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Korg - PA5X88

Description

Pa5X is the new flagship in the KORG Professional Arranger lineup, redefining an arranger keyboard. Completely redesigned with a state-of-the-art sound engine and a streamlined color-driven user interface, Pa5X produces a stunningly rich and unique sonic experience that inspires you to create and perform!

Pa5X comes packed with thousands of inspiring Sounds and hundreds of fresh Styles, all instantly accessible through an inviting workflow. A completely new front panel featuring an assignable Pad Matrix and Mixer section, multicolored LED buttons, and a huge tilt-able touchscreen puts you in control of your music making experience at all times. Pa5X excels both as a live performance instrument and as a powerful creative tool in the studio, allowing you to find your ideal sound no matter where your music takes you.

The Pa5X was designed with elegance and durability in mind, featuring a sturdy aluminum body and genuine wooden side-panels for a luxury appearance. All of the keybeds on Pa5X provide an authentic feel and full control of expression for any playing situation. The 88-key weighted action has a realistic piano-like touch while the 76- and 61-key versions feature lighter touch semi-weighted keys. All the keybeds include aftertouch control for added expressivity.

At the center of Pa5X is a large 8" tiltable touch screen that displays a completely redesigned GUI (graphical user interface). This makes all the sounds and features of Pa5X easily accessible to home and studio musicians as well as live performers. The colors in the display are carefully matched to the ones used in the LED programmable buttons on the control panel. This color driven interface allows you to easily navigate Pa5X, adding color to your music!

Features

* Premium Quality and Elegant Design
* Modern and Streamlined User Interface
* Stunningly rich sound-engine: EDS-XP
* Real-time controllers
* Advanced Chord Recognition System and Full Library of Chord Sequences
* Smooth Transitions between Sounds, Styles and Songs
* Cutting-edge Dual Crossfading Players
* The SongBook: A Music Library Always With You
* Complete Sound Library
* Intuitive Mixer Section with Extensive Effects Processing
* Dedicated Microphone and Guitar Inputs with Effects Processing
* MIDI, USB, HDMI, Audio In and Out, Pedal Connectors
* Standard File Formats
* Optional high-quality accessories

Specifications

Keyboard
- Pa5X 88: 88 keys (A0 - C8) Hammer action with Aftertouch

Case
- Aluminum case with wooden side panels

Operating System
- Upgradable Operating System

Sound Generator
- EDS-XP (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-Expanded)
- Multimode filters with resonance, 3-band EQ for each track

Polyphony
- 160 Voices, 160 Oscillators

Effects
- Keyboard Tracks: 3 Insert Effect; 3 Master Effects
- Style/Song: 10 Insert Effects; 3 Master Effects
- Master EQ and Finalizer for Songs and Styles
- Final Mastering Effects: Waves MaxxAudio®

Mic Processor Technology by Shift Audio
- Mic Setup: Compressor, EQ, Gate
- Four-part Harmonizer, Doubler, Filter, Modulation, Delay, Reverb, AutoPitch

Guitar Processor
- Guitar rack (4 effect-slots) with stompbox and amp simulation

Sounds / Drum Kits
- Factory: More than 2,200 Factory Sounds
- Five multilayer Stereo Acoustic Pianos with Damper/Body Resonance, GM/XG Sound Sets, more than 130 Drum Kits including Ambient Drums and Round Robin-based Drum Kits
- User Area: 768 Sounds, 384 Drum Kits
- Digital Drawbars: 9 Footages, Percussion, Key On/Off, Leakage, Vibrato/Chorus, Rotary Speaker with Amp Simulator
- Natural Ambience Drum Sounds, Round Robin features
- Defined Nuance Control (DNC) Technology
- Quick and Full Sound Editing, Drum Family and Full Drum Kit Editing

Sampling
- User PCM Sample memory: 4 GB of data, equivalent to 8 GB linear when compressed
- Loads KORG, WAV, AIFF and SoundFont™ formats
- Saves KORG, WAV and AIFF formats
- Full Edit, Time Slice, Sampling features

Keyboard Sets
- Factory: More than 500 Factory Keyboard Sets, freely programmable
- Combines four Keyboard Sounds, plus Effects and settings
- Library accessible from front-panel buttons
- "My Setting" special Keyboard Set

Players
- Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Player with X-Fader Balance control
- Crossfading between Songs and/or Styles

Styles
- Factory: More than 600 Factory Styles, freely programmable
- Eight Style Tracks, 4 Keyboard Sets and 4 Pads per Style; Programmable Sounds, Effects and Style parameters
- Guitar Mode 2, Parallel and Fixed NTT (Note Transposition Table)
- Style Record and Event Edit
- Style Elements: 3 Intros, 4 Variations, 4 Fills, 1 Break, 3 Endings
- Style Controls: Play/Stop, Synchro Start, Synchro Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Auto Fill, Memory, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Bass & - Lower Backing, Drum & Bass, Individual Style Tracks Mute, Style to Keyboard Set Set

Chord Sequencer
- Factory: More than 200 Chord Sequences
- Chord Sequence Recorder/Player
- Chord Sequences can be saved to Style and SongBook Entries

Songs
- Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Player with X-Fader Balance control
- Supported formats: MID, KAR, MP3 + Lyrics, MP3+G
- Lyrics, Score, and Chord data can be displayed on screen, or on external video monitor
- Markers with Add, Delete, Edit, Loop and AutoScroll functions
- Jukebox function
- Full-featured, 16-track Sequencer, Song Edit

MP3 Player / Recorder
- Double MP3 Player and MP3 Recorder
- Records MP3 files, including Styles, MIDI Songs, MP3 Songs, Keyboard Sounds, Pads, Matrix, Microphone, Guitar, Effects
- Transpose (+6/-5 semitones), Tempo Change (30%)
- Vocal Remover

SongBook
- Fully programmable music database based on Styles, MIDI Songs (MID and KAR files), MP3 Songs with Artist and Genre tags
- Filtering and sorting options
- User definable Set Lists

Compatibility
- Legacy Pa-Series models: Styles, Keyboard Sets (Performances), Sounds (Programs), Songs, Pads

Pads
- Factory: More than 400 Pads
- Four Assignable Pads + Stop Buttons
- Pad Record function

Control Section
- 9 Assignable Sliders, 9 Assignable Buttons, Strip Display; 4 Preset + 1 User settings

Matrix Section
- 16 Matrix Pads, 4 Preset buttons

Style/Song Controls
- Play/Stop, Go To Start, Style Select, Song Select, Xfader, Tempo +/-, Tempo Lock, Tap Tempo/Reset, Synchro Start, Synchro Stop, Fade In/Out, Chord Scan (Lower, Upper), Chord Sequence, Memory, AutoFill

General Controls
- Master Volume, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Dial, Up/+, Down/-, Joystick (Pitch + Modulation), Ribbon, 3 Assignable Switches, Search, Shift, Keyboard Sounds On/Off, Split, Ensemble, Rec/Edit, Menu, Exit

Scale Controls
- On-screen Quarter Tone and Arabic Scale, memorized in the Keyboard Sets; Presets assignable to any button or footswitch

Control Inputs
- Damper Pedal; supports half-pedaling with the optional KORG DS-1H pedal 2 Assignable Pedal/Footswitch

Audio Inputs
- Mic: Mono with Gain control and Phantom Power (Combo XLR, balanced)
- Guitar: Mono with Gain control (1/4" jack, unbalanced)
- Line 1: Left/Right (1/4" jacks, balanced)
- Line 2: Stereo (1/8" mini-jack, unbalanced)

Audio Outputs
- Line: Main Left/Right, Separate Outs 1/2/3/4 (1/4" jacks, balanced)
- Headphones (1/4" jack)

Video Output
- HDMI connector

MIDI
- IN, OUT, THRU standard MIDI connectors
- USB to MIDI, through the USB Device port
- 16 User-definable MIDI Presets

USB
- Type A (Host 3.0, for storage devices and controllers): 1 front, 2 rear
- Type B (Device 2.0, for personal computers and tablets): 1 rear

Storage
- Internal Drive: 1 GB
- Micro SD Card (not included): Rear-panel slot with plastic cover
- USB Flash Drive (not included): Can be connected to the USB Host ports

Display
- 8" Wide capacitive color TouchView™ TFT display, 800 x 480 resolution

Clock
- Internal System Clock

Power Consumption
- 100-240 Volts, 50/60 Hz
- 0.2 Watt in standby / 20 Watt normal / 45 Watt with PaAS installed

Dimensions (W x D x H) (without music stand, display fully lowered)
- 1,262.0 x 396.4 x 146.0 mm (49.68 x 15.60 x 5.74")

Weight
- 20.1 kg (44.31 lbs)

Accessories
- AC Power Cable, Music Stand, Quick Guide manual