Korg Pa1X Pro Elite 76-Key Professional Arranger Keyboard
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Upgraded to include the MP3 encoder option and CD-RW drive as standard.
Overview
The latest addition to Korg's Pa line is truly in a class by itself. Although it shares many features with its Pa80 & Pa60 siblings, the all-new Pa1X Pro Elite breaks new ground and opens up new territory for the composer, performer and entertainer who demand a musical companion second to none. Our flagship arranger -- the Pa1X Pro -- has been upgraded to include the MP3 encoder option and CD-RW drive as standard equipment, at no additional cost. The Pa1X Pro Elite provides more hardware and control (internal hard drive, balanced mic input, real-time mixing and drawbar control), more expansion options (PCM expansions, TC Helicon voice modeling/pitch correction)and a 76 note, semi-weighted keyboard.
Just Take a Look
The first thing you'll notice is the huge 240 x 320 full color TouchView display, taking Korg's intuitive access of multiple parameters to new heights. Next, the sleek aluminum panel and 76 semi-weighted keys (with aftertouch) will catch your eye. Eight assignable sliders, four assignable switches, a joystick and two fixed function faders are all designed to put the amazing power of the Pa1X Pro Elite at your fingertips. Hidden inside, the hard drive can store all your sound, song, sample and performance data for easy recall.
It All Begins With Sound
The Pa1X Pro is the first Korg product based on our new RX Technology, designed to produce a detailed, sophisticated natural sound. The Pa1X Pro Elite delivers a generous 62 notes of polyphony, 760 Sounds, plus another… read more 512 you can program yourself. Add to that 48 preset drum kits and 128 programmable drum kits! Sweeten the sound using the four Master Effects (featuring 90 effect types), plus a set of Vocal Effects borrowed from the legendary TC-Helicon.
The Pa1X Pro Elite is also an accomplished sampler, able to read .WAV, AIFF, Korg and AKAI samples/multisamples. Sampled sounds can be sliced to create new grooves and kits, assigned to Sounds, or filtered, modified and processed by the internal effects. Standard sample memory is 16MB, expandable to 32 MB.
Deeply Defined Musical Styles
The Pa1X Pro Elite is packed with over 350 fully editable musical styles, created by a team of the world's top musicians to enhance your compositions and performances -- with room for hundreds more! Each Style contains eight accompaniment parts -- use one or two to add drums & bass, or use all eight to throw a full big-band behind your sound. Four variations, three intros, two endings, three fills, a break and a count-in further enrich each Style. The Pa1X Pro scans your playing to keep the accompaniment in key with your playing, recognizing a multitude of chord variations. New styles can be loaded in or played directly via the floppy drive.
Up to four Sounds can be split and stacked across the keyboard and played in real time -- either by themselves or with a Style. The four STS (Single Touch Setting) commands call up an entirely new set of sounds for your real time performance parts, appropriate for the current Style.
Taking Requests
Using the exclusive SongBook function, you can select a song from the vast user-defined database and instantly call up the correct sounds, style, tempo, key, effects -- every setting needed to play that song! A single Performance setting -- 320 are available -- can save and recall a Style, STS settings, and also memorize transposition, scale type (Arabic, Stretch, Werckmeister, etc…) tempo and control assignments with a single command.
Creative Sequencing Scenarios
The sequencers on the Pa1X Pro Elite outperform those of other products. And yes -- we did mean plural. The Pa1X Pro Elite uses our XDS Dual Sequencer, so one can load as the other plays, and a DJ style cross fader can blend between them. You can actually sync both sequencers together as you play to provide an astounding 40-part arrangement! The Backing Sequencer is designed to let you capture all of the Style's accompaniment tracks in one pass, greatly speeding up the process. The sequencer is compatible with SMF and Karaoke files. The sequencer provides massive editing power -- you can even edit the tone parameters of a sound assigned to a track.
Flexible Connectivity
The Pa1X Pro Elite comes equipped with two pairs of audio outputs plus two pairs of MIDI Ins & Outs. You'll also find two audio inputs, one of which can be switched to a balanced MIC input with separate gain control. As a central piece of your growing digital studio, the Pa1X Pro Elite also sports a coaxial S/P DIF output. The back panel offers a damper pedal input, an assignable pedal input, and a connection to the optional EC5 pedalboard with five assignable footswitches. Finally, a USB port allows you to easily move data back and forth between a personal computer and the internal hard drive of the Pa1X Pro Elite.
Included Upgrades
The MP3 encoder/ player will allow you to record your entire performance -- vocals and all -- and play it back or save it for later. You can load MP3 files to play during a break, or even play along. With the included CD-R drive, and you'll be able to play audio CDs as well as load in new sounds styles and .WAV/AIFF/KORG/AKAI samples.
Powerful Upgrades
Embedded SMF lyrics appear in the TouchView display, or can be sent to a video monitor using the Video Interface kit. The TC-Helicon Voice Processor can be upgraded from voice doubling and 4-part harmonies to include state-of-the-Art Pitch Correction and Voice Modeling! read less
Just Take a Look
The first thing you'll notice is the huge 240 x 320 full color TouchView display, taking Korg's intuitive access of multiple parameters to new heights. Next, the sleek aluminum panel and 76 semi-weighted keys (with aftertouch) will catch your eye. Eight assignable sliders, four assignable switches, a joystick and two fixed function faders are all designed to put the amazing power of the Pa1X Pro Elite at your fingertips. Hidden inside, the hard drive can store all your sound, song, sample and performance data for easy recall.
It All Begins With Sound
The Pa1X Pro is the first Korg product based on our new RX Technology, designed to produce a detailed, sophisticated natural sound. The Pa1X Pro Elite delivers a generous 62 notes of polyphony, 760 Sounds, plus another… read more 512 you can program yourself. Add to that 48 preset drum kits and 128 programmable drum kits! Sweeten the sound using the four Master Effects (featuring 90 effect types), plus a set of Vocal Effects borrowed from the legendary TC-Helicon.
The Pa1X Pro Elite is also an accomplished sampler, able to read .WAV, AIFF, Korg and AKAI samples/multisamples. Sampled sounds can be sliced to create new grooves and kits, assigned to Sounds, or filtered, modified and processed by the internal effects. Standard sample memory is 16MB, expandable to 32 MB.
Deeply Defined Musical Styles
The Pa1X Pro Elite is packed with over 350 fully editable musical styles, created by a team of the world's top musicians to enhance your compositions and performances -- with room for hundreds more! Each Style contains eight accompaniment parts -- use one or two to add drums & bass, or use all eight to throw a full big-band behind your sound. Four variations, three intros, two endings, three fills, a break and a count-in further enrich each Style. The Pa1X Pro scans your playing to keep the accompaniment in key with your playing, recognizing a multitude of chord variations. New styles can be loaded in or played directly via the floppy drive.
Up to four Sounds can be split and stacked across the keyboard and played in real time -- either by themselves or with a Style. The four STS (Single Touch Setting) commands call up an entirely new set of sounds for your real time performance parts, appropriate for the current Style.
Taking Requests
Using the exclusive SongBook function, you can select a song from the vast user-defined database and instantly call up the correct sounds, style, tempo, key, effects -- every setting needed to play that song! A single Performance setting -- 320 are available -- can save and recall a Style, STS settings, and also memorize transposition, scale type (Arabic, Stretch, Werckmeister, etc…) tempo and control assignments with a single command.
Creative Sequencing Scenarios
The sequencers on the Pa1X Pro Elite outperform those of other products. And yes -- we did mean plural. The Pa1X Pro Elite uses our XDS Dual Sequencer, so one can load as the other plays, and a DJ style cross fader can blend between them. You can actually sync both sequencers together as you play to provide an astounding 40-part arrangement! The Backing Sequencer is designed to let you capture all of the Style's accompaniment tracks in one pass, greatly speeding up the process. The sequencer is compatible with SMF and Karaoke files. The sequencer provides massive editing power -- you can even edit the tone parameters of a sound assigned to a track.
Flexible Connectivity
The Pa1X Pro Elite comes equipped with two pairs of audio outputs plus two pairs of MIDI Ins & Outs. You'll also find two audio inputs, one of which can be switched to a balanced MIC input with separate gain control. As a central piece of your growing digital studio, the Pa1X Pro Elite also sports a coaxial S/P DIF output. The back panel offers a damper pedal input, an assignable pedal input, and a connection to the optional EC5 pedalboard with five assignable footswitches. Finally, a USB port allows you to easily move data back and forth between a personal computer and the internal hard drive of the Pa1X Pro Elite.
Included Upgrades
The MP3 encoder/ player will allow you to record your entire performance -- vocals and all -- and play it back or save it for later. You can load MP3 files to play during a break, or even play along. With the included CD-R drive, and you'll be able to play audio CDs as well as load in new sounds styles and .WAV/AIFF/KORG/AKAI samples.
Powerful Upgrades
Embedded SMF lyrics appear in the TouchView display, or can be sent to a video monitor using the Video Interface kit. The TC-Helicon Voice Processor can be upgraded from voice doubling and 4-part harmonies to include state-of-the-Art Pitch Correction and Voice Modeling! read less
Specs
Keyboard: 76 semi-weighted keys with Velocity and Aftertouch
System: KORG RX (Real eXperience) Technology and OPOS (Objective Portable Operating System) -- Multitasking, Load-While-Play feature.
SSD (Solid State Disk)-resident
Upgradable Operating System.
Tone Generator: Advanced HI Synthesis -- 62 Voices, 62 Oscillators -- Filters with Resonance
Multitimbral Parts Internal: 40 channels
MIDI: 16 channels
ROM Sounds: 828 (incl. Stereo Piano and GM2 sounds) + 48 Drum Kits
RAM Sounds: 256 Sounds -- 64 Drum Kits
Digital Drawbars: 8 Footages -- Realtime control using the 8 Assignable Sliders
Sound Edit: On-board full editing for Sounds and Drum Kits
Sampling: Record, Edit, Time Slice (compatible with Korg, Wav, Aiff and AKAI)
RAM Memory: 16 MB Standard -- up to 32 MB with Optional 16MB SIMM modules
ROM Expansion: 2 slots available -- up to 32 MB
Effects: 4 Stereo Master (89 effects plus Vocoder)
Voice Processor:
Voice Technology by TC Helicon: Four part harmonizer, reverb, Delay, Compressor, EQ. (Options: Pitch Correction and Voice Modeling.)
Real Time Tracks: 4 Keyboard tracks (Upper 1/2/3, Lower) -- 4 Pads
Performances: 320 Realtime Performance Locations
STS (Single Touch Settings):: Memorize Realtime tracks and Voice Processor
settings, 4 per Style/ or SongBook entry
Style Data:
Flash ROM Styles: Up to 608 locations -
Preloaded Styles: 450;
User Styles: 96 (user area, but all styles are re-writable)
Style Tracks: 8 plus 1 Performance per style
Style Record: Step Record, Track & Event Edit functions
Direct from Disk: 96 Styles Direct Disk and 288 Styles Direct Hard Disk
Compatibility: i-series and Pa80/60 series styles
STS: 4 (Real time tracks + Acc. tracks) all programmable per style
Style Grooves: Using the internal PCM RAM memory
Style Controls: 4 Variations, 2 Fills, 2 Intros, 2 Endings, Intro 3/Count In, Fill 3/Break, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Fade In/Out, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Tempo Lock, Memory, Accompaniment Volume, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Single Touch
Song Play: Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer player; 2 Sequencers with separate Select, Start/Stop, Pause,
<< (Rewind) and >> (Fast Forward) controls -- Balance control
Lyrics data: Can be displayed on-screen, or on an external video monitor (requires optional VIF3 interface board)
Jukebox function: SMF Direct Player (formats 0 and 1) -- Reads Audio CDs and MP3 files (both with option installed)
Sequencer: XDS Dual sequencer; separate controls for each Sequencer + Balance Slider
Tracks: 16 + 16
Sequencer Edit: Record & Edit functions
Backing Sequence: Quick record, Multi-track Record -- Step Record
Lyrics/Chords: On-Screen (compatible with most popular formats)
Event Memory: Approximately 200,000
MP3 Player: Single MP3 Player/Recorder (optional with EXBP -- MP3 board)
CD Audio Player: KORG CDRW-1x8 drive (optional -- rewritable starting from O.S.. 2.0)
Other Features:
SongBook: Fully Programmable musical database based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke and Mp3 files (with optional player), with automatic selection of Style Play and Song Play modes, user definable custom lists and filtering options
Arabic Scale: Programmable
Help: Hypertextual, contextual help system -- Multilingual starting from O.S. 1.5
Multi Pad: 4 Assignable Pads + Stop button
Internal SSD: 16 MB for O.S and all Resources
Floppy Disk: 3.5 2DD/2HD -- Ms-Dos compatible
Hard Disk: Standard
User Interface:
Display: 320 x 240 Graphical Color Touch Screen Display
Data storage: 2DD-2HD Floppy Disk Drive (MS-DOS compatible); 2.5 in. ATA Hard Disk Drive; Optional CD-RW (KORG CDRW-1x8)
General controls: Master Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Split Point, Style Change, Tracks Volume, Quarter Tone and Arabic Scale memorized inside Performance/STS
Realtime controllers: Joystick (pitch + modulation), Assignable Sliders, Assignable Switches, Pads, Dial
Connections:
MIDI: IN1 -- OUT1 -- IN2 -- OUT2 (OUT 1/2 programmable as Thru)
USB: Connector: Type B -- Format: Slave (ver. USB 1.1)
Analog Outputs: 4 Analog (Left/Right/Out1/Out2) 1/4 in. unbalanced
Digital Output: S/PDIF coaxial (mirroring Main Stereo Outputs)
Analog Inputs: 2 Line In, 1 Mic Balanced input (w/separate gain control)
Headphone: 1 (Front 1/4 in. stereo jack)
Pedals: 1 Damper; 1 Assignable Footswitch/Pedal; EC 5 connector
Power Supply: Universal 100 ~ 240V AC power supply, 35W power consumption
Dimensions: 52.36 in. W x 14.4 in. D x 5.35 in. H; 1330 mm x 366 mm x 136 mm (without music stand)
Weight: 44.99 lbs / 19.5 kg
Accessories: User's Manual, AC Power Cable, Music Stand, CDRW installation kit
Options:
Hard Disk: Standard
SUG-TC1: TC Helicon Pitch Correction and Voice Modeling (supported from O.S.1.5)
PaX-EXB01: Concert Grand Piano Expansion Board
VIF 3: Video Interface Board (PAL or NTSC formats)
EXP-2: Expression/Volume Pedal
XVP-10: Professional Expression/Volume Pedal
EC5: Assignable Multi-Switch Controller
DS-1H: Damper Pedal
PS-1: Switch Pedal
System: KORG RX (Real eXperience) Technology and OPOS (Objective Portable Operating System) -- Multitasking, Load-While-Play feature.
SSD (Solid State Disk)-resident
Upgradable Operating System.
Tone Generator: Advanced HI Synthesis -- 62 Voices, 62 Oscillators -- Filters with Resonance
Multitimbral Parts Internal: 40 channels
MIDI: 16 channels
ROM Sounds: 828 (incl. Stereo Piano and GM2 sounds) + 48 Drum Kits
RAM Sounds: 256 Sounds -- 64 Drum Kits
Digital Drawbars: 8 Footages -- Realtime control using the 8 Assignable Sliders
Sound Edit: On-board full editing for Sounds and Drum Kits
Sampling: Record, Edit, Time Slice (compatible with Korg, Wav, Aiff and AKAI)
RAM Memory: 16 MB Standard -- up to 32 MB with Optional 16MB SIMM modules
ROM Expansion: 2 slots available -- up to 32 MB
Effects: 4 Stereo Master (89 effects plus Vocoder)
Voice Processor:
Voice Technology by TC Helicon: Four part harmonizer, reverb, Delay, Compressor, EQ. (Options: Pitch Correction and Voice Modeling.)
Real Time Tracks: 4 Keyboard tracks (Upper 1/2/3, Lower) -- 4 Pads
Performances: 320 Realtime Performance Locations
STS (Single Touch Settings):: Memorize Realtime tracks and Voice Processor
settings, 4 per Style/ or SongBook entry
Style Data:
Flash ROM Styles: Up to 608 locations -
Preloaded Styles: 450;
User Styles: 96 (user area, but all styles are re-writable)
Style Tracks: 8 plus 1 Performance per style
Style Record: Step Record, Track & Event Edit functions
Direct from Disk: 96 Styles Direct Disk and 288 Styles Direct Hard Disk
Compatibility: i-series and Pa80/60 series styles
STS: 4 (Real time tracks + Acc. tracks) all programmable per style
Style Grooves: Using the internal PCM RAM memory
Style Controls: 4 Variations, 2 Fills, 2 Intros, 2 Endings, Intro 3/Count In, Fill 3/Break, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Fade In/Out, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Tempo Lock, Memory, Accompaniment Volume, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Single Touch
Song Play: Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer player; 2 Sequencers with separate Select, Start/Stop, Pause,
<< (Rewind) and >> (Fast Forward) controls -- Balance control
Lyrics data: Can be displayed on-screen, or on an external video monitor (requires optional VIF3 interface board)
Jukebox function: SMF Direct Player (formats 0 and 1) -- Reads Audio CDs and MP3 files (both with option installed)
Sequencer: XDS Dual sequencer; separate controls for each Sequencer + Balance Slider
Tracks: 16 + 16
Sequencer Edit: Record & Edit functions
Backing Sequence: Quick record, Multi-track Record -- Step Record
Lyrics/Chords: On-Screen (compatible with most popular formats)
Event Memory: Approximately 200,000
MP3 Player: Single MP3 Player/Recorder (optional with EXBP -- MP3 board)
CD Audio Player: KORG CDRW-1x8 drive (optional -- rewritable starting from O.S.. 2.0)
Other Features:
SongBook: Fully Programmable musical database based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke and Mp3 files (with optional player), with automatic selection of Style Play and Song Play modes, user definable custom lists and filtering options
Arabic Scale: Programmable
Help: Hypertextual, contextual help system -- Multilingual starting from O.S. 1.5
Multi Pad: 4 Assignable Pads + Stop button
Internal SSD: 16 MB for O.S and all Resources
Floppy Disk: 3.5 2DD/2HD -- Ms-Dos compatible
Hard Disk: Standard
User Interface:
Display: 320 x 240 Graphical Color Touch Screen Display
Data storage: 2DD-2HD Floppy Disk Drive (MS-DOS compatible); 2.5 in. ATA Hard Disk Drive; Optional CD-RW (KORG CDRW-1x8)
General controls: Master Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Split Point, Style Change, Tracks Volume, Quarter Tone and Arabic Scale memorized inside Performance/STS
Realtime controllers: Joystick (pitch + modulation), Assignable Sliders, Assignable Switches, Pads, Dial
Connections:
MIDI: IN1 -- OUT1 -- IN2 -- OUT2 (OUT 1/2 programmable as Thru)
USB: Connector: Type B -- Format: Slave (ver. USB 1.1)
Analog Outputs: 4 Analog (Left/Right/Out1/Out2) 1/4 in. unbalanced
Digital Output: S/PDIF coaxial (mirroring Main Stereo Outputs)
Analog Inputs: 2 Line In, 1 Mic Balanced input (w/separate gain control)
Headphone: 1 (Front 1/4 in. stereo jack)
Pedals: 1 Damper; 1 Assignable Footswitch/Pedal; EC 5 connector
Power Supply: Universal 100 ~ 240V AC power supply, 35W power consumption
Dimensions: 52.36 in. W x 14.4 in. D x 5.35 in. H; 1330 mm x 366 mm x 136 mm (without music stand)
Weight: 44.99 lbs / 19.5 kg
Accessories: User's Manual, AC Power Cable, Music Stand, CDRW installation kit
Options:
Hard Disk: Standard
SUG-TC1: TC Helicon Pitch Correction and Voice Modeling (supported from O.S.1.5)
PaX-EXB01: Concert Grand Piano Expansion Board
VIF 3: Video Interface Board (PAL or NTSC formats)
EXP-2: Expression/Volume Pedal
XVP-10: Professional Expression/Volume Pedal
EC5: Assignable Multi-Switch Controller
DS-1H: Damper Pedal
PS-1: Switch Pedal
Documents and Manuals
For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 631-390-6800
Web: https://www.korgusa.com/support
Phone: 631-390-6800
Web: https://www.korgusa.com/support
Reviews
Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars.
(12 ratings)
Submitted August 18, 2007 by a customer from hotmail.com
"Korg PA1Xpro Pro and cons"
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Sound
Pianos are weak,organs good, drums kick butt, acoustic guitars ok, orchestra and string sounds ok easy to change standard midi files with gm sounds to sound much better easily.
Features
the kitchen sink kinda slow on disk access and general functions.
Ease of Use
doesn't take long to figure out if you are Korg literate. Good screen interface.
Quality
Been gigging with it for about a year so far so good sucker is a bit heavy.
Value
Figure the cost of a laptop, quality sound module,cd recorder-player ,mp3 recorder-player,TC Helicon voice processor, 2 sequencers with songs and auto accomp 76 key controller in one package
Manufacturer Support
Never had to use it yet. Website has all updates and manuals at easy access and forums are useful
Musical Background:
Active Musician
Musical Style:
Classic Rock, Blues and Adult Alternative
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