A good friend talked me into playing my Korg more, so I started digging in tonight. I forgot how the new improvements really make life easier in the new OS 1.60.

The biggest thing that affects me is the on/off toggling that the pads now do. You can call up pad one ... let it run for 4 bars and then simply hit the button again and it stops. Much better than the old way of hitting the master stop button - now you can add 1-2-3 or 4 pads in any order and change them up on the fly without shutting them all off at once. Very cool.

The transpose for the Chord sequencer is another - lay down a 12 bar blues change early in the night and it's there for you to call up as a filler whenever you may need something to kill time with. Change the style, change the key - always sounds different. Very cool.

They also fixed a glitch that lost your lyrics when changing rhythm patterns.

I'm enjoying my second honeymoon!


This was taken at last years graduation - that's the only reason I'm reading. We had almost NO time to learn the songs we needed to perform for the ceremony. My boss always picks just the "right" theme for each class, and she springs it on us last second. The iPad came in handy that day!

Great Picture Dave .....

Dave, I requested the fix for the lyrics bug, and they did it!
DonM

Don - you ARE DA man!
I remember telling Steve D (Yamaha) a few pet peeves along time ago, and I believe there were some "Uncle Davie-isms" incorporated soon after that too!
The more I play this beast - the more I'm sure that I love it....just wish the speaker thing was incorporated. Right now, I wouldn't trade the action, C/S, and overall sexiness of the layout for the speakers, though. With all it HAS ... the compromises are pretty workable. Especially with the Bose - it just sounds so good - It's not what I'm used to, but there are so many other pluses ... I'm working with it again.

Fixing the transpose CS bug was a positive step in turning the feature into a really usable one.

Next, I suggest you get on Korg's case, and ask for the sequence to be saveable and linkable to a Performance (or Songbook entry).

And a page where favorite jam riffs could be stored and quickly selected on the fly wouldn't be a bad idea either.

UD ... how do you 'save' the CS pattern for later use?...

Tony, you don't save it. Once you record it, it is there until you record over it, or power off the keyboard. Can't be saved.
DonM

What a shame...I guess the G1000 chord sequencer is still the one to beat..

Okay, thanks Don ... while it might not be as good as the G1000, it is still a good feature ...

G1000 CS couldn't link the sequence to a Performance, so in gigging practical terms, not all THAT handy (I never used to use it).

But linked to a Performance, the possibilities are endless.