KORG PA4X 76 - Manual (Page 459)

Making new sounds with Sampling |455
Watch at the meters in the display to check the input level. Red means near
distortion (signal clipping), so ideally, the meter bar should never go to red.
When the
Clip indicators turn red, the signal is too hot and is distorting.
Also, check the microphone level with the AUDIO IN indicator in the MIC/
VOICE section on the control panel. They should never go to red, and stay to
orange (green means too low an input signal).
Recording
Next, you’ll record the sound or audio groove.
1 If you can, first start the source to be recorded, then touch the Record but-
ton in the display to start recording.
As an alternative, touch the
Record button in the display, and immediately
start the source to be recorded.
Sampling will happen at 16 bit, 48 kHz.
2 Touch the Record button in the display again to stop recording. When the
memory is full, the sampling automatically stops. A maximum of 21.8 sec-
onds is allowed for each sample.
3 Select a page other than Record , and play the keyboard to listen to the sam-
pled sound.
4 If you are not satisfied with the recorded sound, return to the Record page
and touch the Record button again, to repeat recording. Touch Record again
to stop recording. A new sample will be automatically created.
5 When finished sampling your sound, you can write it to the internal memory.
If it is part of an ordinary Sound, write it and add it to a multisample (as de-
scribed later). If it is an Audio Groove, continue editing it with the Time Slice
function.
Recording more samples
To create an ordinary Sound, you need more samples to make a multisample.
The best strategy is to record samples at a fixed distance, for example at
each octave, diminished fifth, minor third, major second. It is common prac-
tice to record the original note of an acoustic instrument near the highest
note of the range (for example, A4 if the range is C4~C5).
1 Repeat the recording procedure to create other samples.
2 Save the samples.
3 When finished, go on creating a multisample.