Say i am playing a funk groove 8 bar looped and that funk phrase may have dead notes, slides and picks in it. But it wont have 2 bars of dead notes or 2 bars of slides etc. The combination thats makes up the phrase is what has been programmed by a real musician and lets say that groove is called scene 1 (which in an arranger might be termed variation 1.) If i dont change from Scene 1 does karma keep playing the same groove unchanged for as long as that scene is selected ?
Take your pick.
Yes if you want, and no if you want to go beyond an arranger.
You can restrict KARMA to play the variation exactly like an arranger in that it always plays the same notes and responds to Chord Changes just like a normal arranger.
Or.... another example, you know the way bass inversions work, well imagine your entire style responding exactly like bass inversions work.
Or.... to go all out, you can have it fully respond to chord changes, inversions and controllers.
On top of all that, we still haven't even hit on it's ability to do random things yet.
And when i move the sliders how then does karma make a new variation that is in keeping with the style and tasty but different ?
There are many ways you can do it, for example Swing Shift a GE and then activate the note repeat settings. The more of both effects you apply the more the Style will alter.
You can add all sorts of things on the back of that to go much further. For example, note repeat and octave. Depending on how much note repeat you apply, KARMA might play a certain note more than once, and using the Octave function it might start scaling up through inversions and octaves of the notes being played.
That's just some of the straight forward functions.
Soon as you start turning on the Random functions you can create everything from variations of the style playing to a completely new style. It all depends on how much you allow it to run free.
In all cases you have full control though. KARMA's freedom is based on the users settings.
I have been all over youtube and the korg website itself and i cant find any examples of of Karma sounding anything like a genuine 'real ' musician
Not sure what you mean by real musican since an arranger is an automated and as locked down as you can get.
Karma can do that too, but improvise. So it can sound far more real than anything an arranger can do. Maybe why you haven't seen this on your search through YouTube is simply because your listening to Workstations doing what Workstatoin do.
The GE's that come with KARMA on a workstation are fro the type of music these people play.
That said, there are some factory sounds on the OASYS that offer things like Straight Country beats. It's not the sort of thing you will hear workstation users using though.
Regards
James
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