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Korg - PA3X-76

Description

The Korg Pa Series has a new flagship: the Pa3X, the most realistic, powerful, and easy-to-use arranger workstation ever produced. For years, Korgs 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.

Pa3X Highlights
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*) 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 semiweighted 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 Korgs 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**).

Pa3X
Korg is responsible for the most successful and respected arranger keyboards ever. Used by tens of thousands of music professionals in every country around the world, Korg arrangers have thrilled audiences and delighted players everywhere with the magic combination of unbeatable sound quality and professional features. Korgs RX (Real eXperience) Technology blends this great Korg history with powerful new technology and ideas from musicians around the world to deliver a new standard in professional arrangers. The result is a musical jewel that packages technological magic into a luxurious design: the Korg Pa3X.


Keyboard:
61-key with velocity and aftertouch

76 semi-weighted keys with velocity and aftertouch

System
OPOS (Objective Portable Operating System)

RX (Real eXperience)

DNC (Defined Nuance Control)

Natural Ambience Drums Sound Technology

Multitasking, Load while play feature

Upgradable Operating System

Self-Refresh Battery for PCM data

Tone Generator
KORG EDS (Enhanced Definition Synthesis) sound generator:

120 Voices, 120 Oscillators

Filters with Resonance

Three band EQ for each track

Effects
Up to 8 Stereo Digital Multi-Effects block system

140 Effects types plus VOCODER

Final Mastering Effects by WAVES

(MaxxEQ, MaxxBass, MaxxTreble, MaxxStereo, MaxxVolume)

New Voice Processor Technology by TC-Helicon with 7 Effects:

Four-part Harmonizer, Double, Mod, Reverb, Delay, Filter, HardTune, Pitch Correction plus Compressor, EQ, Gate (Adaptive Mic Setting on the Mic input)

Sounds / Drumkits
More than 1100, including Stereo Piano and GM Level 1 & 2 compatible sounds; more than 90 Drum Kits

User area: 512 Sounds, 128 Drum Kits

Defined Nuance Control (DNC) Technology

Real Drum Ambience

Digital Drawbars: 9 Footages

Realtime controls: Assignable Sliders

Full editing of Sounds and Drum Kits

Sampling: Record, Edit, Time Slice, Compression Tool, Load/Import of Korg, Wav, AIFF and Akai files; Export of Wav and AIFF files

PCM RAM Memory: 128 MB standard (equivalent to 256 MB linear data), expandable up to 256 MB (equivalent to 512MB linear data) with the optional EXB-M256 memory expansion board

Styles
More than 400 preloaded Styles, freely reconfigurable

1200 available Style locations including the Favorite banks

Eight Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings, 4 Pads and one Style Performance per Style Guitar Track 2 mode, Parallel and Fixed NTT

Compatible with old "i-Series" and Pa series Style format

Style Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit functions

Style controls: 3 Intros, 4 Variations, 4 Fills, Break, 3 Endings, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Fade In/Out, Bass Inversion, Auto Fill, Manual Bass, Tempo Lock, Memory, Accompaniment/Real Time Track Balance Volume, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Single Touch

Chord Sequencer
Realtime Style Chord Sequencer Recorder

Performance / STS
512 Realtime Performance locations

STS: Memorize Realtime tracks and Voice Processor settings, up to 4 x 1200 Styles, up to 4 x SongBook entries

Realtime tracks
Four Keyboard tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3, Lower) with dedicated on/off and sound select buttons

Song Play
Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer Player (Supported formats: MID, MID+G, KAR, MP3 + lyrics, MP3+G)

2 Players with separate Select, Start/Stop, Home, Rewind and Fast Forward controls X-Fader Balance control

Lyrics, Score, and Chord data can be displayed on screen, or on external video monitor (with VIF4 option installed)

Markers

Jukebox function

Mp3 Player / Recorder
Double Mp3 Player and Mp3 Recorder

Two Mp3 files can be played simultaneously in Song Play Mode

Real Time Transpose (+6/-5 semitones)

Tempo change (30%)

Advanced Vocal Remover Record MP3 files including Styles, SMF, Real Time Tracks, Pads, Microphone and Effects

Audio Chord detection for Vocal Harmony

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, MP3 with automatic selection of Style Play and Song Play modes

User-definable custom lists

Filtering and Ordering options

Compatibility
"i-Series" models: Styles

Pa series: Style, Performance, Program/Sound, Song, SongBook, Pad

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), Ribbon Control, 8 Assignable Sliders, MP3 Volume, Mic Volume, Mic Harmony/Double Vol., Mic Reverb/Delay Vol., 3 Assignable Switches, Tempo +/-, Dial, Up/+, Down/- - Search Function

Control Inputs
Damper Pedal (support half-pedaling with optional DS-1H pedal), Assignable Pedal/Switch, EC-5 (Programmable Multi-Switches)

Analog Outputs
Unbalanced/Balanced Jack Left/Mono, Right/Mono, Out 1, Out 2, Headphones (in the front panel)

Digital Outputs
S/P DIF (48 kHz coaxial), mirroring the Main Stereo Outputs

Line Inputs
2 Unbalanced/Balanced Jack Left/Mono, Right/Mono

Microphone Input
Combo XLR balanced with Gain control (15 to 50 dB) and switchable Phantom Power

MIDI
In, Out, Thru; standard Midi connectors

USB to Midi using the USB Device port

Individual track assignment

8 user definable MIDI Setups

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

Hard Disk / Mass Storage
Standard 4 GB memory USB

Optional 2.5" SATA Hard Disk Driver (61-key)

Standard internal 2.5" SATA Hard Disk Drive (76-key)

DVD-CD Player / Floppy Disk
Optional using standard USB DVD/CD/FD Drives connected via USB Host ports

Display
Pa3X 61: Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels - TFT Color TouchView Graphic Touch Screen;

Pa3X 76: Motorized Tilt Display - Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels - TFT Color TouchView Graphic Touch Screen

Clock
Internal System Clock

Consumption
30 Watt - 50 Watt when connected with Amplification Bar (PaAS)

Dimensions (W x D x H)
980 x 366 x 145 mm / 38.58 x 14.41 x 5.71 inch without music stand (61);

1192 x 366 x 145 mm / 49.93 x 14.41 x 5.71 inch without music stand and with the display fully lowered (76)

Weight
14.7 kg / 32.4 lbs (61); 17.5 kg / 38.58lbs (76)