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Hi there, I'm new about korg and R3. I need to ask a maybe simple question for the most of you. If I create a new sound on R3 or edit an existing one I necessarily have to save it in some already existing slot? My aim is not to overwrite on an existing one sound from the factory preset. So, I would like to know if there are some free slot on the R3 for my creation.
Thanks to all

Why do you care about overwriting a factory preset? You can easily reload a factory preset whenever you want. You can overwrite all the presets, then reload them all in about 15 seconds using the patch librarian software.

With that in mind, you now have 128 free slots that you can load with whatever you want, because it's pointless to be concerned with overwriting them. You can use an unlimited number of programs when using the librarian software, with 128 loaded at one time. From the software, if you do File/New from the menu, you instantly have 128 free slots filled with the InitProg default. Then you can drag and drop programs loaded from any other window into any slot you want.

surely, you don't like/want to use/keep every preset?

it is a synthesizer. the first thing I and a lot of other people do after getting a synth like this (after going through the presets) is to erase them all to init programs.

in answer to your question, yes you can only write to the slots in the R3. it just happens that when you buy the R3 the slots are filled up with 'demo data'. you can restore these at any time if you realise you wanted one that you overwrote.


I recommend, as xmlguy says, that you look into using the editor too.

Thank you very much guys.

So, a new question came now. Is it possible to set two different preset or sound on the same slot? I mean, can I assign a sound from C2 to C4 and a different sound for the remaining keys? If yes, how could I do that?

That is called Split Voice Mode. It lets you set timbre 1 to the left, and timbre 2 to the right, and you can set which key is used for the split, with the default being C4. Note that you cannot assign one program to the left or to the right, the split is done within a program between the two timbres it has. The R3 can only use one program at a time, while it has up to two timbres per program. Some programs use only one timbre, while others use both. If you have two programs that each have a single timbre, then you can combine them together for a keyboard split, because you can copy a timbre to a different program to mix and match them.