KORG Pa500 ORT Professional Arranger Keyboard

Korg Pa500-ORT

  61-Key Professional Arranger from Korg is ideal for the musician, composer, performer and entertainer alike with Korg Pa500-ORT's stellar features and a price tag that won't break the bank. RX (Real eXperience) technology is used to achieve stunning sounds just like Korg Pa500-ORT's big brothers Pa800 or Pa2XPro. Programming is simple with the TouchView interface, while realistic articulation can be controlled with the 4-way joystick.

Four stereo processors provide up to 128 effects with a 3-band parametric EQ available on each track. Korg Pa500-ORT has over special Middle Eastern styles plus 320 styles programmed by some of the leading arrangers in the world each with up to 8 parts, 4 variations, and 3 intros/count-ins/fills/breaks/endings. Performance can be custom tailored to your specifications with the Tap Tempo, Fade In/Out and Manual Bass features.

Create accurate guitar parts with picking, strum, chokes, slides, hammer-ons and guitar-specific artifacts while enhancing guitar tracks of standard MIDI-files.

Expand your musical database for live performance with the SongBook feature with pre-programmed settings such as Sounds, Style, Performance, Volumes, Muted Tracks, FX settings, Easy Edit, STS settings, and Master Transpose for every song you need to play. Back up your data to SD or MMC cards and uses USB or MIDI for connection with your computer.

This version of the Pa-500 is uniquely outfitted for Middle Eastern musicians with its extra sounds, styles and quarter tone sub scale settings.

Intuitive Layout 
Everything from the Korg Pa500-ORT 61-key velocity sensitive keyboard to the touch screen LCD is designed for an easy working experience

Effects 
Korg Pa500-ORT's four stereo master effect processors provide hundreds of effects, including reverb, delay, chorus, and much more for added richness and depth

Styles 
Hundreds of styles in a wide variety of genres are included to give you the full power of a backup band without the hassles

Middle Eastern Styles 
Tunisia: Fazzani, Ghita, Bounawara, Zaby / Sougua, Saadawi, Alleji
Morocco: Karatchi, Issawi, Sahrawi Shaby
Iraq: Chuby, Gnuby, Gorgina, All Rub3, Khashaba
Khaligi: Khaligi Rumba, Khbeaty, Bandary, Dosary, Shaby

Middle Eastern Sounds 
104 extra instruments including Kanon, Nay, Ud, Kawala, Arabic Strings, Mejwez, Mezwed, Yargohol, Zukra, Chubebe, Zurna, Chabi, Tabla, Req, Daf, Bandir, Tabel, Katem, Kasur, and Khishabah

Quarter Tone Sub Scale 
Access quarter tone scales on the fly with 4 presets or the joystick

Giving you two 16-track sequencers to work with, the XDS Double Sequencer lets you play one sequence while loading another, perform DJ-style cross fades, or play two sequences simultaneously

SongBook 
The SongBook function of Korg Pa500-ORT is a programmable musical database that lets you instantly access all the necessary settings for a needed song - great for taking requests

Full Controls 
Everything from a pitch/modulation joystick to assignable sliders, switches, and pads give you full, precise control over the system. A damper pedal input, assignable pedal input, are provided for hands-off control

MIDI and USB plus SD/MMC 
Korg Pa500-ORT has both MIDI and USB connectivity with an SD/MMC card slot for data backup

Korg Pa500-ORT Keyboard: 61 Keys with Velocity and Aftertouch

Polyphony: 80

Multitimbral: Not specified by the manufacturer

Synthesis Method: EDS (Extended Definition Synthesis) 80 Voices, 80 Oscillators - Filters with Resonance - Three band EQ for each track

Presets: 1024 sounds
64 drumsets

User Memory: 128 user sounds
64 user drum kits
320 styles
256 performance locations

Effects: 128 effects with 3 band paramwtric EQ on each track

Sequencer: Quick Record (Backing Sequence), Multitrack and Step Record functions - Full-featured sequencer - 16 tracks - Up to 200,000 events - SMF native format

Controllers: Master Volume, Real Time-Acc/Seq Balance Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Style Change, Split, Quarter Tone Arabic Scale , User Scale memorized inside Performance/STS - Realtime controllers: Joystick (pitch + modulation), 1 Assignable Slider, 1 Assignable Switch, Dial, Up/+, Down/-

Expansion Slots: SD (Secure Digital) Card and MultiMedia Card (MMC) Memory Devices

Sample RAM: None

Outputs: Unbalanced Jack Left/Mono, Right

Inputs: 2 Unbalanced Line In Jacks

Headphone Output: Yes

SCSI: No

Internal Storage: 880 Sounds, including a Stereo Piano and GM Level 2 compatible Sounds, 56 Drum Kits - User area: 128 Sounds, 64 Drum Kits - Realtime control: Assignable Slider, Switch - Full editing of Sounds and Drum Kits

External Storage: via SD/MMC or USB

Display: 320 x 240 pixels, Monochrome TouchView Graphic Touch Screen

Dimensions (WxDxH): 42.2 x 15.9 x 7.5" (1074 x 404 x 183mm)

Weight: 21.8 lbs (9.9kg)