KORG has announced the Pa3X, a professional arranger workstation.

The Korg Pa Series has a new flagship: the Pa3X, the most realistic, powerful, and easy-to-use arranger workstation ever produced. For years, Korg’s Pa Series has been the most respected, envied, and successful line of interactive arranger workstations on the planet. Once again, Korg has raised the standard of excellence by offering new, richer, and more realistic sounds; creating amazing new features, and offering a fresh – yet elegant – design. Meet the Pa3X. Listen and Believe.

Korg Pa3X

Pa3X features

  • Enhanced RX (Real eXperience) sound engine offers improved realism and new vivid sound, including pianos borrowed from the acclaimed Korg SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano, plus Ambience Drums.
  • Massive internal ROM – plus up to 256 MB of user PCM data (equivalent to 512 MB, when calculated as 16-bit linear data) –provides an extraordinarily powerful wave memory, delivering the best sound quality possible.
  • Three assignable switches, a four-way joystick, and our unique ribbon strip ensure total control for the many available levels of sound articulation (DNC).
  • Choose either 61 keys or 76 semi–weighted keys; both with velocity and aftertouch.
  • Elegantly designed and reliable aluminum cabinet.
  • TouchView™ TFT display; 76-key model features a motorized tilting display.
  • Professional graphic interface with new Search facility for quickly locating musical resources.
  • PaAS High-fidelity, optional amplification/speaker bar with Korg’s own Easy Connect system (no support, cables, or additional power supply needed).
  • Self-refreshing PCM Data memory backup – supported by our own Intelligent Re-Charge system – ensures fast startup.
  • Improved Style and Performance selection, Over 400 factory Styles; each with 4 variations and 4 Fill Ins + Break, plus 15 user banks for 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.
  • Up to 8 Stereo Effects at once, including flexible Master and Insert routing for Styles and songs. New Vintage Effects from the acclaimed SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano.
  • New TC-Helicon ® Vocal Processor (VoiceLive2 derived) with dedicated professional effects.
  • Adaptive Mic Setting provides a virtual sound engineer to automatically set the best EQ/Compressor/Gate settings for your voice.
  • Professional Final Mastering tools from “Waves Audio” plugins “MaxxAudio ™ ” suite.
  • New Double MP3/MIDI files player and recorder with Advanced Vocal Remover.
  • Enhanced compatibility with Lyrics in graphical format (+G) for MIDI files and MP3 files.
  • New Audio Chord Detection function that automatically extracts chords to send to the Vocal Processor from MP3 files.
  • Enhanced sound compatibility for GM songs.
  • Multi-language extended character set. Lyrics can be showed in their original languages (except the Oriental and the Arabic Languages, check for the available languages).

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