on purchasing the KORG Pa5X Professional Arranger! We’re sure it’ll give you countless hours of enjoyment making great music at home or on a stage.Pa5X is an elegant and powerful music production workstation. It is easy to use, with a clear user interface, based on the reclinable color touch screen, and the illuminated buttons on the control panel showing color-coded functions. The naturally responsive 88-note piano-like hammer-action keyboard, and the 76-and 61-note semi-weighted keyboards, are designed for a completely authentic feel and full control of expression.Robust and reliable, Pa5X is excellent as a live instrument, but it is also a powerful creative tool in studio, helping you in writing songs or soundtracks, while generating a produced sound that makes the perfect demo or ready-to-use media music.The onboard sounds, based on our EDS-X (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-eXpanded) sound engine, range from ultra-realistic acoustic instruments, to electric vintage key-boards, to synth classics, with the addition of fantasy sounds and special effects for media and cinema production. We also included instruments from various ages and cultures, leaving ample room for your own expansions.Pa5X is easy to control, via the KORG’s DNC (Defined Nuance Control) system, allowing the performer to accurately and expressively introduce the most subtle nuances and sound articulation. Faders, switches, real and virtual matrices of realtime controls, a joystick and a ribbon controller, allow for immediate access to all the parameters of the
sound.The sounds are processed by an elaborate chain of effects, including final effects for each of the Players and for the Keyboard Sounds. Thefinal mastering effects on the audio outputs, making the instrument’s sound ‘blended’ and ‘produced’, are the result of KORG’s long term cooperation with Waves Audio, the world reference in studio mastering effects.To listen with the best audio quality, even at the lowest volume for rehearsing at night, you can add the optional KORG PaAS Amplification System, which has been specifically designed to connect directly to Pa5X.The optional modern, stylish dedicated ST-SV1-BK stand makes the instrument a solid statement on stage, and a stylish piece of modern furniture in your living room.Pa5X’s included KORG XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer/Player can be used to freely preload and mix Styles and Songs. You can also create your own Styles, and record your own MIDI and MP3 Songs. Automatic harmonization, the chord sequencer, a sophisticated chord recognition engine, can create the rich arrangement of a competent pop or jazz player.With both Songs and Styles you can show lyrics and chords in the internal or an external display, and you can convert any MIDI Song track into a readable score. Markers allow for jumping back to a passage you wish to repeat, for example in a piece you are studying or rehearsing, or for repeating a section live.You can record a MIDI Song using a full-featured Sequencer. Even easier, just record what you sing and play (including MP3 Songs) as an MP3 file, and listen to it anywhere you like.Song and Style can be saved into the onboard SongBook, whose database-like entries are easy to synchronize with external score readers on a tablet. You can therefore use a digital music book to control your Pa5X.Microphone and guitar can be connected to the dedicated audio inputs, and processed with the excellent onboard effects. Our long experience in vocal harmonies and guitar effects is entirely included here. And the Vocal Remover will let you sing along with any MP3 Song.There is more, much more, and we invite you to explore Pa5X in depth. Pa5X is the most evocative, powerful, easy-to-use complete Professional Arranger ever produced. Enjoy your musical life with the new Pa5X!