The Pa700 is Korg's 61-key arranger workstation, aimed at solo performers and anyone building full backings as they play. A seven-inch colour touchscreen fronts more than 1,700 factory sounds and over 370 styles, with 25 W a side of amplification built into the case. Gigging keyboard players are the target.
The sound engine
EDS-X drives the instrument, giving resonant filters and three-band EQ on every voice, with 128 notes of polyphony to spend. Factory content includes a multi-layered stereo piano with damper and body resonance, GM and XG sets, plus 106 drum kits. Digital drawbars bring nine footages, percussion, key click, leakage and a rotary speaker effect. Room is left for 512 user sounds and 256 user kits.
Styles and accompaniment
Each of the factory styles carries eight backing tracks, four keyboard sets and four pads, with intros, variations, fills, breaks and endings laid across the panel for arranging on the fly. A chord sequencer records progressions to play against later. Style Creator Bot turns a MIDI song into fresh accompaniment. User locations run to 1,152.
Singing and playing through it
A combined microphone and guitar input has its own gain control. From there the signal reaches a voice processor with five effects and 28 factory presets. Guitarists get a separate chain of three, with 45 ready-made settings to start from. Elsewhere there are 148 master effect types, along with a limiter and EQ at the final stage.
Recording, songs and SongBook
The sequencer holds 16 tracks and up to 200,000 events, saving natively as standard MIDI files. An MP3 player and recorder covers transposition, tempo change and a vocal remover, capturing anything from styles to the microphone input. SongBook ties the lot together as a programmable database with user set lists. Lyrics, scores and chords appear on screen or on an external monitor.
Screen, storage and connections
That capacitive TouchView panel is the main control surface, backed by 960 MB of internal memory, a rear microSD slot and USB host and device ports. Video leaves over HDMI when you want words and chords on a bigger display. Standard MIDI in and out are fitted, alongside quarter-inch line inputs, outputs and a headphone jack.
See it in action
Specifications
| Keyboard | 61 keys (C2 to C7) with velocity |
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| System | Upgradable operating system, Multitasking, Load while play |
| Sound Generator | EDS-X (Enhanced Definition Synthesis - eXpanded) Filters with resonance, 3-band EQ on each Sound |
| Polyphony | 128 voices, 128 oscillators |
| Effects | Accompaniment/Song: 2 insert effects; 2 master effects (148 types) Keyboard Sounds: 1 insert effect; 2 master effects (148 types) Final mastering effects: Limiter, Master EQ Voice Processor: 5 FX, 28 Factory, 64 User Presets Guitar Processor: 3 FX, 45 Factory, 64 User Presets |
| Sounds / Drum Kits | Factory: More than 1,700 Factory Sounds including a multilayer Stereo Piano with damper and body resonance, GM/XG sound sets and 106 Drum Kit User: 512 Sounds, 256 Drum Kits Digital Drawbars: 9 footages, percussion, key on/off, leakage, rotary speaker effect DNC (Defined Nuance Control) Technology, Natural Ambience Drums Full Sounds/Drum Kits editing |
| Sampling | 128 MB compressed (equivalent to 256 MB linear data); Loads KORG, WAV, AIFF and SoundFont™ formats Saves KORG, WAV and AIFF formats Full Edit, Time Slice |
| Styles | Factory: More than 370 Factory Styles, freely reconfigurable sets User: 1,152 locations, including User and Direct banks Eight Accompaniment tracks, 4 Keyboard Sets, 4 Pads per Style; Style Settings (Sounds and Arranger parameters) on each Style Guitar Mode 2, Parallel and Fixed NTT (Note Transposition Table) Style/Pad Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit Style Creator Bot (MIDI Song to Style Converter) Style controls: 3 Intros, 4 Variations, 4 Fills, Break, 3 Endings, Synchro Start, Synchro Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Bass Inversion, Auto Fill, Manual Bass, Memory, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Style to Keyboard Set Mode |
| Chord Sequencer | Chord Sequence recorder and player in Style Play mode Chord Sequences can be saved to Style and SongBook Entries Edit functions: Delete, Copy from Style/SongBook, Import/Export from/to SMF |
| KAOSS FX | Automatic MIDI FX generator More than 65 Factory Presets |
| Song Play | Supported formats: MID, KAR, MP3+Lyrics, MP3+G Select, Start/Stop, Home, Rewind and Fast Forward controls Lyrics, Score, and Chord data can be displayed on screen, or on an external video monitor Markers with Add, Delete, Edit and Loop functions Jukebox function |
| MP3 Player / Recorder | MP3 Player and Recorder Transpose (+6/-5 semitones), Tempo change (±30%) Vocal Remover Records MP3 files, including Styles, MIDI Songs, MP3 Songs, Keyboard Sounds, Pads, Microphone, Guitar, Effects, and KAOSS Effects |
| Sequencer | Quick Record (Backing Sequence), Multitrack and Step Record functions Full-featured sequencer, 16 tracks, Up to 200,000 events, SMF (MID) native format |
| SongBook | Fully programmable music database, based on Styles, MIDI Songs (MID and KAR files), MP3 Songs, with automatic selection of Style Play and Song Play modes User definable Set Lists, with Entries selectable from the control panel Filtering and sorting options |
| Pads | Four Assignable Pads + Stop buttons Pad Record function |
| Control Inputs | Damper pedal (supports half-pedaling with the optional DS-1H pedal) Assignable pedal/switch |
| Audio Inputs | Line (Left/Right): 1/4" jacks, +20dBm, 12k Ohm. Mic/Guitar (Left): 1/4" jack, with Gain control (0 to +40dB) 12k ohm (Mic) / 500k ohm (Guitar) |
| Audio Outputs | Left/Right, 1/4” jack, +21dBm, 0.003% THD+N@+18dBm Headphone output (1/4” jack), 16-200 Ohms (50 Ohms suggested) |
| Speaker System | Amplification: 2 x 25W Speakers: 2 x Dual Cone Speakers in Bass Reflex Box |
| MIDI | IN, OUT standard MIDI connectors USB to MIDI using the USB ports HOST: memory and controllers, DEVICE: personal computers Eight user definable MIDI Setups |
| Storage | Internal memory: 960 MB USB external drives (drive not included) microSD card (not included); rear panel slot with plastic cover |
| Display | 7” Wide capacitive color TouchView™ TFT display |
| Video Out | HDMI connector |
| Power Consumption | 100-240 Volts, 50/60 Hz, 25 Watt normal / < 0.3 Watt in standby |
Specifications from Korg. Appearance and specifications are subject to change without notice.
