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#341351 - 03/03/12 05:01 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: miden]
DonM Offline
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Registered: 06/25/99
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Loc: Benton, LA, USA
Originally Posted By: miden
Originally Posted By: DonM
Good Lord, anyone with two fingers and two eyes can press the two buttons together! My fingers are semi-arthritic and my eyes are brown because my brain is full of 68 years worth of accumulated doo-doo, and I can do it.
It doesn't have to be timed to the milli-second; the sequencer kicks in, or out, at the end of the current measure.
Don't buy the Korg for this reason alone, but "don't knock it if you haven't tried it!"
Crap, I can hit control-alt-delete together still.
Don't get me wrong, they COULD have made it easier. smile
It's harder sometimes to hit the shortcut button and, say Mic, to make on the fly adjustments, but I can usually do that too.
And a good thing is that you can do real time adjustments and save them while a song or style is running. Most arrangers won't multitask like this.
DonM

I thought of something else. The buttons are side-by-side. It's the same as hitting the plus and minus buttons together to set the default tempo or transpose values. You can do it, if you concentrate!
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Err...I DID buy it and owned it!!! Thanks very much!! I took it back and went back to the PA2xpro..

Tell you what m8, you go and play a fast bebop tune, not the country yokel three chord wonders played at 120 bpm, and THEN try to get these buttons at the correct timing to get it to start recording correctly. You are OBVIOUSLY not a piano player!!! Or you only play auto chords using one finger!!

Yes it COULD be a handy tool, but Korg have made the implementation clunky.....


Dennis, I know you had one, and you are right, I am NOT a piano player and never was. I am an Arranger Keyboard Player. Before that I was an organ player, guitar player, bass player and trumpet player. But neither do I use one-finger chords. I use the pianist mode most of the time, where you hit at least three notes together to make the chords change. It takes about a second to reach up and hit the two buttons together. I have the chord HOLD mode on so I can take my fingers off the keys. In fact the only time I usually have my left hand fingers ON the keys is when I'm changing chords. At most other times they are on the joystick or pressing variation, fill, etc. buttons. Only about 10 percent of my usual show is Country these days. Not by my choice, but because of the preferences of the people who pay me every night!
Each of us use arrangers in different ways. All I saying is that it is useful for me, and I would imagine, for others that play in the same style as I do.
As I said, they could have made it easier to use, but I do find uses for it, especially if you could SAVE the sequences as you could with the old Rolands. Haven't tried it with a fast Bebop song though, I admit. However, once I did get a song way up to 160 bpm. smile
Surely you didn't go back to the 2X Pro because it DIDN'T have a Chord Sequencer? I'm just poking fun now, don't get upset!
Maybe I'm too irreverent for this serious old forum??
Still your friend,
DonM
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#341353 - 03/03/12 05:06 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: DonM]
Fran Carango Offline
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Registered: 05/26/99
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Loc: Levittown, Pa, USA
Whoa..I just made popcorn and grabbed some snacks..for a real SZ skirmish....and now it appears to be cancelled frown
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#341356 - 03/03/12 05:15 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: Scottyee]
DonM Offline
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Registered: 06/25/99
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Loc: Benton, LA, USA
Fran, Dennis and I have been "friends" for many years. He knows I mean no harm!
Right Dennis? . . . Right? . . . Dennis . . . Dennis . . . ?

Besides, I was really trying to get a rise out of Scott, not Dennis!
DonM
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#341358 - 03/03/12 05:39 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: Fran Carango]
tony mads usa Offline
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Registered: 01/16/02
Posts: 14376
Loc: East Greenwich RI USA
Originally Posted By: Fran Carango
Whoa..I just made popcorn and grabbed some snacks..for a real SZ skirmish....and now it appears to be cancelled frown


yeah, and just when I was going to remind people to read Nigels second post on the forum page ... well, maybe we should anyway ... smile
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#341360 - 03/03/12 05:51 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: DonM]
miden Offline
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Registered: 01/31/06
Posts: 3354
Loc: The World
Originally Posted By: DonM
Fran, Dennis and I have been "friends" for many years. He knows I mean no harm!
Right Dennis? . . . Right? . . . Dennis . . . Dennis . . . ?

Besides, I was really trying to get a rise out of Scott, not Dennis!
DonM


Absolutely!!! smile all meant as tongue cheek fun, as I wrote in the other thread, Im gladd you took it that way..as that was the intention...

Seriously? nahh not just the CS, I just could not justify the $1700 change up in price from a PA2....for a new user, PA800 user, or PA1x user DEFINITELY a great change.....

D

So Carango???? Stop salivating and put the wine away!!! wink

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#341362 - 03/03/12 05:57 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: Scottyee]
miden Offline
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Also to answer Scotts question...the CS functions cannot be mapped to a footpedal or controller, as far as I can remember. I will dbl check in the manual though just to be sure.....

it COULD be pedal controlled if Korg would release the Sysex, and you used a Behringer 1010 as they CAN transmit lines of sysex code.....

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#341363 - 03/03/12 06:22 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: Scottyee]
miden Offline
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Registered: 01/31/06
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Check page 239 of the advanced edit manual...it does list the CS, but at the top of the page says NO Function Assigned....maybe it can be, but you still need to hit two at once??? I never got it to work on mine, but I didn't really try to hard to map it either.....

Maybe Don or someone who has an EC5 could try it..You would need the EC5 as you would need TWO pedal switches to do it...From memory I think I tried it with my EC5 and it didn't work, or not very successfully....

And page 10 of the main manual makes no mention of it being assignable either....

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#341372 - 03/03/12 11:25 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: Scottyee]
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Registered: 12/01/99
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Loc: San Francisco Bay Area, CA, US...
Dennis, thanks for taking the time to look in the Pa3X manual to investigate the possibility of assigning chord seq rec via footpedal activation. Sounds from what you say that, at this point, footedal activated chord sequencer rec is probably not currently supported. If not, its definitely worth Korg including in a Pa 3X OS upate. - Scott

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#341401 - 03/04/12 02:36 PM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: Scottyee]
mirza Offline
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Registered: 11/15/01
Posts: 1314
Loc: london,ontario.canada
I think the best thing to do is to get T4.Yamaha will provide"the finger"for CS for all of us dance.
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#341439 - 03/05/12 10:26 AM Re: Korg Pa3X Video Ad (French) [Re: Scottyee]
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Registered: 12/01/08
Posts: 3456
Loc: South Africa
Hi DonM,

As you know I have the PSR3000 and now the Pa50SD. I am very much impressed with the sound of the Korg, especially the distortion guitars used in some of the styles.

You've had them all. What's your opinion of the Pa3x? When I can afford & hopefully that'll be soon, I'll get myself a Tyros4, an Audya 5 & a Korg Pa3x. Then I'll play to my heart's content.

If I consider how little I paid for the Pa50SD (about half of what I paid for my PSR3000 8 years ago!)compared to what I received, these Korgs are incredible value for money!!!

Keep well my friend,

Henni
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