Style/pad record, Recording styles and pads, The style’s structure – KORG Pa300 Arranger User Manual

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Style/Pad Record

Recording Styles and Pads

By entering the Style/Pad Record mode, you can create your own
Styles or Pads, or edit an existing Style or Pad.

Recording Styles and Pads

Styles and Pads share most of the same structure and recording/
editing operations. Here is how they are made.

The Style’s structure

The term “Style” relates with music sequences automatically
played by the arranger of the Pa300. A Style consists of a pre-
defined number of

Style Elements (E)

(Pa300 features fifteen

different Style Elements: Variation 1-4, Intro 1-3, Fill 1-4, Break,
Ending 1-3). When playing, most of these Style Elements can be
directly selected by using the corresponding buttons on the con-
trol panel.

To explain the Style structure, we can use a tree structure, as
shown in the following diagram:

Each Style Element is made up of smaller units, called

Chord

Variations (CV),

but not all of them have the same number of

CVs. Variations 1-4 have up to 6 CVs each, while the other Style
Elements have only up to 2 CVs.

When you play in the chord recognition area (Lower or Full,
depending on the On or Off status of the SPLIT button), the
arranger scans the keyboard and determines which chord you
are playing. Then, depending on the selected Style Element, it
determines which Chord Variation (CV) should be played for
the scanned chord. Which Chord Variation corresponds to each
scanned chord is a setting of the Style: the

Chord Variation

Table

. Each Style Element contains a Chord Variation Table,

whose prototype is the following:

After deciding what CV to play, the arranger triggers the right
sequence for each track. Since each sequence is written in a par-
ticular key (for example, CMajor, GMajor or Emin), the arranger
transposes it according to the scanned chord. Notes in the
sequence are carefully transposed, to make them work fine with
all recognized chords.

Going deeper into the Style structure, we can see that each
Chord Variation is made up of

Track Sequences,

and the Pa300

supports 8 different tracks. DRUM and PERC are used for drum
and percussion sequences, BASS for bass and ACC1-5 are for

Style/Pad Record

P op Balla d

Va ri ation 1

CV1

Dr um
P erc
Bass
Acc1
Acc2
Acc3
Acc4
Acc5

CV2

CV3

CV4

CV5

CV6

Va ri ation 2

Va ri ation 3

Va ri ation 4

Intro1

CV1

CV2

Intro 2

Intro 3/C.In

Fill 1

Fill 2

Break

Fill 3

Fill 4

Ending 1

Ending 2

Ending 3

Chord

Chord Variations (CVs)

Variation 1-4

Intro 1-2, Count-In, Fill 1-4, Break,

Ending 1-3

Major

CV1 – CV6

CV1 – CV2

(b5)

sus

sus2

M7sus

(b5)

(M7)

(b5)

7sus4

dim

(M7)

(#5)

1+5

1+8

dim7