Korg Pa5X International (61 keys)

The Pa5X comes packed with thousands of inspiring Sounds and hundreds of fresh Styles, all instantly accessible through an inviting workflow. A completely new 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 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. The Pa5X 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 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 76- and 61-key versions feature lighter touch semi-weighted keys. All the keybeds include aftertouch control for added expressivity. 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, adding color to your music! Pa5X 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. KORG's top-of-the-line arranger keyboards are receiving a free operating system update to version 1.4 – and it's a real eye-catcher! With the free operating system update to version 1.4, numerous new features and detailed improvements are being introduced to the Pa5X arranger keyboard series, largely based on feedback from the global user community. This makes the instruments even more versatile and offers more possibilities than ever before! The new features at a glance: - Recording Studio for easy and quick creation of backing tracks during live performances - Extensive editing functions for MIDI files with numerous, professional tools such as quantization, transposition, deletion of events, cutting and pasting bars, etc. - Style Creator Bot for automated creation of playable styles from standard MIDI files - New de-esser effect in the microphone section for professionally taming annoying sibilance - Customizable user experience thanks to sortable lists and selectable graphic icons for user data - Copy and exchange keyboard sets between user styles and SongBook entries - Numerous detailed improvements and optimized system stability - Over 40 brand-new styles The new operating system version 1.4 is now available for the Pa5X, Pa5X models MUSIKANT and Pa5X ORIENTAL are available for free download.