KORG PA4X 76 - Manual (Page 228)

224| Customizing, recording and editing the Styles and Pads
21 recording the Styles and
Pads
How are Styles and Pads made?
KORG supplies a huge amount of professionally crafted Styles and Pads with
Pa4X. However, you are free to customize them, or create totally new Styles
and Pads on your own.
Styles and Pads share most of the same structure and recording/editing op-
erations. Here is how they are made.
How Styles are made
Style Elements
Styles are music sequences automatically played by the Pa4X’s arranger
when you play a chord, to give a you a realtime backing. A Style is made of
a series of Style Elements (Intro, Variation, Fill, Ending…), each one corre-
sponding to a section of a song. The Style Elements can be directly selected
by using the corresponding buttons on the control panel.
Chord Variations
Each Style Element is made of smaller units, called the Chord Variations.
When you play in the chord recognition area, the arranger scans the key-
board and detects which chord you are playing. Then, depending on the se-
lected Style Element, it chooses the right Chord Variation to be played for
the recognized chord.