KORG Pa600QT Professional Arranger Keyboard
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The Pa600QT 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 PA600QT 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!
This Pa600QT (Quarter Tone) version contains all the functionality of the standard Pa600, and adds a mini-keyboard on the left side, which can be used to customize quarter tone scales and quickly access scale presets. Along with all the Sounds and Styles that are found on the standard Pa600, The Pa600QT also contains additional Sound and Style data that is specific to Middle Eastern music genres. Ouds, bouzuks, kanouns, various percussion instruments, and many more sounds are joined by dozens of extra Styles that are suitable for traditional and modern music.
Pa600QT 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).
- Quarter tone variation buttons providing instant access to quarter tone notes.
- Large, bright, backlit TouchView™ color TFT display (800x480).
- 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.
- Additional sounds and styles for the Pa600QT will soon be sold separately through the Global Style and Sound Shop.
- Includes accessory DVD with USB-MIDI drivers, video manual, and additional Style content, including the complete "Real Drums" and "Turkish/Arabic World" collections
Stunning Sound
It all begins with the sound. Korg’s sound quality is universally recognized as superior, and is relied on by musicians around the world. The Pa600QT gives you a rich, detailed, sophisticated, natural sound with musical instruments from almost every genre, exploding with depth, nuance, subtlety, and accuracy. The DNC (Defined Nuance Control) system adds finely tuned control, and provides various levels of articulation. Most importantly, besides the standard sounds of the Pa600, the Pa600QT is filled with percussion, wind and string instruments from many regions in the Middle East. Sounds are fully editable, and changes can be saved in the User area. In creating the Pa600QT, Korg drew inspiration from the thousands of musicians in the Middle East who already use Korg Pa products. Produced by a team of the best musicians from various countries in the Middle East, the Pa600QT features a complete range of freshly produced instruments and Styles showcasing the sounds that make Middle Eastern music so energetic and exciting. These new sounds and Styles are provided in addition to all the sounds, Styles, FX and other features of the standard Pa600.
One of the most significant features of the Pa600QT is the addition of the Quarter Tone Sub Scale keyboard. A miniature keyboard has been added to the front panel; and each key is equipped with an LED indicator. This allows the user to quickly select the notes that will be flattened to the nearest Quarter Tone. This function is always available, so that the Quarter Tone selection can be made quickly and on the fly during live performances. In addition, four preset buttons provide one-touch access to the most commonly used Quarter Tone scales.
Effects
Great sound is more than just the quality of the sample data. For many years, Korg has produced outstanding, studio-quality effects that are simply breathtaking. The Pa600QT has four stereo Master Effect processors, with 125 effects including standards such as reverb, delay, and chorus, as well as some of the universally acclaimed REMS guitar-based effects for authentic guitar tones.
Each track features EQ with Low, Mid and High controls. A custom track EQ can be memorized in the general preferences for Song Play mode. This will help sculpt the sounds to your personal taste for any MIDI file you play. Need a lighter bass track? Save the desired equalization, and the bass will stay light with all the subsequent Songs.
A limiter and final 4-band parametric EQ have been added to the sound output of the Pa600QT. Its total sound can be enhanced by these powerful and musically refined processors, easily adapting to your musical taste, or compensating for a problematic live environment.
Styles
The Pa600QT delivers a new set of deluxe styles, programmed by some of the leading arrangers in the Middle East, each of whom worked according to their musical strengths. The result is hundreds of preloaded Styles that provide unparalleled realism and detail. Covering an expanded range of musical genres from all over the Middle East, the Pa600QT provides styles for almost every occasion. If you require a special Style collection, simply record and edit your own styles on board. For each Style, the user can access different intros and different endings; each playing in a different Arabic scale. The Pa600QT arranger keyboard also includes special regional Styles.
We add further realism to your performance with four Fills, Break, three Intros and three Endings. More flexibility is added by the choice of different transposition tables to suit any instrument characteristic, and the stunning Guitar Mode 2 adds a totally new perspective to how realistic Guitar tracks can sound. If you need both hands to play a solo passage, record your chord sequence and let the Pa600QT’s Chord Sequencer play it for you.
Compact Yet Powerful
The Pa600QT is one of the easiest arrangers to carry around. While its size might appear compact, the power of the onboard, exceptionally high-quality custom designed amplification system is anything but small. The 2 x 15-watt amplifiers drive two loudspeakers in a bass-reflex box to generate a powerful listening experience.
Easy To Use
With all the technological power that’s packed inside, it was vital that we also made the Pa600QT easy to understand and use. Your experience using the Pa600QT should be intuitive, musical, fast and foolproof. The panel layout has been simplified, and our graphical user interface utilizes an amazing, graphical, color TouchView™ Display, so you simply think, point and click for easy and intuitive use. So that musicians of all levels can make great music quickly, there are two interface modes: Easy and Expert. Easy mode shows only the most important controls while keeping a clean and straightforward interface, useful for beginners or playing live. While in Expert mode, you have full editing control. Nothing stands between you and your professional performance. Switches are assignable so your live performances work the way you want, and when you don’t remember where a file, song or style was saved, just use the Search feature and let the Pa600QT find it for you.
The player on board the Pa600QT can read MIDI, KAR and MP3 files. It can also read lyrics and chords from most of these files, and add markers on-the-fly to MIDI files. Traditional score viewing is also available for those who prefer to read music. The Score Viewer displays the lead track (or any other track) as clear and plain traditional musical notation with notes or chords, together with lyrics and chord abbreviations. Chord names can also be seen in different languages (English and Italian). For music learners, we’ve also added a function to show note names next to each note.
SongBook
This exciting feature was developed to make your life easier while playing live. The SongBook is a musical database that’s completely user programmable, containing all the settings needed to play a particular song. You only have to search for the title of the song you would like to play, select it and hit “Play”. SongBook can reference styles, MIDI files, or MP3s, and can immediately recall settings such as song title, genre, artist, tempo, volumes, sounds, muted tracks, effect settings, Easy Edit, STS*, master transpose, and more. Everything that you need to play your song perfectly is in the SongBook; a useful musical feature that is unique to Korg. (*STS - Single Touch Settings is a memory that recalls sounds for all the real time tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3 & Lower).)
Specification:
MIDI :
Keyboard
61 keys with Velocity
Sounds
Factory:
More than 950 (including Stereo Piano and GM 2 Sounds)
Middle Eastern PCM with matching sound programs and styles
for Persian, Arabic and Turkish are already loaded as demo version
64 Drum Kits
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
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
Music Stand, Quick Guide, AC Cable, Accessory DVD
(includes Owner’s Manual, Video Manuals, additional Sounds and Styles)
Options
Expression/Volume Pedal (KORG EXP-2, KORG XVP-10)
Damper Pedal (KORG DS-1H)
Switch Pedal (KORG PS-1, PS-3)
Specifications and appearance are
subject to change without notice for improvement.
