Welcome; Live Performing; Easy Mode - Korg Pa800 User Manual

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Welcome!

Live Performing

Welcome!
Welcome to the world of Korg Pa800 Professional Arranger!
Pa800 is the most powerful arranger available today, both for
professional and home entertainment use.
Here are some of the features of your new instrument:
• RX Technology, the cutting edge engine that drives every
aspect of the Pa800 – 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.
• 120 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 from disk. Don't let your instrument get
old!
• Optional hardware expansions, to add a video out board, a
hardware MP3 encoder/decoder, and an internal hard disk.
Get more and more for the money!
• Solid State Disk (SSD), for any system update – a smart way
to replace the usual ROM memory.
• Favorite (Custom) Style banks, to create your own collec-
tions of Styles.
• General MIDI Level 2 Sound-compatible.
• More than 1,030 Sounds, including 63 Drum Kits.
• Four multieffect processors for the internal MIDI tracks,
with 125 effects, including a Vocoder, and a selection of fine
guitar effects created using Korg's REMS™ (Resonant
structure and Electronic circuit Modeling System) technol-
ogy, to deliver truly great sounding effects.
• Final semi-parametric Master EQ, to customize your own
sound.
• 320 Performance locations, and more than 1,600 preloaded
Single Touch Settings (STS), for fast setting of keyboard
sounds and effects.
• 409 preloaded Styles.
• 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.
• Onboard sampling to create and edit new sounds and
audio grooves.
• Sophisticated Voice Processor, with effects and a 3-voice
harmonizer, featuring voice technologies by TC-Helicon™.
• High-quality microphone preamplifiers, with 0 ~ -40dB of
gain. The same inputs double as line inputs.
• High-quality input (ADC) and output (DAC) audio con-
verters.
• Color TouchView™ Graphical User Interface.
• Two fully-programmable sliders and switches.
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• 2 22 Watt digital bi-amplification with auto-loudness
and fixed digital equalizer. Two-way Bass Reflex system, for
realistic sound reproduction.
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• 2 USB 2.0 High Speed Host ports, for connecting exter-
nal devices like hard disks, CD-ROM drives, USB memory
sticks, etc.
• A single USB 1.1 Full Speed Device port, to connect a per-
sonal computer to your Pa800. 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
Pa800 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 Pa800 in Easy Mode,
and forget all its most powerful features, and let them out of
your way.