KORG The iS40 - Manual (Page 6)

Korg iS40 Guide
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• A redesigned front panel, where countless design hours spent have resulted in a
logic and “friendliness” that were sure you'll appreciate!
• A powerful new 4-way speaker system with incredible low-end!
• The most natural-sounding and totally musical accompaniment patterns ever, thanks
to Korg’s world-wide network of Style and Arrangement developers!
Once you’ve worked with the iS40, and experienced these new improvements, you’ll see
and appreciate the fact that this product is truly different and innovative!
Arrangements and Styles
This is the main operative mode in the i-series. As soon as you power-up the iS40, it is
in Arrangement mode. There are 192 arrangements available, and you’ll find them
organized into 3 banks of 64 arrangements each. Banks A and B are preset
arrangements, and the arrangements in the USER bank are freely modifiable. The
USER bank can be used to load new data from disk. As well, A, B and USER
Arrangements can be edited and stored in the USER bank.
Each arrangement combines up to 2 programs (sounds) on the keyboard with a Style. A
Style is the musical sequence data ( drum/percussion/bass/ multiple chording and
background patterns) that provides a particular genre of music, e.g. rock, pop, ethnic,
etc. Each style contains 4 variations, 2 intros, 2 endings and 2 fill-ins. These styles can
detect which chord is being played on the keyboard, and then trigger patterns that adapt
to that particular chord.
A Style “lives” in an Arrangement, which when selected, provides “orchestration” for
six tracks: drums, percussion, bass and accompaniment tracks 1-3. These are
referred to as the Backing Tracks. In addition, there are {Upper} Upper 1, Upper 2 and
Lower assignments for live keyboard playing on top of the Backing Tracks. All of the
tracks in an arrangement can be edited for sound selection, volume, panning, muting,
etc., and then stored in the USER bank, and on disk as custom arrangements. New
styles and arrangements can also be loaded from disk. A Style can even be changed
inside an Arrangement , e.g. the “Polka band plays Motown!”
* Note that Arrangement banks A and B are grouped by musical style, as referenced
(screened) on the upper - left of the front panel.