Played the Korg M3 in the store but..

why does every three to four presets have the Karma drum/rhythm feature turned on very loudly. Is there a global function that allows you to disengage the rhythm portion altogether so that you are left with the preset sound only and the available arpeggiator if you want to use it? L really like the M3 but I wish that the drum/groove section of Karma wasn't factory programmed into the sounds like that-sometimes its just annoying when auditioning the presets.

You can turn the Karma/drum track function off and save the new state with the preset. It needs only two button presses and the job is done. After that, you will not hear anything but the program/combi. I'm not sure, but I think it cannot be done globaly.

Thanks for the info. It still would be great to be able to do it globally.

But that would mean that you have to turn it globally on whenever you want to use the karma function. And that would be even a bigger mess. The karma function is an individual part of the sound. Korg decided to put it on on some of the sounds.

Once you buy the M3, you can edit the sounds, overwrite them, or simply save them to a new location together with all sounds you think that you will need for a dedicated purpose (for example live playing).

Here an example:

let's say you want to use the karma on one sound in your combination that you program for live use. You would have to turn the karma globally on, but suddenly, all other individual programs would have the karma function on if they were programmed with the karma on out of factory.

Therefor, it is better to leave it as a feature on the program/combination level. It really needs just the press of two buttons to disable the function and save that new status.

Heck, sometimes I'm digging through sounds just to see what the arp/KARMA/etc are doing, and I wish there was a way to globally turn it ON.

At any rate, set it how you want, save, and move on...Pretty simple, for both views.

Yes, you can turn off KARMA globally.

Press the GLOBAL button. The options in the lower right box are what you want: