish after the
Damper pedal has been released.
0…99 Release time as a value relative to the current
Amp Env Release value.
Volume Scaling
Volume of the Resonance/Halo effect, relative to the current
level of the sound (as determined by the sum of the Multisample
Volume, Velocity value and current Amp Env value).
0% No volume at all.
1…100% Volume expressed as a percentage of the current
sound level.
No Note Off Range
From Note
Like in an acoustic piano, the dampers can only dampen strings
up to a certain pitch. Starting from that pitch, it is as if the
Damper was always pressed down.
Note: This parameter only affects the Normal Damper mode. It
has no effect on the Resonance/Halo mode.
C#-1…G9 Note starting from which the Damper is always
pressed down. In an acoustic piano, this is usually
set to G6.