Korg pa 588 problem with Korg ih vocoder!

virtuoso · Post by **virtuoso** » Thu May 05, 2011 4:59 am

I use this Korg ih vocoder with my pa588 but it doesn't work properly,sometimes voice harmonizing is good,sometimes it works bad.
I used this vocoder previosly with Korg i5s and never had this problem,allways worked well. Help!

karmathanever · Post by **karmathanever** » Thu May 05, 2011 8:18 am

Hi
The Korg "ih" was specifically designed for the Korg i-series and recognized the specific MIDI (chord recognition) from the i-series (hence it was fine with your i5s).
The PA MIDI implementation is different. You can still use it in its generic modes but to get it to work whilst playing styles could be a problem.

MIDI implementation details are NOT freely available for the PA series (unlike the i-series).

Cheers

Pete

virtuoso · Post by **virtuoso** » Thu May 05, 2011 9:17 am

karmathanever wrote:
MIDI implementation details are NOT freely available for the PA series (unlike the i-series).

Cheers

Pete

Thank you for the answer,please explain that quoted statement?

karmathanever · Post by **karmathanever** » Thu May 05, 2011 2:25 pm

MIDI implementation manual was available for the i-series (I have the i30 version), however Korg did not release one for the PA keyboards.

The MIDI implementation covers fine details of all MIDI messages sent/received by the keyboard.

Cheers

Pete