Have Korg Legacy styles always been on Korg Bonusware site?

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Have Korg Legacy styles always been on Korg Bonusware site?

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Hi,
have the Korg legacy styles always been available for download on the Bonusware. Site ie factory styles for older keyboards.
https://www.korg.com/au/features/arrangers/bonusware/#

Must admit I haven’t checked the site for quite a while, don’t remember seeing them before.

Anyway now have some earlier (more simple styles).

The ones I’ve tried so far seem to sound ok (pa80/pa500)

Just had to change the folder name pa80 to include .set extension and the internal one I changed to STYLE. It converted all the banks into styles in one go. Simple enough. Now to check for duplicates in my database,🙁, not so simple. 😀
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Re: Have Korg Legacy styles always been on Korg Bonusware si

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rikkisbears wrote:Hi,
have the Korg legacy styles always been available for download on the Bonusware. Site ie factory styles for older keyboards.
https://www.korg.com/au/features/arrangers/bonusware/#
Short answer: yes, they have been downloadable as bonusware since 2013. And they are compatible with Pa80 - Pa4X.
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Thanks Mike,
I’d never spotted those factory banks before😟. The sets 1 to 42 , yes, but not the legacy banks. Senior moment or , need new glasses. 😀
Having not previously owned a pa80,pa500 or pa1x, there’s a number of styles that don’t exist in my PA5x or even my ex pa3x/Pa4x.

Be great for PA5x owners if they add the Pa4x factory style banks for download too.

Thanks Mike.
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Bonusware was always "bonus" styles but in later years several of these have been included in the later PA models, so maybe the term "Legacy" is a bit confusing..... currently, in terms of a PA5x owner, these are additional styles made available over a period of time and can be used on the PA5x. So far, none are "specifically" for PA5x....

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karmathanever wrote:Bonusware was always "bonus" styles but in later years several of these have been included in the later PA models, so maybe the term "Legacy" is a bit confusing..... currently, in terms of a PA5x owner, these are additional styles made available over a period of time and can be used on the PA5x. So far, none are "specifically" for PA5x....

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Hi Pete, no ,the banks of Legacy styles I’m referring too, are the complete sets of Factory styles for those 5 keyboards.
I just checked my old pa3x style banks that I had saved. Bank 1 on the “Pa3x Legacy download “on the site, matches the Pop bank 1 that I had saved before I sold my PA3X.
As far as I can tell, they’ve given us the factory styles for those keyboards.
I’ve got most of them anyway as I always copied them before selling the keyboard.

They’re listed just after set 42 bonus styles.

Probably there’s a heap of double ups, because of the bonus sets, but I find it easier sorting thru from the factory sets. Plus there’s a list of the styles included in the downloads.

Non of them are for the PA5x , but they seem to have converted ok.
Pa 80 style probably doesn’t sound any better on a Pa4x than it would on the PA5x , without a bit of a tweak.

I put together a library years ago for my Pa4x, but some styles became corrupted, some I can’t even work out which keyboard was the original source. fortunately I kept some style lists, so at least I have a starting point . Haha.

It will give me something to do😁.
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Post by karmathanever »

Sorry Rikki - :oops:

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