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Combining SETs

Drag & drop between two SETs: single styles, groups, whole pages and banks, sounds and drum kits, pads — between KORG SETs, PA5X KSTs and Medeli AKX sets — and what is copied along.

7 min read · 7 sections · Intermediate

In this chapter you will learn

What you can do in SET A and what in SET B
Copying one style, a selection, a page or a whole bank
Copying samplers, drum kits and pads
The rules for PA5X KSTs and older SETs
KORG ↔ Medeli AKX: what goes where

SET A or SET B — who does what#

SET A — the destination

The SET you opened with Open SET/KST (or created with Create New Set).
Everything you drag lands here.
You can move, rename, delete, import and edit styles, sounds and pads.
All changes go to a working copy: Undo, Redo and Save.
Style Properties can be edited.

SET B — the source

The SET you loaded with Import/Merge → KORG SET / KST.
You take things from here and drop them on SET A.
Select many items with Ctrl / Shift + click, or drag a whole page or bank.
Style Properties open read-only (badge “SET B · Read-only”).
Styles dropped on SET B are not accepted: style drag & drop always goes to SET A.

Copy one style from SET B to SET A#

1
Set your Copy Options
Click Copy Options and switch on what should travel with the style — usually Save Styles Samples & DrumKits (see Copy Options).
2
Find the style in SET B and the place in SET A
Choose the bank and page in both SETs. While you drag, resting over a bank button for about 1.5 seconds switches to that bank, and resting over a page button switches the page.
3
Drag and drop
Press on the style in SET B, move the mouse onto a slot of SET A and release.
PA SET Explorer
1. 1The style in SET B (“Trubaci sa”).
2. 2While dragging, a label follows the mouse: [B] Trubaci sa.
3. 3Drop it on a slot of SET A.
4. 4Resting over a bank switches to it (here Fav 3).
Dragging a style from SET B to SET A.
4
Done!
The style is in SET A. The status says “Style copied from SET B” and the Save button shows how many changes are waiting.
PA SET Explorer
1. 1The copied style in SET A.
2. 2Undo — take the copy back.
3. 3Redo.
4. 4Save with the number of pending changes.
5. 5“Style copied from SET B”.
After the copy.

Copy many styles: selection, page or bank#

You drag…	Onto…	What happens
A selection of styles	a SET A bank, page or slot	The styles fill free slots, starting there. If there are not enough, the rest is reported (“no free slot left…”).
A SET B page button	a SET A page	The styles go to the same positions of that page. If styles would be replaced you are asked “Replace N styles?”.
A SET B bank button	a SET A bank	The whole bank is copied slot by slot. You are asked “Replace the whole bank?”. SET A styles without a counterpart are removed; the bank’s “New Style” template is kept.

After a group transfer a Transfer report lists what was copied. The whole group counts as one step for Undo.

Pro tips

Group transfers work the same way in the SOUNDS tab (samplers to sampler banks, drum kits to drum kit banks).
Copy Options apply to every style of the group.

Copy samplers and drum kits#

In the SOUNDS tab, drag a sound from SET B onto a slot of SET A. Its samples (PCM) and multisample (RAM.KMP) are copied with it.

Samplers go into sampler banks (User…), drum kits into drum kit banks (USERDK…). Dropping the wrong type is refused: “Cannot drop drum kit into sampler bank”.
Inside the same SET, dragging moves the sound. Onto an occupied slot you are asked “Slot Already Occupied” → Replace.
If SET A has not enough sample memory, the copy stops: “not enough sample memory in SET A (needs X MB, Y MB free)”. Compress samples or remove unused sounds first.

Copy pads#

In the PADS tab, drag a pad from SET B onto a slot of SET A. To bring the pads of a style automatically, switch on Copy Styles Pads (KORG SET↔SET) in Copy Options and copy the style.

PA5X KSTs and older SETs#

A PA5X KST stores styles as .stg files in folders and uses a different sample format. PA SET Explorer converts automatically when needed:

SET B	SET A	Styles	Samplers & drum kits
KORG SET (PA300 – PA4X)	KORG SET	Copied as KORG styles.	Copied with their samples.
PA5X KST	KORG SET	Each .stg is rebuilt as a KORG style.	Copied (converted to the older sample format).
KORG SET (PA300 – PA4X)	PA5X KST	Each style is converted to .stg. With Save Styles Samples & DrumKits, its user sounds are copied into the KST too and the .stg points to them.	Copied into the KST’s sample banks (same bank and slot when possible).
PA5X KST	PA5X KST	Copied byte for byte. With Save Styles Samples & DrumKits its user sounds come along.	Copied — only from SET B to SET A.

KORG ↔ Medeli AKX / Zen#

With a KORG SET and a Medeli AKX set open side by side (Import/Merge → Medeli AKX / Zen expansion), you drag KORG items onto the AKX packs. Everything is converted on the fly:

Drag this KORG item…	…onto this AKX pack	Becomes
A style	a Styles pack	a Medeli .sty (Copy Options decide samples, STS, pads, guitar transcription)
A sampler (sound)	a Samples pack	a Medeli voice (.voi)
A drum kit	a DrumKits pack	a Medeli drum kit (.kit)
A whole KORG bank button	the AKX panel	a new pack named after the bank, with everything converted

And the other way: AKX → KORG#

To turn a whole AKX set into a KORG SET, use Convert in SetManager → choose the Medeli AKX set → Convert Medeli AKX set to KORG.
To bring one Medeli voice or kit into a KORG SET, right-click an empty slot in the SOUNDS tab → Import Sampler (.voi) or Import DrumKit (.kit) — see Importing.

Full details in the Medeli AKX / Zen chapter.

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