Korg Pa5X Oriental 61-key Professional Arranger Workstation Keyboard 160 Voices
Elevate Your Music with Extraordinary Middle Eastern Sounds and Rhythms - Listen and Believe
Pa5X ORIENTAL is the latest model in the new flagship range of KORG Pa5X Professional Arranger keyboards. Completely redesigned with a state-of-the-art sound engine and a streamlined color-driven user interface, the all new Pa5X produces a stunningly rich and unique sonic experience that inspires you to create and perform. Now, the PA5X ORIENTAL brings all the power of the Pa5X into the music worlds of Türkiye and the Middle East. Whatever music you are going to play, from Western to Oriental – Arabic, Persian, Turkish – the Pa5X ORIENTAL delivers.
Pa5X ORIENTAL comes packed with thousands of inspiring Sounds and hundreds of fresh Styles, all instantly accessible through an inviting workflow. A completely new and black painted front panel featuring an assignable Pad Matrix and Mixer section, multicolored LED buttons, and a huge tilt-able touchscreen puts you in control of your music making experience at all times. Pa5X ORIENTAL excels both as a live performance instrument and as a powerful creative tool in the studio, allowing you to find your ideal sound no matter where your music takes you.
Oriental Proficiency [Excellence]
Pa5X ORIENTAL is a powerful addition to KORG’s internationally acclaimed Pa Series. Providing you with the most up-to-date collection of quality integrated sounds and styles, Pa5X ORIENTAL is the ideal songwriting and performance partner.
In addition to all the functionality, sounds and styles of the standard Pa5X, the Pa5X ORIENTAL also contains musical data specific to Middle Eastern music genres. Stringed instruments, winds, various percussion instruments, and many more sounds are included along with dozens of extra Styles that are suitable for traditional and modern music.
Premium Quality and Elegant Design
The Pa5X ORIENTAL was designed with elegance and durability in mind, featuring a sturdy aluminum body and genuine wooden side-panels for a luxury appearance. All of the keybeds on Pa5X ORIENTAL provide an authentic feel and full control of expression for any playing situation. The 88-key weighted action has a realistic piano-like touch while the 61-key versions feature lighter touch semi-weighted keys. All the keybeds include aftertouch control for added expressivity.
Modern and Streamlined User Interface
At the center of Pa5X is a large 8" tiltable touch screen that displays a completely redesigned GUI (graphical user interface). This makes all the sounds and features of Pa5X easily accessible to home and studio musicians as well as live performers. The colors in the display are carefully matched to the ones used in the LED programmable buttons on the control panel. This color driven interface allows you to easily navigate Pa5X ORIENTAL, adding color to your music
Powerful EDS-XP Sound Engine for Rich and Inspiring Sounds
KORG Professional Arrangers have set the industry standard for powerful musical expression, featuring sound engines that inspire musicians to create and perform. Pa5X ORIENTAL introduces the EDS-XP (Enhanced Definition Synthesis – Expanded) sound-engine, which builds upon the technology used in Pa4X with advanced hardware and a powerful new operating system, taking sounds on Pa5X ORIENTAL to a new level.
The 24 stereo Oscillators and 160 voices of polyphony power thousands of high-quality sounds, covering a wide range of musical instruments and genres. The EDS-XP sound engine also introduces new cutting-edge features such as Round-Robin drum and percussion performance, Smooth Sound Transition, Sound-Controller 3 functionality and much more. This provides an unprecedented level of sonic realism and expression that is only available on Pa5X ORIENTAL.
Realtime Controllers
Pa5X ORIENTAL features a fully programmable control section with 9 buttons and 9 sliders. You can assign any function to it, from mixer volume to drawbar settings, from microphone mute to bass inversion, to lyrics scroll commands and more. The assigned function is shown by an auxiliary strip display so that you always know what you have under your fingertips – even if you are on a different page to the main display.
Numerous assignable controllers are available for expressive real time playing and Korg's DNC (Defined Nuance Control) which supplies so much of the detail in the sound of musical instruments. Faders, switches, real and virtual matrices of real time controls, the joystick, and the ribbon controller can be assigned to modulate any parameter of the sound. This provides precise control of the most subtle nuances and articulation of the instruments you are playing on the Pa5X.
Oriental Scale Realtime Control
Pa5X ORIENTAL includes an on-screen virtual keyboard that can be used to select alternative scales or instantly retune individual keys on-the-fly. Multiple scales can play at the same time, with soloists playing with an Arabic scale and the backing tracks continuing to play in Equal tuning. An alternative scale tuning can be saved into each Keyboard Set and applied to any Style Sound.
MIDI Songs can play with any alternative scale tuning saved as SysEx data. Each Song’s sound can be re-tuned individually, and you can have a different scale for each Sound of the keyboard, the Styles and the Songs.
Advanced Chord Recognition System and Full Library of Chord Sequences
Pa5X ORIENTAL’s chord recognition system is the most sophisticated around, featuring an Expert mode that is crafted around the playing styles of the best modern jazz pianists. This chord recognition system can be as simple or advanced as desired, even allowing you to trigger chords with a single finger!
With automatic harmonization, a chord sequencer, and a sophisticated chord recognition engine, Pa5X ORIENTAL gives you the tools to create rich musical arrangements no matter what the genre of music.
Smooth Transitions between Sounds, Styles and Songs
Pa5X ORIENTAL adds Smooth Sound Transition (SST) technology, allowing for seamless transitions between Sounds, Styles and Songs without any interruption. When you select a different element, the sound, effects and sequences will continue to play, fading away naturally until you are ready for the next sequence or note to begin, making for an uninterrupted and realistic performance.
Cutting-edge Dual Crossfading Players
Pa5X ORIENTAL can play two Styles, MIDI files, or MP3 files simultaneously and in any combination, made possible by the dual onboard Players*. These two Players can be mixed with a handy crossfader, or can be used to play a song while another one is waiting to start. All the while, Pa5X's sound engine delivers the power, effects processing, and polyphony to make these transitions happen seamlessly.
*KORG’s exclusive XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer/Player
Lyrics, Chords, Score and Marker can be clearly shown on the large internal display of Pa5X, or even on an external display when connected via the built-in HDMI port. A wide variety of Lyrics formats are supported, and you can even automatically generate a score from a MIDI Song. Markers allow for quick navigation of a song using the Style-Element buttons, allowing you to easily jump back to a passage you wish to repeat while studying, rehearsing, or performing live.
Creating Styles and Songs
You can create your own Styles, and record your own MIDI and MP3 Songs. The included editing features allow for detailed editing of each single recorded event. A sophisticated transposition table adapts the sequences to any chord you may play.
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.
Features
- The ORIENTAL version adds Sounds, Drum and Percussion Kits, Keyboard Sets, Pads and music styles covering the rich musical traditions of Türkiye and Persia, with particular focus on Arabic countries courtesy of the incredible sound and performance libraries developed in Lebanon.
- Over 2,600 sounds (240 Oriental Sounds and 70 Oriental Drumkits) including GM and XG sets
- 844 Factory Styles (630 Pa5X standard + 264 Oriental Styles)
- 768 user Sound and 384 user Drum Kit locations with full editing features
- Premium Quality and Elegant Design
- Modern and Streamlined User Interface
- Stunningly rich sound-engine: EDS-XP
- Real-time controllers
- Advanced chord recognition, and a library full of chord sequences
- Smooth transition between Sounds, Styles and Songs
- Two cross-fading Players able to mix everything: Styles to Midi-files, or Midi-files to MP3-files, or Styles to Styles(unique to the Pa5X)
- Each player displays lyrics and score
- Create your own Styles and Songs
- SongBook, a music library always with you
- A complete sound library
- Onboard mixer with insert, master, final and mastering effects
- Dedicated Microphone and Guitar inputs with dedicated effects for each
- MIDI, USB, HDMI, Audio In and Out, Pedal connectors
- Standard File Formats
- Optional high-quality accessories
- Optional Pa AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM PaAS MK2
Specification
- Keyboard: Pa5X 61: 61 keys (C2 – C7) Semi–weighted keys with Aftertouch
- Case: Aluminum case with wooden side panels
- Operating System: Upgradable Operating System
- Sound Generator: EDS-XP (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-Expanded)
Multimode filters with resonance, 3-band EQ for each track - Polyphony: 160 Voices, 160 Oscillators
- Effects: Keyboard Tracks: 3 Insert Effect; 3 Master Effects
Style/Song: 10 Insert Effects; 3 Master Effects
Master EQ and Finalizer for Songs and Styles
Final Mastering Effects: Waves MaxxAudio® - Mic Processor Technology by Shift Audio: Mic Setup: Compressor, EQ, Gate
Four-part Harmonizer, Doubler, Filter, Modulation, Delay, Reverb, AutoPitch - Guitar Processor: Guitar rack (4 effect-slots) with stompbox and amp simulation
- Sounds / Drum Kits: Factory: More than 2,600 Factory Sounds in total
Five multilayer Stereo Acoustic Pianos with Damper/Body Resonance, GM/XG Sound Sets, close to 200 Drum Kits including Ambient Drums and Round Robin-based Drum Kits
User Area: 768 Sounds, 384 Drum Kits
Digital Drawbars: 9 Footages, Percussion, Key On/Off, Leakage, Vibrato/Chorus, Rotary Speaker with Amp Simulator
Natural Ambience Drum Sounds, Round Robin features
Defined Nuance Control (DNC) Technology
Quick and Full Sound Editing, Drum Family and Full Drum Kit Editing - Sampling: User PCM Sample memory: 4 GB of data, equivalent to 8 GB linear when compressed
Loads KORG, WAV, AIFF and SoundFont™ formats
Saves KORG, WAV and AIFF formats
Full Edit, Time Slice, Sampling features - Keyboard Sets
- Factory: More than 650 Factory Keyboard Sets, freely programmable
Combines four Keyboard Sounds, plus Effects and settings
Library accessible from front-panel buttons
“My Setting” special Keyboard Set - Players: Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Player with X-Fader Balance control
Crossfading between Songs and/or Styles - Styles: Factory: More than 940 Factory Styles, freely programmable
Eight Style Tracks, 4 Keyboard Sets and 4 Pads per Style; Programmable Sounds, Effects and Style parameters
Guitar Mode 2, Parallel and Fixed NTT (Note Transposition Table)
Style Record and Event Edit
Style Elements: 3 Intros, 4 Variations, 4 Fills, 1 Break, 3 Endings
Style Controls: Play/Stop, Synchro Start, Synchro Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Auto Fill, Memory, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Bass & Lower Backing, Drum & Bass, Individual Style Tracks Mute, Style to Keyboard Set Set - Chord Sequencer: Factory: More than 200 Chord Sequences
Chord Sequence Recorder/Player
Chord Sequences can be saved to Style and SongBook Entries - Songs: Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Player with X-Fader Balance control
Supported formats: MID, KAR, MP3 + Lyrics, MP3+G
Lyrics, Score, and Chord data can be displayed on screen, or on external video monitor
Markers with Add, Delete, Edit, Loop and AutoScroll functions
Jukebox function
Full-featured, 16-track Sequencer, Song Edit - MP3 Player / Recorder: Double MP3 Player and MP3 Recorder
Records MP3 files, including Styles, MIDI Songs, MP3 Songs, Keyboard Sounds, Pads, Matrix, Microphone, Guitar, Effects
Transpose (+6/-5 semitones), Tempo Change (±30%)
Vocal Remover - SongBook: Fully programmable music database based on Styles, MIDI Songs (MID and KAR files), MP3 Songs with Artist and Genre tags
Filtering and sorting options
User definable Set Lists - Compatibility: Legacy Pa-Series models: Styles, Keyboard Sets (Performances), Sounds (Programs), Songs, Pads
- Pads: Factory: More than 970 Pads
Four Assignable Pads + Stop Buttons
Pad Record function - Control Section: 9 Assignable Sliders, 9 Assignable Buttons, Strip Display; 4 Preset + 1 User settings
- Matrix Section: 16 Matrix Pads, 4 Preset buttons
- Style/Song Controls: Play/Stop, Go To Start, Style Select, Song Select, Xfader, Tempo +/-, Tempo Lock, Tap Tempo/Reset, Synchro Start, Synchro Stop, Fade In/Out, Chord Scan (Lower, Upper), Chord Sequence, Memory, AutoFill
- General Controls: Master Volume, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Dial, Up/+, Down/-, Joystick (Pitch + Modulation), Ribbon, 3 Assignable Switches, Search, Shift, Keyboard Sounds On/Off, Split, Ensemble, Rec/Edit, Menu, Exit
- Scale Controls: On-screen Quarter Tone and Arabic Scale, memorized in the Keyboard Sets; Presets assignable to any button or footswitch
- Control Inputs: Damper Pedal; supports half-pedaling with the optional KORG DS-1H pedal 2 Assignable Pedal/Footswitch
- Audio Inputs: Mic: Mono with Gain control and Phantom Power (Combo XLR, balanced)
Guitar: Mono with Gain control (1/4" jack, unbalanced)
Line 1: Left/Right (1/4" jacks, balanced)
Line 2: Stereo (1/8" mini-jack, unbalanced) - Audio Outputs: Line: Main Left/Right, Separate Outs 1/2/3/4 (1/4" jacks, balanced)
Headphones (1/4" jack) - Video Output: HDMI connector
- MIDI: IN, OUT, THRU standard MIDI connectors
USB to MIDI, through the USB Device port
16 User-definable MIDI Presets - USB: Type A (Host 3.0, for storage devices and controllers): 1 front, 2 rear
Type B (Device 2.0, for personal computers and tablets): 1 rear - Storage: Internal Drive: 1 GB
Micro SD Card (not included): Rear-panel slot with plastic cover
USB Flash Drive (not included): Can be connected to the USB Host ports - Display: 8" Wide capacitive color TouchView™ TFT display, 800 x 480 resolution
- Clock: Internal System Clock
- Power Consumption: 100-240 Volts, 50/60 Hz
< 0.2 Watt in standby / 20 Watt normal / 45 Watt with PaAS installed - Dimensions (W x D x H) (without music stand, display fully lowered): Pa5X-61: 1,021.1 x 374.3 x 126.8 mm / 40.20" x 14.73" x 4.99"
- Weight: Pa5X-61: 15.1 kg / 33.29 lbs
- Accessories: AC Power Cable, Music Stand, Quick Guide manual
- Options: PaAS MK2 Amplification System
ST-SV1-BK Keyboard Stand
EXP-2 Foot Controller
XVP-20 Expression/Volume Pedal
DS-1H Damper Pedal (supports half-pedaling)
PS-1 Pedal Switch
PS-3 Pedal Switch
VOX V860 Volume Pedal
UPC
- 4959112241701
