Korg Pa300

The Pa300 from Korg is a compact but fully featured musical arranger with an up-to-date collection of sounds and styles. Using the built-in styles allows the user to quickly and easily play along with a backing band or even create custom music. The enhanced RX (Real eXperience) sound engine offers improved realism and vivid sound.

A five-inch TouchView color TFT display provides an intuitive graphical interface with a search function for easy retrieval of any musical resource or file. Over three-hundred factory styles each include intro, fill and ending variations and can be edited and stored in user memory locations. An enhanced Guitar Mode 2 provides realistic guitar parts, and an improved GM set for playing Standard MIDI Files.

Other features include an MP3 player with transpose and tempo change that is also compatible with popular lyric formats including graphical (+G), Text Viewer, and Score. Four stereo master effects feature well over one-hundred effect algorithms. A fully programmable SongBook database is based on styles, SMF, Karaoke and MP3 files with instant recall of any song setting.

FEATURES

• 61 full-size touch-sensitive keys
• Over 950 sounds from almost every musical genre
• GM soundset and 64 drum kits
• 128-voice polyphony
• stereo acoustic piano sampled from a concert grand, which includes string and damper pedal resonance
• Sounds are fully editable and changes can be saved in user locations
• Four stereo master effects processors
• 125 effects include reverb, delay and chorus, and some REMS guitar-based effects for generating authentic guitar tones
• Each track features an EQ with low, mid and high controls
• Custom track EQ can be memorized in the general preferences for the Song Play mode
• Four-band parametric EQ is added to the final sound output
• Hundreds of styles covering an expanded range of musical genres
• Each style includes four fills/ breaks, plus three intros and three endings
• 16-track sequencer with step record function
• Choice of different transposition tables
• Guitar Mode 2 adds a new perspective to Style Guitar tracks
• Record and edit custom Styles
• Automatic accompaniment with realistic backing patterns (Styles)
• Play a chord progression and the Quick Record function will complete the basic backing tracks
• Single Touch Settings (STS) memories recall sounds for all the keyboard tracks
• Two interface modes: Easy mode displays only the most important controls, while Expert mode provides full editing control
• Onboard player can read MID, KAR, and MP3 files while also reading lyrics and chords from all these file types
• Score Viewer displays the lead track (or any other track) as traditional musical notations with notes or chords, together with lyrics and chord abbreviations
• Chord names can be shown in English and Italian
• Show Note Names Next to Each Note function for those learning music
• SongBook is a completely user-programmable musical database containing all the settings needed to play a particular song
• Search function
• SongBook can use Styles, MID, or MP3 files and immediately recall settings such as song title, genre, artist, tempo, volumes, sounds, muted tracks, FX settings, easy edit, STS, master transpose, and more
• Dual 13W amplifiers drive two loudspeakers in a bass-reflex box
• Joystick control for pitch and modulation
• USB-B port for personal computers and tablets
• USB-A port for external memory/flash drive