KORG ESX-1 User Manual
Owner’s manual
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Parts and their functions
- 3. Basic operation
- 4. Sample mode
- Sampling procedure on the ESX-1
- Auditioning samples
- Recording a new sample
- Editing a sample
- Directly sampling the sound of the ESX-1 (Resampling)
- Slice
- What is “Slice”?
- Creating a slice sample (TIME SLICE)
- If you were not successful in creating a slice sample
- Try changing the slice step setting (step 3, above)
- Manually turning slices on/off while you adjust the sensitivity (paragraph 6, above)
- Using individual sample slices
- Using a slice sample in a pattern that has a different beat
- If a Last Step is specified for the pattern
- Stretch
- Convenient sample-editing functions
- Saving a sample
- 5. Pattern mode
- Playing patterns
- Playing the sound of a part
- What is a Part?
- — Drum parts (1–5, 6A-B, 7A-B)
- — Keyboard parts (1, 2)
- — Accent part
- — Stretch parts (1, 2)
- — Slice part
- — Audio In part
- Listening to the sound of a part
- Selecting a part
- Muting a part
- Soloing a part
- Adding accents to a part
- Transposing a phrase (Transpose)
- Adding “swing” to a pattern
- Applying a roll to a part
- Assigning the output of each part
- Adding the Valve-Force effect to increase the impact of the sound
- Connecting various devices to Audio In
- Using the arpeggiator
- Editing sounds
- Effects
- Effect parameters
- Recording a phrase
- Editing pattern sequence data
- Editing a phrase pattern (Note Edit)
- Specifying the length and time signature of a pattern
- Moving data within a pattern
- Copying a part
- Copying only the sound of a part
- Erasing the sequence data of a part
- Erasing all data from a pattern
- Comparing the currently-edited pattern with the saved pattern (COMPARE)
- Motion sequence
- Pattern Set
- Saving a pattern
- 6. Song mode
- 7. Global mode
- Setting the metronome
- Setting the input jack to mono/stereo
- Exchangeing the arpeggiator functions
- Protecting the data in memory
- Saving your Global mode settings
- Using SmartMedia™
- About cards
- Handling precautions
- Formatting SmartMedia
- Saving data to SmartMedia (Save All)
- Loading all data from SmartMedia into the ESX-1
- Loading a single pattern from SmartMedia (Load Pattern)
- Saving just a single sample on SmartMedia
- Loading just a single sample from SmartMedia
- Deleting an ESX-1 file from SmartMedia (Delete File)
- Deleting a WAVE or AIFF file from SmartMedia
- About WAV/AIFF file formats
- About MIDI
- MIDI Utility
- Transmitting sound settings and other data
- Synchronizing playback with an external MIDI device
- Editing sounds
- 8. Appendix