Korg Pa700 61-Key Arranger keyboard

The Korg Pa700 is a professional-level arranger workstation keyboard that has been a long-standing and popular choice for musicians, particularly those who perform live. It’s part of Korg’s acclaimed Pa (Professional Arranger) series and is known for its high-quality sounds, a vast library of styles, and a user-friendly interface.

Key Features and Highlights:

• Keyboard and Display: The Pa700 features a 61-key velocity-sensitive keyboard. It is equipped with a large, 7-inch capacitive TouchView™ TFT color display. This responsive touchscreen makes it easy and intuitive to navigate menus, select sounds and styles, and manage the keyboard’s functions.
• Sound Engine and Voices: The keyboard is powered by Korg’s advanced EDS-X (Enhanced Definition Synthesis – eXpanded) sound engine. It comes loaded with over 1,700 factory sounds, including:
  • A multi-layer stereo piano with damper and body resonance.
  • Electric pianos from the KORG SV-1 Stage Piano.
  • Digital drawbar organs with realistic noises, leakage, and a rotary speaker effect.
  • A massive collection of orchestral, band, and contemporary electronic instruments.
  • Defined Nuance Control (DNC) technology for adding realistic performance nuances to certain instruments (e.g., breath sounds on wind instruments).
• Auto-Accompaniment Styles: The Pa700 includes over 370 professionally-created Styles, which are sophisticated backing tracks that follow your chord progressions. These styles cover a wide array of musical genres from around the world. A key feature is the ability to create your own styles using the built-in Standard MIDI File to Style converter.
• KAOSS FX: A unique and powerful feature of the Pa700 is the inclusion of KAOSS FX. This allows you to add real-time, DJ-style effects to your performance using the touchscreen. You can manipulate effects like morphing between sounds, fine-tuning rhythms, and adding radical note-crunching effects.
• Onboard Speakers and Amplification: The Pa700 is a self-contained unit with a powerful built-in speaker system. Two 25-watt amplifiers drive two dual-cone speakers in a bass-reflex enclosure, providing a rich and full-bodied sound, making it great for practice or small-scale performances without external speakers.
• Microphone and Guitar Inputs: For singers and guitarists, the Pa700 has dedicated 1/4″ inputs for a microphone and a guitar. It also includes studio-quality vocal and guitar processors with a range of effects like reverbs, delays, chorus, and amp simulators, so you can polish your sound directly on the keyboard.
• SongBook: This is a fully programmable music database that organizes your favorite Styles, MIDI Songs, and MP3 Songs. It makes it easy to create and recall “Set Lists” for live performance.
• MP3 Player/Recorder: The keyboard features a built-in MP3 player that can transpose and change the tempo of a song, as well as remove vocals. You can also record your entire performance (including a mic and external audio) to MP3 format.