Korg Pa1000 Arranger Workstation Keyboard, 61-Key

Pa = Professional arranger! An update to Korg's Pa900, the Pa1000 adds more sounds, a vocoder, better speakers, and Korg's very popular KAOSS effects engine.

$2,599.99

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Korg Pa900 Professional Arranger Keyboard, 61-Key

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Get inspired! This awesome Korg arranger synth boasts 400 Styles, 1100+ sounds, built-in TC-Helicon vocal effects, 2 mic/line inputs and a 7" touchscreen.

The Pa900 is a powerful addition to Korg's acclaimed Pa Series. Pa900 reimagines the professional arranger with an enhanced feature set at an extremely attractive price, featuring 400 factory Styles and over 1,000 expressive sounds, a versatile TC Helicon 3-voice Vocal Processor, a large 7" TouchView TFT display and more.

The Pa900 offers users a palette of sounds to impress any audience, and an enormous range of Styles covering musical genres from around the world. This high-performance instrument boasts twice the amount of sound data found in the best-selling Pa600, and includes many powerful features from the flagship Pa3X, such as a versatile TC Helicon vocal processor.

With its superior sound, sleek design, and powerful two-way speaker system, the Pa900 is an ideal musical partner for any performance or songwriting session. The Pa900 packs all this in a high quality instrument featuring aluminum side-panels and a silver body to provide a prestigious look on any stage. Enhanced RX (Real eXperience) sound engine offers improved realism and expressiveness, Massive internal ROM; can accommodate up to 192 MB of user PCM data; provides a powerful wave memory, 61-key semi-weighted action with velocity and aftertouch, 3 assignable switches, 4-way joystick, TC Helicon 3-voice Vocal Processor with 4 dedicated effects, Fully-programmable SongBook database based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke, MP3 with instant recall.

Korg prides itself on having delivered some of the most successful arranger read more keyboards ever. Used by tens of thousands of music professionals in every country around the world, Korg arrangers have thrilled audiences and delighted players with a magic combination of unbeatable sound quality and features. Korg's RX (Real eXperience) Technology blends this great Korg history with powerful technology and ideas from musicians around the world to deliver the standard in arrangers. The result is a musical jewel that packages technological magic into a cool and user friendly design: the Korg Pa900.

Feel the keyboard

The 61-key keyboard offers a semi-weighted action, feels great, features naturally responsive key-on/key-off velocity sensitivity and aftertouch, and is designed for musicians of all levels.

Slim, powerful and easy to use

The Pa900 has been designed with the concept of combining a slim shape with a professional look. But while its size might appear diminutive, its sound is huge, thanks to the power of the onboard high-quality custom designed amplification system. The 2x20 Watt amplifiers drive the 4 loudspeakers in a bass-reflex enclosure to generate a rich, powerful listening experience. The main panel has been redesigned and optimized to ensure that buttons and knobs are ergonomically and intuitively well positioned to enhance any performance. Our graphical user interface is now even easier to read and has been renewed with more detailed icons and objects thanks to the large TFT Graphical Color Touch Screen display. So that musicians of all levels can make great music quickly, there are two interface modes: Easy and Expert. The Easy mode shows only the most important controls while keeping a clean and straightforward interface, useful for beginners or playing live. Of course, in Expert mode you have full editing control. When you do not remember where a file, a song, or a style was saved, just use the Search function to let the Pa900 find it for you.

Sound Quality at its Best

Based on Korg's sophisticated sound engine, the Pa900 provides truly outstanding sounds. Our RX (Real eXperience) Technology and the DNC (Defined Nuance Control) system refine an already powerful sound engine, allowing the performer to accurately and expressively introduce the most subtle nuances and sound articulation. Assignable switches have been added to the joystick control, resulting in deeper control and rich expression. Thanks to DNC, you can reproduce subtle articulation sounds that are typical of most acoustic instruments, for example, the growl of a passionately-played saxophone, elements of the breath found in wind-Instruments such as trumpet, clarinet and harmonica, and the added characteristics that give added authenticity to the pizzicato and bowed sounds of a rich string section. Many demanding professional sampling sessions with some of the finest musicians in the music industry have resulted in more detailed natural sounds than ever before. More than 1,100 sounds, including a stereo grand piano (with string resonance and damper realism) and electric pianos from the acclaimed KORG SV-1 stage piano; wind instruments, basses and stunning guitars; plus digital drawbars with leakage and key on/off noises provide the perfect sound foundation for any harmonic and melodic need. More than 70 drum kits give life to any rhythmic texture and sound truly authentic due to the Drum Family Easy Editing feature, which gives total control over volume, pitch, EQ, and more. Up to 192 MB (PCM User memory) are available, so custom sounds can be added easily. The General MIDI (GM) sound bank has been improved for better compatibility with GM files. The Pa900 can also load/import Korg, WAV, AIFF, SoundFont and export in WAV or AIFF. Sounds can be fully edited, and can now use up to 24 oscillators for each note!

Do it with Style

The Pa900 delivers over 400 Styles, straight out of the box. Each one is a fully-realized musical environment dedicated to creating a particular musical style. With so many to choose from, the Pa900 can provide instant access to a vast and robust range of musical genres. Each Style features 4 Fill Ins + Break patterns, one for each variation. Using the Auto Fill function they can be automatically recalled as you move between the four variations. Our international sound team has created many Styles; and many of their revered and well-known Styles have been improved with sounds and mixing. The Pa900 has 1,200 locations for you to save your Styles and settings. Several sophisticated parameters which ensure professional and realistic guitar tracks have been added with Guitar Mode 2, making the guitar tracks of every Style rich and authentic. A function called Chord Sequencer records your chord progressions on-the-fly so you can immediately practice or play along with your own chord sequences.

Studio-Quality Effects

The use of premium effects can not only add polish and class to your overall sound; they can also make your music tracks sound more interesting! Korg is famous for its outstanding studio quality effects, and the Pa900 includes the best of the Korg effects library. Up to 4 Stereo Digital Multi Effect processors can be used for each song. 125 effect types are available, running from the standard reverbs and delays through to the more unusual and vintage effects. In addition each track features EQ with Low, Mid and High controls. A custom track EQ can be memorized in the general preferences for the Song Play mode. This will help adapting the sound to personal taste for any MIDI file you play. Need a lighter Bass track? Save the right equalization, and the Bass will stay light with all the subsequent Songs. A limiter and a final 4 band parametric EQ has been added to the sound output of the Pa900. Everything can be processed by this powerful and musically refined EQ, easily adapting the sound to your musical taste or correcting a problematic live scenario.

TC Helicon Voice Processor

Korg's long term cooperation with the world leader in vocal harmonies, TC Helicon(R), continues in the Pa900. With features and algorithms the TC Helicon Voice Processor ensures your vocals have the highest possible sound quality. Up to 3 realistic voices are available and can be controlled by the keyboard, or by MIDI events. Other 4 effect blocks are available, including Reverb, Delay, EQ and Dynamics. To ensure professional vocal performance, 2 knobs and 3 buttons controlling the most important vocal functions have been added to the top panel within easy reach.

Player/Sequencer

The famous Korg XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer Player now supports the "MP3+G" (also known as MP3+Graphics) format for MP3 files in addition to the most popular lyrics formats. This feature allows backing sequences to play with enriched lyrics and graphics which can be displayed simultaneously on the on-board TFT display and on an external monitor. There is also a Marker Function, allowing direct jumps to a given position in the song. Two different MP3 or MIDI files can be played simultaneously and both MIDI and MP3 files can be transposed, accelerated or slowed down. The Vocal Remover allows vocals to be removed from MP3 files using a center-channel cancellation tool. The 16 track sequencer allows sophisticated levels of sequencing, but also provides quick and easy song creation using the Backing Sequence function. And because the Pa900 is very clever, it can record your entire performance! You can run a song, play the keyboard, sing along and everything will be recorded in MP3 format and stored on an external USB device or in the internal memory. A sophisticated Score Viewer is also available to display the lead track (or any other track) of a song as clear and plain traditional musical notations with notes or chords, together with lyrics and chord abbreviations. Chord names can also be seen both in English and Italian. For those learning music, they also added a function to show note names next to each note.

The SongBook

Particularly useful for live use, the SongBook is a fully programmable and easily searchable Music Database. Each entry contains all the settings required to play a particular song. The SongBook can use styles, MIDI files or MP3s and immediately recall settings such as song title, genre, artist, tempo, volumes, sounds, muted tracks, FX settings, easy edit, 4 STS*, TC Helicon(R) presets, master transpose and more. Everything you need to play your song back perfectly is in the SongBook, a useful musical feature that is unique to Korg.

*STS - Single Touch Settings are memories that recall sounds for all the real time tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3 & Lower)

Learn more about the Korg PA900 in this overview demo:


Features:

- Enhanced RX (Real eXperience) sound engine offers improved realism and expressiveness
- Massive internal ROM; can accommodate up to 192 MB of user PCM data; provides a powerful wave memory, delivering incredible sound quality
- Three assignable switches and a four-way joystick ensure total control for the sound articulation levels (DNC - Defined Nuance Control)
- 61 key semi-weighted keyboard action with velocity and aftertouch
- Slim and compact lightweight design
- Large TouchView(TM) 7" TFT display
- Easy layout and intuitive graphical interface with Search function for quickly locating musical resources
- 2-way speaker system provides powerful, clear sound
- Improved Style and Performance selection; over 400 factory Styles, each with 4 variations and 4 Fill Ins + Break, plus 15 user banks for nearly-unlimited storage of your favorite customized or user-created Styles and settings
- Enhanced Guitar Mode 2 for even more realistic guitar parts
- Chord Sequencer function records any chord progression on-the-fly
- 4 Stereo Master Effects (125 FX Types) + 2 Global Effects (Limiter, EQ)
- TC Helicon 3-voice Vocal Processor with 4 dedicated effects
- Double MP3/MIDI file players with recording capability, X-Fader and Vocal Remover
- Enhanced compatibility with lyrics in graphical format (+G) for MP3
- Enhanced sound compatibility for GM and GS songs
- Fully-programmable SongBook database based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke, MP3 with instant recall of any song setting. User-definable custom lists. Filtering and ordering options.
- Multi-language extended character set. Lyrics can be showed in their original languages (except the Oriental and the Arabic Languages*).
- SoundFont import function
- Mass Storage with Micro SD
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Web: https://www.korgusa.com/support

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