Inspiring New Sounds, 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.

Main Features

- Premium Quality and Elegant Design
- Modern and Streamlined User Interface
- Stunningly rich sound-engine: EDS-XP
- Real-time controllers
- Advanced Chord Recognition System and Full Library of Chord Sequences
- Smooth Transitions between Sounds, Styles and Songs
- Cutting-edge Dual Crossfading Players
- Creating Styles and Songs
- The SongBook: A Music Library Always With You
- A Complete Sound Library
- Intuitive Mixer Section with Extensive Effects Processing
- Dedicated Microphone and Guitar Inputs with Effects Processing
- MIDI, USB, HDMI, Audio In and Out, Pedal Connectors
- Standard File Formats

Premium Quality and Elegant Design

The Pa5X was designed with elegance and durability in mind, featuring a sturdy aluminum body and genuine wooden side-panels for a luxury appearance. All of the keybeds on Pa5X provide an authentic feel and full control of expression for any playing situation. The 88-key weighted action has a realistic piano-like touch while the 76- and 61-key versions feature lighter touch semi-weighted keys. All the keybeds include aftertouch control for added expressivity.

Modern and Streamlined User Interface

At the center of Pa5X is a large 8” tiltable touch screen that displays a completely redesigned GUI (graphical user interface). This makes all the sounds and features of Pa5X easily accessible to home and studio musicians as well as live performers. The colors in the display are carefully matched to the ones used in the LED programmable buttons on the control panel. This color driven interface allows you to easily navigate Pa5X, adding color to your music!

Specifications 

Pa5X Specification

Keyboard

Pa5X 61: 61 keys (C2 – C7) Semi–weighted keys with Aftertouch
Pa5X 76: 76 keys (E1 – G7) Semi–weighted keys with Aftertouch
Pa5X 88: 88 keys (A0 – C8) Hammer action with Aftertouch

Case:

Aluminum case with wooden side panels

Operating System:

Upgradable Operating System
Sound Generator
EDS-XP (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-Expanded)
Multimode filters with resonance, 3-band EQ for each track

Polyphony:

160 Voices, 160 Oscillators

Effects:

Keyboard Tracks: 3 Insert Effect; 3 Master Effects
Style/Song: 10 Insert Effects; 3 Master Effects
Master EQ and Finalizer for Songs and Styles
Final Mastering Effects: Waves | MaxxAudio® Suite
Mic Processor Technology by Shift Audio
Mic Setup: Compressor, EQ, Gate
Four-part Harmonizer, Doubler, Filter, Modulation, Delay, Reverb, AutoPitch
Guitar Processor
Guitar rack (4 effect-slots) with stompbox and amp simulation

Sounds / Drum Kits:

Factory:  More than 2,200 Factory Sounds
Five multilayer Stereo Acoustic Pianos with Damper/Body Resonance, GM/XG Sound Sets, more than 130 Drum Kits including Ambient Drums and Round Robin-based Drum Kits
User Area:  768 Sounds, 384 Drum Kits
Digital Drawbars: 9 Footages, Percussion, Key On/Off, Leakage, Vibrato/Chorus, Rotary Speaker with Amp Simulator
Natural Ambience Drum Sounds, Round Robin features
Defined Nuance Control (DNC) Technology
Quick and Full Sound Editing, Drum Family and Full Drum Kit Editing

Sampling:

User PCM Sample memory: 4 GB of data, equivalent to 8 GB linear when compressed
Loads KORG, WAV, AIFF and SoundFont™ formats
Saves KORG, WAV and AIFF formats
Full Edit, Time Slice, Sampling features

Keyboard Sets:

Factory: More than 500 Factory Keyboard Sets, freely programmable
Combines four Keyboard Sounds, plus Effects and settings
Library accessible from front-panel buttons
“My Setting” special Keyboard Set

Players:

Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Player with X-Fader Balance control
Crossfading between Songs and/or Styles

Styles:

Factory: More than 600 Factory Styles, freely programmable
Eight Style Tracks, 4 Keyboard Sets and 4 Pads per Style; Programmable Sounds, Effects and Style parameters
Guitar Mode 2, Parallel and Fixed NTT (Note Transposition Table)
Style Record and Event Edit
Style Elements: 3 Intros, 4 Variations, 4 Fills, 1 Break, 3 Endings
Style Controls: Play/Stop, Synchro Start, Synchro Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Auto Fill, Memory, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Bass & Lower Backing, Drum & Bass, Individual Style Tracks Mute, Style to Keyboard Set Set

Chord Sequencer:

Factory: More than 200 Chord Sequences
Chord Sequence Recorder/Player
Chord Sequences can be saved to Style and SongBook Entries

Songs:

Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Player with X-Fader Balance control
Supported formats: MID, KAR, MP3 + Lyrics, MP3+G
Lyrics, Score, and Chord data can be displayed on screen, or on external video monitor
Markers with Add, Delete, Edit, Loop and AutoScroll functions
Jukebox function
Full-featured, 16-track Sequencer, Song Edit
MP3 Player / Recorder
Double MP3 Player and MP3 Recorder
Records MP3 files, including Styles, MIDI Songs, MP3 Songs, Keyboard Sounds, Pads, Matrix, Microphone, Guitar, Effects 
Transpose (+6/-5 semitones), Tempo Change (±30%)
Vocal Remover
SongBook
Fully programmable music database based on Styles, MIDI Songs (MID and KAR files), MP3 Songs with Artist and Genre tags
Filtering and sorting options
User definable Set Lists

Compatibility:

Legacy Pa-Series models: Styles, Keyboard Sets (Performances), Sounds (Programs), Songs, Pads

Pads:

Factory: More than 400 Pads
Four Assignable Pads + Stop Buttons
Pad Record function

Control Section:

9 Assignable Sliders, 9 Assignable Buttons, Strip Display; 4 Preset + 1 User settings

Matrix Section:

16 Matrix Pads, 4 Preset buttons
Style/Song Controls
Play/Stop, Go To Start, Style Select, Song Select, Xfader, Tempo +/-, Tempo Lock, Tap Tempo/Reset, Synchro Start, Synchro Stop, Fade In/Out, Chord Scan (Lower, Upper), Chord Sequence, Memory, AutoFill

General Controls:

Master Volume, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Dial, Up/+, Down/-, Joystick (Pitch + Modulation), Ribbon, 3 Assignable Switches, Search, Shift, Keyboard Sounds On/Off, Split, Ensemble, Rec/Edit, Menu, Exit

Scale Controls:

On-screen Quarter Tone and Arabic Scale, memorized in the Keyboard Sets; Presets assignable to any button or footswitch

Control Inputs:

Damper Pedal; supports half-pedaling with the optional KORG DS-1H pedal
2 Assignable Pedal/Footswitch

Audio Inputs:

Mic: Mono with Gain control and Phantom Power (Combo XLR, balanced)
Guitar: Mono with Gain control (1/4" jack, unbalanced)
Line 1: Left/Right (1/4" jacks, balanced)
Line 2: Stereo (1/8" mini-jack, unbalanced)
Audio Outputs
Line: Main Left/Right, Separate Outs 1/2/3/4 (1/4" jacks, balanced)
Headphones (1/4" jack)
Video Output
HDMI connector

MIDI:

IN, OUT, THRU standard MIDI connectors
USB to MIDI, through the USB Device port
16 User-definable MIDI Presets

USB:

Type A (Host 3.0, for storage devices and controllers): 1 front, 2 rear

Type B (Device 2.0, for personal computers and tablets): 1 rear

Storage:

Internal Drive: 1 GB
Micro SD Card (not included): Rear-panel slot with plastic cover
USB Flash Drive (not included): Can be connected to the USB Host ports

Display:

8” Wide capacitive color TouchView™ TFT display, 800 x 600 resolution

Clock:

Internal System Clock

Power Consumption:

100-240 Volts, 50/60 Hz
< 0.2 Watt in standby / 20 Watt normal / 45 Watt with PaAS installed

Dimensions:

(W x D x H) (without music stand, display fully lowered)
Pa5X-88: 1,262.0 x 396.4 x 146.0 mm / 49.68” x 15.60” x 5.74”
Pa5X-76: 1,233.1 x 374.3 x 126.8 mm / 48.54” x 14.73” x 4.99”
Pa5X-61: 1,021.1 x 374.3 x 126.8 mm / 40.20” x 14.73” x 4.99”
PaAS (optional): 980 x 180 x 140 mm / 38.58” x 7.08” x 5.51”

Weight:

Pa5X-88: 20.1 kg / 44.31 lbs
Pa5X-76: 17.4 kg / 38.36 lbs
Pa5X-61: 15.1 kg / 33.29 lbs
PaAS (optional): 5.70 kg / 12.56 lbs