Meet the KORG Pa5X

Meet the next generation of KORG’s Professional Arranger, Pa5X. Product Manager Luciano Minetti discusses the completely redesigned sound engine, a color driven user interface, more performance features, more expressivity, and more of what you expect from a flagship arranger. Plus, you can choose from three key configurations, including a new 88-note weighted action, to suit any playing situation.

All sounds, styles, backing music, and performances heard in this video are made from Pa5X.

To hear more sounds of the Pa5X follow the link below:

Video Chapters:
00:00 Meet the Pa5X
01:00 Premium Quality and Size Configurations
01:39 Sequencer & Mixer Section
02:56 Graphical Interface & Effects
04:32 Matrix Section & Connectivity
06:23 Sounds & Styles
11:32 Sampling
12:05 Vocal Processor

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[tjpaeldon]

You know what korg...Korg user here....Yes I get it..New styles, sound engine etc...Can you just make a very very light compact arranger that has that sound board? An arranger keyboard that is light like the kross 2 that has features like that....I assure you korg, that will be the best selling korg ever made! I'm a musician. Please listen to us.

[manoaramiarimanana]

C'est le premier clavier arrangeur haut de gamme (que j'ai vu) qui possède à la fois un touché lourd, un châssis en alu, 88 touches, des sorties symétriques, etc. dans un seul instrument. Quel coup de maître de la part de Korg!

[EM-bkdq]

Another level. Absolutely beautiful. Well done Korg, well done!!!

[bennetcv]

Excellent sound, especially the drum sound.

[logicnext]

Been waiting for past 3 years for this to come. I hope 700 and 1000 will be replaced by younger brothers of pa5x, cant wait to meet them also

[KorgMusicLand]

This is an amazing instrument. I love creating styles on it 😀

[二加二]

Better audio quality and presets than before, good job.

[rubenwalters]

Fantastic - I have waited so long for this.
But now dealer says that no Pa5x will be available before early 2023 … not a good News

[sadakojh]

FINALY A KEYBOARD/WORSTATION HAS AN HDMI.ive been waiting for this for what seems like an eternity!

[danieldemaree]

ALMOST 1 YEAR WAITING ! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE THE SOFTWARE FOR QUIK RECORD THAT WAS FORGOTTEN TO INCLUDE IT IN THE PA 5X ?

[ThusithaThanthirige]

Name Sounds Everything
Tradition & Technology
Power Modulation with User-Friendly Arranger.
Greetings From Super Extremes - Sri Lanka
💚 💛 ❤ 💙 💜

[Denvermorgan]

Finally something with power and quality not made from plastic

[snuppssynthchannel]

First Arranger that I like, alongside a handful og Gem arrangers.

[MohammadSalah]

Finally he is here and nice system and a big update to the icons thanks Korg
I hope to make copywriter for ho make programs like Yamaha 😘

[temposss]

Mais um mega lancamento.... e eu ainda com meu Korg PA 600 batendo

[Andersonkid]

Absolutely beautiful design, I had a Roland FA series, but I trashed it when I seen this peace of art. Your not only going to be making art but playing art, I get chills just looking at it.

[jordanking]

Very cool. This looks like a hybrid of the PA3X/4X and also the Yamaha Genos and Roland Fantom keyboards, combined with the SST technology of the Kronos/Kronos 2/Nautilus. Now I hope that Korg bring out a new successor to the Kronos. Yes I know that people are going to say 'oh but that's the Nautilus', but I strongly believe that that is only a placeholder while Korg bring out a new workstation, although in my opinion they shouldn't have discontinued the Kronos before releasing the new workstation, but I digress.

[bhaveshmistry]

Excellent demo! Korg is leading brand in making arranger keyboard. I really like the design and over all improvements with the bunch of new features, it is now very much close to the proper workstation. I have sold many Korg arranger keyboard and helping my customer for the functionality, I am sure this will sell more than a very much successful Pa4x but for that Local data is super important and it’s a key selling point, Anyway! I have a one question which fatar action is used in 88 key version? there’s no information on Korg website. Thanks! ❤️

[v.bieliaiev]

🔻 Estimated converting time from .SET to .KST: 2 hours (500Mb set)

🔻 Loading same set on keyboard: 20-25 min

🔻 Pads of screen should not act as a play button. When clicking on a pad on the screen, it should open the menu for you to select another pad like on every previous model.

🔻 Fill-in button after half of measure with your style on will play only your drums from the fill-in while the variation drums and accompaniments play altogether.

🔻 Home Screen needs mixer at all times. For live performers, we need levels of our drums, bass, accompaniments, lower and uppers on the screen the whole time. We don’t have the time to look and switch pages for this.

🔻 If your style is on and you turn on a pad, if the pad is more than two measures long, it will only start on the second measure. Regardless of when you click the pad.

🔻 When selecting a different pad, after clicking 4 buttons and pages to get there, it takes you to factory pads and not where the original pad is on your user. When you do select another pad, the volume automatically goes to 100 and the FX send automatically goes to 40.

🔻 Selecting a style is not fast enough. After you click on a new style while playing, it will blink a few times before it selects it. Most of the time, this is way over a measure and a half of the current style playing. This is not ideal for live performers.

🔻 There is no way for you to select the second style and have it in sync with the first one even with tempo lock on. It’s humanly impossible. Your tempo will match but you cannot physically hit the second style perfectly on beat with your first one.

🔻 If your pads are on while your style is playing, as soon as you select a new style, your pads turn off instantly. Way before the new style even comes on.

🔻 Intro 1 is not supposed to play your lowers when selected. Your lowers should work for intro 2 but not for intro 1. There’s a reason for that. Some people's intro 1 plays a melody or plays different chords.

🔻 We should have a preference of not having the lists of styles, sounds and pads be in alphabetical order. People had these organized on the 4x into separate folders and pages.

🔻 If you are used to having a certain sound or drum kit you like on (user 1, page 3), you know it’s there 100% and you learn it that way. Not anymore, because everything is in alphabetical order, things will move every time you add a new sound, pad, style, song, drumkit, etc. complete disaster if you know where your things are.

🔻 Acc. 3 freezes on the first chord you hit instead of chords you are playing. Same goes with some bass on styles. I’m playing a different chord progression, acc. 3 is stuck on the first chord without changing.

🔻 Some styles I made have drums or percussion that is detuned using my pitch bender. It will not play the correct detune until the second measure of the style.

🔻 If you are using quarter scale, this is not the keyboard for you. It will switch on and off at random. It’s almost like every few seconds it will play your quarter tone and then go back to equal scale. Non-stop.

🔻 When making a new style, the menus for quantize, delete, velocity, cut and others are missing.

🔻 The bass should not be the first in order. Every keyboard since day 1 has it as

🔻 We need an option to customize your own keyboard. There are photos for every sound and drumkit next to it. You cannot select the photo you want when saving a new sound or style.

🔻 Website says we have 4GB and 8GB compressed but the keyboard shows we have 2.5GB. Not even close to what Korg is advertising on their website. If you think you're going to have 4GB of space when buying this keyboard, you’re going to be extremely upset to find out you have only 2.5GB of space.

🔻 There should be an option on the main Home Screen from the drop menu to show only one style instead of two. Not everyone will be using two styles since they can’t even sync them perfectly anyways. It would be nice if you hold shift and play on the style for it to sync with tempo and for it to start perfectly with the current style playing.

🔻 When playing a pad that is a loop, a slice from the loops starts when you press the button. It doesn’t start where the loop should resume naturally.

🔻 If you start with a pad that is a loop (without the style being on) and then turn on the style after, the pad will be off from the style by milliseconds. Your ear will catch it and you know it’s not perfectly on.

🔻 When you hit your fill button, the variation will not go to the first measure, regardless if you have it set to start on the first measure.

🔻 If you have a pad that is an accompaniment or guitar, it turns off when you turn off the memory for your chords.

🔻 There is no Kaoss.

🔻 There is no option for midi to style converter.

🔻 Locked sets will not work nor convert.

🔻 If you have a folder with only styles, you will not be able to open it and view any of them. It must be a set folder for it to convert to the the KST format.

🔻 No support for EC-5.

🔻 For existing style, cv length cannot be changed.

🔻 There are factory styles that are still on here from the pa80. The house, dance, techno are not from this century. They are indeed what they say they are but not anywhere near the year 2022. So when you select dance, it is dance, just not this year. More like 1998 dance.

🔻 The screen, when all the way down, is not flush with the rest of the keyboard. It is slightly off and sits a little higher.

🔻 On the 4x, we were given a limit of approx. 15000 samples for 1.5GB of space. You are now given approx. 30000 for 2.5GB of space. Even though Korg advertises it as it giving you 4GB.

🔻 Korg needs to stop changing the format of extensions for styles, sets, sounds, etc. The person buying the pa5x is 99.9% coming from a 4x. And that person also came from a 3x and so on. It was already annoying enough that you couldn’t load 3x sets on the 4x without loading the folders separately. Now it’s just a jumble mess for people trying to switch over to a keyboard they thought they were familiar with.

🔻 Let’s be honest, wood sidings with a metal body do not go. Ever. With anything.

🔻 If you are from the Balkans or the middle eastern region and have a locked USB set, it will not work on here...

And much more surprises for you.
Sincerelly Korg.

[paultumelty]

Sounds great, stick these sounds into a desktop module for <£1200 and I'm interested :)