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Pa700 | Pa700 ORIENTAL

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User Manual

Pa700

ORIENTAL

Important safety instructions

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3. Heed all warnings.

4. Follow all instructions.

5. Do not use this apparatus near water.

6. Clean only with dry cloth.

7. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install

in accordance with the manufacturer’s in-

structions.

8. Do not install near any heat sources such as

radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other ap-

paratus (including ampliﬁers) that produce

heat.

9. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the po-

larized or grounding-type plug. A polarized

plug has two blades with one wider than the

other. A grounding type plug has two blades

and a third grounding prong. The wide blade

or the third prong are provided for your safe-

ty. If the provided plug does not ﬁt into your

outlet, consult an electrician for replacement

of the obsolete outlet.

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or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience

receptacles, and the point where they exit

from the apparatus.

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by the manufacturer.

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or table speciﬁed by the manufacturer, or

sold with the apparatus. When a cart is used,

use caution when moving the cart/apparatus

combination to avoid injury from tip-over.

13. Unplug this apparatus during lightning

storms or when unused for long periods of

time.

14. Refer all servicing to qualiﬁed service per-

sonnel. Servicing is required when the appa-

ratus has been damaged in any way, such as

power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid

has been spilled or objects have fallen into

the apparatus, the apparatus has been ex-

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normally, or has been dropped.

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etc.

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dles, should be placed on the apparatus.

▪ Do not install this equipment in a conﬁned

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similar unit.

▪ WARNING – This apparatus shall be connect-

ed to a mains socket outlet with a protective

earthing connection.

▪ Turning off the standby switch does not com-

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line, so remove the plug from the socket if

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or before cleaning. Please ensure that the

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▪ Mains powered apparatus shall not be ex-

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objects ﬁlled with liquids, such as vases, shall

be placed on the apparatus.

▪ Install this product near the wall socket and

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Serial number

Please record the model number, serial num-

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cell battery.

If the coin/button cell battery is swallowed

it can cause severe internal burns in just 2

hours and can lead to death.

Keep new and used batteries away from chil-

dren. If the battery compartment does not

close securely, stop using the product and

keep it away from children.

If you think the battery may have been swal-

lowed or placed inside any part of the body

seek immediate medical attention.

▪ WARNING – Date/time Lithium button cell

battery inside. Danger of explosion if the

battery is incorrectly replaced. Replace only

with the same or equivalent type. The inter-

nal date/time Lithium button cell battery is

user replaceable.

▪ Do not expose batteries to excessive heat,

such as direct sunshine, ﬁre or the like.

▪ Dispose of used batteries according to the

battery manufacturer’s instructions.

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within an equilateral triangle, is intended

to alert the user to the presence of uninsu-

lated “dangerous voltage” within the prod-

uct’s enclosure that may be of sufﬁcient

magnitude to constitute a risk of electric

shock to persons.

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triangle is intended to alert the user to the

presence of important operating and main-

tenance (servicing) instructions in the lit-

erature accompanying the product.

This symbol is intended to identify Class II

equipment with functional earthing (ground-

ing).

Other notices

Automatic power-off

To avoid wasting power, Pa700 will by default

automatically enter standby mode after two

hours of non-active use (playing, pressing but-

tons or using the touch-screen). Please save any

edited data (Keyboard Sets, Styles, Songs, and

so on) before taking a prolonged pause.

Data handling

Data in memory may sometimes be lost due to

incorrect user action. Be sure to save important

data to the internal drive or to an external USB

device. KORG will not be responsible for dam-

ages caused by data loss.

Display handling

Be very careful not to apply too much pressure

on the display while carrying the instrument, or

it might break.

Cleaning

If the exterior becomes dirty, wipe it with a

clean, dry cloth. Do not use liquid cleaners such

as benzene or thinner, or cleaning compounds

or ﬂammable polishes.

Use a soft cotton cloth to clean the display.

Some materials, such as paper towels, could

cause scratches and damage it. Computer wipes

are also suggested, provided they are speciﬁ-

cally designed for LCD screens.

Do not spray any liquid on the LCD screen direct-

ly. Always apply the solution to your cloth ﬁrst,

then clean the screen.

Example screens

Some pages of the manuals show snapshots of

the screen along with an explanation of func-

tions and operations. All sound, style, song or

parameter names, as well as shown values, are

merely examples and may not always match the

actual display you are working on.

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formation on KORG products, and to ﬁnd soft-

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For up-to-date information, please point your

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Keep your keyboard up-to-date

Your instrument can be constantly updated as

new versions of the operating system are re-

leased by KORG. You can download the operat-

ing system from our web site. Please, read the

instructions supplied with the operating system.

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Contents

Part I 1 Let’s start!

3 Introduction

3 Welcome to Pa700!

7 Before starting to play…

9 Overview of the instrument

15 Setting up the pedals, audio connections, music stand

15 Connecting the pedals

16 Turning the integrated speakers on and off

16 Connecting the headphones

17 Connecting the audio outputs

18 Installing the music stand

19 Powering up

19 Turning the instrument on

20 Calibrating the touch screen

21 Adjusting the display brightness

22 Listening to the Demo Songs

23 Interface basics

23 The main page

24 The user interface in detail

31 Navigating through the pages

34 Selecting the musical resources

Part II 35 Playing and singing

37 Playing the Sounds

38 Choosing your preferred set of Sounds

39 Choosing the Keyboard Sets

45 Playing and controlling the Sounds

47 Tempo and Metronome

47 Tempo

49 Metronome

51 Playing the Styles

51 Choosing the Styles

56 Playing a manual accompaniment (Bass & Lower Backing)

57 Playing the automatic accompaniment

64 Adjusting the accompaniment volume

66 Manually playing the Bass line

67 Playing the Pads

67 Choosing the Pad sets

68 Playing the Pads

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69 Playing the Songs

69 Choosing the Songs

74 Playing a Song

76 Playing along with the Song

78 Adjusting the volume levels

79 Playing all the Songs in a folder

81 Playing a Jukebox list

84 Lyrics, chords, markers and score

84 Reading the lyrics and chords contained in a Song

87 Reading the lyrics and chords loaded as a text ﬁle

89 Reading the lyrics and chords loaded as a CDG ﬁle

90 Moving through a Song with the markers

93 Reading the music score

96 Searching for ﬁles and other items

96 Using the Search function

Part III 101 SongBook

103 Using the SongBook

103 Choosing the SongBook Entries

113 Using the Set Lists

117 Editing the SongBook

117 Creating and editing the SongBook Entries

127 Creating and editing the Set Lists

131 Deleting all the SongBook Entries and Set Lists

132 Using the SongBook with a personal computer

Part IV 133 Customizing and editing the Sound sets

135 Customizing the Keyboard Sets

135 Playing different Sounds with the left and right hand

139 Playing two or three Sounds at the same time

140 Choosing different Sounds

142 Mixing the Keyboard Sounds

145 Transposing the Upper Sounds to a different octave

146 Using the Ensemble to add harmony

149 Advanced editing of the Sound sets

149 The editing procedure

152 Mixing the Sounds

154 Adding effects

165 Equalizing the Sounds

168 Octave transpose and ﬁne tuning

169 Programming the sound routing and polyphony

172 Quick editing of Drum Kits

175 Quick editing of Sounds

177 Programming the key and velocity range

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179 Editing the Digital Drawbars

183 Writing the Sound sets

183 Writing the Keyboard Sets to the library

185 Writing Keyboard Sets into a Style

187 Writing Keyboard Sets into a SongBook Entry

190 Writing Style Settings, Song Settings and MIDI Song Sounds

Part V 191 Customizing, recording and editing the Styles and Pads

193 Customizing the Styles

193 Setting the Chord Recognition

197 Automatically holding chords and Lower notes (Memory)

199 Recognizing the root note (Bass Inversion)

200 Setting how velocity controls the accompaniment

201 Mixing the grouped Accompaniment Sounds

203 Editing the Style Settings

203 Mixing the individual Accompaniment Sounds

207 Changing the Sounds of the accompaniment parts

210 Setting the Style controls

213 Choosing and mixing the Pads

216 Writing the Style Settings

218 The Chord Sequencer

218 Recording Chord Sequences

221 Playing back Chord Sequences

222 Managing the Chord Sequences

225 Recording the Styles and Pads

225 How are Styles and Pads made?

231 Programming the Style Settings, then recording the musical sequences

232 Accessing the Style/Pad Record mode

234 Listening to the recorded Style

235 Setting the recording parameters

240 Assigning Sounds to the Style Element and Pads

243 Choosing the original key/chord and the note transposition table

246 Recording a Style or Pad in Realtime Record

249 Recording a Style or Pad in Step Record

254 Recording a Guitar track

264 Editing the Styles and Pads

264 Editing the track parameters

270 Editing the Chord Table

271 Checking the available Chord Variations

272 Editing the track type, trigger, tension

274 Editing the Style/Pad sequences

286 Editing the MIDI events

290 Copying the Style track settings

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291 Importing and exporting the Styles and Pads

291 Importing a Standard MIDI File to a Chord Variation

294 Importing a Standard MIDI File to a Style

297 Importing a MIDI Groove to a Style or Pad

298 Exporting a Chord Variation

300 Converting a MIDI Song to a Style

300 The Style Creator Bot

302 Writing the new/edited Style or Pad

302 Writing the Styles

304 Writing the Pads

Part VI 305 Customizing, recording and editing the Songs

307 Customizing the Songs

307 How to play a Song – Song Play vs. Sequencer mode

308 Special tracks (Melody, Drum & Bass), Fast Play

310 Mixing the Song Sounds

314 Changing the Sounds of the MIDI Song tracks

315 Writing the Song Play Settings

315 Writing the default Player settings

316 Listening the MIDI Songs in Sequencer mode

316 Loading and listening a MIDI Song

319 Recording MIDI Songs

319 Multitrack Song Recording

326 Step Recording a Song

331 Quick Recording a Backing Sequence Song

339 Step Recording a Backing Sequence Song

344 Editing the MIDI Songs

344 Editing the Song tracks

356 Editing the MIDI events

360 Saving MIDI Songs

360 Saving the MIDI Song

362 Recording MP3 Songs

362 Recording and saving an MP3 Song

366 Creating text ﬁles (lyrics)

366 Creating text ﬁles on a personal computer

Part VII 371 Customizing and editing the Sounds

373 Listening and customizing the Sounds

373 Accessing the Sound mode

374 Listening to individual Sounds

375 Customizing the Sound

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378 Editing the Sounds

380 Setting the Sound’s basic parameters

386 Setting the oscillator’s basic parameters

393 Programming the Damper pedal

397 Equalizing the Sound

398 Setting the Drum Kit’s basic parameters

402 Equalizing the Drum Kit

404 Mixing the Drum Kit layers

405 Mixing and retriggering the drum samples

407 Modulating pitch

412 Programming the pitch envelope (Pitch EG)

416 Programming the ﬁlters

419 Modulating the ﬁlters

424 Programming the ﬁlter envelope (Filter EG)

428 Programming amplitude and pan

430 Modulating amplitude

433 Programming the amplitude envelope (Amp EG)

437 Programming the LFO

442 Adding effects to the Sound

445 Sound Edit utilities

447 AMS (Alternate Modulation Sources)

450 Writing the Sounds

450 Writing the edited Sound

452 Making new sounds with Sampling

454 Loading samples and multisamples

458 Editing the samples

462 Editing the loop

465 Getting information on the Sampling memory

467 Writing, exporting or deleting the samples

471 Creating multisamples

475 Writing, exporting or deleting the multisamples

478 Creating new Sounds from multisamples

479 Creating new Drum Kits from percussive samples

480 Assigning the new Sound or Drum Kit to a part/track

481 Creating Audio Groove Slices with Time Slicing

487 Writing the Audio Groove Slices

488 Using the Audio Groove Slices in a Style or Pad

490 Using the Audio Groove Slices in other Sounds

Part VIII 491 Audio and video connections

493 Connecting an external display

496 Connecting the audio outputs and setting the ﬁnal effects

496 Connecting the audio outputs

497 Programming the master effects

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501 Connecting the audio inputs

501 Connecting a line audio device, a microphone, a guitar

503 Setting the routing and mixing the effects

507 Shaping the sound of the lead voice

510 Talking with your audience

512 Using the voice/guitar effects

512 Choosing a Voice/Guitar Preset

517 Using the effects

520 Controlling the Voice/Guitar Processor via MIDI

523 Editing the Voice/Guitar Presets

524 Choosing, enabling and mixing the effects

525 Creating new presets by assembling FX blocks

527 Editing the effects

528 Writing a Voice/Guitar Preset

Part IX 531 Effects for the Sounds, Voice, Guitar

533 The effects

533 Editing the effects

539 Adapting reverb to the room size

540 Effects list

542 Effect parameters

542 REV (Reverbs)

553 DEL (Delay)

589 MOD (Modulation)

636 DYN (Dynamics)

648 AMP (Ampliﬁer)

688 FILT (EQ and Filters)

718 FREQ (Frequency)

732 MISC (Miscellaneous)

Part X 779 KAOSS Effects

781 Using the KAOSS effects

781 The KAOSS page

783 Choosing the KAOSS Presets

785 KAOSS Preset list

788 Using the KAOSS effects

Part XI 791 Controllers

793 Hand controllers

793 Programming the joystick

795 Programming the keyboard’s velocity and aftertouch

796 Programming the assignable knobs

798 Programming the assignable switches

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801 Foot controllers

801 Programming the damper pedal

802 Programming the assignable pedal/footswitch

810 Calibrating the pedals and setting their polarity

Part XII 811 Global settings and preferences

813 Customizing the user interface

813 Display and control panel preferences

815 Program Change and activity indicators

817 Automatic selection and locking

817 Automatically choosing Styles and Keyboard Sets

819 Locking parameters to prevent changes

823 System preferences

823 Setting the date and time for ﬁle saving

824 Automatic power off

825 Master Transpose and Tuning

825 Master Tuning

826 Master Transpose

831 Scale

831 Main Scale

833 Sub-Scale

837 Quarter Tone Sub-Scale (Scale Presets)

842 Retuning the Style while playing

Part XIII 845 MIDI

847 Connecting MIDI devices

847 Introduction to MIDI

852 Connecting to another device: an overview

853 Connecting Pa700 to a personal computer or tablet

855 Installing the KORG USB-MIDI Driver

857 Connecting Pa700 to an external controller

860 Quick settings using MIDI Presets

867 Synchronizing Tempo with other instruments

869 MIDI data routing, processing and transposing

875 Programming the MIDI channels

879 Control Change messages

882 Controlling the Arranger and Player via MIDI

Part XIV 885 File management

887 Managing ﬁles in the internal memory

887 Copying, renaming and deleting

890 The Local data

891 The Direct data

895 Renaming the User/Direct banks

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896 Managing ﬁles on disk

896 Overview on ﬁle management

901 Loading musical resources and settings

908 Saving musical resources and settings

912 Copying ﬁles and folders

915 Deleting ﬁles and folders

916 Selecting more items at once

918 Exporting playlists

921 Managing media

921 Formatting storage devices

923 Backing up and restoring musical resources

927 Connecting the internal drive to a personal computer

929 Storage device organization

932 Changing the media display preferences

933 Protecting storage devices and ﬁles

935 Care of storage devices

936 If you can’t write, save or copy…

Part XV 937 Appendix

939 Musical Resources

940 Styles

946 Keyboard Set Library

951 Sounds

978 DNC Sounds and controls

981 Drum Kits

983 Multisamples

992 Drum Samples

1009 Pads

1014 Recognized chords

1016 Installing the options

1016 Replacing the clock backup battery

1020 Installing a microSD card

1023 Shortcuts

1026 Troubleshooting

1028 Specs

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PART I: LET’S

START!

2| Let’s start!

Introduction |3

01 Introduction

Welcome to Pa700!

Many thanks and congratulations on purchasing the KORG Pa700 Professional

Arranger! We’re sure it’ll give you countless hours of great tones that will

feel as good as they sound.

Slim, powerful and easy to use

With its elegant cabinet, Pa700 provides a professional and stylish look, that

will be much appreciated on stage or at home. The main panel’s logical lay-

out ensures easy access to buttons, knobs and all controls.

Using your Pa700 is easy, thanks to the touch screen and the clean, clearly

laid-out, modern user interface, based on icons reproducing real objects in

the real world.

The real solo and band experience

Pa700 has been designed to assist you equally well during live performance

and songwriting. The detailed natural sounds and ﬁnely crafted styles have

been created by some of the ﬁnest musicians in the music industry. You will

feel you are playing in a real band – no matter what your musical tastes are.

The naturally responsive 61-note keyboard is designed for musicians of all

levels, from beginners to demanding keyboard players, and gives you a com-

pletely authentic feel and full control of expression.

More than just recorded sounds

The huge, realistic collection of classic and contemporary keyboard, band

and orchestral sounds, includes a multi-layer stereo grand piano (with damp-

er and body resonance) and electric pianos; wind instruments, basses and

stunning acoustic and electric guitars; plus a digital drawbars organ with

leakage and key on/off noises.

Sounds have been recorded with the most up-to-date technologies, and

KORG’s own proprietary EDS-X (Enhanced Deﬁnition Synthesis-eXpanded)

sound engine allows for ﬁne detail to be accurately reproduced. The inte-

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grated sample and sound editor allow to ﬁll the vast user memory with newly

created or imported sounds.

All these authentic sounds become alive with KORG’s DNC (Deﬁned Nuance

Control) system, allowing the performer to accurately and expressively in-

troduce the most subtle nuances and sound articulation. For example, the

joystick and assignable switches can introduce the growl of a saxophone,

breath elements found in trumpet, clarinet and harmonica, and add authen-

ticity to the pizzicato and bowed sounds of a string section. You will even

hear keys opening when saxophone notes are going up, and closing when

going down!

Listen the natural way

Each Pa700 sound goes through separate EQs and studio-quality effect pro-

cessors, which further reﬁne your sound before coming through high-qual-

ity stereo audio outputs. Effects run from the standard reverbs and delays

through to the more unusual effects (like a Vocoder), realistic amp simu-

lators and carefully recreated vintage effects. The ﬁnal mastering effects

make the sound louder, clearer, fuller, and more polished.

The sound of the super high-ﬁdelity integrated speakers is clear and detailed

even at the lowest volume level, for the pleasure of the late-night rehearsing

musician.

A band always ready to play with you

Ultra-realistic sounds in the Pa700 are always ready to play along with you,

in the style best ﬁtting your music. The high number of included Styles will

satisfy any music genre, but can also be expanded by adding new Styles. You

may also create your Styles, customize the existing ones, or easily convert

MIDI Songs to Styles.

There are eight accompaniment parts which will follow your chords. The

Auto Fill function will automatically choose a Fill for you. You can play in the

simplest way or with the rich harmonization of a competent jazz player. We

have programmed them to sound natural, and give you the feeling of a real

band, ready to play with you at any time.

The convenient Chord Sequencer function records your chord progressions

on-the-ﬂy allowing the users to immediately play along with their own chord

sequence, which is useful not only for practice, but for freeing up a hand

while performing live. Chord Sequences can also be saved in Styles and

SongBook Entries for easy recall.

Introduction |5

Play and write songs

You can play Songs in MID and MP3 formats. With both Songs and Styles,

you can show lyrics for the singer and chords for your fellow guitarist. Any

MIDI Song track can be converted into a readable score. Markers allow for

jumping back to a passage you wish to repeat, for example in a piece you are

studying or rehearsing.

Use the video output to display lyrics or score on an external monitor, mak-

ing it perfect for karaoke or band leading.

You can record a MIDI Song using a full-featured Sequencer, or by using the

Styles to record your live performance. Even easier, just record what you

sing and play (including MP3 Songs) as an MP3 ﬁle, and listen to it anywhere

you like.

Your music book

What is a huge collection of Styles and Songs, without an effective form of

organization? Pa700 has the one best known to musicians: the SongBook,

a music database allowing for fast song retrieving based on name, artist,

genre or tempo. Styles and Songs are easily recalled by the SongBook.

Particularly useful for live use, the SongBook can assign songs from any cus-

tom Set List to dedicated buttons on the control panel. Your entire show will

be under your ﬁngers, with immediate access to any Style, Song and Sounds

needed for your performance.

The SongBook can even be edited from a personal computer through our

free editor. It can also be synchronized with most modern tablets to become

your handy external digital music sheet reader (third-party software need-

ed).

Sing naturally

Connect a dynamic microphone, and adjust parameters such as the EQ,

Compressor, Gate, Reverb and Delay to make the vocals sound smooth and

studio-produced. The Vocal Remover will even let you remove the voice from

MP3 Songs, and let you sing along with them.

Reﬁne your guitar’s pure sound

Guitar FXs let you add pedal and studio effects to a guitar connected to the

dedicated Guitar input on the back of the instrument. We selected some of

the best guitar effects from the KORG collection, to add the sound of all-

tube ampliﬁers, realistic distortion, chorus or delay pedals, and the highest-

quality studio reverbs.

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Creative control with the KAOSS effects

KAOSS effects give you creative control on your performance. From subtle

morphing between Variations and Drum Kit types, ﬁne mixing between ac-

companiment Sounds, live reshaping of ongoing rhythms, to the most radi-

cal note-crunching effects of DJ heritage, to tape delay and arpeggios, you

can add ‘liquid mixing’ to any Style or MIDI Song with the aid of easy-to-use

computer-assisted composition features. Break the boundaries of preset

music!

Open to the world, ready to the future

The use of standard ﬁle formats, like MID or MP3 for songs, or WAV and AIFF

for samples, opens up a world of possibilities when exchanging ﬁles. The USB

ports allow for connecting Pa700 to any external storage device, personal

computer, smartphone, tablet or external controller without the need for a

dedicated MIDI interface. However, you can connect Pa700 to any existing

MIDI musical instrument, thanks to its complete set of programmable MIDI

ports.

Oriental edition

The Pa700 ORIENTAL version contains all the functionality of the standard

Pa700, and adds a mini-keyboard on the left side, which can be used to cus-

tomize quarter tone scales and quickly access scale presets. In addition to

the standard content, Pa700 ORIENTAL also contains Sounds and Styles that

are speciﬁc to Middle Eastern music genres. Ouds, bouzuks, kanouns, vari-

ous percussion instruments, and many more sounds are joined by dozens of

extra Styles that are suitable for traditional and modern music.

Introduction |7

Before starting to play…

What’s in the box

After you get your Pa700, please check that all the following items are in-

cluded in the package. If any of the following items is missing, please contact

your KORG dealer immediately.

▪ Pa700

▪ Music stand

▪ AC power cable

▪ Quick Guide

What you can download

Point your web browser to our web site (www.korg.com), to download video

manuals, a MIDI driver, up-to-date software and manuals.

What you can add

After having purchased Pa700, you might want to add one of the sturdy ped-

als and footswitches from the KORG catalogue.

Contacts

Your KORG dealers not only deliver this instrument, but also carry hardware

and software accessories, as well as useful information on how to use these

products. Ask them for any help you should eventually need.

Our international web site is www.korg.com. A list of all KORG Distributors

can be found in our dedicated web page (www.korg.com/us/corporate/dis-

tributors/).

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Making a safety copy of your data

In case you like to customize your musical resources, we suggest you use the

Media > Utility > Full Resource Backup command to make frequent backup

copies into compact and easy-to-store archives.

Also, you can use the Media > Save All command to save individual ﬁles that

you can separately reload one by one.

Restoring a safety copy

To restore a backup, use the Media > Utility > Resource Restore command.

If you saved your data with the Media > Save All command, use the Media >

Load operations to reload them.

Restoring the original factory data

In case you want to restore the original factory data, use the Media > Utility

> Factory Restore command.

Warning: This operation will overwrite all the Factory, Local and User data!

Loading the Operating System

Your Pa700 can be constantly updated as new versions of the operating sys-

tem are released by KORG. You can download the most up-to-date operating

system from our web site. Please, read the instructions supplied with the

operating system on the site.

You can see which version of the operating systems is installed in your

Pa700 by going to the Media > Utility page.

Warning: Do not install an OS other than the ofﬁcial OS supplied by KORG for the

Pa700. Trying to install an OS created for different models or downloaded from unof-

ﬁcial web sites may cause data loss and permanent damage to the instrument. KORG

is not responsible for any damage caused by improper installation of the OS.

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