1Press the BANK button to select a program bank (from CLASSIC to USER).
2Turn the PROGRAM SELECT dial to select a program genre (from POP/ROCK to GAME/SFX).
3Press a PROGRAM NUMBER button between 1 and 8 to select the program number.
The program switches right when you change the bank, genre or number.
4Now, play the keyboard to make some music.
You can use the PITCH wheel, MOD wheel, OCTAVE SHIFT UP and DOWN buttons, the Performance Edit controls and so on to control the sound.
Using Performance Edit to modify the sound
The Performance Edit controls are displayed on the home page to make it easy to tweak your sound with EDIT CONTROL knobs 1-5 while playing. Although these are pre-assigned to commonly used parameters like Cutoff and Resonance, they can all be freely changed on the TIMBRE EDIT ASSIGN page.
Using Performance Edit
1Select a program or press the FUNCTION 5 button to show the home page.
2Play the microKORG2 and use EDIT CONTROL knobs 1-5 to change the sound.
See “Performance Edit List” for the parameters that you can assign.
Refer to the parameter descriptions to learn how the parameters modify the sound.
Here are some examples.
Cutoff: → Details
Resonance: → Details
AMP EG Attack (AEG Attck): → Details
AMP EG Release (AEG Rel): → Details
Tempo: → Details
Tip: You can assign almost any parameter from the TIMBRE EDIT and EDIT sections to the Performance Edit controls.
Note: The sounds you modify using Performance Edit can be saved. → Writing a program
Note: You can change which parameters are assigned to the Performance Edit controls. → Performance Edit controls