How is the sound quality when playing an mp3 from the PA800 compared with playing from Winamp on a laptop?

How is the ease of mp3/smf playlist creation and play... plus on the fly song selection/play?

Glenn the DUAL MP3 card on my Pa800 sounds great its has alot more gain then the styles & the quality is superb.

The PA800 SONGBOOK feature is a super useful multi-flexible feature and there are so many on board....Just create a CUSTOM Songbook List of all your songs or different Titled categories ....either with Styles, Mp3/SMF, with Text link etc, etc, it will SAVE ALL INFORMATION & Perimeters for easy on the fly call up ....
Write it (Korg Lingo for Save)....then just scroll down the list select the song on the touch screen and play it.....or you can even have a Mp3 in SEQ1 & a SMF in SEQ2 while playing a Style and then just segway into each using the slider so sweeeeet.
You can have your songs/lyrics etc, on Dual thumb drives Front or Rear or install the Hard drive accepts up to TWO Terrabytes also. You can scroll and browse songs while your playing also. PLUS, you can RECORD to the MP3 Card also.
Hope this helps......check out the manual & tutorials also.
http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/en/products/pa800_info.html?en

http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/en/support/tutorials.html




[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 10-26-2007).]

Donny, I'd be VERY interested in hearing how smooth a job the pitch and time change functions work...

Care to post a quick demo of a nice track (doesn't have to be yours ) at it's original pitch and time, then one of it slowed down maybe 15 bpm and transposed down maybe a minor third...? Those are the hardest to do well, IMO.

And, if time permits, how about sped up 15 bpm and transposed UP?

Will those features work on .WAVs as well as MP3's? Just curious, because they may display fewer artifacts...

Oh, and do you get any 'glitches' from the function if you engage it DURING the track playback?

Enquiring minds want to know...

Diki honestly I haven't had the time to even get in to that feature yet although I know it supposed to do it..Its not up on my list ...any time stretching I do is with ACID pro on my PC.....I would also be interested to know how it works too...
I'm too busy this week...but will try in November when I have a few days off to give it a shot and get back at ya ok? I haven't even tried to record off the Mp3 card either yet. I dont know if Dave has done it yet either but I'll ask him also....Dave?

My biggest complaint with the PA800 is the master volumne control betweem arrangements and right hand sound....

Please elaborate.

Diki just for the heck of it...I stuck the thumb drive into the pa800 tonight on stage before I started to perform ......loaded an Mp3, and while it was playing there is a small tempo window in the the song title display.....I just tapped it to highlight it and started to turn the wheel as the tempo increased smoothly WITHOUT A GLITCH in real time and subsequently decreased it the same way....very impressive!!....I now have to figure out how to transpose the mp3/wav as you requested ,,,,,then I'll try to record some short demos ....more to come.

Hmmm, I was looking for a "record" button to capture a live performance tonight (with the MP3 board), but I have no idea where to look. I didn't have time to investigate, but i kinda remember that it has this capability. Anyone do this yet?

Dave,
Page #310 in the manual Explains in detail how to RECORD using the MP3 card...seem easy enough. Just push SHIFT > RECORD to get there.....
http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/pdf/pa800/Pa800-151F-ENG.pdf

Unless I am missing something, there is only one volumne slider for a dual purpose, which is master volumne and right hand volumne... When using styles, I found myself messing with that volumne level all the time.

If your playing along to mp3's or midi files, I guess your ok ...

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