Product Description
Product Description
PA 600 Professional Arranger
The Pa600 is an affordable, compact, and powerful addition to Korg’s internationally acclaimed PA series. Providing you with the most up-to-date collection of quality sound and styles combined, the PA600 is a perfect songwriting and performance partner. It even has the option to include custom sound and performance sets (sold separately) from around the world – a true first!
Listen and Believe.
Pa600 Features:
- Enhanced RX (Real eXperience) and DNC (Defined Nuance Control) sound engine offers improved realism and vivid sound.
- Massive internal Factory PCM provides an extraordinarily powerful wave memory, delivering amazingly high quality sounds.
- Two assignable switches and a four-way joystick ensure total control for the many available levels of sound articulation (DNC).
- Two versions of Pa600 are available: International and Quarter Tone button variations. Both feature an elegantly designed and compact cabinet, including a pristine amplification system.
- Large, bright, backlit TouchView™ color TFT display (800×480).
- Easy layout and intuitive graphical interface with new Search function for easy retrieval of any musical resource or file.
- New resource selection feature with copy/paste, rename and delete.
- Over 360 factory Styles, each including three Intros/Endings, four variations and four Fill In + Break, plus ten Favorite and three User banks for storage of your favorite customized or user created Styles.
- Enhanced Guitar Mode 2 for even more 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, compatibility with popular lyric formats including graphical (+G), plus Text Viewer, Marker and Score.
- MP3 player with Transpose and Tempo Change.
- 4 Stereo Master Effects (125 FX algorithms).
- Fully programmable SongBook database based on Styles, SMF, karaoke, and MP3, with instant recall of any song setting and user-definable custom lists.
- Localized Pa600 and Pa600QT data (sold separately) provides Sounds and Styles relevant to specific countries and regions.
- Includes accessory DVD with USB-MIDI drivers, video manual, and additional Style content, including the complete “Real Drums” and “Turkish/Arabic World” collections
The Pa600 is a brilliant Professional Arranger that distills the sonic essence and functionality of the Pa series into a compact and affordable new instrument. Like its big brothers – the Pa800 and the Pa3X – the Pa600 uses our RX (Real eXperience) and DNC (Defined Nuance Control) technology to deliver sound quality that’s unprecedented in an arranger keyboard. With its new compact cabinet, large TFT color TouchView display, enormous factory and user PCM memory, huge style database and excellent amplification system, Korg has raised the standard of excellence in the entry-level price range. Listen and Believe.
Tone Generator
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
- Limiter – Master 4 band Parametric EQ
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
- 64 Indian styles including “Dadra, roopak & jhaptaal”
Structure
Eight Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings and one Style Performance per Style
Style controls
3 Intros, 4 Variations, Break, 3 Endings, Autofill (4 fills), 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
Style controls
3 Intros, 4 Variations, Break, 3 Endings, Autofill (4 fills), 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
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
- “i-Series”: Style
- “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 (with dedicated buttons in Quarter Tone version), User Scale memorized inside Performance/STS, Search, Lyrics, Score, Marker, Dial, Tempo, Metronome, Split
Connections
- Control Inputs: Damper Pedal, Assignable Pedal/Footswitch
- Line Out: 2 Unbalanced Jack Left/Mono and Right, Headphones
- Line In: 2 Unbalanced Line In Jacks
- MIDI: In, Out Midi connectors – USB to Midi using the USB Device port – 8 user definable MIDI Preset
- USB: 1 Host and 1 Device (2.0 – Hi Speed)
Amp/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
1,030 x 378 x 127 (W x D x H) mm without music rest
Weight
10 kg
Accessories
Owner’s Manual, Music Stand, Accessory DVD (including Video Manual), AC Cable
Options
Expression/Volume Pedal (KORG EXP-2, KORG XVP-10) Damper Pedal (KORG DS-1H) Switch Pedal (KORG PS-1, PS-3)