Korg m50-73 User Guide

The M50’s 16-track MIDI sequencer can hold up to 128 
songs and 210,000 MIDI events.

You can record and play back MIDI data using sixteen 
MIDI tracks and one master track (containing tempo 
data, etc.) to control the internal sound generator and 
your external sound modules.

With its broad range of capabilities such as the 
arpeggiators, high-quality effects, and controllers, the 
M50 is the ideal environment for music production or 
live performance.

When you turn off the power, the settings made in 
Sequencer mode, the song data, and any user 
pattern data that you recorded will not be backed 
up. If you wish to keep this data, you must save it 
on an SD card before turning off the power, or 
perform a MIDI data dump to save the data on an 
external data filer etc.

If you wish to write the programs, track 
parameters, effects, and arpeggiator settings etc. 
selected for a song as a template song, use the 
menu command Save Template Song.

Immediately after the power is turned on, M50 
will not contain any song data, so if you wish to 
play a song on the sequencer, you must first load 
data from SD card, or receive a MIDI data dump 
from a MIDI filer. For details, please see “Loading 
data” on page 93, and “Dump Sequencer” on 
page 253 of the Parameter Guide.

Sequencer mode is structured as follows.

For details on each mode and how to access each page, 
please see “Basic operations” on page 16.

A song consists of MIDI tracks 1–16, a master track, 
song parameters such as the song name, arpeggiator, 
Drum Track function, effect and RPPR parameters, and 
100 user patterns.

A maximum of 128 such songs can be created on M50.

MIDI tracks 1–16 each consist of setup parameters 
located at the start location, and musical data within 
the track. The master track consists of tempo and time 
signature data. 

For details, please see “Setup parameters & Musical 
data” on page 126 of the Parameter Guide.

Song recording is performed on tracks.

You can record MIDI tracks in either of two ways; 
realtime recording or step recording. For realtime 
recording you can choose one of six recording modes.

You can edit MIDI tracks by using Event Edit 
operations to modify the recorded data or insert new 
data, and by using Track Edit operations such as 
Create Control Data, which generates and inserts pitch 
bend, aftertouch, or control change data.

AUDIO OUTPUT
L/MONO, R

(Routing: P8)
MIDI Routing 1,2

Track

Insert Effects
Master Effects

(FX Ctrl BUS)

Master Track

Insert Effect 1...5: P8

Master Effect 1, 2
: P9

Total Effect
: P9

Tempo and time signature data

MIDI Track 01..16

Setting parameters Performance data

Setting parameters Performance data

Setting parameters Performance data

Setting parameters Performance data

Setting parameters Performance data

Arpeggiator: P7–1, 2, 3, 4, 5

DrumTrk Prog: P7–6

RPPR Setup: P10–3

Pattern: P10–1, 2

Cue List: P11

Tone Adjust: P0–7

Controllers: P1–1

Chord Trigger Switches: P1–2

Parentheses such as (P7) indicate the M50 page used for editing.