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Just upgraded to Pa4x from Pa3x, have a question
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:48 pm
by steve350
So I decided to take the plunge and purchase the Pa4x 76 keys. It currently has 2.20 OS using UPD. I read that I can not upgrade to OS 3.01 until I upgrade from 2.20 to 3.00. First off is this TRUE?
If so, I can not find where on Korg's site where 3.00 OS is. I can see 2.0 OS but no 3.0.
Will someone send me a link on where to find 3.00 if needed. Otherwise I already put 3.01 OS and Resources on a USB drive. Thanks in advance.
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:44 am
by DonM
I already had 3.0 loaded when I stalled 3.01. But I just looked at the Korg website and it says at least 2.0 must be installed.
https://www.korg.com/us/support/downloa ... /516/3631/
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:48 am
by karmathanever
Hey Steve
As long as you are already at V2.xxx you can upgrade directly to 3.0.1
Cheers
Pete

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:59 am
by DonM
I beat you by four minutes Pete!

Hope everything is great "down under".
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:26 am
by karmathanever
I guess I need to come to terms with the fact that I'll never beat you....
(Things are great here thanks - trust life is treating you well too....)
Pete
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 2:03 pm
by steve350
Thank you all.
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:40 pm
by steve350
I was able to install 3.01 without a problem. Thanks again. I have another question I hope someone can answer. I have a bunch of backing tracks on a USB drive. When I play these in my Pa3x it plays the Korg instruments I assigned. When I play these midi song in my Pa4 it plays them defaulted to GM2 instruments.
Sounds pretty bad. However if I press the TRACK button and go through each instrument, I can change them to anything in the Pa4's library. My problem is when I am finished changing all the instruments, where and how do I save this midi file so the next time it pulls up the instruments I want?
Thank you,
Steve
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 8:45 am
by pawlikp100
steve350 wrote:I was able to install 3.01 without a problem. Thanks again. I have another question I hope someone can answer. I have a bunch of backing tracks on a USB drive. When I play these in my Pa3x it plays the Korg instruments I assigned. When I play these midi song in my Pa4 it plays them defaulted to GM2 instruments.
Sounds pretty bad. However if I press the TRACK button and go through each instrument, I can change them to anything in the Pa4's library. My problem is when I am finished changing all the instruments, where and how do I save this midi file so the next time it pulls up the instruments I want?
Thank you,
Steve
Editing of midi files is possible only in sequencer mode (saving feature is also included)
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:13 pm
by steve350
I am in the sequencer mode. I just don't how or where to save the midi file after I make all the changes.
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 3:13 pm
by rockola
Rather than me try to explain the procedure - please see the "Pa4X Video Manual Part 8: Recording a Song" on YouTube. The section that you require starts at about 5.58. It will save it to your USB memory stick.
Hope this is of some help.
Don
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 5:03 pm
by steve350
OK I will give a look. All of my backing tracks are on my USB drive. So I should dump my backing tracks onto the HD and save the fixed song to spare USB flash drive?
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:11 am
by rockola
I suppose you can do that if you wish. I have the “61” version so don’t have a hard drive.
What I have done is as follows :-
After loading the midi file to the sequencer from the USB stick and editing it, I saved the amended song to the same USB stick but with the amended title “original title 4x”.
Don
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:16 am
by Biggles
Create a folder on your USB drive and name it direct.set
Include the .set in the name.
You can then save to this folder and it will function more or less as an internal hard drive.
I save my custom Styles via Songbook to the direct.set folder
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:28 pm
by steve350
Thanks all of those work for me.