Refreshing New Workflow,
Entirely New Arranger

Pa5X is the new flagship in the KORG Professional Arranger lineup, redefining an arranger keyboard. Completely redesigned with a state-of-the-art sound engine and a streamlined color-driven user interface, Pa5X produces a stunningly rich and unique sonic experience that inspires you to create and perform!

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.

• Premium Quality and Elegant Design
• Modern and Streamlined User Interface
• Stunningly rich sound-engine: EDS-XP
• Real-time controllers
• Advanced chord recognition, and a library full of chord sequences
• Smooth transition between Sounds, Styles and Songs
• Two cross-fading Players able to mix everything: Styles to Midi-files, or Midi-files to MP3-files, or Styles to Styles (unique to the Pa5X)
• Each player displays lyrics and score
• Create your own Styles and Songs
• SongBook, a music library always with you
• A complete sound library
• Onboard mixer with insert, master, final and mastering effects
• Dedicated Microphone and Guitar inputs with dedicated effects for each
• MIDI, USB, HDMI, Audio In and Out, Pedal connectors
• Standard File Formats
• Optional high-quality accessories
• Pa AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM PaAS MK2

KORG Pa5X Styles

The new and optimized conversion-report txt-file (found after conversion in the created KST-folder) shows which Styles and Songs may no longer be present. SongBook entries which do not find the correct resources will be marked using a “#”-prefix to help identify and rework them easily after the conversion.

KORG Pa5X Solo Instruments

A microphone and a guitar can be connected simultaneously to the separate audio inputs of Pa5X. KORG’s extensive experience in vocal harmonization technology and guitar effects processing is featured, with each of these inputs having dedicated on-board effects.

We are proud to have teamed with Shift Audio, a company with 30 years of experience in vocal processing technology. The founders of Shift Audio came from an industry leading company specializing in vocal processing products building on their experience to deliver. The latest generation of vocal processing algorithms optimized to run on the latest technology used in the Pa5X.

The result is incredible lifelike four-voice harmonies that give you the feeling of a real singing group surrounded by your own music. You will also enjoy the new Auto Pitch feature in the Pa5X delivering performance and sound found in a lot of modern music.

The separate guitar input is completely independent and even has its own gain control. Guitar effects include vintage pedal and amplifier simulators to enhance your guitar sound and performance. There are many predefined guitar-presets of up to 4 insert-effects provided, and it is also easy to create and save user effects presets. These new powerful guitar effects make the live performance of your guitarist much easier, as all the effects and effect-settings are handled by the Pa5X.

One vocal and one guitar-preset can be assigned to each SongBook entry which makes for an easy and fast musical performance.

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Pa5X-76 with ST-SV1 stand (sold separately) and PaAS MK2 amplication system (sold separately)

New OS, New Features

The new Pa5X operating system 1.3.0 offers brand new features never seen before in any arranger workstation, as well as a bunch of commonly requested features like the compatibility of CDG-files, the famous Kaoss Pad and a lot of classic features inside the Style-edit area.
There are a lot of new features coming along with 1.3.0 like an easy to use Chord Sequence Edit-mode for modifying in a fast and easy way recorded Chord progressions, or new Matrix presets which let you choose how to use the unique 16 Matrix rubber buttons during the musical performance.
Furthermore, a big improvement in OS 1.3.0 is made for the impressive EDS-XP sound engine. A big increase for the possible user samples (53,000 instead of 30,000) and the possibility to create User Round Robin Drumkits are only some of the stunning improvements for this new Operating system 1.3.0.

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Conclusion

Pa5X is the most evocative, powerful, and easy to use Professional Arranger ever produced, with much more to explore on this cutting-edge new platform. The unique combination of Pa5X's new sound catalog, operating system, streamlined navigation, and feature set are ready to take your performance to an all-new level.

Discover the next generation of arranger keyboard with KORG Pa5X and be inspired!