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Hi, new to Korg products (but a long time classical and jazz pianist) and have a question regarding the keyboard function on my new Electribe 2.

So I am also a gamer and on my Nintendo 3DS I have the official emulation of the classic Korg M01. The Electribe is obviously capable of things that the M01 never was, but (at least on the 3DS emulation) I can go deep down into a part and programme a keyboard based part note by note in addition to the option of recording it live. It's great for recording simple dub style basslines.
Can this also be done on the Electribe 2? I know I can record live keyboard parts as my drum pattern is playing, but if I use the sequence a selected synth, I just get one note played staccato repeatedly. So basically I am asking; if I want a synth part over my drum pattern, am I obliged to play it live or can it be programmed note by note?

Two other quick questions if anyone is reading actually; can I mute one of the four steps so as, for example, to have an intro on step 1 and then have steps 2 & 3 repeat for X number of bars and then close out with step 4? Or do I have to achieve this with 'Pattern Set' or 'Event Recording'?
Lastly, I tried editing the demo beats included by erasing all the parts then reprogramming them (so as to keep the settings) and although it works for the drums, it just seems to ignore any keyboard part I try to record.

Thanks a lot to anyone whom replies!

You could have read the manual and found out that Step edit is menu 22 of 27. It's not very informative, but the information is there. That said, step edit is pretty clunky on the E2, you enter notes with the main knob and doing it for up to 64 steps is tedious. You can edit that sequence you made, but for every step you selected you will have to enter a note or notes.

What the manual does not tell you is that people have found a short cut for adding notes or even motion sequences by using Step Jump and Record simultaneously. It works like this:
1. Select the part you want using Trigger mode
2. Hit Step jump
3. Select the step you want
4.Hit record
5. Play the note/notes you want with the touch pad or an external MIDI keyboard. I recommend the latter, the touch pad sucks for playing notes. It will have to be set to the channel corresponding to the part you are editing, I.E 1 for pad 1, etc.
6. Select another step and repeat.

As to your question about part chaining, I suppose you could do that manually with Step Jump. However, the e2 does not have a song mode or anything like that. Pattern set is just a shortcut for switching patterns, and event recording doesn't to work all that well, and just plays back what you do manually in any case.