Re: Yet another question regarding instruments
mm, not really, I am afraid. But I find the manuals to be very helpful. Korg has organized them into an operation guide which basically tells you procedure after procedure, so that its easy to sort of memorize those or transfer them to whatever device you use, then read along with someone who has no idea of how to use the thing, and just have them read the screen to you. In almost all cases you will succeeded when editing anything.
If something seems just too confusing, you have a parameter guide, which explains exactly what a menu option does, even them most obvious ones, such as delete preset. And in the case of having values, it specifies a range, like transpose works from minus 24 to plus 24, and so on. There is also a complete listing of every preset, so just counting and auditioning sounds and reading this will be a good supplement and give you all of the information. Sadly, there is no quick way to dial in numbers, but that makes this 61 key version even more lightweight (a bit less than 10 pounds) portable and practical. Given that you have 8 banks of 16 favorites available to be assigned to one pad per favorite, this is almost a trivial thing anyway. So manuals alone are just a big help because things are documented extensively. Given this, you could probably memorize the menus (they are non wrapping)
so what I could do is create a menu guide, though in most cases the parameter guide lists items accurately in the order they are presented anyway.
what I like about workstations is that in many cases they can help you save big on libraries, and are much more manipulable than vsts. Korg claims they have done almost everything also controllable via midi, so I guess if you develop a deep understanding of their midi implementation charts (at the end of parameter guide) you could be well on your way to experiment almost exclusively from the midi DAW you use, and then record just the audio from the workstation. Saving those programs is a different story though because editing has to be done from the device itself or using the inaccessible editor. Fortunately at least on the kross, saving favorites is really easy and I can do it without asking for any kind of help. You hold the exit button and press the favorites button, and then press a corresponding pad . Then you can switch to the favorites to double check. Once you are really sure your favorites are there the way you want them, then and if you want that to persist when you reboot the instrument, you hit the function button, and then the menu or OK button twice because the first option almost always is, write preset, or write program, or write favorite and so on. Pressing it a second time confirms and saves.
More than a menu guide, probably a thorough physical description of the device would work.
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