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I have been looking into the matter of an *.ins file for the EK-50. I rather assumed I would have to write one, and was uncertain how to accommodate the fact that the EK-50 Voice Numbering is based on a universal MSB=121. The *.ins files I have previously known best have all had multiple MSBs, and ...

I have had an exchange of emails with Technical Support at Korg UK. It seems the pa 500 is the most immediate precursor of the EK-50. An */ins file for that is available at https://www.korg.com/us/support/download/software/0/93/2481/. That file is structured in banks determined by the LSB, and banks ...

Morning, voip, and everyone else. I thought I had posted an acknowledgement of your last, voip, yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have 'gone' or 'taken'. I am very grateful indeed for your interest and effort. Thank you ! You're right - that txt file is not a fully-set-out *.ins file. I have ...

Thank you, voip (VOIP ? Voip?) for your input. yes, grahamid is idgraham. I must have registered more than once ! I had a Korg 03 R?W long before I got the EK-50 a couple if years ago. I had to check my passwords records to get in to make this post, and probably tripped from one id to the other. If ...

Good morning, from Wales UK. I'm looking here for guidance where to more specifically post an enquiry. I'm a member of the EK-50 forum, but that is a relatively quiet forum, and I think my enquiry may actually be more widely relevant to Korg users, in any case. So: I'm looking to make an instrument ...

If you would be interested in a very direct way of controlling various basic 'effects' applied to the EK-50 voices, read on....... I have recently acquired a Doremidi USB/Midi host unit, which allows me to access all the EK-50's voices from my Kawai 88-note keyboard. (To play both keyboards at once ...

I came on this a day or two ago, and thought it might be of interest to any members here who similarly hadn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSApAFi9OXA The guy looks like he's playing piano, and sounds like he's playing piano. My experience with the EK-50 doesn't remotely match this, and ...

I'm sorry - I visited the forum to post a few days ago, and there was some sort of glitch on the actual site. It evidently recorded my title but nothing else. Trying again: I'm trying to use the synchro start feature in relation to recording.........but whether I go <synchro><record> or <record ...

From what you say, I think you might not find the EK-50 satisfactory, at least as a sole instrument. Speaking as a pianist myself, if I really want to 'play piano', I go to another instrument. (I have a very elderly Clavinova CLP 100, and a Kawai ES100). The EK-50 doesn't (to me) feel like a piano ...

Since making a post about using user-songs, I've been thinking further....... So far I have used the USB stick facility to take user-songs to a computer to edit and tweak the midi-recording, and bring them back to the EK-50 in an amended form. This works perfectly well, but is a bit cumbersome. I'd ...

Not quite sure what you have in mind here ? If you're playing live, you are doing the synchronising ?
So are you thinking of playing drums from your i;pad, and something else pre-recorded from the EK-50 ?

Sincerely
Ian G.

Good morning, group, from Wales UK It seems to me that if I play a user song, and wish to play along with it - an additional part, e.g. - I cannot set any fresh registration for the live play - the EK-50 will recognise only what was set at the time of the recording? Is this the case ? Disappointing ...

First, to do with tempo: So far as I know, Korg do not publish any list of the styles by default BPM. But my limited experience is that the BPM value shown in the display may be initially a bit misleading. For instance, one style I use regularly is 217 Bebop. That shows in the screen a default bpm ...

I, too, use the drum elements of available styles to play against in an exploratory way, as distinct from assembling recordings. The '4-substyles' aspect of what the EK-50 offers in many cases seems to me less a route for smooth elaboration through a piece, than a collection of related beats. So ...

I am beginning to explore the 'Effects' options on the EK-50. In a post on this Forum in March 2021, MarekBujko said: You can send 2 FX to Layers (Lower/Up1,2,3) only. And the manual itself says: “Default” indicates the optimum effect that is set for the keyboard se t by default.[/i] My impression to ...