Welcome; Live Performing; Easy Mode - Korg Pa588 User Manual

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Welcome!

Live Performing

Welcome!
Welcome to the world of Korg Pa588! With its mix of digital
piano and automatic accompaniment features, Pa588 is one of
the most powerful musical instruments available today, both for
professional and home entertainment use.
Here are some of the features of your new instrument:
• High-quality, realistic Korg RH3 keyboard, featuring four
zones with different weights. Touch response can be
selected among nine different curves, to adjust how the
sound will respond to your keyboard playing dynamics.
• Damper pedal with realistic simulation of natural string
resonances and noises of an acoustic piano, by means of the
innovative Korg EPx (Piano eXperience) technology. On
the Grand Piano RX Sound, the damper pedal lets you vary
the amount of the effect by how far you press down on it
("half-pedal" function).
• Piano eXperience: while existing piano sampling tech-
niques have resembled an audio snapshot, our new "Piano
eXperience" technology is more of a hologram, accurately
reproducing every dimensional detail of the sound. All
piano sampling for the Pa588 is done in stereo to preserve
the natural imaging of the sound. Different dynamic levels
are captured to extend the instrument's expressive vocabu-
lary. Going even further, the Pa588 uses the sound of the
key being released and the hammer returning, as well as the
sympathetic damper resonance of the strings to create all of
the subtle shadings that create a superior instrument
sound. This attention to detail defines the sound of the new
Pa588, providing an instrument that can interpret every
nuance of touch into a meaningful musical gesture.
• Alternative temperaments, for historically accurate perfor-
mance of classical music, or experimenting.
• RX Technology, the cutting edge engine that drives every
aspect of the Pa588 – from the synthesis to the display and
how it all works together.
• Powerful EDS (Enhanced Definition Synthesis) Korg sound
generation system, as seen in our best professional synthe-
sizers.
• 80 voices of polyphony.
• OPOS (Objective Portable Operating System) multitasking
operating system, to let you load data while playing your
instrument.
• Operating System updates, to load new features and
enhancements. Don't let your instrument get old!
• Solid State Disk (SSD), for any system update – a smart way
to replace the usual ROM memory.
• SD (Secure Digital) and MultiMedia (MMC) memory card
drive, to store your data on the most up-to-date and reli-
able support.
• General MIDI Level 2 Sound-compatible.
• 882 Factory Sounds and 56 Factory Drum Kits, plus 128
User Sound and 64 User Drum Kit locations available.
• Four multieffect processors for the internal MIDI tracks,
with 124 effects, and a selection of fine guitar effects cre-
ated using Korg's REMS™ (Resonant structure and Elec-
tronic circuit Modeling System) technology, to deliver truly
great sounding effects.
• Final semi-parametric Master EQ, to customize your own
sound.
• 256 Performance locations, and about than 1,280 pre-
loaded Single Touch Settings (STS), for fast setting of key-
board sounds and effects.
• More than 320 preloaded Styles (448 Factory locations + 64
User locations available).
• Style Record and Edit, including Guitar Mode.
• Pad Record and Edit.
• XDS Double Sequencer with Crossfader.
• Full-featured 16-track sequencer.
• Fully editable music database, for fast song retrieving, sup-
plied by the SongBook.
• High-quality input (ADC) and output (DAC) audio con-
verters.
• TouchView™ Graphical User Interface.
• Fully-programmable slider and pedal/footswitch.
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• 2 15 Watt digital amplification.
• USB 1.1 Full Speed Device port, to connect a personal
computer to your Pa588. This port can be used for file
transfer, and for MIDI connection (without the need of a
dedicated MIDI interface for the PC).
Live Performing
Pa588 has been carefully designed to be used live. The "realtime"
word has its full meaning in this instrument. Performances
allow the instant selection of all the tracks on the keyboard and a
suitable Style; STSs allow an instant selection of the keyboard
tracks; Styles are the realtime backing companions for your real-
time playing; Songs can be mixed in realtime; the SongBook is
the quick way to select a song from a sophisticated music data-
base.

Easy Mode

If you are the kind of musician that prefers to play, more than
deal with technical matters, you can use the Pa588 in Easy Mode,
and forget all its most powerful features, and let them out of
your way.