# SetManager

The heart of PA SET Explorer: your SET laid out bank by bank and page by page like on the keyboard, a second SET next to it, and every tool to build, convert and clean SETs — Import/Merge, Create New Set, Convert, Medeli AKX, Copy Options and Check Unused.

Web page: https://pasetexplorer.com/tutorials?c=setmanager

In this chapter:

- The SetManager screen: tabs, banks, pages and slots
- What every toolbar button does
- Every Copy Options switch, explained
- Create New Set and Convert (all targets and options)
- Check Unused, and the right-click menus of styles, sounds, performances and pads

## The SetManager screen

Click **SetManager** in the sidebar. Your SET (**SET A**) is shown exactly like on the keyboard: banks on the sides, the slots of the current page in the middle, page buttons at the bottom.

![SetManager → STYLES with a PA4X SET in SET A.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-set-a.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **Import/Merge** — open a second KORG SET/KST (SET B) or a Medeli AKX set.
2. **Create New Set** — an empty SET for any model PA300 – PA4X.
3. **Convert** — convert the whole SET A to another format.
4. **Create AKX/Zen Set** — a new, empty Medeli AKX/Zen set.
5. **Load AKX/Zen Set** — open an existing AKX/Zen set.
6. **Copy Options** — what travels with a style when you copy it.
7. **Check Unused** — find sounds that nothing uses.
8. **Undo**, **Redo** and **Save** — your changes wait here until you save.
9. **SOUNDS**, **STYLES**, **PERF** and **PADS** tabs.
10. Banks (first 8)…
11. …and the rest of the banks. Fav banks are green, User banks red.
12. Slots of the current page, numbered like on the keyboard (01–08 here).
13. **P1, P2…** — the pages of the bank.
14. The SET name and the **SET A** label.
15. **Push Community** — share every style of this SET with the Community.

| Tab | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| SOUNDS | The sound banks (.PCG): User banks with samplers and USERDK banks with drum kits, 128 slots each. Every slot shows the name and its (MSB, LSB, PC). |
| STYLES | The style banks (.STY) — or, on a PA5X KST, the style folders (.stg). |
| PERF | The performances (.PRF). |
| PADS | The pads (.PAD). |

**Tips:**

- On a PA5X KST all banks are listed in a two-column grid and each page has 10 slots instead of 8.
- Press `Ctrl+F` in SetManager to search a sound, style, performance or pad by name (in SET A or SET B).
- Double-click a style to select it; right-click anything for its menu.

## SET A and SET B side by side

After **Import/Merge → KORG SET / KST**, the second SET appears on the right as **SET B**:

![SET A (PA4X, “Stefan v2 2021”) and SET B (“BRMA2020PA4X”).](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-ab.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **SET A** — your SET, the destination. You edit and save this one.
2. **SET B** — the source SET.
3. **Collapse** — hide SET B (it stays loaded).
4. **SET A / SET B** — choose which SET the Sounds, PCM, Samples and Oscillators sections show.
5. SET B has its own banks…
6. …its own slots…
7. …and you **drag** what you want onto a slot of SET A.
8. SET B pages.
9. The status tells you what was loaded.

Everything about dragging styles, sounds and pads — and what is copied along — is explained in [Combining SETs](https://pasetexplorer.com/tutorials?c=combining-sets).

## Import/Merge

![The Import/Merge choice.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-import-merge.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **KORG SET / KST** — opens your Resources library in “Import/Merge” mode: double-click a SET or KST to load it as SET B.
2. **Medeli AKX / Zen expansion** — opens an AKX/Zen set (.GSTarget). The text under it tells you where it will appear: next to your KORG SET A, or as AKX SET B next to an AKX SET A.

| You have open… | You import… | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A KORG SET or KST | a KORG SET / KST | It becomes **SET B** next to SET A. Drag styles, sounds and pads from B to A. |
| A KORG SET or KST | a Medeli AKX / Zen set | The AKX set opens **next to** the KORG SET. Drag KORG styles, samplers and drum kits onto its packs. |
| A Medeli AKX set | another AKX / Zen set | It opens as **AKX SET B** (source). Drag its items onto the packs of AKX SET A. |
| A Medeli AKX set | a KORG SET / KST | The KORG SET opens next to the AKX set. |

> **Premium:** Import/Merge is a **Premium** feature.

## Create New Set

Builds a brand-new, empty KORG SET that you can fill with styles and sounds from other SETs.

![Create New Set.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-create-new.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **SET Name** — the name of the new SET folder.
2. **Target keyboard model** — PA300, PA600, PA900, PA3X, PA700, PA1000 or PA4X.
3. What will be created: 99 PCM banks (RAM01–RAM99.PCM), RAM.KMP, the USER PCG files and 12 style banks.
4. **Continue** — then choose the folder where the SET is created.

The new `<name>.SET` is created empty in the folder you choose and opened as SET A. Style banks get 5 pages on PA300 / PA600 / PA900 / PA3X and 6 pages on PA700 / PA1000 / PA4X.

> **Need a PA5X KST?:** Create New Set makes PA300 – PA4X SETs. To get a PA5X KST, build or open a KORG SET and use Convert → KORG PA5X (.KST).

## Convert — the whole SET in one go

**Convert** converts the complete **SET A**. The choices depend on what SET A is:

| SET A is… | You can convert it to… |
| --- | --- |
| A KORG SET (PA300 – PA4X) | **KORG PA5X (.KST)** · **Medeli AKX / Zen** · **Yamaha** · **Ketron** |
| A KORG PA5X KST | **KORG PA300 / PA600 / PA900 / PA3X** (.SET, 40 styles per bank) · **KORG PA700 / PA1000 / PA4X** (.SET, 48 styles per bank) · **Medeli AKX / Zen** · **Yamaha** · **Ketron** |
| A KORG SET + a Medeli AKX set are open | First choose **what** to convert: the KORG SET A or the Medeli AKX set (AKX → KORG). |

![Convert SET A — a KORG PA4X SET.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-convert.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. What SET A is: model family, number of style banks and styles, and user samples / drum kits.
2. **KORG PA5X (.KST)** — styles become PA5X .stg folders; samples come along.
3. **Medeli AKX / Zen** — creates a new AKX set and converts the SET into it.
4. **Yamaha** — one folder of .sty per bank, samples as .sf2.
5. **Ketron** — one folder of .kst per bank, samples as .sf2.
6. **Choose folder & Convert** — pick an output folder (outside the SET) and start.

### KORG SET → PA5X KST

![What happens when converting to a PA5X KST.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-convert-kst.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. KORG PA5X (.KST) selected.
2. One folder per style bank; every style becomes .stg; every sampler and drum kit is rebuilt in a new PA5X sample template in the **same bank and slot**, so the styles keep their sounds.
3. Choose the output folder and convert.

> **Note:** GLOBAL, PERFORM, PAD and SONGBOOK are not converted to the KST.

### PA5X KST → older KORG SET

- **Model** — older (PA300, PA600, PA900, PA3X; default PA3X) or newer (PA700, PA1000, PA4X; default PA700). The window shows how many styles per bank and how many standard banks it has.
- **Style banks (.STY)** — **Automatic**, **One PA5X folder per bank**, or **Fill the banks one after the other**. If more banks are needed than the standard 12, extra banks get new names (FAVORITE13… / USER13…).
- **Style folders** — tick the PA5X folders you want (All · None).
- Samples: if the KST was made from an older SET, samples and sounds are copied as they are. Native PA5X samples are not copied — bring the sounds you need afterwards with Import/Merge.

### KORG → Yamaha or Ketron

![Options for Yamaha (Ketron has the same, without RX noises).](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-convert-yamaha.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. Yamaha selected.
2. **Transcribe Guitar Mode tracks into a real guitar** (on by default).
3. **Also transcribe RX noises** — Yamaha only (choose a Mega Voice guitar on the Yamaha for those parts).
4. **Export the SET’s samples & drum kits as .sf2** — with how many there are.
5. Output: `Styles/<bank>/…` and `Samples/<sound bank>/…` plus a report of which KORG sound (MSB/LSB/PC) each .sf2 replaces.
6. Choose folder & Convert.

### KORG → Medeli AKX / Zen

The button becomes **Create AKX Set…**: you name the new AKX set and choose its memory, then the **Convert KORG SET → Medeli AKX/Zen** window opens by itself. See [Medeli AKX → Convert a whole KORG SET](https://pasetexplorer.com/tutorials?c=medeli-akx#convert-set-to-akx).

### Progress and result

- While converting you see the overall progress, the current bank, the time left and a log. **Cancel** stops after the current style.
- At the end: styles converted, not converted, banks, samplers / drum kits and sample files. A conversion report (.txt) is written in the output folder.
- **Load in SET B** opens the new SET/KST next to yours, **Open folder** shows it in Windows. New SETs and KSTs are added to Resources automatically.

> **Warning:** Choose an output folder **outside** the SET you are converting — the program refuses a folder inside it.

> **Premium:** Convert is a **Premium** feature.

## Create AKX/Zen Set and Load AKX/Zen Set

- **Create AKX/Zen Set** — Name the new set, choose **256 MB** or **768 MB** of memory, press Create and pick the parent folder. The set is created as a sub-folder. ([more](https://pasetexplorer.com/tutorials?c=medeli-akx#create-load))
- **Load AKX/Zen Set** — Choose the memory of the set (256 / 768 MB, for the memory bar), then pick its **.GSTarget** file. ([more](https://pasetexplorer.com/tutorials?c=medeli-akx#create-load))

Everything about Medeli AKX sets is in the [Medeli AKX / Zen](https://pasetexplorer.com/tutorials?c=medeli-akx) chapter.

## Copy Options — every switch explained

**Copy Options** decides **what travels with a style** when you copy it from SET B to SET A, or from a KORG SET to a Medeli AKX set. Set them **before** you drag.

![Copy Options.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-copy-options.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **Save Styles Samples & DrumKits** — also copy the RAM samples and drum kits the style uses.
2. **Save Styles STS** — copy the sounds of the style’s Single Touch Settings.
3. **Copy Styles Pads** (KORG SET↔SET) — also copy the style’s 4 USER pads.
4. **Relocate ACMP Percussion** (Medeli AKX / Yamaha) — move a melodic ACMP Perc track to a free channel.
5. **Transcribe Guitar Mode** (Medeli AKX / Yamaha) — turn KORG guitar strums into real guitar notes.
6. **Transcribe RX Noises** (Medeli AKX / Yamaha) — also write the guitar noises and techniques.
7. **Copy Styles Pads** (Medeli AKX) — bundle the style’s pads into a Medeli pad.
8. **Done** — or click outside to close.

| Switch | Default | When ON | When OFF |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Save Styles Samples & DrumKits | Off | The user samplers and drum kits the style uses (RAM sounds) are copied too — with their PCM samples and multisamples — and the style is re-pointed to the copies. Into a PA5X KST the sounds come along as well. Into an AKX set the samples are converted with the style. | Only the style is copied. Its tracks keep pointing to the same sound numbers, which may be different (or empty) sounds in SET A. |
| Save Styles STS | Off | The style’s STS (Single Touch Settings) keep their sounds. When you switch it on you are asked whether to also save the PCM samples those STS sounds use if SET A does not have them (**Deny / Confirm**). For AKX the STS sounds go into an “STS” pack. | The copied style gets a default STS (STS 1–4 with Grand Piano on Upper 1, the other parts off). |
| Copy Styles Pads (KORG SET↔SET) | Off | The style’s 4 assigned USER pads are copied and the style points to them. Factory pads stay as they are; identical pads are reused. | The style’s USER pad references are cleared. |
| Relocate ACMP Percussion (Medeli AKX / Yamaha) | Off | A KORG Perc track set to ACMP is moved to a free accompaniment channel (Medeli’s Perc channel only accepts drum kits). If no channel is free, the track is dropped. | The Perc track stays where it is. |
| Transcribe Guitar Mode (Medeli AKX / Yamaha) | **On** | KORG Guitar Mode tracks are transcribed into a real guitar: fretboard voicings, strum direction, muted and dead strokes, ringing strings. | The raw KORG trigger notes are kept. |
| Transcribe RX Noises (Medeli AKX / Yamaha) | Off | With Guitar Mode on: also writes the guitar strum noises (KORG RX noises) and playing techniques by velocity. Medeli AKX uses the AXS guitar voices; on Yamaha choose a Mega Voice guitar. | Clean guitar notes only. |
| Copy Styles Pads (Medeli AKX) | Off | When a style is added to an AKX set, its pads are bundled into one Medeli pad named after the style, in a “Pads” pack. Missing samplers / drum kits are copied, existing ones reused. | No pad is created. |

**Tips:**

- Copying styles from a SET that uses its own samples? Turn on **Save Styles Samples & DrumKits** — otherwise the style may play with the wrong sounds in SET A.
- Watch the memory bar: copying samples uses SET A’s sample memory. If there is not enough room, the copy stops with a clear message.
- Transcribe RX Noises only works together with Transcribe Guitar Mode (it is greyed out otherwise).

## Check Unused

**Check Unused** scans every sound, style and performance of SET A and lists the sounds that **nothing uses**. Deleting them frees slots and sample memory.

![Unused Sounds: 4 of 67 sounds are not used by any style or performance.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-check-unused.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. How many sounds are unused out of the total, and how much PCM memory they hold.
2. An unused sound with its size…
3. …its MSB / LSB / PC and where it lives (file @ position).
4. **Delete** — remove this sound (you are asked to confirm).

> **Note:** A sound can still be useful even if no style uses it — for example a sound you play by hand. Check the name before you delete. Deleting goes to the working copy and can be undone.

> **Premium:** Check Unused is a **Premium** feature.

## Right-click menus

### A style (SET A)

![Right-click menu of a style.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-style-menu.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **Play ▸** — play a section in the Style Player…
2. …choose Intro, Variation, Fill, Break or Ending, then its number.
3. **Copy** — then right-click an empty slot → Paste.
4. **Rename** — up to 24 characters.
5. **Delete** — removes the style (undoable until you save).
6. **Properties** — opens [Style Properties](https://pasetexplorer.com/tutorials?c=style-properties).
7. **Export to Medeli AKX** — save it as a Medeli .STY (optionally with its samples as .sf2).
8. **Push to Community** — share it.

![Rename Style.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-rename.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. The current name.
2. Type the new name…
3. …maximum 24 characters.
4. **Save**.

| Where | Menu items |
| --- | --- |
| Style in SET A | Play ▸ · Copy · Rename · Delete · Properties · Export to Medeli AKX · Push to Community |
| Empty style slot | Paste (when you copied a style) · Import Style |
| Style in SET B | Play ▸ · Copy · Rename · Delete · Properties (read-only) · Copy to SET A |
| Sound (A or B) | Demo · Copy · Paste · Rename · Delete · Properties · Push to Community |
| Empty sound slot | Paste · Import Sampler (.sf2 .voi .uvn .kmp)… or Import DrumKit (.sf2 .kit .uvd)… |
| Performance | Copy · Rename · Delete · Properties |
| Pad | Listen · Properties · Export… (MIDI .mid, Yamaha Pad .pad, Medeli Pad AKX .pad) |

## The SOUNDS, PERF and PADS tabs

![SetManager → SOUNDS with two SETs.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-sounds.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **SOUNDS** tab.
2. User sound banks (samplers)…
3. …and the drum kit bank (USERDK).
4. A sound with its slot number…
5. …and its (MSB, LSB, PC) — the numbers a style uses to call it.
6. SET B also has drum kit banks (USERDK01, USERDK02…).
7. Pages (and **›** for more).
8. The **Save** button counts your unsaved changes.

![SetManager → PADS.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-pads.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **PADS** tab.
2. Right-click a pad → Properties. Drag a SET B pad onto a SET A slot to copy it.
3. A pad in SET B…
4. …dragged onto SET A.

![SetManager → PERF.](https://pasetexplorer.com/images/docs/sm-perf.webp)

Numbered marks on this screenshot:

1. **PERF** tab.
2. A performance — right-click for Copy, Rename, Delete, Properties.
3. Performance banks of SET B.