Turn off beat with a button ?

Rob Sherratt · Post by **Rob Sherratt** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:50 pm

The Korg PadKontrol has a direct MIDi cable connection that can connect direct to the Pa2x/Pa800. But the pads cannot be programmed with chords, only single notes, so its less flexible than the other stuff I mentioned. It makes a good Drum pad accessory though.

rbalaa · Post by **rbalaa** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:56 pm

Rob Sherratt wrote:The Korg PadKontrol has a direct MIDi cable connection that can connect direct to the Pa2x/Pa800. But the pads cannot be programmed with chords, only single notes, so its less flexible than the other stuff I mentioned. It makes a good Drum pad accessory though.

Is there one like the nanoKontrol (able to control volume levels of individual tracks) but with direct connection to the pa ?

LESSISMORE · Post by **LESSISMORE** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:00 pm

Hi rbalaa

in which case do you use only the ACCs without drums/perc,Bass ?

I often use the Drum/Perc. standalone. To realize this is very easy.
Memory off and no playing the lower-part. So only the Drum/perc-Tracks will run.
You have only switch off the memory-function for a little time. You can activ this function immediately. The ACCs will run again when you are playing the lower-area again. (When scanning-mode stands to "Lower")

rbalaa · Post by **rbalaa** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:05 pm

LESSISMORE wrote:Hi rbalaa

in which case do you use only the ACCs without drums/perc,Bass ?

I often use the Drum/Perc. standalone. To realize this is very easy.
Memory off and no playing the lower-part. So only the Drum/perc-Tracks will run.
You have only switch off the memory-function for a little time. You can activ this function immediately. The ACCs will run again when you are playing the lower-area again. (When scanning-mode stands to "Lower")

In many cases, too much to list. Ex: You want only Acc2 (guitar) to play with the drum. Often I want to completely mute all Drum/Perc and only have a string chord sequence which is on Acc3 for example ...

LESSISMORE · Post by **LESSISMORE** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:13 pm

O.K.
have you already make some expiriences with the solo-function.
Hold Shift and press on a style-Track. You can mute more than one track and you can use the solo-function.
But I think this is not sure enough.

Giner · Post by **Giner** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:57 pm

Not forgetting that a lot of techno, dance and similar styles also use a lot of track muting. This used to be a doddle on the i30 where you had a mute button at the bottom of each slider. Why Korg dropped this idea is a mystery to me. Maybe it was too simple.

Rob Sherratt · Post by **Rob Sherratt** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:52 am

rbalaa wrote:
Rob Sherratt wrote:The Korg PadKontrol has a direct MIDi cable connection that can connect direct to the Pa2x/Pa800. But the pads cannot be programmed with chords, only single notes, so its less flexible than the other stuff I mentioned. It makes a good Drum pad accessory though.
Is there one like the nanoKontrol (able to control volume levels of individual tracks) but with direct connection to the pa ?

Yes, it's called a Pa2x

Also there is this unit from Behringer that will probably supplement the Pa800 very nicely ...

http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCF2000-WH.aspx

Just be sure before you get it that the Pa800 provides MIDI control for all the parameters you want. Check the manual. The MIDI implementation on Pa800/Pa2x is fairly basic compared with for example the M3 where almost everything can be changed using SysEx.

Regards,
Rob