Pa5X ORIENTAL is the latest model in the new flagship range of KORG Pa5X Professional Arranger keyboards. Completely redesigned with a state-of-the-art sound engine and a streamlined color-driven user interface, the all new Pa5X produces a stunningly rich and unique sonic experience that inspires you to create and perform. Now, the PA5X ORIENTAL brings all the power of the Pa5X into the music worlds of Türkiye and the Middle East. Whatever music you are going to play, from Western to Oriental – Arabic, Persian, Turkish – the Pa5X ORIENTAL delivers.
The Pa5X ORIENTAL comes with an extensive collection of sounds taken from the worlds of Arabic, Turkish and Persian music, created by top-class Arabic, Persian and Turkish musicians based in the Middle East. The ORIENTAL version also adds Sounds, Drum and Percussion Kits, Keyboard Sets, Pads and music styles covering the rich musical traditions of Türkiye and Persia, with particular focus on Arabic countries courtesy of the incredible sound and performance libraries developed in Lebanon.
- Over 2,600 sounds (240 Oriental Sounds and 70 Oriental Drumkits) including GM and XG sets
- 844 Factory Styles (630 Pa5X standard + 264 Oriental Styles)
- 768 user Sound and 384 user Drum Kit locations with full editing features
- Premium Quality and Elegant Design
- Modern and Streamlined User Interface
- Stunningly rich sound-engine: EDS-XP
- Real-time controllers
- Advanced chord recognition, and a library full of chord sequences
- Smooth transition between Sounds, Styles and Songs
- Two cross-fading Players able to mix everything: Styles to Midi-files, or Midi-files to MP3-files, or Styles to Styles (unique to the Pa5X)
- Each player displays lyrics and score
- Create your own Styles and Songs
- SongBook, a music library always with you
- A complete sound library
- Onboard mixer with insert, master, final and mastering effects
- Dedicated Microphone and Guitar inputs with dedicated effects for each
- MIDI, USB, HDMI, Audio In and Out, Pedal connectors
- Standard File Formats
- Optional high-quality accessories
- Optional Pa AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM PaAS MK2
Pa5X OS Update V1.3.1
The Pa5X Operating System version 1.3.1 introduces several valuable updates to enhance your experience. This firmware includes refined SongBook management, optimized audio routing for insert effects, and improved keyboard-set muting. Character compatibility and lyrics-chord alignment for external HDMI monitors have also been enhanced, ensuring a smoother performance. Additionally, updates to the scale functionality in combination with transpose, along with better Keyboard-Set parameter handling, contribute to a more intuitive workflow. These improvements, combined with overall system stability enhancements, make version 1.3.1 a significant step forward for the Pa5X.
Oriental Proficiency
Pa5X ORIENTAL is a powerful addition to KORG’s internationally acclaimed Pa Series. Providing you with the most up-to-date collection of quality integrated sounds and styles, Pa5X ORIENTAL is the ideal songwriting and performance partner. In addition to all the functionality, sounds and styles of the standard Pa5X, the Pa5X ORIENTAL also contains musical data specific to Middle Eastern music genres. Stringed instruments, winds, various percussion instruments, and many more sounds are included along with dozens of extra Styles that are suitable for traditional and modern music.
Premium Quality and Elegant Design
The Pa5X ORIENTAL 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 ORIENTAL 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 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 ORIENTAL, adding color to your music!
Powerful EDS-XP Sound Engine for Rich and Inspiring Sounds
KORG Professional Arrangers have set the industry standard for powerful musical expression, featuring sound engines that inspire musicians to create and perform. Pa5X ORIENTAL introduces the EDS-XP (Enhanced Definition Synthesis – Expanded) sound-engine, which builds upon the technology used in Pa4X with advanced hardware and a powerful new operating system, taking sounds on Pa5X ORIENTAL to a new level. The 24 stereo Oscillators and 160 voices of polyphony power thousands of high-quality sounds, covering a wide range of musical instruments and genres. The EDS-XP sound engine also introduces new cutting-edge features such as Round-Robin drum and percussion performance, Smooth Sound Transition, Sound-Controller 3 functionality and much more. This provides an unprecedented level of sonic realism and expression that is only available on Pa5X ORIENTAL.
Realtime Controllers
Pa5X ORIENTAL features a fully programmable control section with 9 buttons and 9 sliders. You can assign any function to it, from mixer volume to drawbar settings, from microphone mute to bass inversion, to lyrics scroll commands and more. The assigned function is shown by an auxiliary strip display so that you always know what you have under your fingertips – even if you are on a different page to the main display. Numerous assignable controllers are available for expressive real time playing and Korg's DNC (Defined Nuance Control) which supplies so much of the detail in the sound of musical instruments. Faders, switches, real and virtual matrices of real time controls, the joystick, and the ribbon controller can be assigned to modulate any parameter of the sound. This provides precise control of the most subtle nuances and articulation of the instruments you are playing on the Pa5X.
Oriental Scale Realtime Control
Pa5X ORIENTAL includes an on-screen virtual keyboard that can be used to select alternative scales or instantly retune individual keys on-the-fly. Multiple scales can play at the same time, with soloists playing with an Arabic scale and the backing tracks continuing to play in Equal tuning. An alternative scale tuning can be saved into each Keyboard Set and applied to any Style Sound. MIDI Songs can play with any alternative scale tuning saved as SysEx data. Each Song’s sound can be re-tuned individually, and you can have a different scale for each Sound of the keyboard, the Styles and the Songs.
Advanced Chord Recognition System and Full Library of Chord Sequences
Pa5X ORIENTAL’s chord recognition system is the most sophisticated around, featuring an Expert mode that is crafted around the playing styles of the best modern jazz pianists. This chord recognition system can be as simple or advanced as desired, even allowing you to trigger chords with a single finger! With automatic harmonization, a chord sequencer, and a sophisticated chord recognition engine, Pa5X ORIENTAL gives you the tools to create rich musical arrangements no matter what the genre of music.
Smooth Transitions between Sounds, Styles and Songs
Pa5X ORIENTAL adds Smooth Sound Transition (SST) technology, allowing for seamless transitions between Sounds, Styles and Songs without any interruption. When you select a different element, the sound, effects and sequences will continue to play, fading away naturally until you are ready for the next sequence or note to begin, making for an uninterrupted and realistic performance.
Cutting-edge Dual Crossfading Players
Pa5X ORIENTAL can play two Styles, MIDI files, or MP3 files simultaneously and in any combination, made possible by the dual onboard Players. These two Players can be mixed with a handy crossfader, or can be used to play a song while another one is waiting to start. All the while, Pa5X's sound engine delivers the power, effects processing, and polyphony to make these transitions happen seamlessly. Lyrics, Chords, Score and Marker can be clearly shown on the large internal display of Pa5X, or even on an external display when connected via the built-in HDMI port. A wide variety of Lyrics formats are supported, and you can even automatically generate a score from a MIDI Song. Markers allow for quick navigation of a song using the Style-Element buttons, allowing you to easily jump back to a passage you wish to repeat while studying, rehearsing, or performing live.
Creating Styles and Songs
You can create your own Styles, and record your own MIDI and MP3 Songs. The included editing features allow for detailed editing of each single recorded event. A sophisticated transposition table adapts the sequences to any chord you may play. You can record a MIDI Song using a full-featured Sequencer. Even easier, just record what you sing and play (including MP3 Songs) as an MP3 file, and listen to it anywhere you like.
The SongBook: A Music Library Always With You
Songs and Styles can be saved into the onboard SongBook, whose database-like entries are easy to synchronize with external score readers on a tablet. You can therefore use a digital music book to control your Pa5X ORIENTAL. The songs in the music database can be saved into Set Lists, each one dedicated to a show, to a singer or a style of music, for easy handling of all music resources at once during live performances. When choosing a song from the SongBook, you also immediately get the necessary Sounds, the Style, a Song, the effects and even a chord sequence.
A Complete Sound Library
The onboard sounds range from ultra-realistic acoustic instruments, to electric vintage keyboards, to synth classics, with the addition of fantasy sounds and special effects for game, media, video and cinema production. We have also included instruments from various ages and world cultures, while also leaving ample room for your own expansions. Particular care has been reserved to the Arabic, Turkish and Persian sounds, with melodic and percussive instruments performed by renowned musicians, on the best instruments, and programmed so that you can reproduce the same authentic performance with the onboard Pa5X controllers.
Intuitive Mixer Section with Extensive Effects Processing
Sounds on Pa5X ORIENTAL are processed by an elaborate chain of professional studio quality effects, with up to 10 Insert FX, 3 Master FX and 1 Finalizer for each of the two Players. The Keyboard Sets can use up to 3 Insert and 3 Master FX. Final mastering effects are applied as the last step on the audio outputs of Pa5X, resulting in a polished sound which is blended and produced. This is a result of KORG’s long term cooperation with Waves MaxxAudio®, the world reference in studio mastering effect.
Dedicated Microphone and Guitar Inputs with Effects Processing
A microphone and a guitar can be connected simultaneously to the separate audio inputs of Pa5X ORIENTAL. KORG’s extensive experience in vocal harmonization technology and guitar effects processing is featured, with each of these inputs having dedicated on-board effects.
MIDI, USB, HDMI, Audio In and Out, Pedal Connectors
Pa5X ORIENTAL offers a plethora of audio, control and storage connections. You can use MIDI and USB for controllers or storage devices, HDMI for an external display, the XLR, jack and minijack audio connectors for other keyboards, condenser and dynamic microphones, guitars and bass guitars, smartphones and tablets, or to connect your instrument to powered speakers or PA systems via the balanced outs. Four separate line outs are available to handle sounds separately.
| SKU | KOR-PA5XOR61 |
| Vendor | Korg |
| Built In Speakers | No |
| Connectivity | USB and MIDI |
| Included From Manufacturer |
AC Power Cable Music Stand Quick Guide manual |
| Keys Weighted | Semi-Weighted |
| Key Cover | No |
| Number of Keys | 61 |
| Piano Cabinet Style | Portable |
| Key Action | Semi–weighted with Aftertouch |
| Half-Damper Support | Yes (With Optional Single Pedal) |
| Number of Sounds | More than 2,600 Factory Sounds |
| Voices of Polyphony | 160 Voices, 160 Oscillators |
| Transpose Feature | Yes |
| Split Feature | Yes |
| Layer Feature | Yes |
| Duet Mode | Yes |
| Metronome | Yes |
| Pedals | 3 pedal inputs (Pedals Sold Separately) |
| Song Recorder | Audio & MIDI |
| Accompaniments | Yes (More than 940 Factory Styles, freely programmable) |
| Rhythm Patterns | 384 Drum Kits |
| Quarter-Tone Scale Function | Yes |
| Audio Inputs | Mic In (Combo XLR, balanced) Guitar In (1/4" Unbalanced) Line 1: Left/Right (1/4" jacks, balanced) Line 2: Stereo (1/8" mini-jack, unbalanced) |
| Audio Outputs | 1/4" Left/Right Main Out 1,2,3,4 individual Outs (1/4" balanced) 1/4" Headphone Out HDMI |
| Finish | Black with Wood Side Panels |
| Width | 40.20" |
| Depth | 14.73" |
| Height | 4.99" |
| Product Weight | 33.29 lbs |
The warranty from KORG U.S.A Inc. covers the first buyer against any defects in material or workmanship for a 1 year from the purchase date. It's important to note that this warranty only applies to products bought within the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico from an authorized KORG U.S.A. Inc. dealer. If any issues arise during the warranty period, KORG U.S.A. Inc. will repair or replace the product for free, as long as it hasn't been misused or improperly maintained. To get service, you'll need to send the product to the place of purchase or an authorized warranty service center in the designated regions, along with proof of purchase.
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