Great, but I wonder do you also have an option to select the way the Kit signal gets routed to the IFX section on the the Pa4X or is it simply locked to one way only?You can set FX Send level for each note/drum component, which is what I did with Pa2X Pro and all other Korg Pa arrangers without Insert effects. This way you can set desired level of compression to each note/drum component by altering input signal, but it was not perfect because you can not set output level for each not.
For example, on a Workstation this is a Tick Box we can select on the IFX page only that switches between two completely different ways the signal is processed by the IFX, MFX or both.
With this box “Unselected” a workstation will send the Drum Kit directly to the IFX/MFX bypassing all the individual send values assigned to each Note of your Drum Kit. When this box is selected, only then does it follow the individual send values assigned to each Note of your Drum Kit.
Interesting....hmmmThe problem is somewhere else with Pa4X, the same effect sounds different, so when compressor is used as an Insert Effect the sound is squashed, too compressed. Earlier you can put Attack somewhere between 50 to 70, and Sensitivity from 70 to 90 and you will always achieve great sounding drum track, but with different character. Now, Pa4X sounds bad even if you put Attack to 10 and sensitivity to 30, snare disappears as too compressed, everything else feels like there is too much pumping, it simply do not work well.
Something sounds amiss there for sure.
Does this problem only apply to Drums? Just wondering since from a SOUND Mode point of view, they are not the same as instruments given that Drums don't go though the OSC's in the same way at all as instruments.
I would imagine you have latency for both IFX and MFX if moving from style to style very fast. This is one thing KORG has improved on big time with the KRONOS. You can actually switch entire programs on the KRONOS while holding notes and there’s no cut off of the notes your holding, or the effects. The split second you play a new note the new effects and sound selected plays. Zero latency. It's mighty powerful and something I hope to see in Arrangers at some point.Of course it is possible to use Master/Send effects for drum compression, but that has some other problems, for example latency and startup time. All Korg effects have some latency, so it can not be processed parallel with dry signal, and because if used as Master/Send effect there is some startup lag which is problematic if you want to change style during play, it eats first hit in the bar every time.
I wish I could be of more help. Something sounds off, pardon the pun, but I wonder if it's actually a bug and not some routing config.Korg's compressor was very simple and very powerful tool, now things looks a bit different, I do not know if that is made like this on purpose or this is just one minor bug. Either way, I need to wait for someone from Korg to confirm this so I can make my keyboard sound good again.
Regards
Sharp.
