The Pa600 is a 61-note arranger workstation aimed at solo performers, duos and function players. More than 950 factory sounds and over 360 styles are driven from a 7 inch colour touchscreen, with a 15 W speaker on each side so nothing extra is needed to rehearse. Wedding, lounge and church work are the obvious settings.
Sounds and the tone generator
Factory content runs past 950 sounds. Stereo piano and GM2 material are part of that, alongside 64 drum kits. You also get 256 user slots and 128 custom kits, backed by 96 MB of PCM memory. Polyphony tops out at 128. Oscillator count matches that figure, and the filters offer resonance. Dynamic Nuance Control shapes how articulations respond as you play.
Styles that follow you
Over 360 preloaded styles arrive on board, all freely reconfigurable, and the instrument holds up to 1,200 locations once favourites and user banks are counted. Each carries eight tracks, four Single Touch Settings and a performance setting. Three intros, four variations, four fills, a break and three endings sit under the buttons. Add autofill, synchro start and stop, tap tempo, manual bass, bass inversion and accompaniment mute, and little is missing for arranger work. Guitar Mode 2 and full style recording with step entry are there for anyone building their own.
Performances, pads and effects
Upper 1, 2, 3 and Lower make up the four keyboard parts. Setups go into 320 realtime performance locations. Four pad tracks and a stop button handle hits and one-shots, and pads can be recorded as well. Effects arrive as four stereo master units drawn from 125 types, with three band EQ on every channel and a four band parametric EQ across the output. A joystick and two assignable switches give hands-on control.
Screen, SongBook and sequencing
Editing happens by touch. The 7 inch 800 x 480 TouchView display puts selection and adjustment under a fingertip. SongBook is a programmable database that gathers styles, MIDI songs, karaoke and MP3s, switching modes automatically and taking custom lists of your own. Search reaches styles, songs, performances, SongBook entries, sounds and lyric text. Up to 100,000 events fit in the 16 track sequencer, which offers quick record, multitrack and step entry and saves in SMF format.
Playback and connections
The player handles standard MIDI files and MP3s with a vocal remover, plus CDG lyrics, scores and markers, and a jukebox mode for a long set. Sockets cover damper and assignable pedals, unbalanced left and right line outs, headphones, two line inputs and MIDI in and out. Two USB ports are fitted, type A for devices and type B for a computer, both at 2.0 high speed. Mains input runs from 100 V to 240 V. That matters if the instrument travels.
See it in action
Specifications
| Keyboard | 61 keys with velocity |
|---|---|
| Factory sounds | More than 950 (including stereo piano and GM 2 sounds), 64 drum kits |
| User sounds | 256 sounds, 128 drum kits |
| Tone generator | 128 oscillators (maximum polyphony 128 voices), filters with resonance |
| PCM user memory | 96 MB |
| Factory styles | More than 360 preloaded styles, freely reconfigurable |
| User styles | Up to 1,200 available style locations including the favourite and user banks |
| Style 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 and stop, tap tempo and reset, manual bass, bass inversion, memory, accompaniment mute, snare and kick designation, STS mode, chord sequencer |
| Style editing | Guitar Mode 2, parallel and fixed NTT, style record with step record, track and event edit functions |
| Effects and EQ | 4 stereo master effects, 125 effect types, three band EQ for each track, articulations limiter, master 4 band parametric EQ |
| Sound editing | Dynamic Nuance Control (DNC) technology, full editing of sounds and drum kits, realtime sound control using assignable switches |
| Controllers | Joystick, 2 assignable switches |
| Performance / STS | 320 realtime performance locations. STS memorises realtime tracks, up to 4 per style and up to 4 per SongBook entry, plus a My Setting performance |
| Realtime tracks | Four keyboard tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3, Lower) |
| Pads | 4 pad tracks plus stop button, pad record |
| Song play | Single player with select, start and stop, home, rewind and fast forward controls. Jukebox function. Compatible with SMF (formats 0 and 1) and MP3 with vocal remover. Lyrics (CDG compatible), score, marker |
| Display | 7 inch 800 x 480 TFT graphical colour TouchView |
| Sequencer | Quick record (backing sequence), multitrack and step record functions. 16 tracks, up to 100,000 events, SMF format |
| SongBook | Fully programmable music database based on styles, SMF, karaoke and MP3, with automatic selection of style play and song play modes. User definable custom lists and filtering options |
| Connections | Damper pedal, assignable pedal or footswitch, unbalanced left and mono plus right line outs, headphones, 2 unbalanced line in jacks |
| MIDI and USB | MIDI in and out connectors, USB to MIDI via the USB device port, individual track assignment, 8 user definable MIDI presets. USB type A (to device) x 1 and type B (to host) x 1, both 2.0 high speed |
| Speaker system | 15 W x 2 amplification, 100 mm x 2 double cone speakers in a bass reflex box |
| Power supply | AC 100-240 V |
Specifications from Korg. Appearance and specifications are subject to change without notice.
