Nov 28 2009

Korg Pa800 Professional Arranger Keyboard

Korg Pa800 Professional Arranger Keyboard (61-Key)

Korg’s Pa800 is a dream machine for musicians. The Korg’s Pa800 delivers intuitive, powerful, and interactive with the most stunning sound ever produced by an arranger keyboard. For professional musician, Korg Pa800 is the complete Arranger keyboard.

The Pa800 Keyboard includes as standard the world acclaimed TC Helicon Voice Processor. This features EQ and professional quality effects (reverb, echo, etc.), designed and shaped specifically for vocals. These effects, combined with the built in 3 voice harmonizer and dedicated high quality mic preamp, ensure your vocals have the highest possible sound quality. The Pa800 delivers sound that makes it seem like you have the coolest band available on stage – all working under your control. There are more than 950 ROM sounds, including a new amazing multilayer stereo acoustic piano accurately sampled from a Concert Grand (and including String and damper pedal Resonance!) , plus an extra 64 drum kits. In addition, the RAM area contains up to 256 user sounds and 64 drum kits and of course, there is full on board sound editing.

Korg Pa800 Keyboard

Korg Pa800 Keyboard

The Pa800 also features professional editing facilities such as loop, cut, normalize and cropping of samples. Korg Pa800 Keyboard has all the connectivity you need including 4 separate audio outputs, 2 mic/line inputs with separate gain, 2 USB Host connections and 1 USB connection. The optional VIF4 graphic video interface can display on an external TV monitor either just the lyrics or if you want it to clone the on board display.

RX – Real experience Technology is the guiding philosophy behind the Pa800. RX Technology guided all our design and sound decisions. Korg Pa80 introduced the world’s first Arranger keyboard with two separate MIDI file players in the legendary Pa80 and our Pa800 showcases these double sequencer features working at an all new power level. In addition, the Pa800 supports the main musical formats such as SMF (Standard Midi File), Karaoke files and GM (General MIDI) and of course is able to display lyrics in most popular karaoke formats.

Pa800 has many useful expansion options: VIF4 Graphic Video Interface: to display lyrics or the on board Touch View display on an external monitor or TV (PAL or NTSC formats). Hard disk installation kit for standard 2.5″ ATA hard disk drive (not included) with a capacity of up to 2 terabytes.

Korg Pa800 Professional 61-Key Arranger Keyboard Specifications

61 keys with Velocity and After touch keyboard

Tone Generator:
KORG HI Synthesis (Hyper Integrated)
120 Voices, 120 Oscillators
Filters with Resonance
EQ for each track

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

Sounds & Drum Kits:
More than 950, including a Stereo Piano and GM Level 2 compatible Sounds
63 Drum Kits – User area: 256 Sounds, 64 Drum Kits
Digital Drawbars: 8 Footages
Realtime control: Assignable Sliders
Full editing of Sounds and Drum Kits
Sampling: Record, Edit, Time Slice, Load/Import of Korg, Wav, Aiff and Akai files
Export of Wav and Aiff files
PCM RAM Memory: 64 MB standard

Effects:
4 Stereo Digital Multi-Effect systems
124 Effects types plus VOCODER
Voice Processor Technology by TC Helicon: Three-part Harmonizer, Reverb, Delay, Compressor, EQ

Styles:
More than 400 preloaded Styles, SSD-resident, freely reconfigurable
Up to 960 available Style locations including the Favorite banks
Eight Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings and one Style Performance per Style
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

Performance/STS:
320 Realtime Performance locations
STS: Memorize Realtime tracks and Voice Processor settings, up to 4 x 960 Styles, up to 4 x SongBook entries

Memory, Accompaniment/Real Time Track Balance Volume, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Single Touch

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, or on an external video monitor (with VIF4 option installed)
Markers
Jukebox function
Compatible with (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

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, Quarter Tone and Arabic Scale memorized inside 
Performance/STS Realtime controllers: Joystick (pitch + modulation), 2 Assignable Sliders, 2 Assignable Switches, Dial, Up/+, Down/-

Control Inputs: Damper Pedal (Support Half-Pedaling), Assignable Pedal/Switch, EC-5 (Programmable Multi-Switches)

Analog Output: Unbalanced Jack Left/Mono, Right, Out 1, Out 2, Headphones

Analog Input: 2 Unbalanced/Balanced (automatic switch) Jack Line In with separate Gain control

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

USB: 2 Host Front/Rear (2.0 Hi Speed) and 1 Device Rear (1.1 Full Speed) connections

Hard Disk: Optional 2.5″ ATA Hard Disk Drive

CD Player/Writer – Floppy Disk: Optional standard USB CD-Drives to be connected to USB Host port

Display: 320 x 240 pixels, Color TouchView Graphic Touch Screen

Amplification:
2 x 22 W
Loudness
Fixed EQ

Speakers: 4 Speakers (10 cm Woofers + Tweeters)
2 way in Bass Reflex Box

Consumption: 40 Watt

Dimensions: 43.7″ (W) x 15.3″ (D) x 7.1″ (H) [Not including music stand]

Weight: 29.3 lbs

Accessories: Manual, AC Power Cable, Music Stand, CD-Rom

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