Korg SP-500 Manuel D’Utilisation

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There are several different ways to use the key-
board to specify chords, as appropriate for your 
preferences and abilities.

The [ACC] switch indicator will light, 
and the “Accompaniment” page will 
appear.

Press one of the radio buttons in the 
screen to select the method you will use 
to input chords.

 This method makes it easy to 

input chords even if you do not know how the 
chord is fingered. In the keyboard range to the 
left of the Split Point, simply press the root of 
the chord to specify the corresponding major 
chord. Pressing the root together with the 
white key to the left of it will specify a seventh 
chord. Pressing the root together with the 
black key to the left of it will specify a minor 
chord. Pressing both will specify a minor sev-
enth chord.
“Fingered1”: 

This method is easy to under-

stand if you know how the chord is fingered. 
You can press a note in the keyboard range to 
the left of the Split Point to input chords using 
the conventional fingering. However if only 
the root is pressed, a major chord will be 
input. To input an inverted chord, turn on 
“Bass Inv..”
“Fingered2”: 

This is the same as “Fingered 1,” 

but a chord will not be input unless you press 
three or more notes.
“FullKeyboard”:

 This is the same as “Fin-

gered 2,” but chords can be specified from the 
entire keyboard, regardless of the split point.

Except when the “FullKeyboard” chord 
input method is selected, the keyboard 
area consisting of the displayed “Split 
Point” and the keys to the left of it will be 
used to input chords. “C4” is the middle 
C key of the keyboard.
In the “Accompaniment” page, select the 
“Split Point” cell, and use the dial or the 
[VALUE] switches to change the setting. 
Alternatively, you can hold down the 
[SPLIT] switch and press a note on the 
keyboard to set the split point.

If you press the [ACC] screen, the notes 
you use to specify a chord will automati-
cally be muted. You may wish to do this 
so that these notes do not interfere with 
the accompaniment. If you want to mute 
the other notes, press the [MIXER] switch, 
and then press the “KeyL” check box to 
turn it on (muted).

• Press the [MIXER] switch, and press the 

“KeyL” check box to turn it off.

• Press the [PLAY PIANO] switch.

If this check box is turned on, the lowest 
note of the keys you press to specify a 
chord will be taken as the bass note, and 
will be detected separately from the 
developed form of the chord.
This allows you to specify chords in 
which the bass note is independent, such 
as Am7/G or F/C.

This function automatically adds harmony to the 
notes that you play in the keyboard area to the 
right of the split point (Upp 1).

When you press the [ENSEMBLE] switch, 
the switch indicator will light.
The “Ensemble” page will appear.

The melody will become two voices.

Two notes will normally be added close 

below the melody to create three voices 
(sometimes three notes will be added to create 
four voices).