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I don't know if anyone has posted this or not... but, I was messing around with the Global settings a few days ago whilst reading the Parameter Guide manual, and I accidentally found a hidden feature with the chord trigger switches.

Follow these steps to enable the feature:

1) In Global mode, press the "page select" button on your keyboard to bring up the page select menu.
2) Select the option "P2 Controllers", and then click on the "CC Assign" tab that's at the bottom left of the screen.
3) In the "Chord Trigger Switches (CC and Note)" section, assign SW1, SW2 and SW3 to "CC#014", and assign SW4 to "Off".
4) Now go into Combi mode and try out the chord trigger switches on a few patches.

If all went well, the chord trigger switches "SW1 to SW3" should enable the arpeggiator when they are held down, and then turn the arpeggiator off again when they are released, and the SW4 switch will just play a chord/note without turning on/off the arpeggiator.

This thing is so dense, I can only imagine what else can be done with this keyboard that we simply don't have the slightest idea.

Nice find, adamskii

Someone in this forum discovered a very useful function in the chord triggers: changing up to 4 programs with transition, no sound cut!!
But it had to be played in sequencer mode. Perhaps it´s possible to make it in global mode.

akmon wrote:Someone in this forum discovered a very useful function in the chord triggers: changing up to 4 programs with transition, no sound cut!!
But it had to be played in sequencer mode. Perhaps it´s possible to make it in global mode.

I would be interested in learning this. Do you have a link to the thread that it was posted in?

The only way I can think of to achieve something like this is to record the program changes into RPPR patterns, and then assign each of these patterns to several keys on the keyboard. Then I would assign the chord trigger switches to the keys that have the patterns assigned to them. This would most likely work in the way that you described, but at a cost of using up a few keys on the keyboard to do it.

adamskii wrote: The only way I can think of to achieve something like this is to record the program changes into RPPR patterns, and then assign each of these patterns to several keys on the keyboard. Then I would assign the chord trigger switches to the keys that have the patterns assigned to them. This would most likely work in the way that you described, but at a cost of using up a few keys on the keyboard to do it.

That is exactly how it was done.

If you use keys that are outside the range of a piano (C-1 or G9 and the keys closest to it), then you're not wasting keys on the keyboard.

adamskii wrote:

akmon wrote:Someone in this forum discovered a very useful function in the chord triggers: changing up to 4 programs with transition, no sound cut!!
But it had to be played in sequencer mode. Perhaps it´s possible to make it in global mode.

I would be interested in learning this. Do you have a link to the thread that it was posted in?

The only way I can think of to achieve something like this is to record the program changes into RPPR patterns, and then assign each of these patterns to several keys on the keyboard. Then I would assign the chord trigger switches to the keys that have the patterns assigned to them. This would most likely work in the way that you described, but at a cost of using up a few keys on the keyboard to do it.

Here you are:

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... rd+trigger

kanthos wrote:If you use keys that are outside the range of a piano (C-1 or G9 and the keys closest to it), then you're not wasting keys on the keyboard.

Thanks for the tip. From now on, I will be using this method whenever I want to trigger controller data from the chord trigger switches, without using up any of the "playing range" keys on my 61 note keyboard. Since it's very rare that I use the higher octaves when I'm performing live on the M50, so I can use these unused keys for mapping the RPPR patterns to.

akmon wrote:Here you are:

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... rd+trigger

Thanks for the link.