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KORG PA600SG 61-KEY PORTABLE ARRANGER WORKSTATION KEYBOARD

This item is bundled with the following:

1. OnStage KSP100 sustain pedal

2. Prodipe PRO580 headphones

Preserving our very own music heritage

A Korg × City Music initiative for SG50

Music keyboards, known for their powerful functionality, have been long-established to contain various conventional tones such as piano, strings, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. And it is these tones that directly shape and influence the very songs that we listen to today.

Yet, a lack of exposure to our traditional musical instruments have led to a decline in the interest of our local music heritage. Imagine if we could empower our local musicians and composers with a new set of comprehensive traditional instrument sounds and musical styles that inspires and preserves 50 years of Singapore’s music history for the next generation.

As part of our ongoing commitment to promote local music in Singapore, Korg is proud to announce a brand new initiative to create Singapore’s very own music keyboard.

In collaboration with local distributor City Music, our aim is to create a keyboard that encompasses the traditional instruments sounds, as well as musical styles that define the music and culture of our three ethnic races - Chinese, Malay and Indian. This is a feat that has never been done before – until now.

The Pa600SG is a state-of-the-art arranger keyboard that features a huge collection of quality sounds and realistic backing accompaniments that is ideal to be used at home or on the stage.

Working with the latest technology from Korg’s highly-acclaimed series of arranger keyboards, the Pa600SG will be based on the hugely popular Pa600 and feature over 950 fully editable sounds as well as more than 360 pre-loaded music styles that includes traditional instrument sounds from the Chinese, Malay and Indian community. It also features an intuitive 7” touchscreen colour display and two 15-Watt speakers for sound amplification. The Pa600SG also comes with 4 stereo master effects and supports playback of a variety of formats like MIDI, KAR and MP3.

To mark Singapore’s 50th birthday, the Pa600SG is expected to contain 31 ethnic instruments as well as 43 or more accompanying styles that are unique to our three ethnic groups.

FEATURES

Stunning Sound

With 50 years of experience, Korg has consistently set the bar for sound quality in performance instruments, and have been relied on by musicians around the world all the while. The Pa600SG gives you a rich, detailed, natural sound with instruments from almost every genre; exploding with depth, subtlety, and accuracy. With DNC (Defined Nuance Control) and RX (Real eXperience), you can add easily-controlled natural sounds and gestures that are part of playing a real instrument, such as guitar fret noise, horn glissandos, and mechanical key sounds. Over 950 expressive sounds are included, including a refreshed GM sound set and 64 drum kits. There is also an amazing multilayer stereo acoustic piano that was accurately sampled from a Concert Grand, and includes String and Damper pedal Resonance. Sounds are fully customizable to your tastes, and your changes can be saved for fast locating and use in your performances.

One very exciting feature added to the Pa600SG is the option of purchasing musical sounds and styles from different regions around the world. 96MB of dedicated memory allows many instruments to be added to the Pa600SG sound engine, and used with styles that were developed to represent many of the popular musical styles of certain countries. Full details on the available options can be found at shop.korg.com/pa

Enhancing Effects

Great sound is more than just the quality of the PCM. For many years, Korg has produced outstanding studio quality effects that are simply breath-taking. The Pa600SG has four Stereo Master Effect processors with 125 of these effects including standard FX such as reverb, delay and chorus as well as some of the universally acclaimed REMS guitar-based effects for authentic guitar tone.
Each Track features EQ with Low, Mid and High controls. A custom track EQ can be memorized in the general preferences for the 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 Pa600SG. Everything can be processed by this powerful and musically refined EQ, easily adapting the sound to your musical taste or adjusting sound in problematic live environments.

Styles

The Pa600SG delivers a new set of great-sounding and and vibrant styles, programmed by some of the leading arrangers in the world, highlighting their unique musical strengths. The result is hundreds of included Styles that provide unparalleled realism and detail. Covering an expanded range of musical genres, the Pa600SG provides styles for almost every occasion. If you require a special Style collection, simply record and edit your own styles on board.
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 Pa600SG’s Chord Sequencer play it for you.

Compact yet Powerful

The Pa600SG 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.

Play any song, and view it as traditional music notation

The player on board the Pa600SG 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 notations 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 also added a function to show note names next to each note.

Easy to use

With all the technological power that’s packed inside, it was vital that we also made the Pa600SG easy to understand and use. Your experience using the Pa600SG should be intuitive, musical, fast and foolproof. The panel layout has been simplified, and the gorgeous color TouchView Display lets you simply think, point and click for easy and intuitive navigation and performance.
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 a stellar 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 to let the Pa600SG find it for you.

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”. The SongBook can use styles, MIDI files, or MP3s, and can immediately recall settings such as Song Title, Genre, Artist, Tempo, Volumes, Sounds, Muted Tracks, FX 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).

With the SongBook Editor you can easily view, create and edit your KORG Pa-Series SongBook entries and custom lists using a Windows based computer.

SPECIFICATIONS

Keyboard

Keyboard

61 keys with Velocity

Sounds

Factory

More than 950 (including Stereo Piano and GM 2 Sounds)

64 Drum Kits

Pa600SG comes preloaded with Sounds and Styles to suit a variety of traditional music tastes from the Chinese, Malay and Indian community.

User

256 Sounds

128 Drum Kits

Tone Generator

128 Oscillators (max polyphony 128 voices) - Filters with Resonance

PCM User Memory

96 MB

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

Effect

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

User Sampling

No Exist

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

Yes for 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
2 Unbalanced Line In Jacks

MIDI

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

General

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 (without music rest)

All of our KORG PA600SG keyboard comes with a 1 year local warranty