Korg

The Baby Blue The Professional Arranger at an entry level price
For the musician, composer, performer and entertainer, the interactive Pa500 is the perfect musical partner. Like its big brothers the Pa800 and the Pa2XPro the Pa500 uses our RX (Real eXperience) technology to deliver a sound unprecedented in an arranger keyboard. With exclusive Korg features such as the XDS Dual Sequencer, intuitive TouchView interface, quarter-tone on-the-fly and a four way joystick for realistic articulation, the only thing really missing is a big price tag.

Stunning Sound
It all begins with sound. Based on the EDS (Extended Definition Synthesis) engine found in the Korg M3, Pa800 and Pa2XPro, the Pa500 provides 80 voices of polyphony and a breathtaking quality of sound. Over 880 fully editable sounds are preloaded (including a full GM soundset and 56 drumkits), representing a full range of musical instruments from almost every genre - each exploding with depth, nuance, subtlety, accuracy and richness. The User area has space for up to 128 user sounds and 64 drum kits.
Keyboard:
61 keys with Velocity

System:
OPOS (Objective Portable Operating System) and RX (Real eXperience) Technology Multitasking, Load while play feature Upgradable Operative System - SSD Solid State Disk

Tone Generator:
EDS (Extended Definition Synthesis) 80 Voices, 80 Oscillators Filters with Resonance - Three band EQ for each track

Effects:
4 Stereo Digital Multi-Effect systems 124 Effects types Final semi-parametric three band EQ

Sounds-Drum Kits:
880 Sounds, including a Stereo Piano and GM Level 2 compatible Sounds, 56 Drum Kits - User area: 128 Sounds, 64 Drum Kits - Realtime control: Assignable Slider, Switch - Full editing of Sounds and Drum Kits

Styles:
More than 320 preloaded Styles, SSD-resident, freely reconfigurable - Up to 448 available Style locations- 64 User Styles - Eight Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings and one Style Performance per Style - Guitar Track, Parallel and Fixed NTT - Compatible with old "i-Series" and Pa series Style format - Style Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit functions - Style controls: 4 Variations, 3 Fills, 3 Intros, 3 Endings, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Fade In/Out, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Tempo Lock, Memory, Accompaniment/Real Time Track Balance Volume, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Single Touch

Performance/STS:
256 Realtime Performance locations - STS: Memorize Realtime tracks settings, up to 4 x 512 Styles, up to 4 x SongBook entries All programmable

Realtime Tracks:
Four Keyboard tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3, Lower) - 4 Pad tracks

Song Play:
Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer player - 2 Sequencers with separate Select, Start/Stop, Home, Rewind and Fast Forward controls - Balance control - Lyrics data can be displayed on-screen - Markers - Jukebox function - Compatible with SMF (formats 0 and 1)

Sequencer:
Quick Record (Backing Sequence), Multitrack and Step Record functions - Full-featured sequencer - 16 tracks - Up to 200,000 events - SMF native format

SongBook:
Fully programmable music database, based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke, with automatic selection of Style Play and Song Play modes - User-definable custom lists - Filtering options

Compatibility:
"i-Series" models: Styles - Pa series: Style, Performance, Program/Sound, Song, SongBook, Pad

Multi Pad:
4 Assignable Pads Stop Button. Pad Record function

Help System:
Hypertextual, Contextual, Multilingual

General Controls:
Master Volume, Real Time-Acc/Seq Balance Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Style Change, Split, Quarter Tone Arabic Scale , User Scale memorized inside Performance/STS - Realtime controllers: Joystick (pitch modulation), 1 Assignable Slider, 1 Assignable Switch, Dial, Up/ , Down/-

Control Inputs:
Damper Pedal, Assignable Pedal/Footswitch

Analog Output:
Unbalanced Jack Left/Mono, Right, Headphones

Analog Input:
2 Unbalanced Line In Jacks

MIDI:
In, Out standard Midi connectors- USB to Midi using the USB Device port - Individual track assignment - 8 user definable MIDI Setups

USB:
1 USB Device connection (1.1 Full Speed)

Card Slot:
SD (Secure Digital) Card and MultiMedia Card (MMC) Memory Devices
Display:
320 x 240 pixels, Monochrome TouchView Graphic Touch Screen
Amplification:
2 x 15 W - Fixed EQ
Power Supply:
DC 12V external power supply (supplied)