Korg PA5x 61 International

With the Pa5X, KORG is launching a comprehensively equipped arranger keyboard flagship onto the market. The Pa5X, with its completely newly developed sound engine and user interface, has a special user interface that makes the keyboard easier and better to use than its predecessors: logical colour codes that run through many layers, large displays and buttons, photo-quality icons, clear graphics, thousands of inspiring sounds and lively styles for almost every musical genre.

The KORG Pa5X with 61 lightly weighted keys is unique - and only in the Pa5X - in having two completely independent players that can play styles, midi files and MP3 files - in any combination! This also makes it possible to mix two styles or even play them synchronised. "Smooth Sound Transition" ensures that no notes or effects are cut off during crossfading or switching.

The KORG SV2 stage piano produces acoustic and electric pianos, while synthesiser sounds come from the NAUTILUS, wavestate and ARP2600, for example. A special round-robin function provides ultra-authentic and lively drum sounds.

The keyboard has a high-quality finish with an elegant look, wooden side panels nestle against a sturdy aluminium housing. Real-time control of many parameters is very easy thanks to an additional strip display and the associated buttons and faders, as the display always actively shows the value of the respective parameter. Loading processes are a thing of the past, all files and styles are available at the touch of a finger, regardless of which connected medium they are stored on. An open memory structure allows virtually infinitely large user folders that can hold as much as the SD memory card (optional), which can hold up to 1TB. This makes compiling data from different users child's play.

A powerful mixer with built-in finaliser levels all styles and files to the same volume level. A large chord sequence library invites you to jam, while the 8-inch, tiltable and lockable tablet-quality touch display shows all chords, lyrics and (midifile) notes in high-resolution.

In addition to the microphone connection (combo socket), there is a separate guitar input with its own gain, up to four guitar effects can be saved as presets and called up again for each track in the freely programmable songbook. A four-voice harmoniser is also on board as well as an autopitch function for contemporary vocal performance.