Dirk, I just listened with the greatest pleasure to Corcovado and also to the other demoes, including bits of songs like Wave, Aqua de beber, Route 66, Mack the knife, Honeysuckle rose, Petite fleur, etc... all played with your unique style.
It's great to hear once more some good music played by you!

Dirk,

Great job as usual. You are a very talented and gifted player. The Korg sounds really good but then again I'm sure you could make a Bontempi sound good. Thanks for the demo. Could you give us a comparison (in your opinion of course) of the Korg Pa1xpro to the Sd-1 plus.

Regards

Tom

Many thanks to all for you kind words.

I have don this yesterday evening and uploaded it very late at 1.00 on my site.
I had this pa1xpro for one day from the shop i work for testing.(it's not mine @,§#&à!!!!!)This keyboard is "superb" and has good "realistic" styles and beautiful pads in the layeraccompagment, you can do a realtime mix on every track of this keyboard like: drums,acc 1&2&3,bass,lower,upper 1&2&3 and audio (for samples or mp3 files). You have for every selected style 4 one touch presets. And (for you Scott !!) the arrangement part can be choose to left,right or left&right. i will test in the shop the chord recognition like scott ask and you will hear it here in the future. The korg "pa1xpro" is a proffesional keyboard with many sounds of the synth "triton" of Korg, you have also different controllers you can add to the sliders of the mixer, digital drawbars are also send to the sliders of the pa1xpro.
At least you have two sequensers for playing midifiles and you can slide with a crossfader from sequenser1 tot seq. 2.
(like the pa 80). Also playing mp3's with the optional kit(not standard !!) A hardisk is included in the pa1xpro and also a sampler and slicingfunction for synchronising a sample to a arrangertrack. The sampler is 16mb and you can put extra mb
for a total of 32mb. the display is colored and touchscreen. the "key-feel" is FANTASTIC!!!! Thanks Korg.... also aftertouch on this keyboard, software on the hardisk like many registrations on name (this is the same like the "music finder" of Yamaha).

Conclusion:
This is good proffesional keyboard like we never had seem after the ketron sd1 (that's my opinion !!)The sounds are good specialy the guitars, piano and electric piano's, the stringparts are superb!!, My only minus point was the use of the transposer that's not follow realtime when i push it when playing a song.(maybe a new release of software will fix it). The styles are most "realistic" i have never heard so good styles in one keyboard together.

Hope you have enough information on this topic.

Regards,

notlos
www.notlos.com

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Notlos, can you elaborate on this problem on this very important feature [transpose]?
If this doesn't work properly in real time I wont even look at it as a consideration.



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Hello Dirk.

Linstenig your Corcovado, I closed my eyes to see Jobim smiling....

Chico

Thanks Chico,
From a Brazilian it's good to hear this kind words............

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Dirk
Very nice demo.
Terry

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jam on,
Terry http://imjazzed.homestead.com/Index.html

If the speaker version of the PA1X sounds as good as it should, and the harmonizer works as food as it should, and I can leave my rack at home ....... a "little" extra weight can be rationalized....... but just a little.
Hmmmmmm, PAX into a PAS ...... sounds so simple and pure, donut?

Donny,

the release of operating system 1.5 is eminent, so it's my guess this problem will surely be tackled there, if not it will no doubt be solved in a next update.
Mind you I am still waiting for the speaker version.
Seems the crowd is growing..........donut??

Hi Dirk, if the PA1Xpro or the 61 note version (PA1X) supports jazz chord recognition (similar to what I outlined above), it will definitely be at the top of my 'next' arranger keyboard consideration list. Dirk, I'm anxious to hear your findings. - Scott