Korg Pa700 Set

Sleek, Powerful, and Easy to Use

The combination of a slim format and professional look makes the Pa700 a captivating eye-catcher. Even more impressive is the mighty sound of the high-quality, powerful amplifier system. The 2 x 25 watt amplifiers with 2 speakers in bass reflex enclosures deliver a nuanced, full-bodied listening experience. Ergonomically and intuitively arranged controls on the optimized panel support a naturally flowing performance. The newly developed graphical interface of the large, bright TouchView display remains highly readable even in low light. The versatile search function quickly finds recently used songs, styles, files, and more! Styles, keyboard sets, and SongBook entries can be read directly from USB media—no need to load data into internal memory.

Top-Quality Sound

The Pa700 operates with KORG’s complex EDS-X (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-eXpanded) sound engine and comes factory-equipped with more than 1,700 ready-to-play, highly realistic sounds. This collection offers a vast selection of classic and modern keyboards, band and orchestral instruments, as well as electronic and acoustic instruments—from techno to folk. Newly added are two multilayer stereo grand pianos (with damper and body resonances) and electric pianos from the popular KORG SV-1 stage piano. The electronic organ features digital drawbars, key on/off noises, leakage effects, and a rotary speaker emulation. Additionally, the Pa700 offers new wind instruments, strings, basses, and even acoustic and electric guitars. All sounds were meticulously recorded using state-of-the-art methods, preserving even the finest details.

With three assignable buttons and a 4-way joystick, KORG’s innovative DNC (Defined Nuance Control) reproduces the subtle nuances and articulations of acoustic instruments, enabling ultra-realistic, expressive performances—all in real time and on demand. Bring solos or melodies to life with the growl effect of a passionately played saxophone, various trumpet attack techniques, breath noises of a clarinet or harmonica, and fine characteristics that add authenticity to pizzicato and arco string section sounds.

106 authentic drum kits—including ambient drums—make rhythmic passages a musical delight. The Drum Family Easy Editing function offers total control over volume, pitch, EQ, and more. Custom sounds find ample space in the compressed PCM user memory of up to 256 MB, and compatibility with the General MIDI (GM) soundbank and GM files has been further improved. The Pa700 can load/import KORG, WAV, AIFF, and SoundFont formats and export WAV or AIFF. Its sounds can be extensively edited and used with up to 24 oscillators per note!

The Pa700 ORIENTAL version includes all the functionality of the standard Pa700 and features an additional mini keyboard on the left side for adjusting quarter-tone scales and quickly accessing scale presets. Besides conventional musical resources, the Pa700 ORIENTAL also contains sounds and styles typical for Middle Eastern music genres. Ouds, bouzoukis, kanouns, various percussion instruments, and many more sounds are complemented by dozens of styles tailored to traditional and modern music styles.

Always Well Styled

Each of the more than 370 styles of the Pa700 creates its own musical world and reproduces a specific music style. The selection is vast and offers direct access to a wide range of musical genres. Each style provides 4 fill-ins + break patterns—one per variation. With the new Auto Fill function, you can trigger them automatically while moving between the four variations. KORG’s international sound team has created many new styles and improved many popular and well-known styles with new sounds and mixes. The Pa700 offers a total of 1,152 memory slots for new styles and settings.

Guitar Mode 2 has been upgraded with new complex parameters, giving guitar tracks in all styles unprecedented authenticity. The four pads allow further embellishment of each style. Each pad can add unique or repeating riffs, percussion parts, accent sounds, or even sound effects. The handy chord sequencer function lets you spontaneously record and loop chord progressions in style play mode to practice harmonies or free your left hand during live performance. These chord sequences can now also be saved as styles and SongBook entries and recalled instantly.

The Latest Styles—Quickly Created!

Thanks to the completely new integrated "Standard MIDI File to Style" converter, you can quickly and conveniently use styles from the latest songs! Simply obtain a new standard MIDI file, load it into the Pa700, convert it into a complete KORG style, and simultaneously create a chord sequence from the song’s chords.

Studio-Quality Effects

The Pa700 is equipped with the best studio-quality effects from the popular KORG library. You can apply 2 insert and 2 master effects to accompaniment tracks and 1 insert and 2 master effects to melody tracks. There are 148 effect types available, including reverbs, delays, vintage effect emulations, amplifier and cabinet simulations, and much more. Additionally, each track can be processed with low, mid, and high EQ controls, and a special track EQ can be saved in song play mode—ensuring the song sounds perfect in any environment. Global effects allow tailoring the overall sound to personal taste or challenging live settings.

Enhance Guitar Sound

Simply connect the guitar to the special input on the back and process it with pedal and studio effects from Guitar FX. Choose from some of the best KORG guitar effects like tube amplifier sounds, realistic distortion, chorus, delay, and high-quality studio reverbs.

Player/Sequencer

The player supports not only common text formats but also the MP3+G (MP3+Graphics) format for MP3 files. This feature lets you play backing sequences with extended lyrics and graphics, displaying them simultaneously on the integrated TFT display and an external monitor. There is also a convenient marker function to jump directly to a selected song position. A vocal remover mutes the center music channel to remove vocals from MP3 files.

The 16-track sequencer offers complex sequencing methods and a backing sequence function for easy song creation and editing. Complete performances can be recorded directly with the Pa700! Play a song, accompany it on the keyboard, sing along, and record everything in MP3 format. Then save the recording on an external USB medium or internal memory. Finally, the Pa700’s notation display shows the selected song track in clear, traditional notation, including chords and lyrics, on the display. Chord names can be shown in English or Italian. For those learning notation, note names can be displayed alongside the symbols.

SongBook

The SongBook is a freely programmable and easy-to-search music database that unites all settings needed to play a song—the ideal tool for live performances. Whether playing with styles, MIDI files, or MP3s, the SongBook stores all important song information like title, genre, artist, tempo, volumes, sound assignments, muted tracks, effect and easy edit settings, 4 keyboard tracks, TC Helicon presets, master transpose, and much more. The updated set list function allows assigning panel buttons for lightning-fast access to settings during live gigs.

The SongBook Editor lets you view, create, and edit SongBook entries and set lists for the KORG Pa series on a PC with ease. You can even sync it to iOS and Android tablets and use it for external music notation display (third-party software required). The SongBook contains everything essential for a perfect song performance. This useful feature is exclusive to KORG instruments.

Improved Connectivity

MIDI connections are now also possible via the USB HOST port (in addition to USB DEVICE and MIDI ports). This allows easy connection of controllers like digital pianos (e.g., HAVIAN 30) or KORG nano and micro series without special adapters.