The Pa1X Elite is the most complete tool for the musical professional ever conceived. Intuitive, powerful, interactive with the most stunning sound you will hear from an Arranger keyboard.
The Elite version
The Elite is a Pa1X Pro version that comes with the CD Drive and MP3 Board options aleady installed. With it, you can enjoy a full-featured arranger, with all that is needed to play and record MP3 files, listen to Audio CDs, and backup your data to a rewritable CD-ROM. Get more for your money.
History
Korg's history in Acc (Arranger) keyboards started with legendary i3, a landmark in musical instruments, and then passed through many generations of successful arrangers until the most successful professional Arranger keyboard ever – the Pa80.
But we are musicians ourselves and knew we could do even better, so we aimed for the most powerful and easy to use musical arranger we could imagine. For this we used RX Technology. It underlies every sound, every function and every feature of the Pa1X Elite. The result is a masterpiece. So please: Listen and believe.
RX Technology
RX Technology lead us to look for the best vocal sound and processing possible. We know that an audience wants to hear a great voice to go with great music.
TC Helicon inside
Looking for the best, we forged links with another world class audio technology company, TC Electronic, to combine our audio vision with successful vocal technologies already used in the musical and sound recording worlds.
The Pa1X Elite includes as standard the world acclaimed TC Helicon Voice Processor featuring EQ and professional quality effects (reverb, chorus, etc.), designed and shaped specifically for vocals. These effects, combined with a dedicated high quality mic preamp, ensure your vocals have the highest sound quality possible.
The TC Helicon Voice Processor also features voice doubling and 4 voice harmonizer. Simply connect your microphone and start to play: along with the fantastic Korg sounds you have also the world’s most respected and recognised processing for your voice – the TC Helicon Voice Processor.
For more power and specific applications, you can add upgrade options to the TC Helicon Voice Processor. These are Pitch Correction and Voice Modeling as upgrade options.
Easy to use
With all the technological power packed inside, it was vital that we also made the Pa1X Elite easy to understand and easy to use. But even more, we wanted the whole way you use the Pa1X Elite to be an intuitive, musical, fast, foolproof experience.
Our new graphical user interface uses an amazing new Graphical Colour Touch Screen to help you work in a faster, easier, logical and intuitive way. The most respected professional synthesisers in the world – the Korg Trinity and Triton – pioneered the use of TouchScreen technology. Naturally, we based our new user interface on the feedback from some of the most successful musicians in the world and provide an advanced Graphical Colour Touch Screen.
All the power of the new Pa1X Elite can be controlled with just one finger. Think, Point, Touch – RX Technology at work.
The controls are laid out sensibly, there is no need to search for what you need.
Switches and sliders are assignable so your live performances work the way you want them to. For one song, the sliders can be organ drawbars, for another volume controls for each part of a backing style. Nothing stands between you and your professional performance.
Trying to make something work? Check out the multilingual contextual Help System that is standard on board! More RX Technology at your service.
Sounds quality
The amazing sound quality of the Pa1X Elite simply has to be heard to be believed. We want you and your audience to feel like there is a real band on stage – we want the experience to be real, for you and your audience to believe – another focus of RX Technology. So we redesigned what was already the most powerful synth sound engine available to give you a rich, detailed, sophisticated natural sound. The Pa1X Elite gives you musical instruments from almost every genre exploding with depth, nuance, subtlety, accuracy and richness.
We’ve recorded all new multi level samples of the instruments you know and use:
With more realism than anything you've played before you will discover new horizons in playing and experiencing music. And a broad range too. The Pa1X Elite ROM has more than 870 ROM sounds, including a stereo acoustic piano, plus an extra 48 drum kits. In addition, the RAM area may contain up to 256 sounds and 64 drum kits. This is an amazing number of high quality instruments and covers almost every musical need. Of course, there is full on board sound editing!
New Sounds Through Sound Expansion
Not enough sounds? We doubt it but if you want to add more, the Pa1X Elite has two slots available for the addition of optional user installable16Mb Korg sound upgrade boards. These can provide up to 512 extra sounds and 128 extra drum kits.
Sampling
Still not enough sounds? In the real professional world you work in, you may need to add even more of your own custom sounds. The Sampling section in a fully developed feature to satisfy almost any professional need. You can create (record) up to 32 Mb of your own samples and multisamples (with optional added SIMM chips). Or you can load Wave, AIFF, Korg format files and of course the incredible Akai sample library – about the largest sample library available.
The Pa1X Elite also features professional editing facilities such as loop, cut, normalize and cropping of samples. A special "Time Slice" feature allows you to slice audio grooves and import the audio data into a Style for the coolest rhythms available.
Effects
But great sound doesn’t stop there. Korg’s professional synthesizer range has earned a reputation over many years for outstanding on board studio quality effects covering every need: reverb, delay, chorus, etc. The Pa1X Elite has 4 Stereo Master Effects processors with an incredible 90 effects (including a fantastic Vocoder) to choose from.
Styles
Matching the highest sound quality is a new set of deluxe styles, programmed by some of the leading Arrangers in the world. We employed different style writers according to their various musical strengths. The result is hundreds and hundreds of preloaded Styles that provide unparalleled realism and richness. And now covering an expanded range of musical genres, the Pa1X Elite gives you styles for every important performance. Record and edit your own styles on board the Pa1X Elite as well if you require a special Style Collection!
The Pa1X Elite also has new Fill 3/Break and Intro 3/Count In Style Elements to add realism to your performance.
More styles? The future is very exciting with many new styles to be produced by both Korg and also independent 3rd party companies. Check www.korgpa.com for more details on the all the new styles to come!
Powerful Technology
Korg’s Pa80 introduced the world’s first Arranger keyboard with two separate MIDIfile players, now you can also use these two players for playing your audio CD or MP3 files just using the same sequencer controls. The Pa1X Elite is a unique audio control unit. No need for external DAT, Minidisk, MP3 or CD players - they are all included!
And with the MP3 board you can even record your entire performance (vocals and Pa1X Elite sounds), encode it as an MP3 file and save it to the built in hard disk and then via the USB connector to your computer!
Sequencer & Backing Sequence
Along with a powerful and fully programmable multi track sequencer, you can use Backing Sequences to create songs based over styles – quickly and easily. You don’t need to be a master programmer to be able to write your own song in minutes. This approach to quick programming is also useful for use in a studios where you want to create music for films, video, multimedia or internet applications.
SongBook
This exciting new feature was developed to make your life easier while playing live. The SongBook is a Musical Database, completely user programmable, containing all the settings needed to play a particular song. You have only to search the title of the song you would like to play, select it and hit "Play". The SongBook can use Styles, Midifiles and MP3 files and immediately recall settings such as Song Title, Genre, Artist, Tempo, Volumes, Sounds, Muted Tracks, FX settings, Easy Edit, 4 STS*, Master Transpose and more.
Everything you need to perfectly play your song is in the SongBook unique to the Pa1X Elite - the only Arranger keyboard available with this amount of sophisticated controls.
*STS - Single Touch Settings is a memory that recalls sounds for all the real time tracks (upper1, 2, 3 & lower + pads).
Configurable
You can configure and edit almost anything in the Pa1X Elite. Styles, Performances and Programs can all be fully modified and saved. Settings for Sliders, Switches, Pads, Global (Midi channels, output routings, etc.) can also be modified and saved. Scales are fully programmable and include quarter tone settings and a programmable Arabic Scale. If you are playing an organ sound, you will enjoy using the Sliders as Drawbars.
With all of this control, the Pa1X Elite functions as a superb MIDI controller (Master Keyboard).
Connectivity
Naturally, the Pa1X Elite has all the connectivity you need including 4 separate audio outs, 2 line ins, 1 balanced XLR input for microphone, a USB (Slave) connection and a digital S/PDIF coaxial output with better than CD quality output.
Compatibility
Even though the Pa1X Elite is all new, it is also compatible with the old "i-series" style format and with all files of Pa60 and Pa80 products. And all your Pa50, Pa60 & Pa80 sound programs work in the Pa1X Elite as well. Keep your favourite sounds and styles while benefiting from a cutting edge keyboard.
The Pa1X Elite also supports the main musical formats like SMF (Standard Midi File), Karaoke files, CD-Audio, MP3 files, GM and GM2 (General Midi). Of course, the Pa1X Elite is able to show lyrics in the most popular karaoke formats. With the optional VIF3 video interface (available in PAL or NTSC standard formats) you can display lyrics on an external TV monitor.
USB
A USB connection (Slave) allows you to connect your Pa1X Elite to a computer (Mac OS X, Win 98, 2000, XP). It’s never been easier to organize, edit, process, copy or create back-ups of your music.
Expandable & Updatable
Even though it comes with almost every features you could want, the Pa1X Elite has many useful expansion options:
Not only you can expand your Pa1X Elite, you can also easily keep it new with operating system updates. These updates are available as free downloads from www.korgpa.com and will ensure your investment is protected!
Keybed
Korg has provided the best weighted keybed available – designed and built in Europe. The keyboard is velocity sensitive and naturally have aftertouch.
Two Models
The Pa1X is a complete performing system including a 61 key weighted keybed and a high quality bi-amplified two way speaker system in Bass Reflex Box: perfect for live and home use. The Pa1X Elite features a piano-shaped 76 key weighted keybed for the demanding professional looking at the best possible playing feel and has also a hard disk, Mp3 board and CD Player/Writer as standard: get more for your money.
Real eXperience
By now, you will have read about the realistic and natural sounds, the professional features, the powerful partnerships, the incredible technology the Pa1X Elite gives you and be tempted to play one as soon as possible! Please do, but remember this: every single feature, idea and sound was not put in to show off technology.
We are working musicians too. We don’t want any more empty promises either. Promises that don’t deliver. Short cuts that save time and money but frustrate the performer. Sound quality that doesn’t sound real to an audience. Keyboards that are too hard to use, or take too long to perform simple actions. Compromises.
RX was the thinking process behind every design decision we made:
We believe the Pa1X Elite is the result of RX Technology combined with great engineers and an unsurpassed passion for music and sound.
Listen & believe
Hear, Try and Compare the Korg Pre-Owned PA1X Pro Elite in our showroom
Located in Leicester in the central Midlands and close to Coventry, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham and Warwick we promise you that a visit to our specialist Digital Piano and Keyboard showroom will not disappoint. Try the full Korg range including the Pre-Owned PA1X Pro Elite and compare it with
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