Korg Pa300 (opened)

Professional Arranger

The Pa300 is the latest addition to the Pa series of KORG's world-renowned music arrangers. This new model is compact, affordable yet powerful, with a rich collection of modern sounds and styles. With built-in styles, you can have a high-quality accompaniment to your playing almost immediately at hand, or create your own music from scratch. This makes the Pa300 the ideal companion not only for those who play or perform frequently, but you can also use it to compose your own songs!

Basic functions:

- Enhanced RX (Real eXperience) sound engine with even better and more realistic sound

- Massive internal PCM, comparable to the Pa600

- Elegant design and compact size

- 5" TouchView colour TFT touchscreen

- Simple and clear graphical interface with search function

- Over 310 preset styles, each containing 3 Intro/Ending, 4 Variations and 4 Fill In + Break, plus 8 Favorite and User banks to store your favorite styles. Enhanced Guitar Mode 2 for more realistic guitar parts.

- Enhanced GM suite for Standard Midi Files, MP3 player with Transpose and Tempo Change, compatibility with popular song lyric display formats including Graphic (+G), Text Viewer and Score.

- 4 Stereo Master effects (125 FX algorithms)

- Fully programmable SongBook database using Styles, SMF, Karaoke and MP3 files with instant recall of any song setting. User-defined sets, plus a choice of Filtering and Ordering settings.

The Pa300 is a new, affordable and easy-to-use professional music arranger that utilizes the best of the features of the well-known and highly regarded Korg Pa series. Like its bigger brothers, the Pa900 and Pa600, the Pa300 generates sound using the advanced RX (Real eXperience) technology that has earned it a privileged position in the arranger keyboard field. Together with its compact size, TFT colour TouchView display, large PCM memory, extensive style database and powerful sound system, KORG sets a whole new standard in the affordable arranger keyboard category.

Premium sound quality

It's all about the sound - and it's widely acknowledged that KORG's sound is always first-class. The Pa300 is the first in its category to offer richer, more detailed and more natural sounds than ever before, for instruments in virtually every genre. The instrument has more than 950 sounds at the ready, including a rejuvenated GM set and 64 drum kits. You'll also find an exquisite stereo acoustic piano, carefully sampled from a concert grand piano, which captures the subtlest sonic nuances of its model, such as the flutter of strings or the vibration of pedals. Sounds are fully editable and changes can be saved to the instrument's memory.

All the necessary effects at your fingertips

For many years, KORG has been known for its outstanding studio-quality effects. In this respect, the Pa300 offers 4 Stereo Master effect processors and 125 effects, including not only well-known types such as Reverb, Delay and Chorus, but also REMS effects for modelling completely authentic guitar sounds. Each track features EQ with Low, Mid and High (bass, mid and treble) settings. In addition, a track with a custom EQ setting can be saved to memory and then used as an EQ preset in Song Play mode. In this way, you can quickly and easily customize any MIDI file being played back to your own taste. Need a lighter bass? Save the EQ settings you need, and you'll have lighter bass in all songs you play subsequently. Finally, the Pa300's audio output is adjusted with a 4-band parametric EQ, which can be used to fine-tune the final sound to your exact hearing and needs.

Styles in professional quality

Along with top-notch sound, the Pa300 also brings a whole new set of styles, created by the best music professionals from around the world. Their efforts have resulted in hundreds of preset styles, offering unprecedented realism and attention to detail. At the same time, the styles on offer have expanded the range of musical genres they cover, so that the Pa300 offers a style to suit virtually every occasion. For live performance, you'll also appreciate the four Fill/ Break options plus 3 Intros and 3 Ending. Bringing a whole new level to guitar tracks and styles is the excellent Guitar Mode 2. You can also record and edit your own styles to suit your exact needs.

Features that support composing

When creating your own arrangements, you're sure to be inspired by the fully automatic soundtrack with rich and realistic backing tracks (styles), again created by world-leading industry professionals. Just play the basic chord progression and the Quick Record function will complete the basic backing tracks. In short, the Pa300 is a simple, but at the same time very effective composing tool for every musician!

Compact but powerful

You can take the Pa300 with you wherever you need to go, because it's very portable. But even though it's small in size, its musical performance and sound are surprisingly powerful, thanks to the built-in high-quality speaker system. This consists of a 2 x 13 Watt amplifier and two bass-reflex speakers, generating more than enough power and sound quality.

Easy to use

All of the rich features and options hidden inside the Pa300 are crowned by the absolute ease and simplicity of use. We wanted to make working with the Pa300 as intuitive, musical and fast as possible. That's why the layout of the control panel has been redesigned, and at the same time you'll find a large, colour touchscreen - so you can simply find what you need and press with your finger. The display also offers two display modes: Easy and Expert. In Easy mode, only the most important functions and parameters are shown, so the display remains absolutely clear, which will be especially appreciated by beginners or other musicians during live performances. In Expert mode, on the other hand, all editing options are of course displayed. To make your live performances a breeze, without having to remember exactly where you've saved a song or style, just use the Search function and the Pa300 will find the files you need instantly.

View the songs you're playing

The Pa300 plays MID, KAR and MP3 files. It can also retrieve lyrics and chords from these files. In addition, there is a song notation display, where the display shows the main track (or any other track) in traditional song notation form, along with the chords, chord markers and words of the song. Chord names can be displayed in English or Italian. For beginners, there is also an option to display the name of each note.

SongBook

To facilitate live performance, the Pa300 offers a great SongBook feature. This is actually a musical (fully user-editable) database that contains all the settings needed to play specific songs. So just find the name of the song you want to play, select it and press play. SongBook can work with Styles, MID or MP3 files and at the same time can instantly recall saved settings such as Song Title, Genre, Artist, Tempo, Volumes, Sounds, Muted Tracks, FX settings, Easy Edit, 4 STS*, Master Transpose and more. In short, everything you need to play your song flawlessly is in SongBook.

(*STS - Single Touch Settings are stored sounds that can be loaded from memory for all tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3 & Lower) of the keyboard.)