Tutorial : Midi Loopback With Chorded Pads on PA600

amit · Post by **amit** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:34 am

Here is a Tutorial on how to use Midi Loopback on PA600 and what you can do with that. (example Uses a pad to play a Pre-recorded chord progression)

You can download/view the PDF Here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/613i00f4ma6e ... epEIa?dl=0

Enjoy!!

This should likely work with other models too ,but I cannot confirm what I have not tested for myself.

Eduardo_Arg · Post by **Eduardo_Arg** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:22 pm

Thanks Amit. I'll test your advice tonight.-

tacman7 · Post by **tacman7** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:55 pm

So a midi loopback would be the same thing as recording your midi output in a sequencer and sending it back to the pa600?

Thanks

amit · Post by **amit** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:04 am

tacman7 wrote:So a midi loopback would be the same thing as recording your midi output in a sequencer and sending it back to the pa600?

Thanks

Yes kinda,
but the main advantage here is, there is no sequencer involved.
and you can do all natively on the keyboard itself.

TheoAsk · Post by **TheoAsk** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 6:34 pm

Hi,

I tested your MIDI loopback procedure with the user manual and launched Pad 1 and it seems to work, but I don't really see the interest of this.

What would be the use in a musical composition? To have melodic loops (right hand loops)? Can you explain how it functions please?

Regards,

siebenhirter · Post by **siebenhirter** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 9:43 pm

amit wrote:Here is a Tutorial on how to use Midi Loopback on PA600

Thank you for your Tutorial “Midi LoopBack with Korg PA-600”.
I often would like to see here such good ideas. There are much more applications one can do with Pa-Keyboards and Midi-Loopback (think also here i had some posts).
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To prevent limitations it would be better to use ChordChannels (Chord1 or Chord2) for chord recognition of notes your Pad sends via Midi-loopback. So you need no Midi-Input-channel set to Globals and you need no Filter.

Notes coming via Chord1 will be combined with the notes that go through the channel set as Global. Global notes are recognized only under the split point, if the SPLIT LED
is lit up but Chord channels are not affected by the split point. All the notes – both above and below the split point – will be sent to the chord recognition.
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If one use Midi-Out-Channel 1 for Pad1, simple set Chord1-Midi-Channel to 1 (nothing else).

It is much better to receive notes of Pads via Chord1 or Chord2 as to use Global Channel. It is possible to use different recognition-modes like one do using a midi-accordion for chord-recognition.

Finally to mention Pad’s structure allows to program six different single-tracks (six chordvariations per pad) ie six different chord-sequences (fixed sequences in pads, but not fixed pitch, because starting pad is using recent/last chordrecognition).
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You can start and select each of that six chord-sequences via left-hand chord-recognition of styles (fingered3), than push Accomp-button to disconnect style-chord-recognition for single usage of that six Pad-Chord-sequences as "Master-Chord-Loops" or do not disconnect and play at least max two notes with a piano-sound on left hand without changing chord-recognition for pads and style.

amit · Post by **amit** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:11 am

TheoAsk wrote:Hi,

I tested your MIDI loopback procedure with the user manual and launched Pad 1 and it seems to work, but I don't really see the interest of this.

What would be the use in a musical composition? To have melodic loops (right hand loops)? Can you explain how it functions please?

Regards,

You can't save chord sequences / progressions (though you can record them in realtime).

This trick allows you to use your one of the pads to play a chord progression that your arranger can follow.Thus allowing you two handed control over other things like live filter tweaks etc.

The Main Idea is that with loopback and midi filtering you can have some things going on that are not natively supported.

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