Korg 2E ii User Manual

drums and bass to the C#2–B2 keys and use these 
keys to control pattern playback, and use keys C3 
and above to play solos in realtime. It is a good 
idea to keep the assigned keys together in this 
way.

Let’s use the RPPR you created to perform in the SEQ 
1.1: Play/REC page.

1 In Sequencer mode, select SEQ 1.1: Play/REC.

2 Check the “RPPR” check box.

The RPPR function will be turned on. The on/off 
setting is memorized for each song.

3 Play the keyboard, and patterns will begin playing 

• Pattern playback for a key with a “Sync” setting of 

 or Measure will synchronize to the pattern 

• If you are playing the pattern in synchronization 

(when “Sync” is Beat, Measure, or SEQ), the 
pattern will start accurately if you play the note 
slightly earlier than the timing of the beat or 
measure. Even if you play the note slightly later 
than the beat or measure (but no later than a 32nd 
note), it will be considered to have started at the 
beat or measure, and the beginning of the pattern 
will be compressed so that the remainder of the 
playback will be correct.

If you wish to trigger the RPPR function from an 
external MIDI device, use the MIDI channel that is 
selected for “Track Select.”

4 To turn off the RPPR function, uncheck the RPPR 

RPPR can be played in synchronization with the play-
back of a song.

Pattern playback for a key with a “Sync” setting of 
SEQ

 will synchronize to the playback of the song. 

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Start song playback, and then press the key. The pat-
tern playback will start in synchronization with the 
measures of the song.

Synchronization will be lost if you use the [

REW] or [FF 

] keys while a song is playing.

If you want RPPR pattern playback to begin at the 
moment that song playback begins, it is a good 
idea to insert an empty measure containing no 
musical data before the song playback begins.

If the song is stopped, the pattern will synchronize 
to the timing of the arpeggiator function.

An RPPR performance can be recorded in realtime. If 
you are using only one track (T01: Drums) as in “Cre-
ating and recording RPPR” (

p.75), set “Track Select” 

to T01: Drums, and use single track recording in 
which only one track will be recorded.

Even if RPPR uses only one track, use multi-track 
recording

 if you will be selecting another track in 

“Track Select” and recording its performance at the 
same time.
You should also select multi-track recording if you cre-
ated the RPPR data using multiple tracks rather than 
just a single track, and want to simultaneously record 
the performance of multiple tracks.

The RPPR pattern will be recorded as performance 
data on the tracks used by the pattern.

Here we will explain how you can simultaneously 
record a performance that uses both RPPR and the 
arpeggiator.

1 For each RPPR pattern , set “Sync” to SEQ.

With a setting of SEQ, patterns played by the RPPR 
function while the sequencer is playing or recording 
will start in synchronization with the measures of 
the sequencer.

2 We will use the arpeggiator to play the bass pat-

Set “Track Select” to T02: Bass.

Select the SEQ 6.1: Arp., Setup page, and set the 
track 2 “Assign” to A. (Make sure that A is checked 
for “Arpeggiator Run.”)

Select the SEQ 6.1: Arp., Arp. A page, and set “Pat-
tern

” to U099 (INT).

Do not check “Key Sync.”

Press the [ARP ON/OFF] key. (The key will light.)