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Korg’s Professional Arranger - A Series Comparison

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The KORG PA600 is a highly capable yet affordable arranger keyboard. Packed with professional features yet intuitive enough for beginners, this lightweight workstation places an enormous amount of musical potential at your fingertips. Its massive sound library, style database and effects give you the tools to perform any genre. The PA600's interface comes in Easy and Expert modes so you can access just what you need for your skill level.

Massive Factory Sound Library and User Memory

With over 1,000 sounds and 64 drum kits in its factory PCM library, the PA600 provides high-quality samples for any musical need. It also offers 192MB of user PCM and 256MB of user style memory so you can save your own sounds and styles. Whether you want realistic pianos and organs, or cutting-edge synth leads, the PA600 has you covered.

Hundreds of Styles Spanning Many Genres

The PA600 comes loaded with over 360 factory styles in categories like pop, rock, jazz and R&B to give you professional accompaniment for any song. Four variations, three intros and endings, plus fill-ins provide extra realism. You can also create and save your own user styles. With its vast style database, the PA600 is ideal for live performance.

High-Definition Effects and Powerful EQ Transform Any Song

To sculpt your sound, the PA600 provides four stereo master effects like reverb and delay. Its Guitar Mode adds authentic amp modeling for guitar tracks. An onboard 5-band EQ and limiter let you tweak the final output and you can save custom EQ settings for each MIDI song. With these pro-level effects and EQ at your command, you have full control over the PA600's tone.

Easy and Expert Modes for Musicians of All Levels

Despite its powerful features, the PA600 remains intuitive to use thanks to its Easy and Expert interface modes. Easy mode shows only essential controls, perfect for beginners and live use. Expert mode unleashes the full potential of this workstation for advanced users. A touchscreen display, assignable switches and a Search function help you navigate the PA600 with ease.

Open Box KORG PA600 Arranger Keyboard Level 1
Open Box KORG PA600 Arranger Keyboard Level 1
Open Box KORG PA600 Arranger Keyboard Level 1

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  • Enhanced RX and DNC sound engine, offers improved realism and vivid sound
  • Massive internal Factory PCM provides powerful wave memory
  • Two assignable switches and a four-way joystick ensure total control for the many available levels of sound articulation (DNC)
  • Large, bright, backlit TouchView color TFT display (800x480)
  • Easy layout and intuitive graphical interface with Search function
  • New resource selection feature with copy/paste, rename and delete
  • Over 360 factory Styles
  • Enhanced Guitar Mode 2, realistic guitar parts, plus synchronized pads
  • Chord Sequencer function that can record any chord progression on-the-fly
  • Improved General Midi set for Standard Midi Files
  • MP3 player with Transpose and Tempo Change
  • 4 Stereo Master Effects (125 FX algorithms)
  • Fully programmable SongBook database
  • Sustain pedal sold separately

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Model
  • Pa600 - Standard
Keyboard
  • 61 keys with Velocity
Sounds
  • Factory:
  • More than 950 (including Stereo Piano and GM 2 Sounds) 64 Drum Kits
  • Pa600QT: Middle Eastern PCM with matching sound programs and styles for Persian, Arabic and Turkish is already loaded as demo version.
  • User:
  • 256 Sounds
  • 128 Drum Kits
  • Tone Generator: 128 Oscillators (max polyphony 128 voices)- Filters with Resonance
  • PCM User Memory: 96 MB
  • Effects & EQ:
  • 4 Stereo Master FX / 125 Effects types
  • Three band EQ for each track - Articulations
  • Limiter - Master 4 band Parametric EQ
  • Others:
  • Dynamic Nuance Control (DNC) Technology
  • Full editing of Sounds and Drum Kits
  • Realtime sound control using assignable Switches
  • Controllers:
  • Joystick - 2 Assignable Switches
  • Styles
  • Factory:
  • More than 360 preloaded Styles, freely reconfigurable
  • User:
  • Up to 1,200 available Style locations including the Favorite/User banks
  • Structure:
  • Eight Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings and one Style Performance per Style
  • Style controls:
  • 3 Intros, 4 Variations, 4 Fills, Break, 3 Endings, Autofill, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset,
  • Manual Bass, Bass Inversion, Memory, Accompaniment Mute, Snare & Kick Designation,
  • STS Mode - Chord Sequencer
  • Others:
  • Guitar Mode 2,
  • Parallel and Fixed NTT, Style Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit functions
Performance/STS
  • 320 Realtime Performance locations
  • STS: Memorize Realtime tracks
  • Up to 4 x Styles, up to 4 x SongBook entries
  • My Setting special Performance
Realtime Tracks
  • Four Keyboard tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3, Lower)
Pads
  • 4 Pad tracks + Stop button - Pad Record
Song Play
  • Single Player with Select, Start/Stop, Home, Rewind and Fast Forward controls
  • Jukebox function - Compatible with SMF (formats 0 and 1) and MP3 with Vocal Remover -
  • Lyrics (compatible with CDG), Score, Marker
Display
  • 7" 800 x 480 TFT Graphical Color TouchView
Sequencer
  • Quick Record (Backing Sequence), Multitrack and Step Record functions
  • Full featured sequencer - 16 tracks - Up to 100.000 events - SMF format
Song Book
  • Fully programmable music database, based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke, MP3 with automatic selection of Style Play and Song Play modes - User-definable custom lists - Filtering options
Search
  • Style, Song, Performance, SongBook, Sound and Lyrics TXT
Compatibility for Sound Data
  • "i-Series": Styles only
  • "Pa series": Style, Performance, Sound, PCM, Song, SongBook and Pad
General Controls
  • Master Volume, Real Time-Acc/Seq Balance Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Fade In/Out, Tempo Lock, Style Change - Quarter Tone Arabic Scale, User Scale memorized inside Performance/STS, Search, Lyrics, Score, Maker, Dial, Tempo, Metronome, Split
Connections
  • Control Inputs:
  • Damper Pedal, Assignable Pedal/Footswitch
  • Line Out:
  • Unbalanced Jack Left/Mono, Right, Headphones
  • Line In:
  • 2 Unbalanced Line In Jacks
  • MIDI:
  • In, Out Midi connectors - USB to Midi using the USB Device port
  • Individual track assignment - 8 user definable MIDI Preset
  • USB:
  • Type A (TO DEVICE) x 1: 2.0 Hi Speed
  • Type B (TO HOST) x 1: 2.0 Hi Speed
Speaker System
  • Amplification:
  • 15W x 2
  • Speakers:
  • 100 mm x 2 Double Cone Speakers in Bass Reflex Box
Power
  • Power Supply:
  • AC 100-240 V
  • Power Consumption:
  • 20 Watt
Dimensions (W x D x H):
  • 1,030 x 378 x 127 mm without music rest
Weight
  • 11 kg
Accessories
  • Owner's Manual, Music Stand, Accessory DVD (It includes Video Manuals), AC Cable
Options
  • Expression/Volume Pedal (KORG EXP-2, KORG XVP-10)
  • Damper Pedal (KORG DS-1H)
  • Switch Pedal (KORG PS-1, PS-3)

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