Creating/editing Sounds
The microKORG uses two selector knobs to select between settings and five control knobs to modify the values of those settings. Information is presented on a 3-digit red LED panel on the front of the keyboard, which attempts to display letters using only the 7 segments. These characters can be difficult to understand at first, but can become easier to recognize through use. Through MIDI and software from Korg, all of the settings can be edited on a computer as well.
When not in the Edit mode (which is automatically set by turning any of the two selector knobs or by holding the Shift key and pressing the Side button), the five control knobs control respectively the cutoff frequency, the resonance, the amp envelope attack, the amp envelope release and the global tempo. When moved clockwise or anti-clockwise when not in the Edit mode, those knobs will not make the LED panel display anything new (so it is not possible to fix a specific cut-off amount; the user must proceed approximately instead). In the Edit mode, however, every knob makes the LED panel display the current value associated with the knob position. To change the current value of a given parameter, the user must pass through the original value before being able to modify anything. When on that original value, the Original Value LED will light on, and the value displayed on the LED panel will stop flashing. This avoids the user from passing from a small to a high value immediately, so there's no big margin in the change of the parameters (a useful function for live performances).
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