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User Guide
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U eser Guide Features and Benefits 2 "Overview" 5 Connections 8 Disk Mode: Loading the Preload Disks 9 Playing the Factory Demos 10 Basic Navigation: Front Panel Overview, Touchview Graphic Interface 11 Program Mode: Overview 13 Select-By-Bank, Select-By-Category 14 16 Performance Editing, Realtime Controllers AMS and Effect Dynamic Modulation 18 Very Cool Demo Programs 20 Arpeggiator Mode: Overview and Tour in Program mode 21 Combination Mode: Overview 26 Select By Bank
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TRITON Training Guide TRITON Features and Benefits TRITON Features and Benefits Benefit Benefit Feature Feature All sounds are in RAM* so you can tweak or 1024 onboard sounds 1024 onboard sounds replace them to guarantee that you have the 512 Programs 512 Programs (including 16 drumkits) group of sounds that you want. 512 Comb 512 Combinations inations plus 128 open locations for samples and a Everyone is looking for a large variety of full GM level 2 soundset! sounds and TR
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TRITON Training Guide Feature Feature Benefit Benefit This is a full-function sequencer with 16 16--track sequencer track sequencer extensive recording, editing and mixing 200,000 events 200,000 events capabilities. Combined with the TRITON's 200 Songs 200 Songs awesome multi-effects power this is all the 20 Cue Lists 20 Cue Lists (100 Songs per Cue) system a user might need to record “ready-to- 32 Song Templates 32 Song Templates (16 Preset/16 User) master” music! 150 preset
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TRITON Training Guide Feature Feature Benefit Benefit RPPR lets you assign musical phrases to be Innovative RPPR Innovative RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play triggered in realtime from the keyboard. It's and Record) function function great for live performance and as a musical Each Song can hold an RPPR set Each Song can hold an RPPR set way to play parts into the sequencer. And the Up to 72 Patterns per set Up to 72 Patterns per set RPPR data goes out via MIDI so it can be used Patt
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TRITON Training Guide TRITON TRITON Highlights Incredible Sound The next step in workstation evolution, the TRITON delivers the ultimate sonic arsenal with maximum expressive power and control! TRITON's ground-breaking HI (Hyper Integrated) synthesis system broadens your sound-creating possibilities with 62 high- quality voices! 640 Programs (512 pre-programmed), 512 Combinations, 64 user Drum Kits (16 preset) and GM level2 support - all created from 32 Mbytes of the highest- quality 48 kHz
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TRITON Training Guide Easy and Creative Sequencing A totally new 16-track sequencer with an awesome 200,000 event capacity gives you incredible ways to create music in an easy, yet extremely powerful song writing environment! TRITON's new Cue List, Song Templates, Preset Rhythm Patterns, independently-loopable tracks and RPPR functions make music production speedier and easier than ever! Dual Polyphonic Arpeggiators Two polyphonic arpeggiators with 237 patterns (232 programmable/ 5 p
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TRITON Training Guide User-Installable, Affordable Options EXB-MOSS: Add Korg's world-famous Z1 DSP technology to the TRITON with the EXB- MOSS option! Six voices of physical modeled / synthesis sounds adds even more power to TRITON's HI synthesis system, and you can use up to six MOSS sounds in a Combination or Sequence! EXB-PCM: Expand TRITON's PCM memory from 32 Mbytes to 64 Mbytes with 16 Mbyte expansion boards, including new Program and Combination sounds on disk - for each EXB-PCM
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TRITON Training Guide Start Here Connections 1. Connect TRITON's L/MONO and R outputs to a stereo monitoring system, or connect headphones to the headphone jack. 2. Lower the VOLUME fader, then power-up the TRITON. Raise the VOLUME fader and play the keyboard to set a comfortable monitoring level. The display will indicate the model and software version number, as well as any installed options. Standard TRITONs will indicate "SIMM Slot1 (16MB)" in the display. Disk Mode Lo
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TRITON Training Guide Loading the Factory Demos and Sounds The following steps show you how to restore the factory preload demo songs, .PCG files and samples. Note: The following procedure will rewrite the TRITON's internal memory. Make sure to backup your internal data before proceeding! 1. Press to highlight PRELOAD.SNG : 2. Press the Page menu button Load in the upper right corner of the display. 3. Press Load selected from the popup menu that appears, and a dialog box will appear
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TRITON Training Guide 7. Press Select at the lower-right of the display. All of the sample data in the PRELOAD folder will load. The display will then indicate "Writing into memory" - the data is loading into the TRITON's flash memory area. Tip: The TEMPO LED in the ARPEGGIATOR section of the front panel goes dark while loading, and begins to flash when the loading process is complete. Playing the Factory demos 1. Press the SEQ key to enter Sequencer mode, then press the MENU key
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TRITON Training Guide Basic Navigation Front Panel Overview 1> SW1 / 2 2> Joystick 3> Ribbon: These controllers are used to control tone, pitch, volume, effects, the arpeggiators and more - in realtime, while you play and record. 4> Headphone Jack 5> Disk Drive 6> VOLUME slider: Controls master volume and headphone volume. 7> REALTIME CONTROL Knobs: Four knobs, with two modes of operation - in A mode, filter cutoff, resonance or hi-pass filter cutoff, filter envelope
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TRITON Training Guide 8> Mode keys: Press these keys to enter a desired mode of operation - the LED's for each mode will light. Seven modes of operation are available 9> COMPARE key: Used to compare an un-edited sound with an edited sound when in Program or Combination modes, as well as comparing when recording and editing in Sequencer mode. 10> VALUE Slider / keys, DIAL, Numeric keypad,10's HOLD and ENTER keys: These controls are used to set and modify values. Use the Numeric key
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TRITON Training Guide 16> ARPEGGIATOR section: This section of the front panel controls the operation of the arpeggiators. It includes the TEMPO, GATE and VELOCITY knobs and the ARPEGGIATOR ON/OFF key. The TEMPO knob can also be used to change song tempo. 17> BANK keys: In Program mode, use these keys to go to a desired bank (A-E). When the EXB - MOSS option is installed, the F bank key accesses the MOSS Programs. The G Bank key selects the GM variation banks. Repeatedly pressing this k
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TRITON Training Guide TRITON features two great ways to quickly-locate Programs: Select-By-Bank 1. Press to highlight the Program name field, press 0, then press the ENTER key on the Numeric keypad to select Program A000. 2. Press the popup button to the left of the Program name. A popup menu will appear - the center area shows 16 of the A-bank programs, beginning with A000. 3. You can press to select Programs here, and press and drag the scroll bar to move through the menu pages,
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TRITON Training Guide 2. Press the Category popup button. A new popup menu appears, and because you selected Program B033 Piano Pad, you can now view, scroll and select any of the Programs in the Keyboard category. Notice that the categories are listed as tabs on the left and right sides of the center menu. 3. Press the 03 Strings category tab. The center menu now shows all the Programs in the string category, and here you can view, scroll and press to select related Programs. 4. Check o
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TRITON Training Guide Performance Editing In addition to the variety of controllers TRITON has to offer, you can do quick and easy edits of main Program parameters with TouchView! In any Program Play page (P0), you'll see eight Performance Editor "faders" that function in a + or - direction Octave: Raises or lowers the octave of the Program. Pitch Stretching: Simultaneously adjusts the transpose and tune settings - produces a variety of tonal changes without losing the original tunin
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TRITON Training Guide Tip: When you edit a Program with the Performance Editors and want to update the Program quickly - press the REC/WRITE key. A popup menu prompts you with the famous Korg words: "Are You Sure", and you can confirm the update by pressing OK. If you want to write your edited Program to another location, versus overwriting the existing Program, press the Performance Edit page menu command in the upper-right of the display, press "Write Program", choose the destination b
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TRITON Training Guide Check out AMS and Effect Dynamic Modulation: Although you haven't been introduced to TRITON's Polyphonic Arpeggiators yet, we'll give you a "sneak preview" in the next few steps, and you can work with an arpeggiated Program - this will give you a good idea of how AMS can be used to control the sound: 1. Select Program B044: Auto Pilot. (Press the Bank B key, then enter 44 on the Numeric keypad). Play notes / chords on the keyboard to hear the sound and trigger the a
