KORG Pa3X
Professional Arranger Workstation

Better than ever.
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.

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 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**).

*when calculated as 16-bit linear data ** check for the available 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. Korg’s 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.

These are going to sell like hotcakes!
I just read the complete specification...looks to be very high end. The VH even has pitch correction (Voice-Live derived) AND some feature that actually dynamically tracks you voice and adjusts as it goes??
Each Var has a fill & break. AUTO fill is a new feature (for Korg) NOW...how do he sounds stack up??? It will be a while before we know that.
Lee S.

I wonder if it displays text files (not midi-embedded lyrics)?
DonM

Don the Korgs have always been able to display text lyrics! As well as embedded MIDI lyrics.

Thanks, I didn't remember that, but I'm glad. This thing is getting interesting. Can't wait to see a list of styles, and weights.
DonM

Plus (and Im not sure if the others do this too) you can scroll your text lyrics using either a foot pedal, the EC5 pedal or one of the assignable buttons. WHihc on the PA3 there are now 3 of!!!

I wonder if they have added a third pedal jack?? ON the PA2 it only had the sustain (dedicated) and one other assignable footpedal jack

weights are up Don:
http://www.korg.com/Product.aspx?pd=592 (click on specs)

Still only two jacks. Weights are acceptable to me.
EC 5 probably would be necessary.
DonM

Damn...

I suppose if they put on a second assignable they would not sell as many EC5's....I find in my use, that I only really use the EC5 to turn harmony on and off. I use the assignable jack for an expression pedal, so I am forced to use the EC5. The assignable switches are too far away on the far left to be of any real use whilst actually playing, in my experience.

Dennis

One work around to give you an additional foot-pedal controller jack would be to purchase a midi foot controller unit like the following. I use this to increase my Tyros 4's footswitch input from 3 to 4, programming the midi controller to trigger harmony on/off.

Midi Solutions brand programmable midi 'Footswitch Controller' Box

The more footswitches, the better, for me! Anything that lets me play without taking my hands away from playing is good in my book!

Wouldn't work Scott I don't think, thanks anyway...We have no access to the Sysex data from Korg. And reading from teh link you sent this box need sysex to set it up. And even then I think the Korh system will only "SEE" one pedal regardless...

@ Diki, yeah m8, I used to be the same, always used the EC5, (Or FC7 when I had the Rolands)...

But with time and practice, and the way my live playing is evolving, I find I am using it less and less (apart from sustain of course).

Although.....there are some songs that I am happy I DO have the EC5 pedal hooked up